71Bear said:
CalBearinLA said:
It's easy to hate on millenials, as a fair number of people here want to do...but my sister is currently a sophomore at Cal and simply doesn't have the time to attend sporting events. She locked down volunteer jobs and internships during her freshman year, which is something I'm sure most of you Old Blues did not do in the 70's and 80's. Say what you want about them not being able to wake up at 12:30 or such, but a good number of them do hustle and are more career driven. Money is also a big issue, so free tickets would definitely help. The current times are not like when most of you were in college, when gasoline cost under 50 cents.
I could not agree more! I could not be more impressed by the work my kiddo, her boyfriend and their friends are doing. They are invested in making things better for all the kids they work with, in particular, those who came to the US under very trying circumstances.
Since we are comparing students way back when we were in college to students today, I want to throw in my 2 cents.
Emwhen I was at Cal, Cal students were committed and studied hard. Many like myself also had part time jobs to help pay for housing and food and books. (Yes things were cheaper back then, but we were paid comparable peanuts in part time jobs.)
Many were also spending lots of time trying to save the world (everything from planning and participating in student demonstrations to teaching kids in the impoverished parts of the Bay Area.
And yes a number of those also went to FB games.
Back then the here were about 15,000 under grads. In 2017 there were 30,000 Cal under grads.
How many Cal students does it take to fill the student section. I posit that there are more than enough students to fill the student section even taking into account the large number of students who are too busy studying or working or preoccupied with other activities.
It is up to the university and the AD to motivate them to get to the games. There have been many good suggestions posted on this thread. Maybe the powers that be will follow up on many of them.