First, I just want to say I have been reading VN for awhile and want to say it's a good site and the West Coast does have some stuff to learn about how you guys do things in your neck of the woods. I hate trolling and don't want to come across as such, hence the reason I've only been reading and not posting.
Anyways, back to a point. I agree that the megaphones are a dumb attempt to try to increase crowd noise in Memorial. IMO the Student Section does a decent job at making some noise, but that's only 10k people, and less than 15% of the fans. The problem are our apathetic Alumni who sit on their butts quietly. We're lucky if we can even get them to respond to the students' "Hey alumni" cheer (those of you in attendance next week will hear it).
So I can understand how some people making decisions want to try to improve the energy of the fans. However, I do have an inside with the Athletics Department and these megaphones are the idea of one person who is rather new to Cal and it's rich tradition...so new that this person has never been to a Cal football game, didn't know we had a fight song (we have 29), continuously tries to steal other University's traditions rather than highlight our own, as well as countless other atrocities that I would deem unforgivable and should call for their immediate termination.
But that's just my $0.02 and cannot wait to return the great hospitality that I received last year. Good luck!
