Move the Basketball Team out of Berkeley now

1,320 Views | 8 Replies | Last: 4 yr ago by rkt88edmo
MilleniaBear
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Don't let COB run this team. Move the team to Oakland or Moraga and play there.
upsetof86
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MilleniaBear said:

Don't let COB run this team. Move the team to Oakland or Moraga and play there.


Could not agree more. Enough.
helltopay1
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Please explain..COB????
BC Calfan
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City of Berkeley. Their COVID policies are a mess and jeopardizing all Cal home games. This weekend's ASU game is on the verge of being canceled---making 2 in a row.

I second the motion of moving our games. So many options since fans can't attend. The Coliseum makes perfect sense as an alternative. We gotta get ahead of this thing before it becomes a major headache.
MilleniaBear
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Home games? Their actions are cancelling ROAD games too.
BC Calfan
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Apologies, I'm a casual Cal football fan. I just assumed that COB jurisdiction would only affect home games. Whoops!
Big C
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It's becoming clear (if it wasn't already) that we should move the whole University out of the COB. But two questions:

1. Would we still be able to keep the "Berkeley" brand, known throughout the world for academic excellence?

2. Where the heck would we move to? Oakland? Is that really going to be any better? Albany? El Cerrito? Somewhere farther away like Grass Valley?

2a. Let's say we move across the border to a neighboring city, what do we take with us? For example, the Campanile is so iconic, we HAVE to take that, right? Do we just lay it on its side and build the two world's largest trucks to move it? (not gonna work) Do we take it apart piece by piece? More cost effective to just build a new one?

You can see how this is going to get complicated, quickly. But worth it, for sure!
stu
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Keep the campus where it is and carve out a new city there like Piedmont is carved out of Oakland. But would the element Berkelium then need to be renamed? Maybe not if we call the new city Berkel.
BearSD
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UC Santa Barbara is on unincorporated land in Santa Barbara County; it's not in the city of Santa Barbara.

Can the university do something similar for UC Berkeley? Just de-annex all of the land the university sits on?
rkt88edmo
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Agree - learn the lesson of football and help BBall be able to play OUTSIDE BERKELEY
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