About Cal fans ...

#27
#27
You guys seem to not be listening about the cheering during the injury - it was tucked away in the far corner of the field, where the entire play was mostly hidden from view of most of the student section, and the young alumni section. Most of us Cal fans had no idea anyone was injured until a good long time, and when we did figure it out, we even cheered 3 times for the guy - in a gesture to make up for it - everytime we thought he was gonna get up.
 
#28
#28
CaliforniaDreamin said:
You guys seem to not be listening about the cheering during the injury - it was tucked away in the far corner of the field, where the entire play was mostly hidden from view of most of the student section, and the young alumni section. Most of us Cal fans had no idea anyone was injured until a good long time, and when we did figure it out, we even cheered 3 times for the guy - in a gesture to make up for it - everytime we thought he was gonna get up.
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That may be true but it was easily heard on the TV broadcast.

When the HC runs across the field most football fans know something is very wrong.
 
#29
#29
droski said:
What did you guys think of the stadium/campus? We are very proud of our campus.
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Campus=Picturesque.
Stadium=The concourses were exceptionally narrow and the bleachers antiquated, otherwise it was just fine. Maybe Cal can cut the trees with the hippies in them down and use them to craft some new bleachers.
 
#30
#30
utvolpj said:
That may be true but it was easily heard on the TV broadcast.

When the HC runs across the field most football fans know something is very wrong.
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Fulmer walked across the field long after Mitchell went down.
 
#32
#32
hatvol96 said:
Campus=Picturesque.
Stadium=The concourses were exceptionally narrow and the bleachers antiquated, otherwise it was just fine. Maybe Cal can cut the trees with the hippies in them down and use them to craft some new bleachers.
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we have most of the money raised for the redo of the stadium. the new training facilities will be built at the end of the season. baring more idiocy i imagine by 2010 memorial will finally be something we are proud of. Though I still think it has good sitelines.
 
#33
#33
droski said:
Though I still think it has good sitelines.
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It does. I don't see any reason to do any renovations that would change existing sightlines. New bleachers, wider concourses, and a modern press box are all that are needed.
 
#34
#34
Bleachers stunk - splinters in the butt.

The chanting was long AFTER Mitchell went down. It was obvious to everyone except a large section of people.

Campus was awesome.
 
#36
#36
VolinArizona said:
The chanting was long AFTER Mitchell went down. It was obvious to everyone except a large section of people.
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I blame the mikeman (i.e. cheerleader with a mike). If he leads cheers people will respond. Not sure if he knew what was going on. I do know this was his first game and generally these guys aren't genius material already. Last year the mikeman would regurally lead cheers and tell the crowd to make some noise when we were on offense. :disappointed: He didn't stop doing it until half the student section starting bitching him out.
 
#37
#37
I thought that nearly all Cal fans I met were pretty nice. But someone else pointed out to me that it was just me and my wife, so they left us alone. However the guys I talked to on the plane ride home said that since there was 6 of them and somewhat younger (not much) that Cal fans targeted them all night long. One thing I noticed is that we got a lot of "thumbs down" signs from the Cal fans whereas we usually get a different finger from SEC fans.
 
#38
#38
AmoebaVol said:
I hesitate to make this post because I know I take the risk of sounding like a sore loser with thin skin, but here I go anyhow ...

I went to the game on Saturday. Does anyone else think Cal fans showed less class than the fans of any winning team in recent memory? I've been to quite a few away games, including losses at Georgia and Alabama, and I've never experienced as much outright hostility as I did on my way out of the stadium and through campus to the BART in Berkeley.

Granted, I've never been to Gainesville.

I know there are always a few idiots who give everyone else a bad name (we have them ourselves), but it just seemed like there was an abundance of them at Cal.

Perhaps it was worse because I had the misfortune of walking down frat row, or perhaps they just aren't used to winning big games and don't know how to win with a little class. Just wondering what the others who went thought.
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i went to a cal game last year they were better than some and ive ben to va tech ga tech uga auburn unc duke clemson and maryland uga was the worst by far
 
#39
#39
The fans were a mixed bag. I noticed that in general, everyone around us was much nicer to us until Cal started winning the game. We did not encounter a lot of gracious winners. I was a big fan of the grandmotherly type who shared her homemade chocolate chip cookies with us; not so much of the little old Asian lady behind us who kept asking us to sit down even though she was reading a book during the whole game.

It's a lovely setting for football, but unfortunately the stadium itself
is kind of a mess. The bleachers are in really bad shape. Things were amazingly disorganized -- four minutes before kickoff, I got in an argument about whether we were in a general admission section or not, and there were no signs posted and no ushers anywhere to help. I had to go all the way out to ask someone taking tickets about it. My wife stood in the concession line for over forty-five minutes, only to learn that they had run out of almost everything. Unfortunately it was hard to escape the impression that they simply had no idea how to handle a big crowd.

Berkeley itself is great, of course, as is the rest of the area -- and weirdly, that's mostly what Cal fans wanted to talk to us about the most. "You guys are having a good time, right? Isn't this a great place to visit?" I never would have expected people from the Bay Area to want Tennessee folks to tell them how great the place ia, but over and over, that's mostly what they wanted us to do.
 
