[marchballer]

I've followed GFed for the last year. I think some of his comments around Stanford were fair but also it was a Friday evening game at 6pm. I for one didn't tailgate since I came straight from working to the game. 

But he's right as the team gets better we need to figure out how to appeal to more people in the Bay Area and especially the penisula/SF/San Jose. When I talk to people 60+, I see way more Stanford fans than the under 40 crowd. Under 40 unless people went to Stanford, they aren't really fans. We gotta figure out how to replicate what used to be in the 70s and 80s.

For Cal, they benefitted from playing another California school and a coach that did a good job of hyping up the season. Now that it seems they are average to mediocre, I suspect the aura around them will die down again and they'll return to the average. I think GFed drank too much of the Call Kool-Aid on that one.

[marchballer]

I've followed GFed for the last year. I think some of his comments around Stanford were fair but also it was a Friday evening game at 6pm. I for one didn't tailgate since I came straight from working to the game. 

But he's right as the team gets better we need to figure out how to appeal to more people in the Bay Area and especially the penisula/SF/San Jose. When I talk to people 60+, I see way more Stanford fans than the under 40 crowd. Under 40 unless people went to Stanford, they aren't really fans. We gotta figure out how to replicate what used to be in the 70s and 80s.

For Cal, they benefitted from playing another California school and a coach that did a good job of hyping up the season. Now that it seems they are average to mediocre, I suspect the aura around them will die down again and they'll return to the average. I think GFed drank too much of the Call Kool-Aid on that one.