mbBear said:That's good news about Minnesota right, lol? Your initial point was the right one, and everything else is fluff-winning brings people in...BearSD said:Duke has fewer students and alums than Stanford. For that matter, only six ACC universities other than ours have at least 20,000 undergrads.mbBear said:There will be a attendance bump on the away side, because these will all be "first trips" for the ACC schools...obviously, some schools travel better than others-one would think there are no shortage of Duke alums in the Bay Area for example.bearsandgiants said:
Looking at the logos for the home slate for the first time and man, I really miss the pac12. These games all look boring and will likely be poorly attended no matter WHEN they're played unless we finally start winning, and winning big. Fingers crossed for that.
We're not going to see visitor attendance bumps in Berkeley anywhere near the size of the ones that Iowa and Minnesota provided in Pasadena last year.
Exactly, right. We need to build the Cal fan base. The potential is huge, but Wilcox's 23-43 conference record with low scoring teams and sedate personality isn't inspiring anyone to become fans.
We will see how this year goes, we have two great QB prospects, great RBs and hopefully we get Rivera on board soon, but with the cuts to education and research there is a lot more at stake for Cal than our athletics program. We may well have run out of time to turn Cal football into the big revenue generator that it is going to need to be in order to survive.
