UCLA Football: The cost of the game vs. USC will be $122. For parking. (UPDATE: Not really.)

by UCLA Bruins

UPDATE: Per the guy commenting below (and we’ll take his word for it because he is a more experienced Bruin), this is just from a donor trying to make a quick (100) buck(s). You sly dog, you!

UCLA football is always a big ticket and an awesome way to spend your Saturday nights, even when UCLA is having a poor season like they did in 2011 (although they went 5-1 at home this season). And things are a lot crazier when our Bruins play cross-town rival USC.

In 2012, UCLA will host the huge rivalry game against Southern Cal. Since that’s always a huge draw, ticket prices go up considerably, always.

But this year, the cost of the UCLA-USC game will be $122. FOR PARKING. From our very own astute and aware Brian Smith (4EverBruin):

Here’s the visual evidence:

This isn’t just at Ticket Liquidator. The cost of parking in “Lot K” is $120 at Stub Hub.

Now, I have no idea what the cost of parking in “Lot K” was this year, especially against U$C. I’m a first-year transfer student here at UCLA, so this past football season was my first ever collegiate football game that I attended. And even then, I never paid for parking because I took the Rooter Bus (which transports you from UCLA to the Rose Bowl for $6).

Plus, perhaps “Lot K” is some fancy parking that’s on better grass and has built-in booze dispensers or something crazy like that. I have no idea, so, to take a friend’s favorite saying, I could be wrong. I was wrong once.

But $122 is too steep for me to park, man. Listen, I love tailgating as much as the next dude, but I’d rather go to an expensive restaurant before the game if I’m poppin’ out $120 to bring in my car, which is worth roughly half of that, maybe.

We get that this is an important game, UCLA Athletics Department, but come on! $122?!?!? U CRAZY.

Topics: 2012 Ucla Usc Football, Rose Bowl, UCLA Football, Ucla Parking, Usc Football

Comments
  • http://www.insomniacslounge.com insomniacslounge

    UCLA Athletics has nothing to do with that $122 price tag. Lot K parking is a paved lot near the Rose Bowl and is made available to members of the Wooden Athletic Fund. Some donors don’t like to go to the USC game because it’s gotten a little too rowdy over the years. So this donor is selling his parking pass via a broker and hoping to get about 100 bucks for it. The rest of the money will be commission for the broker.
     
    For anyone else that is driving to the game that doesn’t have a parking pass, they will still be able to park on the golf course. Last year, parking was $15 for that area. I don’t know if that will be the price this year or if it’s being bumped up to $20.

    • carlosatUCLA

       @insomniacslounge Thank you for that. In my defense, I did say I could be wrong. Now I’ve been wrong TWICE :-(

  • http://www.insomniacslounge.com insomniacslounge

    Thx for the update. Btw, anyone’s that’s ever stumbled out of the Rose Bowl late at night and forgotten where they parked on the golf course can attest that it’s worth paying a little bit more to get a lot if you can. But not 100 bucks more. For that price, I’ll just wait til all the other cars have cleared out and mine is the last one remaining.