#40
#40
Vercingetorix said:
The fans were a mixed bag. I noticed that in general, everyone around us was much nicer to us until Cal started winning the game. We did not encounter a lot of gracious winners. I was a big fan of the grandmotherly type who shared her homemade chocolate chip cookies with us; not so much of the little old Asian lady behind us who kept asking us to sit down even though she was reading a book during the whole game.

It's a lovely setting for football, but unfortunately the stadium itself
is kind of a mess. The bleachers are in really bad shape. Things were amazingly disorganized -- four minutes before kickoff, I got in an argument about whether we were in a general admission section or not, and there were no signs posted and no ushers anywhere to help. I had to go all the way out to ask someone taking tickets about it. My wife stood in the concession line for over forty-five minutes, only to learn that they had run out of almost everything. Unfortunately it was hard to escape the impression that they simply had no idea how to handle a big crowd.

Berkeley itself is great, of course, as is the rest of the area -- and weirdly, that's mostly what Cal fans wanted to talk to us about the most. "You guys are having a good time, right? Isn't this a great place to visit?" I never would have expected people from the Bay Area to want Tennessee folks to tell them how great the place ia, but over and over, that's mostly what they wanted us to do.
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every time there is a big game they run out of food. I don't understand how this continues to happen. apparently they ran out of water. GREAT. :disappointed: I'm also told they closed a gate because of the tree sitters, so people had a hard time getting out. Brilliant decision. Let's try to protect 10 retards and endanger the lives of 70K people. This is a bit of a sore subject for me. :)
 
#41
#41
Bearsnecessity said:
Frat row is vicious to visiting fans, mostly because they've been drinking beer all day, they're dumb, and they're more interested in failing in picking up chicks that night.

For the most part, our student football fans are generally pleasant folk who go to the game, cheer, and then go party/celebrate/clubbing afterwards. They're a pretty affable if apathetic bunch. You're probably isolating a section of the student population and placing them in the majority because the majority of our fans couldn't make noise. (And I'm not saying all noisy fans are classless, but a considerable portion, particularly frat brothers, can get really obnoxious. God I hate frat boys.)

Trust me, if you thought it was rough Saturday, wait until the Trojans come to town. We HATE USC.
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Tell us something we don't know about Berkley State University for Socialistic Progressionism.:crazy: As you said, we know they are dumb and abundant rumors are that all male students wear pink underware or nothing at all when on campus. We also hear that no self-respecting Berkley Stater would be seen without his copy of Chairman Mau's little Red Book while visible to the administration. :pepper::pepper::pepper: Oh, and how about those cute tree-huggers that got prime time TV coverage. Now, weren't they really special.:tease2:

USC fans will feel right at home!:popcorn:
 
#42
#42
Which is also getting in the way of the stadium renovations... They're planning a new park outside of it, right?
 
#43
#43
KYVolFan said:
Tell us something we don't know about Berkley State University for Socialistic Progressionism.:crazy: As you said, we know they are dumb and abundant rumors are that all male students wear pink underware or nothing at all when on campus. We also hear that no self-respecting Berkley Stater would be seen without his copy of Chairman Mau's little Red Book while visible to the administration. :pepper::pepper::pepper: Oh, and how about those cute tree-huggers that got prime time TV coverage. Now, weren't they really special.:tease2:

USC fans will feel right at home!:popcorn:
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#44
#44
milohimself said:
Which is also getting in the way of the stadium renovations... They're planning a new park outside of it, right?
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The new training facility is supposed to be built first. Despite the treetards propaganda, it's the city that is holding up the training facility by arguing that we are building it directly on an active fault which is against the law. We except a settlement from the city soon. Probably meaning we give up the new parking lot for donors that was planned. The City of berkeley HATES cars. They'd rather rename the city george bush than allow a parking lot to be built. It's so stupid. The training facility will be mostly underground with a nice park with lots of trees on top which will also create a new concourse for the stadium. It should be breathtaking. Then after that is done, they start to retrofit the stadium.
 
#46
#46
This is what gets me. The tree huggers got their press time for living in the trees so they won't get cut down. But, the camera got shots of one of hippies scaling through the tree top with a full pack of toilet paper. Which comes from cut down trees!!! Idiots. They can't even get their cause right.
 
#47
#47
GVF said:
This is what gets me. The tree huggers got their press time for living in the trees so they won't get cut down. But, the camera got shots of one of hippies scaling through the tree top with a full pack of toilet paper. Which comes from cut down trees!!! Idiots. They can't even get their cause right.
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I had just assummed they would use the leaves, but I guess that would be abusing the oaks.
 
#49
#49
GVF said:
This is what gets me. The tree huggers got their press time for living in the trees so they won't get cut down. But, the camera got shots of one of hippies scaling through the tree top with a full pack of toilet paper. Which comes from cut down trees!!! Idiots. They can't even get their cause right.
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Their platforms are made out of wood and they nailed those platforms to the trees which i'm sure is great for them. They also cut off the top of another tree intentionally because they needed a way to get supplies up. These idiots only want the press and something to do while they collect their welfare checks.
 
#50
#50
droski said:
truly amazing. It's no wonder that people think we are bush league. we had similar crowds at 4 home games last year and had the same problems.
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I will say, the Bear's Lair struck me as a great place to go watch college hoops on TV on an average Wednesday night.
 
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