(11-13-2023 10:02 AM)Deez Nuts Wrote:  If you're "just" making plans to go by the quad and check out the set on Saturday, I'll urge you to get there at 830 and be part of the 9am start of the show where they celebrate the host crowd. We need to show out. I'm not optimistic that our gameday crowd will be as large as 2015 or 2017. Being our 3rd time around, CGD is becoming a casual thing for us unfortunately. I am glad student tickets are sold out; reality is that while we've hosted this before with a Homecoming crowd, this year the University "closes" for holiday break.

I share a lot of your worry but also some optimism. It has been 6 years since CGD has last been on campus and so that means 20,000 students who have not gotten to experience it. Not only that but it’s a break weekend where they can go without worrying about homework, etc. It will be a big party among their friends. Most students live off campus and I think a lot of them would say they’d gladly stick around for a big weekend of partying. Heck a lot of students stayed for SDSU in 2017. It was the upper grandstands that were empty.

Alumni could be a different story with many of us holding commitments especially leading into Thanksgiving week. However, we didn’t play VU for homecoming in 2017 and I thought that crowd was pretty good considering half of the student body had already experienced CGD. I’ve also had a bunch of friends who haven’t been to a game in years wanting to just be down there now.

Also worried about the showing but I have some optimism.