Does UCLA not have many fans . . . or what?

I'm in Northern California and if I want to attend a college football game I can walk up to the Cal or Stanford stadium a few minutes before kickoff, buy a ticket for less than face value, then choose a better seat when I get inside. That includes a couple years ago when Cal had a decent team and was playing #1 Oregon (a game they almost won), and every game played by a very talented and entertaining Stanford team under Jim Harbaugh.

The sports reporters ask this same question every year, and the answer is always the same: there's just a lot to do around here on a beautiful fall day. (although the waiting list for 49ers tickets is usually thousands deep)

 
funhusker said:
junior4949 said:
I think it's a west coast thing. I remember back when I was in college a friend of mine was dating a girl from Washington. Washington had just came off of winning a NC a year or two before, and this girl knew next to nothing about them. I guess they have better things to occupy their time than college football.
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My wife is from Aurora, NE. She spent 5 years at UNL while her family lived in Lincoln. She has been married to a Husker fan for going on 7 years. She knows absolutely nothing about Husker football, and has zero interest. It's not a "West Coast" thing, it's a "not cool enough to understand" thing!
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Lol hope your wife doesn't hear you saying this.

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
I'm in Northern California and if I want to attend a college football game I can walk up to the Cal or Stanford stadium a few minutes before kickoff, buy a ticket for less than face value, then choose a better seat when I get inside. That includes a couple years ago when Cal had a decent team and was playing #1 Oregon (a game they almost won), and every game played by a very talented and entertaining Stanford team under Jim Harbaugh.
The sports reporters ask this same question every year, and the answer is always the same: there's just a lot to do around here on a beautiful fall day. (although the waiting list for 49ers tickets is usually thousands deep)
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As a NorCal native I'm questioning why you go to a Cal game if college football is what you're after......

 
Vizsla1 said:
Should be a ton of red in the stadium on Saturday. Can't wait to hear and watch the Husker faithful out supporting our team. My brother and his family of 6 just moved out there a month ago- they are excited as heck to see their first game in 5 years and introduce their young children to their first game.
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What'll happen is you'll have all the retireds from Nebraska living out there showing up at the stadium buying up all the season holders' tickets outside the games for premium, ala what happens at every other road game we invade. There's a lot out there. I have 29 retired relatives living in the LA "area" alone between my parents and my wife. I expect to see a huge crowd saturday. I'm talkin Notre Dame 2000, and Kansas '95

 
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NUance said:
In Reply to: Gameday atmosphere? posted by HuskerTraveler on September 05, 2012 at 09:40:36
Your "typical" Nebraska college game day experience won't be fulfilled for several reasons...

- School is not in session until September 24th. There's no student body that congregates at any one place this time of year. Evan the band will be tiny and wearing only Aloha shirts, not uniforms.

- UCLA is a braniac school. The student body doesn't lend itself to sports, drinking or partying. Yes, there are some like that but nothing like you're probably used to in Nebraska where partying is primary and education is secondary.

- It'll be 90 degrees in Pasadena on Saturday. The sand at the beach in Santa Monica will be very inviting to many.

- The game will be broadcast on Fox Television. Why fight traffic and sit with your knees wedged into the seat in front of you when that 70" Sharp Aquos with 7.1 Dennon surround sound is a better experience.

- The Rose Bowl doesn't allow noise makers. That means that noise will have to be supplied by our own vocal chords. For those of us aspiring actors and singers this could be devastating should the vocal chords be damaged. No yelling for us.

- The game is so far inland. For those of us on the West Side it's so hard to drive in that direction. Barney's Beanery is so much closer.

- It's a 4:30 game for goodness sake. That means the whole friggin' day is shot revolving around football. Who does that?

- We're from L.A., for goodness sake. We only go to games when there's a 90% chance of winning. This game doesn't have the right percentages.

- The Rose Bowl is 29 miles from campus. Makes every game seem like a road game and we all know that the Bruin fans don't travel well.

- This isn't a Laker's game for goodness sake, nobody important will be at the game.

- There's an art fair in Laguna this weekend, isn't there? Sure there is, there always is. Sorry, can't make the game.

- Dude, I'm still recovering from the magnificence of Michelle's speech and you can't expect me to be over such an emotional experience by Saturday, can you? I need to rest up.

