By the time kickoff rolls around, the stadium will be half-empty, and the Cal fans who missed the...

By the time kickoff rolls around, the stadium will be half-empty, and the Cal fans who missed the sales pitch will be pondering, "Hey, why does this look like a UCLA home game?"

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i would like to say that i am usually disappointed by attendance at our games, but still.

by maccabita4life on Oct 5, 2010 9:20 PM PDT reply actions

I would hope that you guys have a larger average attendance

Since capacity is what, 91k at the Rose Bowl compared to 70k at Memorial?

And this year, UCLA is averaging just under 58k for its home games, compared to 56.7 for Cal. We’re almost even!

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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 5, 2010 10:02 PM PDT reply actions

hey, i liked your pictures from the weekend.

but this one takes the cake.

by bruinbunz on Oct 5, 2010 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

yeah capacity wise there is no question

and it drives me nuts more fans dont show up. based on last yr we had about 72% attendance though and Cal had ~80% so yeah there is a proportion difference, but it’s misleading saying we don’t have fans at the games.

by maccabita4life on Oct 5, 2010 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions

I know

It’s just an easy joke when you see a half-empty Rose Bowl. Didn’t mean to offend.

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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 5, 2010 11:03 PM PDT up reply actions

I thought it was pretty funny

by Nestor on Oct 6, 2010 3:40 AM PDT up reply actions

no worries

i actually thought the majority of the post was pretty funny, just took slight offense to that one comment (which is probably cause i hate our attendance to a certain extent). it kind of reminded me of the sf giants SBN blog which is hilariously sarcastic.

by maccabita4life on Oct 6, 2010 8:10 AM PDT up reply actions

The problem is

with the average attendance figures you give, Memorial Stadium looks fairly full, and with a few more people the Rose Bowl still looks relatively empty. No reason our SoCal fans shouldn’t/can’t change that, though.

Roses are red, violets are blue...f*** $C.

by KSBruin on Oct 6, 2010 7:59 AM PDT up reply actions

Not to mention

Memorial is on campus…how do you NOT fill up your stadium!

But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.

by tasser10 on Oct 6, 2010 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions

That makes no sense

If you arent selling out, what does max capacity have to do with average attendance? We still are averaging more people (better fanbase) than you. If you mean purely the looks, then okay, but the capacity has nothing to do with avg attendance unless UCLA is averaging over the 70k MEmorial max.

UCLA '08

by BruinTrouble on Oct 6, 2010 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions

Having an irrelevant program for over 30 years pre-Tedford

Kinda skews our alumni fanbase buildup (we had like 60 wins over 16 seasons or some awful metric, with only Snyder injecting true life into our program).

I thought UCLA football had some great teams back in the day, yet for some reason they’re only on par with us. I always thought the Rose Bowl should at least average 65-70k, but it probably only gets that full when big-name opponents come to town.

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by Avinash Kunnath on Oct 6, 2010 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions