MSU Alumni Club of the San Francisco Bay Area

We need your help. The volunteer who was going to help us move the 10′ tables to the Anna Head parking lot Saturday morning had to drop out. If you have, or have access to, a truck that could carry these tables to Berkeley Saturday morning, please contact me ASAP at prez@sfbayspartans.org.

We are planning to be at Anna Head lot for the tailgate at 10AM. This is when the parking lot attendants are showing up, so that’s the time we’ll be there. With the game at 5pm, this leaves lots of tailgating time! We’ll be grilling some brats and hotdogs and have other snacks for sale.

There are a number of alum that have tickets available for the game. Check the comments on the site to connect with somebody if you need tickets.

The pub crawl starts 8pm Friday, there’s a big group confirmed to be attending which is awesome!

If you are looking to buy tickets for the game, and sit with fellow Spartans, be sure to check the comments of several posts here on the site. There are many alums with extra tickets, so you can arrange to purchase from them directly.

Before the big game this weekend, be sure to order your SF Bay Spartans Club T-Shirt! Order yours right here using the simple order form below.

The cost for the t-shirts is $20 each and comes in Men’s sizes Small thru Extra Large. Any residual profit from the t-shirt sales goes directly to towards the endowment fund that the club has established. Thanks for your support.

If you paid the $25 for the Pub Crawl event, this fee includes the cost of 1 t-shirt so you don’t need to pay again.

Use the order form below to submit a payment via paypal, indicating your size preference as well. T-Shirts can be collected from Heather Lynam at the tailgate on Saturday or during the pub crawl on Friday. We are not currently shipping t-shirts.

Special thanks to MSU alum Kelly Kaplan ‘86 who designed the shirts!

Update 8/26: We have sold out of the Small and Medium shirts.

Update 8/27:T-shirts no longer available for sale.

For all information related to the club’s planned activities for the MSU vs Cal football game Labor Day Weekend, check out the special page created just for this event. Any questions about the weekend, leave a comment here or shoot us an e-mail.

If you ordered tickets through us, they have been mailed out and should be at your home within the next few days. If you don’t receive them, let us know.

[Registration]

August 30, 2008

Special guests will include members of MSU Board of Trustees, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon, Athletics Director Mark Hollis and Head Basketball Coach Tom Izzo.

Meet us outside under a tent at Lower Sproul Plaza located in the heart of the University of California campus, behind the MLK Student Union on Bancroft and Telegraph Avenues. Participants are strongly encouraged to use the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Rail System. BART stations are located throughout the San Francisco Bay area and will transport you to the Downtown Berkeley BART station on Shattuck Avenue. The BART station is a 10-15 minute walk to the Lower Sproul Plaza. Parking is also available on a first come first served basis at the Genetics Garage on the corner of Oxford and Berkeley Way, the Berkeley Way Lot on the corner of Berkeley Way and Oxford and the Underhill Parking Lot on the corner of Channing Way and Haste Street. [Campus Map] General admission parking for passenger vehicles is $16. [Parking Info] A free shuttle to the stadium can be picked up near the Lower Sproul Plaza.

Please note: Pre-registration pricing for the California tailgate is $50 for members, $60 for non-members and $10 for children 12 and under. If not sold out, a limited number of tailgate admissions will be available at the door at a cost of $60 for members, $70 for non-members and $10 for children 12 and under. You must show your membership card to receive the member discount. Check back to this web site for availability.

Just letting you know that we currently have sold out all of the tickets for the MSU vs CAL game. If and when we are able to secure additional tickets we will certainly let everybody know.

Your club needs help!

With the MSU/Cal football game fast approaching we are looking for a bunch of helpers with the wide variety of activities that we have planned for the weekend.

Since there will be 10,000 MSU fans coming from all over, this as an awesome opportunity to help raise money for your club’s Bay Area Endowment Fund. This fund was established in 2007 with the goal of raising money to give away a scholorship to a needy Bay Area student that makes MSU their school of choice. So all proceeds raised during the football weekend will benefit the fund.

Here are the different activities we need help with:

City Tours and Guides

Think you know San Francisco? Do you know a lot about it’s history, and cool or strange stories? We are looking for several knowledgible and talkative locals to sponsor walking tours of the city on Friday August 29.

Guide MSU fans around the city, and get to assist with raising money for the endowment. We are looking for 4-5 people who really know their stuff to take tours of 15-20 people around the city and show them a good time !! Please email prez@sfbayspartans.org with the subject “City Tours and Guides” if you are interested in signing up!

