FB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[wildcat11]

OK Bob-

Looks like it's time for us to plan the farewell tour for MtClef: 

http://www.clusports.com/news/6258/

Wonder who will get the honors of first home game 2011...wish they could flip the Linfield home and away.

Why would CalLu want to break in their new digs with a loss? 

[CalCat]

OK Bob-

Looks like it's time for us to plan the farewell tour for MtClef: 

http://www.clusports.com/news/6258/

Wonder who will get the honors of first home game 2011...wish they could flip the Linfield home and away.

Why would CalLu want to break in their new digs with a loss? 

I don't know ...to make Redlands jealous

[RFB]

Ted Runner Stadium > New Cal Who Stadium

[D O.C.]

Chapman>Ted Runner natural turf > New Cal Who Stadium>Whittier>CMS>PP>OXY>LaVerne   

[Kingsmen4]

Ted Runner Stadium > New Cal Who Stadium

Got to admit, the Runner was a great place, I sure loved it. In fact, it felt like a home game everytime... 

This stadium will blow the rest of the SCIAC out of the water, keeping in mind how great the baseball stadium turned out. Not that we really needed it, but man this is going to boost recruiting. Anyone that was/is on the cusp now, will be hard pressed not to like this news.

Good luck in Spring ball - hope everyone else is as hungry as the young guys in our program.

-Go Lu

[doolittledog]

Are there any pics of what the new place will look like?

[wildcat11]

This stadium will blow the rest of the SCIAC out of the water

I would hope that a new $8M facility would be able to top the current older stadiums.  If not, then donors should ask for their money back.

I think that every program is hungry right now...a new season is always full of new promise*.

*Greeting Card'ed

[Nihon Tiger]

Sounds like the new stadium will be sweet.  Congrats!  Also curious as to why our stadium gets hated on.  Is it the lighting, or is it because all of the fans have to sit together?  Can't we all just get along?!  I can't believe anyone would rank PP's stadium above ours when their visiting locker room is like a broom closet.  Guess it depends whose point of view you're looking at it from, player or fan.

They'll probably install a moat filled with hungry alligators and an electrified fence and guard towers with sharpshooters armed with M16s with telescopic scopes to protect the field like they did at Chapman.

OxyBob

I think the guard towers and sharpshooters are to keep Oxy parents from enjoying a brew in the parking lot.  If my beer-ravaged memory serves me correctly that is... 

BTW, doesn't Snoop Dawg sometimes remind you of the old guys in the restaurant in the movie Little Giants?  I'm hoping for some sweet anonymously sourced info on a military family that just moved in across the tracks in Thousand Oaks, heard their kid's a monster.

[dahlby]

Hey OXYBOB, sharpshooting practice begins at Chapman in early August, want to join me?

And the pep  band played at the ladies' and men's home games this year. They are
ready for the football season. I am hoping that they will peak during the OXY game this year.

[Kingsmen4]

Pamonas stadium was like playing football inside of an oven that was inside of a morgue. There is always more fans at the pool behind the endzone, and the place is awkwardly quiet. Not to mention the lack of breeze that turns the high noon sun into stifling heat! But the tree is awesome, a sign of a classic d3 football field.

I loved playing at oxy as well, the lights work fine, at least well enough to lead us to the endzone ;-) ...

I like how loud the place gets and the feel of all the buildings surrounding it. Worst sciac field in my opinion ... La Verne ... I never bought into the idea of the "super tent"

-go lu

[Nihon Tiger]

I loved playing at oxy as well, the lights work fine, at least well enough to lead us to the endzone ;-) ...
-go lu

*Sigh* One win in 4 years... don't even get me riled up, lucky for you I haven't had my morning cup of coffee yet  ...

Anyways, what always got me about La Verne was the visiting stands on the track.  Way too close/rickety for me.  Also not cool when your parents are close enough to hear you cursing under your breath from the stands.

The fans and the sarcastic announcer are what make Pomona's stadium suck, for sure.  That and having your halftime meetings in a parking lot.

Though they're not in the SCIAC, Chapman's new field is cool, but it feels like you're playing on the San Andreas Fault because there's a parking lot underneath the field.  Downright strange design if you ask me.

At least we don't have L&C's 70's astroturf in league...

[snoop dawg]

Well Nihon  i disagree with you....Chapman's facilities are second to none and are better than some d2 facilities that I have visited recently. 

So were you insulting me, making fun or just trying to be funny? 

[tmerton]

OK Bob-

Looks like it's time for us to plan the farewell tour for MtClef: 

http://www.clusports.com/news/6258/

Three thousand seat capacity?  Seems small but looks like it will be enough. 

[wildcat11]

OK Bob-

Looks like it's time for us to plan the farewell tour for MtClef: 

http://www.clusports.com/news/6258/

Three thousand seat capacity?  Seems small but looks like it will be enough. 

tmerton,

What do you think is the cause of SJU's attendance number to fall off so much during home playoff games?  I can see how the other MIAC teams bring in fans but are the attendance numbers that dependent on the MIAC rival crowds?

2009: 2,888 vs Coe  (avg 8,208)
2007: 3,771 vs Redlands (avg 8,898)
2005: 3,681 vs Monmouth (avg 7,861)
2003: 2,892 vs RPI (avg 6,496)
          2,830 vs Linfield
          2,600 vs St. Norbert

Don't get me wrong...I would kill to have SJU attendance numbers at Linfield (who wouldn't...it makes me jealous) but I just think it's strange to see such a big drop each time SJU hosts a playoff game.

[Pat Coleman]

I think part of it is that the NCAA makes you charge everyone who comes in the door and that cuts down on the student population. You also have the holiday break to consider in a lot of cases.

Similar discussion going on on the MIAA basketball board about Hope attendance at early-round conference tournament games. Speculation that since it's not part of the season ticket package that the greybeards just don't show up.