I wonder if the Sofi news dropping this week is in any way related to the B10 moving forward with the $2.4 billion investment deal with the UC Pension fund despite opposition from SC and Michigan.
Mixed feelings. The season ticket pool I've been in since undergrad owns a Sofi suite so we get VIP parking and all which will likely include UCLA (we have Terry Donahue Pavilion Club seats at RB anyways). Plus it's closer to me to where I can take local roads. But then, SoFi is just bad for tailgating (heck it was better for Rams games when it was at the Coliseum) and the backdrop pales next to the mountains that RB has. Food-wise, they're both awful outside of the suites/clubs.
Sorry, but I disagree. I was a freshman at UCLA when the Rose Bowl became our ‘home’ stadium and it didn’t live up to the hype then and it doesn’t live up to it now. It is a relic of the past and might work once a year for the actual Rose Bowl, but not as a stadium you want to return to multiple times a year. It is difficult to get to, seats are awful, and hot as you know what during the day. The parking is horrible and it’s a commitment to exit it. Sofi is the stadium of today, modern, comfortable and easy to access. You can take surface streets if need be and not to mention public transportation. Uber it if you need to. UCLA is very aware of where it’s students and alumni live, and I’m sorry to tell you most of them live on the west side and not in or near Pasadena.
Change is good and needed and this is a smart and strategic move.
I notice you did not mention tailgating on the golf course, Michael. What are your thoughts on the loss of tailgating which, as mentioned, was often the highlight of the game day experience?
Along with parking prices doubling or tripling - let alone ticket prices likely doing the same... I can't imagine why, if you are willing to spend $80,000,000 to make a bad move and, at best, split the fanbase, that you wouldn't use that money to fund NIL a'la Texas Tech, Vanderbilt and others who have reenergized their programs by getting better football players who will play better football... personally, season ticket holder for 30+ years, live in the OC, travel to at least one or two away games a year - will never go to a game at sofi
I'm sorry, but I disagree, Michael. Did you even graduate? If so you missed a lot of the Bruin tradition, our contributions to college sports. The RB has been open for 103 years. It sounds like your freshman year was 1982. I started grad school in 1976, graduated in 83 and loved when the Rose Bowl was the season goal. Drake Stadium was an embarrassment for our program, which was pretty good back then. It looks like there's a gang of suits H-bent on blowing up our athletic traditions.
On the record, I said UCLA was going to move no matter what the contract said (because contracts are just words on paper and can be broken for the right price) so it was good to see I was right I guess.
I’ve not yet been to SOFI, so I can’t comment on the stadium. I am a bit old school, so I hate to see UCLA break a contract. I think about Coach Wooden not breaking his word when he agreed to become the UCLA Head Coach. Those values used to matter.
The stadium is pretty nice and clean (obviously since it's new). Funnels noise in well. Seats are more comfy. Food options and outside the stadium are abysmal.
Reposting my comment from the other post, with a few edits...
It seems to be 💯 BS (I know that's not becoming 🤣) but 💯 BS it is, that UCLA cannot afford to buyout the slimiest Donut Head in the Universe, Jelly 2.0.
I know I am reiterating but the billion dollar question needs emphasis:
How in the hell will UCLA buyout the Rose Bowl lease at $60-$80 million... yes, $60-$80 million, and this deal is close to being done? What a cluster!
Add to that cool $60-$80 million, the financial damages that UCLA will likely be required to pay the Rose Bowl from the law suit, and of course this deal makes perfect sense.
And Inglewood is so much nicer than Pasadena 😠
Exactly what Joe said.. save a few miles, but not any time with traffic snarls, picnic on pavement on ONE parking lot - that will be fun in the heat, and then sit in a sterile corporatized stadium that has NO history, NO legacy, NOTHING connected to UCLA.
And Blockhead 2.0 is backing this??? Is this his idea of making Football profitable? If so, we are doomed.
If true, UCLA, it's Donut Head, Donut Holes, Blockhead and Block Holes will have officially burned our greatness to the ground.
What's next, Basketball moving to Intuit?
And yes again, this deal will not resolve attendence problems, it will make them worse! The problem is not the Rose Bowl, it's whose running Morgan and Murphy!!!
That's true. I sent my email to all 22 listed above.
When I was putting this list together, I tried to limit the recipients just to the ones who *could* have any influence over this decision. There are a heck of a lot of other administrators who help oversee the department who were not included.
What do they do all day... they all join hands in destroying UCLA, piece by piece and they are either pure evil, inherently brainless or both. I am leaning toward both.
Whether it's the personal data leaker, the time clock puncher, the money spender, the do nothing-er, the big bucks latte drinker, the martini clinker, or the checkers player, they all contribute to this Hell we are living through.
So much for tradition! Next they should take down the banners in Pauley and sell them on epay.
I love your humor, you are so right 😢 and 🤣. Tragedy of epic proportions.
