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Why do so many of our conference teams struggle to fill their stadiums?

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    • 09/01/2018 at 6:07 PM #65288
      ProudUte
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      There were a ton of empty seats at Stanford last night and UCLA is far from a sellout.  WSU, UA and Cal rarely sellout.  USC is fickle and typically has plenty of seats available.  It seems that Oregon, Utah and UW are the only sure sellouts in the conference.  Seems odd to me.

       

    • 09/01/2018 at 6:12 PM #65293
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      EagleMountainUte
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      Every year Stanford and Cal attendance is brought up I should take a shot. I wouldn’t have a liver but I would be smiling.  

      Cal improved its stadium by reducing the seats in it. Stanford fans NEVER have good attendance.

    • 09/01/2018 at 6:15 PM #65297
      EagleMountainUte
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      Cont….USC and UCLA are not college/football cities. Rose Bowl and Coliseum are huge. That’s why putting two nfl teams there is a head scratcher by the NFL to me. 

    • 09/01/2018 at 6:28 PM #65302
      Central Coast Ute
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      If USC has a down year, it’ll be even worse.

    • 09/01/2018 at 6:45 PM #65305
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      PlainsUte
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      90,000+ seat stadiums

      USC Coliseum: 93,600

      Rose Bowl: 90,888

      and, as others have pointed out, there is not a strong “college football culture” in Southern Cal as some other places, due to a greater variety of other attractions/things to do, such as pro sports, tripping to Vegas, world class amusement parks, going to beach, etc.  Also, I think there are a lot of transplants there from all over the US and they are not as loyal to the SoCal teams due to loyalty to their home state teams — with all the sports networks and streaming one stay home to see their hometown team(s) play rather than attend live football at SC or UCLA.

      • 09/01/2018 at 7:24 PM #65318
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        Central Coast Ute
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        True. I live in Cali and only go to see the Utes play.

    • 09/01/2018 at 7:38 PM #65323
      Utah5410
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      Announcers said that Stanford ia on a quarter system.Class technically doesnt start for them until Sept 24th for majority of the students.

      • 09/01/2018 at 8:15 PM #65334
        PlainsUte
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        and probably the people who can get into Stanford are not very interested in sports

    • 09/01/2018 at 8:43 PM #65352
      Ute Bc
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      On the other hand Oregon, Utah, Washington have a great fan base. 

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