Yeah, this isn't Nebraska. Sorry, I can't help you. LINK
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Here are a dozen excuses about why Bruins fans won't be showing up tomorrow. Translation: They are LAme fans. :lol:
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You forgot. We gotta go to Starbucks and text your friends, that where at Starbucks having mocha latte expresso triple dip coffee or w/e

 
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funhusker said:
junior4949 said:
I think it's a west coast thing. I remember back when I was in college a friend of mine was dating a girl from Washington. Washington had just came off of winning a NC a year or two before, and this girl knew next to nothing about them. I guess they have better things to occupy their time than college football.
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My wife is from Aurora, NE. She spent 5 years at UNL while her family lived in Lincoln. She has been married to a Husker fan for going on 7 years. She knows absolutely nothing about Husker football, and has zero interest. It's not a "West Coast" thing, it's a "not cool enough to understand" thing!
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To some, this might very well be the case. However, I don't think it's the norm. I have family that has lived in Oregon their entire lives. There's very few of them that follow either Oregon or Oregon State. There's just so many other things to do. It's not like here in the midwest. Living close to the KS border, I know a lot of KS people. They either eat, sleep, and breathe KU or KSU. There's no middle ground. Out on the west coast, it's entirely different. I think this is one of the reasons the CU fanbase is so small is due to the fact that a lot of CO has been infiltrated by people from CA. My family out in OR were simply amazed by my grandma who could name NU starters and everything else about the team because people out there just don't know and do that.

 
My wife is from Aurora, NE. She spent 5 years at UNL while her family lived in Lincoln. She has been married to a Husker fan for going on 7 years. She knows absolutely nothing about Husker football, and has zero interest. It's not a "West Coast" thing, it's a "not cool enough to understand" thing!

My grandparents lived in aurora on P st across from Jim's. Both my parents grew up around the aurora/Polk/Hampton area.

 
Husker no ka oi said:
You forgot. We gotta go to Starbucks and text your friends, that where at Starbucks having mocha latte expresso triple dip coffee or w/e
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Starbucks? Ew. UCLA fans won't support that corporate fraud of a coffee shop. Locally owned and roasted, shade tree grown, organic! :lol:

 
It is typical of SoCal. USC very seldom sells out even while being ranked number 1, or the following season after a MNC win. Way too much to do, for the size of the city and area, there is very little interest in college football. Beach Volley Ball you could fill the stadium in a heart beat. It is sad for the UCLA faithful, as they will be there, win or lose. Had season tickets there awhile back, just too far to drive for us on a regular basis. Dropped the tickets. Now attend USC games two or three times a year. Going to the Oregon/SC game.

 
wildman said:
funhusker said:
junior4949 said:
I think it's a west coast thing. I remember back when I was in college a friend of mine was dating a girl from Washington. Washington had just came off of winning a NC a year or two before, and this girl knew next to nothing about them. I guess they have better things to occupy their time than college football.
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My wife is from Aurora, NE. She spent 5 years at UNL while her family lived in Lincoln. She has been married to a Husker fan for going on 7 years. She knows absolutely nothing about Husker football, and has zero interest. It's not a "West Coast" thing, it's a "not cool enough to understand" thing!
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Lol hope your wife doesn't hear you saying this.
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I told it to her face just before I typed this post!

She still isn't cool with it....

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
I'm in Northern California and if I want to attend a college football game I can walk up to the Cal or Stanford stadium a few minutes before kickoff, buy a ticket for less than face value, then choose a better seat when I get inside. That includes a couple years ago when Cal had a decent team and was playing #1 Oregon (a game they almost won), and every game played by a very talented and entertaining Stanford team under Jim Harbaugh.

The sports reporters ask this same question every year, and the answer is always the same: there's just a lot to do around here on a beautiful fall day. (although the waiting list for 49ers tickets is usually thousands deep)
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I am now in the Seattle area and I heard numerous radio commercials for Husky season ticket packages for $250 leading up to the start of the season. The day this happens in Omaha and Lincoln, hell will have officially frozen over.

 
I live in the Boise area. Moved here from Ne a little over a year ago. Had season tickets to the BSU games last year. It was fun and the football was good, but I only made it to 3 games and ended up giving away 2 games and the other one no one went to. I didn't renew becuase of the few games I made it to. I had at least 3 different calls and a couple of letters about renewing my tickets clear into August. I do plan on going to a game this year, but it will not be a problem to get tickets. They do love there BSU football though.

I think it is BS that no one goes to games becuase there is so much to do in California. My brother lives in the LA area and we never seem to go do anything earth shattering when we are there. We wanted to go to the beach and he was like why, no one goes really goes to the beach. We went though and he was right. No was was there. I think they just don't care.

 
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