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TN VOLS fans coming to UCLA/Colorado game

There’s a reason why people move to Boulder or live in Boulder. They’re willing to pay the premium for the lifestyle of the city. Asking the question, “why can’t Boulder be just like (insert other place’s name)?” is fruitless. Boulder has its own unique identity. Most people probably don’t think it involves hundreds of RVs parked for tailgating on the most beautiful campus in the world. The price of the RV is irrelevant. The cost to the aesthetic of the campus is too great for most of the people who inhabit the city and work for/attend the school.
 
Shldr2Shldr said:
The pricing for donor parking lot passes is also asinine honestly. $155 for the season pass is perfectly reasonable. The fact there is only ONE lot that has a $250 donation is garbage. $405 for a season, roughly $60/game is high but doable. The next tier is $155 + $500, approximately $100/game is rough, especially for the younger fans/alumni that are still using their disposable income to pay off student loans.

I get the lots around Farrand being expensive. I get the lots at the B-School being expensive. I get the lots by the physics building and Franklin Field being uber expensive. I don't get why the Engineering school lot is so expensive (location I guess, but the lot is ****ty). The lot behind Wardenberg should be tier 1 as well.
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Have a little fun, call Tennessee ticket sales and act like you are interested in season tickets in the lower level on the sideline with a parking pass. Your annual "DONATION" will be $10,000, just for the opportunity to buy the tickets. It is insane!
 
Not Sure said:
The “cost to the aesthetic of the campus”????

Honestly. That’s just absurd. Parking a bunch of RVs in the lot by the practice fields isn’t going to effect the “aesthetic” of the campus one iota.
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Yes. The people who are affiliated with the university of colorado in boulder don’t want a wad of RVs parked anywhere on campus for an extended period. They barely tolerate the current tailgating culture. You’re asking them to go from 15 to 100.

It isn’t “just a bunch of RVs” to a lot of people. Those damned things are a blight. People don’t move to Boulder for blighted scenery.
 
4DemBuffs said:
For ****s sake... 6 Saturday’s a year.
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Y’all don’t get it. There are enough people who get pissed about 8 hours six saturdays a year. You’re now asking them for 72 hours six weekends a year.

Try this: y’all should start a campaign to get the campus to permit RVs as y’all wish. See what happens.
 
manhattanbuf said:
There’s a reason why people move to Boulder or live in Boulder. They’re willing to pay the premium for the lifestyle of the city. Asking the question, “why can’t Boulder be just like (insert other place’s name)?” is fruitless. Boulder has its own unique identity. Most people probably don’t think it involves hundreds of RVs parked for tailgating on the most beautiful campus in the world. The price of the RV is irrelevant. The cost to the aesthetic of the campus is too great for most of the people who inhabit the city and work for/attend the school.
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Translation: **** Joe Six Pack & **** the poors.
 
manhattanbuf said:
There’s a reason why people move to Boulder or live in Boulder. They’re willing to pay the premium for the lifestyle of the city. Asking the question, “why can’t Boulder be just like (insert other place’s name)?” is fruitless. Boulder has its own unique identity. Most people probably don’t think it involves hundreds of RVs parked for tailgating on the most beautiful campus in the world. The price of the RV is irrelevant. The cost to the aesthetic of the campus is too great for most of the people who inhabit the city and work for/attend the school.
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I was pretty ambivalent...now I want an RV to park in Boulder on a regular basis. I think I might hire someone to drive it around Boulder when I am otherwise occupied.
 
manhattanbuf said:
Y’all don’t get it. There are enough people who get pissed about 8 hours six saturdays a year. You’re now asking them for 72 hours six weekends a year.

Try this: y’all should start a campaign to get the campus to permit RVs as y’all wish. See what happens.
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My comment was on your end of the stupidity of Boulder.
 
Clean Undies said:
Translation: **** Joe Six Pack & **** the poors.
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Dude, stop the grandstanding. I once owned a home in Boulder. I sold the home because Boulder doesn’t make sense for my lifestyle. I don’t like a lot of the town’s pretentions either.

Boulder isn’t going to change because you want it to be more like some other place. The place is the place for better or worse. It’s clear you don’t want to live there. The people who do like it a certain way. Just because it isn’t your way doesn’t make it bad. It just means that maybe you’ll need to take your RV someplace else.
 
manhattanbuf said:
Dude, stop the grandstanding. I once owned a home in Boulder. I sold the home because Boulder doesn’t make sense for my lifestyle. I don’t like a lot of the town’s pretentions either.

Boulder isn’t going to change because you want it to be more like some other place. The place is the place for better or worse. It’s clear you don’t want to live there. The people who do like it a certain way. Just because it isn’t you way doesn’t make it bad. It just means that maybe you’ll need to take your RV someplace else.
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You do realize that the group of CU fans who were students on campus in the 80’s and 90’s are reaching retirement age. RVs are catnip for retirees. Nothing wrong with hitting the open road and wanting to see the country in an RV.

I dont agree with your thesis that this has anything to do with wanting Boulder to be some place else. I’d argue that this is about people who love Boulder wanting to enjoy game day from their retirement toy.

There are worse things for a retired person to want do than chase CU athletic teams around the country.
 
Not Sure said:
Not to bring this up again, but what “Boulder” wants is irrelevant.
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The school is a big part of the community. A decisive factor. The people who hold their noses at tailgating culture have an influential voice on the campus.

Go ahead and try to get this RV initative going. Report back on what you find.
 
TSchekler said:
Boulder has already said **** Joe Six Pack & **** the poors by the cost of living being radically higher than the rest of Colorado.
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South Campus would be perfect for long-term parking, fwiw. Perfect place to put RVs & campers.
 
**** RVs. I remember the blackout game against West Virginia during the Hawkins years. Those rednecks flooded campus with camo and RVs, sullied the look of campus that day. Ick.
 
This by the way is one of those issues that the school doesn't have to ask permission from the city. If they want to do it, they do it. City can complain but has zero authority to stop it.

Secondly we aren't talking about hundreds of RVs nor are we talking about a permanent year around situation, nor are we talking about an old mobile home park blighting the city.

My guess is that the AD and the school could provide a place for 30-50 RVs which would be limited to 72 hours 6-7 times maximum per year. These would be very expensive units with occupants wealthy enough to own them and pay a premium to use the RV lot those weekends. Based on the demographics you would probably see less drunkenness, less litter, less noise from this lot than any of the other tailgate locations and certainly less than from many of the local off campus buildings that house students.

In support of some of the city priorities the lot would likely become a home base for some of the high profile professionals involved in events like the Bolder Boulder etc.

I doubt I would ever be interested in using it myself if I were to have the finances to do so but it makes no sense to dismiss in hand something that would have no real negative effect and could result in a substantial amount of income and support for the program and the school.
 
4DemBuffs said:
I remember as a kid the RV’s on Franklin Field. The north end of FF was filled with them.

As kids, after the game while those RV’s were pulling out of FF, we would jump on the ladders on the back end of them and ride them out of the lot.

I would say that the tailgating on FF was way more intense than what we have after the transformation. Not that I don’t like what we have now, especially since I’m older but, FF had some epic tailgating scenes before it became what it is now. In some ways, IMO, it was better then.
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My parents took the RV to every game.
 
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