Is this a longer day than what Illini fans in Chicago, St Louis, or the Quad Cities face?
I don't know about fans. But the UI professors, university employees, and students I know of live in champaign where the games are. That's completely different for UCLA where the campus and stadium are a good distance away from each other.
Or Penn St? I've never been there but all you ever hear about is how hard it is to get to that stadium regardless of which direction you're coming from. With all the gameday traffic bottlenecking things I'm sure it's a similar thing.
Wait, when was Eberhart injured and is it season-ending? I was hoping to see him play this year.
Their backup has played just as well, if not better than Nico.
So that explains our student section. I’d regard university employees as just part of the little CU community, whereas UCLA is surrounded by a massive metropolitan area. UCLA has 10-13 million people living within a one-hour drive (depending on traffic), while we have 240,000 (including students and university employees).
When I lived in Phoenix I recall all of the absolute bellyaching by the local population about how difficult it is to get to Coyotes games and that it was sooooooooo far away and that’s the reason nobody attended. In actuality it was a 30 minute drive in rush hour (45min tops) with easy access free parking a wonderfully built up outdoor shop area and amenities that probably 75% of the traditional hockey cities just don’t have. Plus you could buy tickets for dirt cheap. Opposing fan bases seemed to have no problem doing just that. But Coyotes fans? No.Chicago Illini fans:
We will be driving in from San Bernardino, about 60 miles to the east on the 210. Leaving by 12:30, in time to park and set up a tailgate. We've been to the Rose Bowl on several occasions and it's a nightmare to get out after the game. We're resigned to hanging out in the lot for a hour or so after getting back to our cars. Aslo, the weather forecast is calling for a good chance of rain most of the day and during the game. Parking on the golf course could get messy.
We have been in California all week (we live in KC) and watching the weather forecast slowly degrade. I don’t know what to expect but we plan to shuttle from the Parsons lot to the Rose Bowl. We will be staying at the Courtyard that is, I think, just across the street from the shuttle. If any California alumni that have been through this before have advice, I’m all ears.
So not for fair-weather fans. I was thinking of parking downtown Pasadena and taking the shuttle.
Get to your seats early. The portals into the seating area can get really crowded. At the 2008 Rose Bowl I missed the team entrance while I was waiting in the crowd to get into the seating area.
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