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This is embarrassing
Watching UCLA/Stanford. This is supposed to be a championship game in one of the power conferences, but the stands are half-full, the weather sucks and it's on a Friday night when not a lot of people will be watching. And the worst thing is the best team in the conference isn't playing. Don't get me wrong, it's been a competitive game between two good teams, but it doesn't have the atmosphere of championship game.
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I watched a little of that game. I know the weather was awful, but that crowd was embarrassing.
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Where was it? The UCLA home field is absurd. I never went to a game, mostly because I was thinking of other things, but at least partly because the campus is in Westwood and the stadium is in FUCKING PASADENA! And on top of that the stadium holds about 100,000 people. Every single UCLA undergrad could go to the game and the stadium would look empty.
Maybe you have to understand a bit about LA traffic, geography, and climate to know that asking someone in Westwood to go to Pasadena is maybe 1-2 hours in normal daytime traffic, and climatically it's like going from coastal San Diego to Tuscon.
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It was at Stanford.
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Stanford usually draws well on The Farm. I just think it was a bogus championship game. Stanford had beaten UCLA on the road the week before, and everyone knows Oregon is the best team in the conference, so it really wasn't a big deal.
Overall, attendance seemed to be way down in the Pac 12 this season. I don't watch every game, but outside of Autzen Stadium, the only joint I saw banged out was the Coliseum when Notre Dame played USC.
One of the things that may be screwing up attendance in general is the new Pac 12 network. They're trying to get more teams on live TV, so they're messing with the start times. For 50 years, ASU has played its home games at 7:30 p.m. local time on Saturday. This year, they played two day games at home. I think the last time ASU played in that stadium during the day was the '83 Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma.
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