Bar Crawl and T-Shirt Sales

Interested in leading some MSU alums through the wide variety of watering holes in San Francisco? We are looking for 3-4 people to assist with a pub crawl on Friday night around the city. So if this something that you would like to help out with, please email your club Secretary, Heather, at secretary@sfbayspartans.org

Are you or someone you know in the T-shirt business? We are looking for assistance with the design and manufacture of a T-shirt to commemerate this historic weekend. We are trying to do this at low cost, so that we are able to raise as much as we can for the endowment. Please e-mail secretary@sfbayspartans.org if you are able to help. Please put in the subject line, “T-shirts” so that we know where to direct the follow up.

Local Business Owners

Are you, or do you know, a MSU business owner in San Francisco? Do you know a business owner that is a BIG TEN Alum? With over 10,000 MSU fans coming to town, and with multiple groups all over the city, what a great way to help increase business. The MSU Alumni web site will feature local businesses on both the MSU Alumni Web Page as well as a special webpage that we will be sending out to other groups all over the country.

Since these devout MSU fans are all converging on SF, what a great way to see a spike in business! And since we are doing walking tours, pub crawls and hosting other events, we would be able to direct business to you! Advertising space is limited, but worth it. If you are interested, please e-mail prez@sfbayspartans.org and put in the Subject Line:
“Business Ads”

Donations for Auction

We will be hosting an auction during the Pep Rally before the game to also help raise money for the endowment. If you know or are able to donate anything of value that would help, please email prez@sfbayspartans.org. We are diligently working to have a special MC for that morning, so please be on the lookout for that. The auction would be held at the MSUAA pep rally. Directions and locations to follow, but is sure to be one of the weekend highlights.

Fundraising and PR

Finally, since none of us really know a ton about fundraising or PR, if there is anyone from those industries that might be able to help to coordinate some of these action items it would be greatly appreciated.
Please contact prez@sfbayspartans.org if you can help.

We look forward to having you on the team that will make this a weekend to remember for all MSU Alums!

Schedule just released.

30 AUG at California
06 SEP Eastern Michigan
13 SEP Florida Atlantic
20 SEP Notre Dame
27 SEP at Indiana
04 OCT Iowa
11 OCT at Northwestern
18 OCT Ohio State
25 OCT at Michigan
01 NOV Wisconsin
08 NOV Purdue
22 NOV at Penn State

We’re back with a long overdue update on the tickets for MSU vs Cal!

The good news is that we were able to secure 150 more tickets from the University! With these additional tickets we’ve taken care of everybody that was on the wait list.

There are still quite a few tickets still remaining, so if you didn’t make the first round or were waiting to see if we got more - send in your money today.

Pricing:

$58 each for MSUAA paid members (limit 6 per household)
$65 each for Non-MSUAA paid members (limit 4 per household)

This is only slightly higher than the face value of the ticket, in order to cover shipping the tickets from the University to us, and then shipping them on to you. Any residual profits from ticket sales goes directly to the your MSU Bay Area Endowment Fund (money to send a high school student from the Bay Area to MSU).

Tickets will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis and you will recieve credit ONLY once the money has been deposited and you have received confirmation of payment. You will receive the physical tickets as soon as we get them shipped to us from the University.

Two payment options:

1. Send your personal check or money order to your club treasurer:

Pam Dionese
4015 Camrose Ave
Livermore CA 94551
(925) 371-5459

2. Submit payment via Paypal, our account is
prez@sfbayspartans.org

Pam will follow up with you to confirm your purchase in either case.

Dear MSU Alumni and Spartan Fans,

Earlier today, Comcast Corporation and the Big Ten Network announced an agreement for Comcast to carry Big Ten Network programming on TV, broadband, and video-on-demand in time for the 2008 college football season.

This is fantastic news and represents enormous progress toward the university’s long-stated goal of having broad access for MSU and Big Ten athletics programming. As Ron Mason noted in a message to fans and alumni nearly a year ago, though, the birth of a new network—the Big Ten’s own network—while tremendously exciting, is also frustrating.

We appreciate the patience and dedication of you, our fans and alumni, and we realize that some of you still will not have in-home access to the MSU games you’d love to see. But with Comcast on board, we’re very optimistic that agreements with other major carriers will soon follow.

The network continues to negotiate with these carriers and believes the Comcast agreement bodes well for these talks.

Go Green!
Mark Hollis
MSU Athletics Director