BOL Round Table

I was in club section and kept buying beers. Wish now I had gotten a soda for the cups! Looked on eBay and saw where one cup was up to $34 with four days left. I won't make that mistake in Pasadena :)

I will tell how you it happened. Two things led to the problem. One, poor planning by the Orange Bowl. Two, Notre Dame people went nuts & bought everything in sight for just about everybody they knew back home. It was their first NC game since 1988 & it showed. I saw one ND fan taking at least 8 to 10 programs back to his car about 5 hours before kickoff. There were massive lines at all the BCS merchandise locations outside the stadium....mostly filled with ND fans....5+ hours before kickoff. The only reason we were able to get programs is we did the UA Alumni Association pre-game thing that started 3 hours before the game inside the stadium. Thus, we got in an hour ahead of everyone else & were able to get programs before they ran out. We got our cups by going over to the ND sections late in the 4th quarter & grabbing some they left behind. It was frustrating.

And the porta potty situation was bad! I remember rows of thirty in Pasadena. We had to walk a ways just to stand in line for 45 minutes and they were in groups of two. I would say they were not prepared but I am so grateful to have been there!

Planning was horrible. I called the orange bowl committee and spoke to marketing about it. She said sir I don't think you understand there were over 80k at this game. I laughed and said no I don't think you understand there's over a 100k in Tuscaloosa on gameday and we never run out of cups or programs. Told her its a crying shame you don't know how to plain for a game of this magnitude.

AMEN.....the BCS needs to have the OB people come to Tuscaloosa and they came see How "big" games are handled....every thing that has been said is true ...RTR