USC v. UCLA

UCLAUCLA unveiled renderings of its $50 million football facility as the Pac-12 schools continue their facilities boon.

47 thoughts on “USC v. UCLA

  1. Looks like a bus terminal – makes sense since they need to drive 45 minutes to get to the rose bowl

    • Will house the same bus that ran over weaker, less talented pUSC teams the past two years, as well as this November. Can’t wait for the sanctions to be over so you’ll have no more lame excuses for giving up by the end of the third quarter, just like this coming fall in our house.
      #threepeatoverthefreefalllingtroggies
      #sarkgoesfor7wins
      #bruinrevolution

    • $40M of the $50M has been raised in less than a year–by private donations, just like your complex…

    • How that plastic cartoon SUCC mascot working out at hubris gym. Loser mascot and loser Basketball team. SUCC on Nobs.

  2. This site has turned from red to green… Poor pUSC can’t beat the dominant team in SoCal two years in a row, even when the Bruins have their tiny 80-yard practice field… Currently have the #7 2015 recruiting class, with two top 100 ESPN players in Rosen and Jones, while SC flounders at #28. Sark’s new offense is a mish-mash mess (see Neuheisel’s attempts to install–and fail at–the pistol), and Hundley, Jack, Kendricks, Vanderdoes, Fitts, and a flotilla of elite talent are poised make pancakes of the Trojans in our house this November. It’s a humbling feeling to be the #2 team in your own city, but don’t worry, you’ll get used to it.

    • only a guttie Ruin would brag about “out-recruiting” a team on scholarship reductions.

      • “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” — Ben Franklin

  3. Looks awful!!! There aren’t even any hoofed animals being ridden by a guy in a leotard.

  4. Meanwhile, all the in-state, tax-paying, residents that are applying to go to school there are being turned away in favor of the out-of-state residents who have to pay higher tuition rates. Gotta love this state! Your tax dollars at work!

    • That’s dripping with irony, considering the same exact thing is happening at SC. 18% admittance, just like UCLA.

      • You clearly missed the point, or just don’t understand the difference between public and private schools. I am guessing the latter…

        • USC is now recruiting a lot of students from Asia….especially from China. Recruiting tons of foreign students keeps a lot of money coming into the university’s coffers…..I just hope at least some of them like and support football. : /

          • Still entirely different than a public university not accepting students from the state whose tax dollars it relies on. That is the whole point. All of these other quibbles you guys are making are moot. Other universities in the system are guilty of this too, but they are not planning to spend 50 million on athletic facilities in a year they accepted only 11% of their new students from the state that funds them.

          • I ask again: what does UCLA’s new privately funded athletic facility have to do with its acceptance policy toward in-state students? Hey, my daughter did not get into UCLA this year with a 4.3 GPA and 2300 on her SAT, and she would have been a triple legacy (myself ’85, my dad ’53). If anyone feels frustrated about that issue, it’s me. But that has absolutely NOTHING to do with a new building that is being funded privately.

          • You don’t understand how any of this works, do you? You think that “private funding” for an athletic building won’t impact donations and funding to other parts of the school? Get real, buddy. Its all a game of perception to fool the stupid people who don’t understand how the game is played. They just need to make it look like it doesn’t impact the funding on the education side. Any halfwit with an understanding of where the money comes from knows that it is impossible to fund this “privately” without impacting other areas of the school.

            At BEST they have prioritized the funding of the athletic building vs serving the students of the state for which their entire existence was created.

            Truly sad your legacy had to end because of non-sense like this. Too concerned with funding an athletic facility to close other funding gaps and allow more in-state students to attend. Truly a shame…

          • I appreciate your sympathy–fan dueling aside. She’s attending Westmont, a small liberal arts college in Santa Barbara, and is excited. So, as a parent, I’m happy. And I do understand that there is some impact on the rest of the school through the private capital campaign for the athletic center. This is actually a very complex issue–and saddens me as well, that my child, who was born and raised in California by taxpaying UCLA grads (both my wife and I are alums), had a snowball’s chance in heck to get in.

