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Where else would they play if not the coliseum?

LSU...The Rose Bowl.

Besides, USC needs to stay at the Coliseum. Drive by shootings are just part of the tradition! :P

Warden, I had just started to like your comments (LOL). It is good to have thingas back in order. My family lived only a few blocks from the Coliseum and USC, which is probably why I became such a USC fan and later a USC student.

I actually lived off campus in the neighborhood during college and if it was not for a few over zealous cops who stopped my roomie and I when we were retruning home from campus some nights, there was never a hassle. As with every major city near a downtown area, crime will be more prevalent, but don't beleive the hype, it is not that bad.

Thanks Warden.

Is the Rose Bowl UCLA's home field?

The Rose Bowl is a real **** hole and 40 miles away (perfect for UCLA). The Mausaleum is right across the street from the USC campus..... this deal was going to get done.... lots of posturing for $$$... bottom line, the place needs some serious work or they just need to tear the thing down....

Both the Rose Bowl and Coliseum are aging uncomfortable stadiums and have
crappy views. Straight up the Coleseum was built for track and field not football.

Besides, USC needs to stay at the Coliseum. Drive by shootings are just part of the tradition! :P
The Warden | 05/07/08, 09:01 AM

Prison guard, you just won't quit.The Rose Bowl is a real **** hole and 40 miles away (perfect for UCLA). The Mausaleum is right across the street from the USC campus..... this deal was going to get done.... lots of posturing for $$$... bottom line, the place needs some serious work or they just need to tear the thing down....
Sir Robin 320 | 05/07/08, 10:48 AM

Rob-ain't Hood, 40 miles? The Rose Bowl's a 15-20 minute ride from downtown L.A. and 12-15 miles tops.

Jabril, did you not see my ":P". If not, my comment was tongue in cheek, ie sarcasm.

Man, you USC homers are as thinned skin as many of the OSU inmates.

Hey they can go play in the superdome, cuz were drafting all their dam players neway.

For the record...driving from USC to the Rose Bowl per Yahoo maps is ~16.34 miles and ~23 minutes with NO TRAFFIC. On average, say about 45-60 mins in normal LA TRAFFIC.

Pasadena is a MUCH nicer area than where USC is. USC campus is nice and it's a great school but the surrounding area is by no means nice. It's not a college town. Westwood (UCLA) is nice and is a semi college town. A true college town is ANN ARBOR.

Ann Arbor is NOT a true college town. It is an urban suburb, that houses a major university. Hell, you can't even really tell where Ypsilanti ends and Ann Arbor begins. Iowa City is a true college town. Madison is a true college town, Bloomington is a true college town.

As far as Pac Ten schools go, you have Pullman, Eugene, and to some extent, Corvallis and Palo Alto (but not so much anymore.)

I went to Berkeley and I would compare that to Ann Arbor. Sure there is a stately university there and a few unique landmarks, but both are just too contiguous to a major urban center to be considered true college towns.

Rob-ain't Hood, 40 miles? The Rose Bowl's a 15-20 minute ride from downtown L.A. and 12-15 miles tops.

arejaydub | 05/07/08, 12:01 PM

I was being generous if you're talking game day..... unless you get there like five hours early.... which does enhance the game experience if you are still able to walk at game time....

RJ: BTW: the Sir Robin reference isn't Robin Hood, although the play on words is appreciated....

this is old news...
the next report will be LSU won the BCS championship game or ND went 3-9. or RR is the coach at Mich. slapdick work done at SI.

These stadiums that you west coast trollups speak of are ...how you say?

Shytty?

USC will always play in the Colesium, it's across the street. No one wants to travel to the Rose Bowl for a home game and the RB needs a lot of work. UCLA should eventually build a stadium closer to their campus. My money is on that happening by way of an NFL team moving to LA. I never understood how UCLA students could travel to a home game, takes so much away from the experience of waking up, getting hammered and walking to the game.

That headline is just wrong on so many different levels .... hahahaha .....

Both LA stadiums need a LOT of work to bring them up to modern standards.
I fear that won't ever happen until an NFL team shows up, and even then, it either be one or the other.

I was always jealous that $C's stadium was right across the street from campus...makes it really fun for local students on gameday. My best friend went to $C while I was at UCLA and the first college game I went to as a student, believe it or not, was an $C game. Waking up late and just walking over to the game from the dorms was a snap. Now the actual experience of sitting in the coliseum was another ordeal entireley, but that's been covered.

Tailgating at the Rosebowl is awesome, since the parking lot is a golf course, but trudging out there and back can be exhausting. Pasadena is very nice and all but students don't want to hang out there after games, they want to get back to Westwood...which takes probably an hour on gameday. If you aren't into tailgating, it's a BIGTIME P.I.T.A. getting into the Rose Bowl just to see the game and get out.

Anyway, everyone knew $C was going to be at the Coliseum till the end of time.

I'm surprised it would be a long term lease with the chance of the new super stadium in LA that may (but probably won't) be built. The Coliseum needs USC, so I'm sure it is a generous lease. They can't do one exhibition baseball game a year and be Soldier Field pre-merger.