Memorial Stadium Funding

UC Regents Approve Preliminary Plan Funding for Memorial Stadium Renovation:

http://www.calbears.com/genrel/071409aaa.html

There is a campaign to "blue out" the stadium for the first game:

http://www.calbears.com/blueout

Go Bears! :)

Oakland Tribune article about Memorial Stadium

http://www.insidebayarea.com/cal-sports/ci_12798140

Some key tidbits from the article:

* For $40,000 to $225,000, fans can have ticket-holder rights to a seat for 50 years. Already 1,900 of the 3,000 seats up for grabs have been purchased, Rosselli said. The 3,000 seats are about 5 percent of the stadium's total seating.

* About 70 percent of the most desirable seats — the University Club, priced at $225,000, $200,000 and $175,000 — have been sold. Stadium Club seats, one grade lower, go for $125,000, $100,000 and $75,000, and about 95 percent of those seats are sold.

* Field Level Club seats are priced at $60,000, $50,000 and $40,000 and roughly half the field level seats have sold. Roselli said fans aren't doing anything different from they've always done other than making a long-term commitment.

Memorial Stadium - Construction on Student Athlete Performance Center

Today I visited Memorial Stadium, chatted with a football buddy of mine, and took some pics!

Entering the construction zone...

Big holes are being made.

From the top of the stadium, pretty cool.

Inside fact - Cal was planning on keeping that tall tree Dumpster Muffin had taken habitat in, but had to cut it down because of the damage the tree-sitters inflicted. Isn't it ironic?

A pretty good look. They are going to install 4 huge exhaust fans on the west side of Memorial (on the insistence of the UC Regents) in case of a fire the air can quickly get out.

Also, they will build huge metal bars the vertical length of the stadium to "hold" Memorial from completely falling over / crumbling to the ground in case of an earthquake.

The first floor (bottom floor) plans including a picture of the presentation room (top left - although possibly with wider seats), weight room (top center), and weight room with the dining room overlooking it.

The second (top) floor plan including a picture of a hallway (top left), the dining area (top center), and the view from the plaza looking down the stairs going into the performance center (top right).

The locker room. They will go with the dark finish of the lockers.

And for those band folks out there, they are installing some arch metal beams in North Tunnel so that doesn't crumble onto poor band members. They will be able to storm out of North Tunnel as per usual, but they won't be able to hang out there while waiting to do so. Where will they wait? TBD... (my guess - inside the stadium in the endzone.)

Here is a link to a short video I took:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ1mQ9KLO6w

Go Bears!

Live Feed of Memorial Stadium Trees

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/feature?section=news&id=6372996

Memorial Stadium Game Day Access

If you are going to the game on Saturday, like me, you are probably wondering how the heck to get in. Here's the skinny:

http://calbears.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/082508aab.html

Go Bears! Beat Michigan State!