          • I am legitimately sorry to hear your daughter, as a 3rd gen legacy, did not get in with those grades and test scores. That completely freaking sucks.

            My wife and I are expecting our first child next month, and while I have a good 18 or so years before she will be going off to college, the idea that a publicly funded university in a state I have paid taxes in my whole life might turn her down in favor of an out of state student they can charge more money for is infuriating. Completely infuriating…

          • Congratulations on the impending arrival of your first child! It just gets into your bones that the current process for UC admittance is broken. It’s just wrong. We are making the best of it, and of course, she still wears blue and gold and attends games with us. Open that college fund now–the one we opened 18 years ago allowed her to buy a used car and a nice computer, as well as a bit of money to go toward first year tradition. But you guys at SC must be frustrated too, right? I mean, it’s just as hard to get in there now as it is to UCLA. Sad. Both great academic schools.

        • Actually, I believe you clearly missed the point: Every penny for this new facility is being raised privately. Just like at SC. Just like at Oregon. What in the world does this post, about UCLA’s new 100% privately funded athletic facility, have to do with the out-of-state vs in-state problem of admittance to California’s public UC schools?

  5. Here is a quote from Greg Katz of USC Playbook, how come Wolf can’t write anything like this??? “When Banner is able to stay at pad level, it’s like a tsunami of human girth steam rolling a mismatched opponent”

    • talk about hyperbole!!

      the kid hasn’t played a down yet!!

      the wolfman would never make such a Outlland-ish statement about a stone rookie!! who has he steam rolled? a blocking dummy??

      • The Outland trophy is exactly what is expected here with this guy, he’s way better than junky players like Jonathan Ogden that never really deserved to win it!

  6. I have to admit that is a non-descript builiding bordering on sheer ugliness. Better to have an ugly building with a good product that a beautiful building with an ugly product. See Galen Center for example.

    • Love to know what ‘sealed’ the deal on this design – aside from the fact it’s, as noted akin to CSUN Library (or any Cal State Campus bldg.) who is getting credit for this cutting edge ‘unique’ John Galt ‘moderne’ joke?

      Anyone see any ‘padding’ on that lower wall? What happens when something gets hurled against the structure? This is what happens when you haven’t enough space to begin with and worse the ugly thing can’t even be viewed from all four sides.

      $50 mil? Knowing those sharp ‘public employees’ and their cost conscious contractors 1. won’t begin by October 2015 and 2. won’t be finished by 2017 and 3. will further chew up that current 80 yds. patch.

      Name it after Donahue – it matches his skill set – grey, dull and can’t produce a winner.

      Come on UCLA let us know – who was it that ‘dazzled’ you with this design?

  7. bel-air tech has <18 mos. to begin construction on this 'bauhaus' tilt-up 'moderne' design – if they fail to it gives the matching face to the new brooklyn Dodger mascot a 'get out of westwood' card on what remains of his contract with no cost to him or others….then again 'if' the matching twin of the brooklyn Dodger mascot goes south then bel-air tech has the flip side.

    I still like the 'design' – never seen that 'GOSPLAN' design anywhere have any of you? It's so 'functional' and 'linear'….it's also cheap to build and based on the alleged 'promised' and 'actual' $40 mil. to build this sterile overhang (hey what do any of you think are the overs/unders on how fast this 'LADWP' replicant begins to rust?

    • You’re a fascinating man, Ruso, and I would enjoy buying you lunch. But honestly, half the time I am as lost as a goose in a hailstorm in trying to understand your posts. You do realize that most of us UCLA folks are fairly normal, everyday people who vote one of two party lines, go to work every day, love our wives and kids, and think Stalin was a vicious genocidist.

      • Alas poor lad you see the problem is the control of UCLA and for that matter all public universities nationwide by ‘progressives’ – then the graduates come out with worthless liberal art majors they can’t get a job with but hey they sure know who screwed them.

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