[Farm93]

Remember all the grief we received from School near Oakland fans about not showing up for the rivalry during the Wlat and Teevens years? Remember how the press harped incessantly last year about how we didn't travel to bowls? Well, check this out!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...1MCN6J.DTL

Ticket time: School near Oakland and Texas were each given an allotment of 11,000 tickets to the Holiday Bowl. As of Wednesday afternoon, School near Oakland had sold 7,000. Overall, 57,000 tickets have been sold for the bowl, with a seating capacity of 66,000.

They haven't even sold their 10,000 allotment to a bowl in San Diego!

What goes around...

I saw that too, but did not think it was newsworthy.  Sure the school has tens of thousands of alums living in the San Diego area.  Sure the UC has a sister school in that town without a D-1 football team, and in most places the students and alums from that campus would be ready and eager to support the original UC.  Sure, the event is just a day trip away from Oakland area.  Sure, there are probably a few thousand undergrad students that will be at home, in the San Diego area, during this holiday season.  So logically, there should be 40K, 50K or more with fairly direct ties to the UC system ready to support the program.

But this is the same C.a.l team that was unable to get ~20,000 people to take BART to go across the bay to see their team in San Francisco or at Candlestick.  So it is not shocking that only 7,000 are willing to buy tickets to the Holiday bowl.

These are things to remember the next time Stanford and C.a.l are up for consideration for the same Pac-12 bowl games. 

[Farm93]

Remember all the grief we received from School near Oakland fans about not showing up for the rivalry during the Wlat and Teevens years? Remember how the press harped incessantly last year about how we didn't travel to bowls? Well, check this out!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...1MCN6J.DTL

Ticket time: School near Oakland and Texas were each given an allotment of 11,000 tickets to the Holiday Bowl. As of Wednesday afternoon, School near Oakland had sold 7,000. Overall, 57,000 tickets have been sold for the bowl, with a seating capacity of 66,000.

They haven't even sold their 10,000 allotment to a bowl in San Diego!

What goes around...

I saw that too, but did not think it was newsworthy.  Sure the school has tens of thousands of alums living in the San Diego area.  Sure the UC has a sister school in that town without a D-1 football team, and in most places the students and alums from that campus would be ready and eager to support the original UC.  Sure, the event is just a day trip away from Oakland area.  Sure, there are probably a few thousand undergrad students that will be at home, in the San Diego area, during this holiday season.  So logically, there should be 40K, 50K or more with fairly direct ties to the UC system ready to support the program.

But this is the same C.a.l team that was unable to get ~20,000 people to take BART to go across the bay to see their team in San Francisco or at Candlestick.  So it is not shocking that only 7,000 are willing to buy tickets to the Holiday bowl.

These are things to remember the next time Stanford and C.a.l are up for consideration for the same Pac-12 bowl games.