So for my inaugural fan post, I'm going with some stuff  that's been bouncing around in my head for some time, and  I thought that the doldrums of late February, between national signing day and spring practice might be a good time to trot it out.

This began last fall when I got an email from Cal Athletics asking me to participate in a survey on what the amenities and experience in the rebuilt Memorial Stadium should look and feel like.  Some of you CGBers may recall that I asked if any of you had been asked to participate as well and, from memory, I don't think any of you had.  The survey offered the opportunity to go into some detail in answering questions of what you would like to see in our future remodeled football home.  Sad life that I lead, the opportunity to provide this input got me really excited, as one of my personal bugaboos is that I have long felt that we needed to do a much better job on the whole football game day experience, at every level.

I've never heard anything back from the survey, although I practically begged to be personally contacted, which they implied they might do.  Which brings us to today...I'm going to throw out some observations and suggestions about the game day experience and how I think we can dramatically improve on it.  Obviously these are my personal preferences and ideas.  Add your own and of course, as it goes without saying, critique mine.   My hope is that we come up with some stuff that is actually useful to Sandy and Co, and we present it to them.  What the hell...we don't have anything else meaningful to do with our lives until September 3 anyway.

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