Cal Gets No Respect

In an earlier article, we stated that 3,000 student tickets were available for the Cal-USC football game. This number was misstated, distored from the number of 2,000 tickets available through the Cal Athletics ticket office. Only 750 of these tickets were available to students.

While 3,000 might be an outlandish amount of tickets for students, asking 33,000 students to share 750 tickets goes beyond absurd to the level of insulting. In most other serious rivalry games, and in games where top-ranked teams are playing, more general admission seats are usually given to the opposing team. No other Top 10 team in the country would tolerate this sort of behavior, and neither should Cal Athletics.

Now, it could be the case that Cal Athletics underestimated demand for tickets, and that they didn't order as many as they could have. But whether Cal or USC dropped the ball on this particular occasion, the students inevitably suffer the most in the situation.Email This Post!