'College GameDay' in Berkeley to Set Up in Memorial Glade
'College GameDay' in Berkeley to Set Up in Memorial Glade
Doe Library will likely be featured prominently.
It appears we have a confirmed location for the first trip to Berkeley from ESPN’s College Gameday. It’ll be situated at the heart of campus in Memorial Glade. From the Cal Athletics press release:
Saturday's show in Berkeley will be staged at Memorial Glade in the center of campus. Fans interested in attending in person are encouraged to arrive early.
Grant Marek of SFGate later caught up with Cal athletics director Jim Knowlton, who confirmed that the ESPN crew will be set up near Doe Library. It sounds as if that Doe could either be in the background or the actual place where the ESPN set is setup.
So you could have the Glade itself filled up with Cal fans, with the studio set up somewhere near the stairs from the library (you can see an example below from one of our many Cal Twitter memes).
The other possibility appears to be an inversion of that setup, where Doe LIbrary is the backdrop, maybe featuring the Campanile, and ESPN sets up somewhere on the Glade itself.
Either possibility is pretty exciting. Expect a full announcement with details shortly on the College Gameday website.
What do you think is the best angle for the College Gameday set?
I don’t know but someone looked at available seats and there were many.
Also hard to really know even from Cal’s online seat map of available tickets because there are actually more tickets available than what is shown
the MOST important thing is to sell out Memorial.
From the looks of it we are far away from that.
I think we will get more than vs SDSU but I'm concerned another cold night game will have many people leave early. At least it is forecasted to be a warm day, but unfortunately we will miss the heat wave that ends on Thursday.