Oregon (3) @ Southern California - 2/16/20

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[TheFarmFan]

Since people tend to adopt winning teams (see UConn), wouldn’t some potential USC fans be lured to UCLA? How has UCLA been drawing?

You'd have to be a big fan of WCBB and have absolutely no fan allegiance to either institution to willingly gravitate to either of the two schools depending on which one is winning. I don't know anyone who's both a UCLA fan and a U$C fan - even less so than Cal and Stanford, which tend to have a lot of intermarriages or folks who do undergrad at one and grad school at the other.

And for what few agnostic fans there are who are simply shopping for live entertainment, the bigger problem is that the downtown LA area around U$C is saturated with high wattage entertainment of all stripes (pro sports, concerts, the arts, etc.). U$C is a very scene-y school, so WCBB is almost always too low-wattage for that campus culture. Otherwise, there are very few "locals" who could easily get to U$C games given the location, especially the Friday night games. 1.5 hours of traffic each way? Forget it.

By contrast, there are far fewer big events in Westwood and on the West side in general, and UCLA is also surrounded by much more residential housing in its surrounding neighborhoods, so it would be much less of a hassle to be a season-ticket holding UCLA fan.

 

[domerduck]

2772. Pretty decent. After the Oregon schools and Arizona (and that is really recent for the Cats), most Pac 12 schools don't have great attendance for WBB.

That includes the 5917 they got from the Oregon game Friday night. Stanford and Cal will get the Sabrina/Duck lift next weekend. Average Pac 12 attendance through today's games are as follows:

Oregon	10,619
OSU	5,941
Arizona	5,753
Stanford	3,286
ASU	2,885
UCLA	2,772
Utah	2,635
California	2,009
Colorado	1,985
Washington	1,724
USC	848
WSU	716

 

[Plebe]

That includes the 5917 they got from the Oregon game Friday night. Stanford and Cal will get the Sabrina/Duck lift next weekend. Average Pac 12 attendance through today's games are as follows:

Oregon	10,619
OSU	5,941
Arizona	5,753
Stanford	3,286
ASU	2,885
UCLA	2,772
Utah	2,635
California	2,009
Colorado	1,985
Washington	1,724
USC	848
WSU	716

Historic numbers for Oregon and Arizona, I'm sure.

 

[ochoopsfan]

I will be helping the USC attendance with my annual trip up on Friday night 2/28 v Utah. I am going with a former players parents who make the trip once a year. Just got invited tonight. It is a 6pm game so if I leave tomorrow I should make it in time.
Fight On!!

 

[domerduck]

I disagree. USC gave her a platform, an expensive education all for free. There are 350 D1 colleges, is it too much to ask to just grad transfer to a school where you won't beat your old school? Maybe USC is a tournament team with Moore this year. It just seems asinine to me that Graves is like oh, she can win a national championship here. So if that's the case is it free game on all good players on bad teams that have redshirted and thus have an extra year?

She is going to win a lot at Oregon, play in front of al ot of fans. If she can't take a few tough chants, none of which are cursing or anything lewd, then I am fine with it. Its over, life goes on, she got the win, who cares? What does Graves want, for USC to have a parade for Minyon Moore? This is a small one time occurence. It'll never happen again, she'll never play at USC. Graves comments just come off as disengenous. Didn't Sabrina graduate early? If she grad transferred to Oregon State this year I bet her reception at UO would be awesome. Sure.

I understand your opinion, but I think you're being myopic. She had choices of lots of schools who would pay for her education and USC was the lucky recipient of her 3 years. She didn't redshirt as she started day 1 as a true Freshman. She was an intense competitor there, leader of her team, and she graduated from a tough university in 3 years. She still has a great relationship wih Coach Trakh as she has commented they still talk frequently. He is proud of her and supports her. I'm sure she is thick skinned and handled the chants, but my surprise they came from the USC band which represents their university.

I also don't understand what comments from Graves you were referring to. This was his latest tweet which seemed to be supportive of Minyon on how she loved being a Trojan and had Coach Trakh's blessing for the xfr.

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

You'd have to be a big fan of WCBB and have absolutely no fan allegiance to either institution to willingly gravitate to either of the two schools depending on which one is winning. I don't know anyone who's both a UCLA fan and a U$C fan - even less so than Cal and Stanford, which tend to have a lot of intermarriages or folks who do undergrad at one and grad school at the other.

And for what few agnostic fans there are who are simply shopping for live entertainment, the bigger problem is that the downtown LA area around U$C is saturated with high wattage entertainment of all stripes (pro sports, concerts, the arts, etc.). U$C is a very scene-y school, so WCBB is almost always too low-wattage for that campus culture. Otherwise, there are very few "locals" who could easily get to U$C games given the location, especially the Friday night games. 1.5 hours of traffic each way? Forget it.

By contrast, there are far fewer big events in Westwood and on the West side in general, and UCLA is also surrounded by much more residential housing in its surrounding neighborhoods, so it would be much less of a hassle to be a season-ticket holding UCLA fan.

I've only been to LA once, but as a native of greater New York, getting around LA is much more difficult.