I wonder if the Sofi news dropping this week is in any way related to the B10 moving forward with the $2.4 billion investment deal with the UC Pension fund despite opposition from SC and Michigan.
https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/sources-big-ten-execs-pressing-to-make-24-billion-investment-deal--without-michigan-and-usc-if-needed-140045573.html
Mixed feelings. The season ticket pool I've been in since undergrad owns a Sofi suite so we get VIP parking and all which will likely include UCLA (we have Terry Donahue Pavilion Club seats at RB anyways). Plus it's closer to me to where I can take local roads. But then, SoFi is just bad for tailgating (heck it was better for Rams games when it was at the Coliseum) and the backdrop pales next to the mountains that RB has. Food-wise, they're both awful outside of the suites/clubs.
Sorry, but I disagree. I was a freshman at UCLA when the Rose Bowl became our ‘home’ stadium and it didn’t live up to the hype then and it doesn’t live up to it now. It is a relic of the past and might work once a year for the actual Rose Bowl, but not as a stadium you want to return to multiple times a year. It is difficult to get to, seats are awful, and hot as you know what during the day. The parking is horrible and it’s a commitment to exit it. Sofi is the stadium of today, modern, comfortable and easy to access. You can take surface streets if need be and not to mention public transportation. Uber it if you need to. UCLA is very aware of where it’s students and alumni live, and I’m sorry to tell you most of them live on the west side and not in or near Pasadena.
Change is good and needed and this is a smart and strategic move.
I notice you did not mention tailgating on the golf course, Michael. What are your thoughts on the loss of tailgating which, as mentioned, was often the highlight of the game day experience?
Along with parking prices doubling or tripling - let alone ticket prices likely doing the same... I can't imagine why, if you are willing to spend $80,000,000 to make a bad move and, at best, split the fanbase, that you wouldn't use that money to fund NIL a'la Texas Tech, Vanderbilt and others who have reenergized their programs by getting better football players who will play better football... personally, season ticket holder for 30+ years, live in the OC, travel to at least one or two away games a year - will never go to a game at sofi
I covered that well in the email I sent this morning and have published here:
https://www.themightybruin.com/p/an-open-letter-to-ucla-administrators-on-move-to-sofi-stadium
I'm sorry, but I disagree, Michael. Did you even graduate? If so you missed a lot of the Bruin tradition, our contributions to college sports. The RB has been open for 103 years. It sounds like your freshman year was 1982. I started grad school in 1976, graduated in 83 and loved when the Rose Bowl was the season goal. Drake Stadium was an embarrassment for our program, which was pretty good back then. It looks like there's a gang of suits H-bent on blowing up our athletic traditions.
On the record, I said UCLA was going to move no matter what the contract said (because contracts are just words on paper and can be broken for the right price) so it was good to see I was right I guess.
And I still say the Rose Bowl will win the inevitable lawsuit. LOL
I’ve not yet been to SOFI, so I can’t comment on the stadium. I am a bit old school, so I hate to see UCLA break a contract. I think about Coach Wooden not breaking his word when he agreed to become the UCLA Head Coach. Those values used to matter.
The stadium is pretty nice and clean (obviously since it's new). Funnels noise in well. Seats are more comfy. Food options and outside the stadium are abysmal.
Reposting my comment from the other post, with a few edits...
It seems to be 💯 BS (I know that's not becoming 🤣) but 💯 BS it is, that UCLA cannot afford to buyout the slimiest Donut Head in the Universe, Jelly 2.0.
I know I am reiterating but the billion dollar question needs emphasis:
How in the hell will UCLA buyout the Rose Bowl lease at $60-$80 million... yes, $60-$80 million, and this deal is close to being done? What a cluster!
Add to that cool $60-$80 million, the financial damages that UCLA will likely be required to pay the Rose Bowl from the law suit, and of course this deal makes perfect sense.
And Inglewood is so much nicer than Pasadena 😠
Exactly what Joe said.. save a few miles, but not any time with traffic snarls, picnic on pavement on ONE parking lot - that will be fun in the heat, and then sit in a sterile corporatized stadium that has NO history, NO legacy, NOTHING connected to UCLA.
And Blockhead 2.0 is backing this??? Is this his idea of making Football profitable? If so, we are doomed.
If true, UCLA, it's Donut Head, Donut Holes, Blockhead and Block Holes will have officially burned our greatness to the ground.
What's next, Basketball moving to Intuit?
And yes again, this deal will not resolve attendence problems, it will make them worse! The problem is not the Rose Bowl, it's whose running Morgan and Murphy!!!
I am beyond SMDH 😡
What is truly depressing are the layers of administrators that oversee the athletic department. What do they do all day?
That's true. I sent my email to all 22 listed above.
When I was putting this list together, I tried to limit the recipients just to the ones who *could* have any influence over this decision. There are a heck of a lot of other administrators who help oversee the department who were not included.
What do they do all day... they all join hands in destroying UCLA, piece by piece and they are either pure evil, inherently brainless or both. I am leaning toward both.
Whether it's the personal data leaker, the time clock puncher, the money spender, the do nothing-er, the big bucks latte drinker, the martini clinker, or the checkers player, they all contribute to this Hell we are living through.
Make big bucks for doing nothing useful for the Bruin community.