03-25-2026, 08:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-26-2026, 11:14 PM by StanUSwagU.)
(03-23-2026, 10:50 PM)2006alum Wrote:(03-23-2026, 08:27 PM)StanUSwagU Wrote: (1) This is great news !
(2) I will be there !
(3) Having the Spring Game / Practice in Kezar ....makes it a special event, not ho-hum on campus.
(4) No disrespect, but If you want 'New & More & More Diverse fan interest' you have to leave campus & the surrounding wine & cheese MenloPark, PaloAlto, Atherton, PortolaValley, SharonPark enclaves & do outreach to cities like San Francisco & San Jose, where regular working-class 'Non-Stanford' football fans live.
(5) For next year if its at Kezar, to make it even more of a 'Attract new & different fans event' .. I would add:
•. Muscle-car show
•. Fashion Show / Swimsuit Contest / Fitness Competitor contest
•. DJ Contest
• High School Marching Band Contest
• Barbecue Contest
(6) These events will bring out 'regular non-stanford football fans & regular non-stanford working class folks' , ...a percentage of which might change their perception about Stanford, & buy football ticket packages ..to add butts at Stanford Stadium on Fall Saturdays !
(7) Hope this outreach to go to San Francisco & San Jose for 'Stanford Events' continues ...to do outreach to 'regular Non-Stanford working class folks'.
In 2026, San Francisco is a working class town the same way UCLA is a working class school. I'm stoked the open practice is at Kezar but any single family home within walking distance of Kezar sells for $2 mil easy, and many probably over $4m.
Agree mostly true sadly; But luckily even with the gentrification & invasion of 'nerds, tech-bros, venture-cap ex-pat millionaires from overseas caste systems, wealthy opportunistic house-flippers, air-bnb vultures, greedy capitalistic real-estate developers & predatory landlords' ....in certain sections of the Mission, PortreroHill, & HuntersPoint districts of SF ....you can still find a fair number of regular working class folks & families, who love football, DJ contests, custom-car shows & tailgate cookouts !