Is it really because there are so many options out there is why their attendance is so bad at so many things? I can remember when UCLA and USC were good now it seems they have all kinds of problems with attendance, budgets, pretty much the whole ball of wax.
Iowa State announces reversal of plans to have fans in the stands for season opener
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Is it really because there are so many options out there is why their attendance is so bad at so many things? I can remember when UCLA and USC were good now it seems they have all kinds of problems with attendance, budgets, pretty much the whole ball of wax.
Having lived here a while not too far from UCLA, I'd say it's more just a cultural thing rather than the "we're so busy doing stuff outside we can't follow sports". I've become a ridiculous outdoors nut (climbing, backpacking, surfing), but I'll still be parked in front of my TV at 9am Saturday for ISU/Louisiana because it's just in my blood.
There really won't be a big a difference in LA with no college football (outside people working directly for the two programs). A handful of downtown neighborhoods get a bit of USC fan action, but nothing major throughout the city, and nothing like Ames, Lincoln or Iowa City on gameday. The Lakers is really the only thing that would be truly crazy for LA to not have. Anything else wouldn't really affect day to day culture.
Pac 12's hubris was confusing tv markets with actual fans willing to spend actual $$$ at the exact moment that shift was happening. Sure they have more people than the B12 footprint but drastically fewer people who will buy season football tickets or pay for a streaming subscription just for football.
Non contact practice. And yes you have to run routes no matter what or you get out of condition. Not like the old days where kids took summers off (or off seasons off).
That's the part that sucks about the west coast. **** starts too early. Not as bad as Hawaii, but it is just too early. Most do not want to start watching at 9am and their PAC late games, everyone east of the Rockies is asleep if not at the start, then by halftime. And I think the players out there in LA probably have a few more distractions year round. The ladies never have to put on their winter clothes.
I make a giant pot of coffee and a big breakfast with every 9am kickoff. At this point it seems more natural than a beer and wings to me.
I moved to the West Coast before last year, and really enjoyed the early kickoffs. I could get most of the game in before my wife got up (late sleeper, no kids) and could start complaining that football was taking up the whole Saturday.
Yeah, I hear the "there's nothing else to do" thing lobbed at ISU fans, but man, if I wasn't farming there are a million things I can do on a Fall Saturday that would be an absolute blast if college sports ceased to be a thing. Mountain biking, road biking, hiking, kayaking/canoeing. I have really good options for all of these activities with 30 miles of home.
The Coliseum was THE PLACE to be even for celebrities during the Carroll era.
Now if they're on TV you see it's just a really old stadium.
And really with lack of or smaller crowds we're going to see what a dump a lot of stadiums are, haha.
Early kickoffs rule. I'm not up until midnight watching the end of SNF or MNF, I don't have to "wait" until noon to get my football fix, and the bars open very early on the weekends. The west coast times fit my schedule a lot better than the midwest or east cost.
25% has been a pretty common amount announced by teams that are having fans though?
Yes, which is why the ISU 25,000 fans is/was such a reach. There will be no outcry in Louisiana with this plan despite having a COVID case per million nearly 30% higher than Iowa and a COVID death rate 3 times the rate in Iowa.
Simply put, ISU overreached and paid the price.
Very sad and we'll see if there's a response.
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California U of Pennsylvania football player Jamain Stephens Jr. dies
Stephens' father played in the NFL for five seasons.
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Very sad and we'll see if there's a response.
California U of Pennsylvania football player Jamain Stephens Jr. dies
Stephens' father played in the NFL for five seasons.
This has already been framed as a "football causes COVID death" story, which is total ********.
The story has been retracted; at least the part about him dying of COVID.
If anyone thought that there would be zero deaths on any of the sports teams they were fooling themselves. The sheer number of athletes involved says that someone would just like if you looked at any group of that scale. A death from COVID (if it turns out this is one) should not be an indictment of playing sports.
If anyone thought that there would be zero deaths on any of the sports teams they were fooling themselves. The sheer number of athletes involved says that someone would just like if you looked at any group of that scale. A death from COVID (if it turns out this is one) should not be an indictment of playing sports.
Awwww, yeah. The meltdown is starting up in Wisconsin. Cases surging around college campuses.
County executive in Madison thinks UW should send kids home.
Nope. You all knew the risk. So did your parents. Stay in and around your dorms.
County executive in Madison thinks UW should send kids home.
Nope. You all knew the risk. So did your parents. Stay in and around your dorms.
Seems hospitals aren't too overloaded. This is today's Iowa date, same pretty much everywhere.
