M&M Crew Expecting Only 50,000 for OU

by Odysseus on Sep 15, 2005 2:15 PM PDT in Football

Rob Kuwada of the OC Register reports that the M&M Crew expects that the Rose Bowl will be only slightly more than half full for the OU game:

on Saturday [the Bruins] play Oklahoma in one of the biggest games in Coach Karl Dorrell's two-plus seasons.

But apparently few care. UCLA officials are expecting only about 50,000-plus at the Rose Bowl, and that includes the allotment of 7,000 tickets that went to Sooners fans.

It could be the smallest crowd the Bruins have had for a nonconference game against a national power since a 1993 game against Nebraska drew 50,299.

It comes on the heels of a game against an overmatched Rice team that drew just 44,808, the smallest crowd for a Bruins home opener since they had 37,965 in 1992 against Cal State Fullerton.

The Rose Bowl, barely half full, will not look good on the regional television broadcast or to recruits across the country.

[snip]

Attendance for the Bruins' home opener has fallen in each of the three years under Dorrell. It cannot help that those seasons were punctuated by embarrassing losses in bottom-tier bowl games to Fresno State and Wyoming.

(Emhasis mine.)

Read the whole thing for DG's reactions.

HT: McCloskey; Fun Zone spin here.

60,000 was bad enough, but barely more than 50,000? Embarassing.

UPDATE: Sources tell Bruins Nation that the Athletic Department is attempting to sell the remaining 40,000 (give or take) tickets by sending out mass emails. Way to think outside the box guys!

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Speaking of empty Rose Bowl ...

Did you see this hillarious post by CollegeFootballPundit talking about his Saturday:

The funniest incident of the day was when the UCLA game started and there was an overhead shot of the stadium that showed the place half empty. Sleepy James reacted by loudly proclaiming "Holy empty stadium" at the top of his lungs. Of course, there was a UCLA fan who got pissed and said "do you know the Rose Bowl contains 110,000 people? What do you expect?" I said "the Rose Bowl does not contain 110,000 people. There are 110,000 seats in the Rose Bowl, but right now it only CONTAINS about 50,000 people." The guy then said things like "some towns do not even have 50,000 people. This game is with Rice, they do not even count. Wait until next week you will see us turn our for the OU game." Then my favorite one of the day "do you know how far the stadium is from here? Are you from L.A.?" (BTW, I grew-up about five miles from the Rose Bowl) Sleepy James and the LSU fans were laughing hysterically as this moron kept digging a deeper hole for himself. I looked at him and said "can I ask you a question? Are you a big UCLA fan?" He replied that he was to which I simply asked "well then what the hell are you doing here? Do you know your team is playing a HOME game right now less than 30 miles from here?" At that point he just hung his head and said "we will see who is laughing after the game." I was not sure how this was relevant to the crowd size, but stopped wasting my time with this babbling idiot so that I could concentrate on the games.

lol. I am going to go out on a limb and say that moron was a Dorrell fan devoid of reality, spurting out official M&M spin without even thinking about it.

by Nestor on Sep 15, 2005 5:20 AM PDT reply actions

Furthermore

The Rose Bowl's capacity is not 110,000. It used to be larger, but when the new seats were put in, the capacity was reduced to about 90,000.

So this clown isn't even right about how big the Rose Bowl is. Even if he had been, he would still be a moron.

by Odysseus on Sep 15, 2005 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions

Embarassing

A decisive W against OU would create some interest in this program again.

by Ajax on Sep 15, 2005 9:06 AM PDT reply actions

Freaking morons ...

These IDIOTS are just figuring out now ... they can use emails to (gasp) CONNECT with the community? Next thing you know ... they will start blogging!

by Nestor on Sep 15, 2005 2:31 PM PDT reply actions

LOL

I was thinking the same thing when I just checked my email and found their little attempt to get people out to the game.

"Tickets still available."

Pathetic.

Why not try to build this game up earlier, especially considering the fact that they are gouging students by charging more for this one game?

by Ajax on Sep 15, 2005 3:00 PM PDT reply actions

Angelo Mazzone ...

Probably couldn't get Angelo Mazzone to bail them out this time. Remember the gasbag who laundered all those tickets during the Rose Bowl in 1994? UCLA athletic department is a big fat (no pun intended towards its PR guy) joke.

by Nestor on Sep 15, 2005 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions