Flirtation or commitment?
USC Athletic Director Mike Garrett writes to the fans today.
Dear Fellow Trojan:It gives me no pleasure to write a letter of this kind, but there are issues facing our university that you need to understand. The University of Southern California has been negotiating diligently for months, trying to renew USC’s lease with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and trying to get guarantees that USC’s football team and fans can enjoy home games in a completely renovated and improved stadium.
Of course our beloved Rose Bowl is probably just being played to wedge concessions from the Coliseum, despite USC's Dickey assurances to me -- with deadpan sincerity -- the deal was go from their side and only depended on Pasadena approval.
They still need 5 votes on the Pasadena City Council.
What happens if the City Council lets USC play in the Rose Bowl temporarily and then the Coliseum is deemed "unsafe" and can't br reoccupied?
Then we are stuck with USC...and that means combined with UCLA events, every weekend in September, October, November and December (with playoffs)will be ruined with traffic.
Playoffs in college football??? Umm when did that start.
I suspect there will be weekends when both teams would be on the road also.
but that just kills all the other things in the Rose Bowl...such as Kidspace...
it is only six (6) games.. 6 saturdays..out of the 52 in a year. And since both UCLA and USC often play home games on the same day it really wouldn't knock out other events - it might just mean UCLA plays at noon and USC at 5pm
nah...they have to have a few days to restore the field after a game
anything that interferes or could potentially interfere with the peleton pleases me greatly.
Let the Trojan team go to kidspace for college credit.