In Reply to: Disparaging Words from Chesney? He Noticed the RoseBowl Crowd posted by MANTIS9 on October 26, 2026 at 17:21:18
(With all due respect for the very good Terry Donahue). Vermeil left after winning the 1976 Rose Bowl game to cap his 2nd season. I will not be surprised if the Chesney era is similarly short-lived.
We agree that the lack of an on-campus stadium is a drag. I would be happy with 35K capacity for expanded Drake. The revenue hit would not be as simple as 35/70, because prices would be higher, including from luxury suites. Anyway, the main revenue stream, in today's B1G, is TV money.
This is probably wishful thinking, but assume Chesney is planning to stick around. He's incredibly detail-oriented, and any fool can see that attendance at the Rose Bowl is currently a drag on the program. So Chesney sees it as part of his job to shame UCLA fandom into coming out (Bolch is a huge ally in this). He's maybe not expecting any dramatic uptick this season, but in 2027, when the next batch of season tx gets sold.