HighlandsBuff
Well-Known Member
Re: the RVs...
Growing up in Northern California, I went to quite a few Oregon games where we or friends RV'd in those really nice ones... pop-out rooms, TVs, so on. It seemed to work at Oregon because they have a big number of alumni in both Northern California and Seattle area, for whom renting an RV and making a long weekend of it fits pretty well.
For CU, it seems like fans either-
1) live in Denver Metro, and therefore day tripping the games makes sense, although later games (and stadium wide beer sales) make it less fun. Certainly some Denver metro fans spend the night.
2) live in Boulder County, so you just go home.
3) live in the Bay Area/East Coast/Texas or some other popular CU Alumni landing spot, and if you come to a game you fly.
Put more simply, our alumni seem (to me) to live within 2 hours or otherwise are a flight a way. We just don't have some big following in places that are the sweet spot for RVing... like a 4-6 hour drive. Not so say we couldn't have a few.
Going to the ASU game this weekend with a friend whose daughter is junior at CU now. He went to Oregon and did the RV thing to Eugene a few times.... He would have loved to do the RV this weekend.
For saturday games against non-FCS opponents, even when we sell 40-45k tickets, I aways feel like there's early and pretty robust tailgating around campus?
Growing up in Northern California, I went to quite a few Oregon games where we or friends RV'd in those really nice ones... pop-out rooms, TVs, so on. It seemed to work at Oregon because they have a big number of alumni in both Northern California and Seattle area, for whom renting an RV and making a long weekend of it fits pretty well.
For CU, it seems like fans either-
1) live in Denver Metro, and therefore day tripping the games makes sense, although later games (and stadium wide beer sales) make it less fun. Certainly some Denver metro fans spend the night.
2) live in Boulder County, so you just go home.
3) live in the Bay Area/East Coast/Texas or some other popular CU Alumni landing spot, and if you come to a game you fly.
Put more simply, our alumni seem (to me) to live within 2 hours or otherwise are a flight a way. We just don't have some big following in places that are the sweet spot for RVing... like a 4-6 hour drive. Not so say we couldn't have a few.
Going to the ASU game this weekend with a friend whose daughter is junior at CU now. He went to Oregon and did the RV thing to Eugene a few times.... He would have loved to do the RV this weekend.
For saturday games against non-FCS opponents, even when we sell 40-45k tickets, I aways feel like there's early and pretty robust tailgating around campus?