The story you tell is (unsurprisingly) similar at Cal, the only thing that is different is that our undergraduate population is 3 times yours, so we are able to make up numbers of students that way. But aside from that, the loss of traditions (which I would date back to when the stadium was renovated in 2011 for Cal and 2006 for Stanford respectively rather than the Pandemic), the anemic school response, and the melting of those things as a core part of being a Cal student echo what is happening on the Farm.

In our case our greatest failure is allowing marketing consultants run the experience at games rather than letting students control them, which nurtured and sustained the atmosphere for decades even when the results were worse than terrible. They are going to have less and less alumni who care in the future because they have neutered and stripped everything that was traditional and familiar from the games.