It is all about football but over the years we have a history with the Big 12 and had home and home men's hoops with TX, KS, and OK. H@H football with Baylor and Iowa St. . Women's hoops with Baylor, TX, OK, K State. NCAA hoops match ups with TX, Kansas, and Iowa ST on the men's side and OK, Baylor on the women's side. I am sure I missed a few. It is not a huge drawback time wise to get to the Rent or Campus from Bradley. The chance to have fans combine away games against UCONN with trips throughout New England or New York is a positive. Lastly we have Coach Diaco and we are on the rise in football. The timing and geography is a strength really but I am just a Husky fan.
I made this post many times and it's actually something I never considered until I moved to AZ . Only an expatriate could have this insight .
To any B12 lurkers
The whole state of Ct is small ,it's very wooded when you get away from the coast
The Golden Oaks and The brilliant Reds of the Maples makes Ct in the fall one of the most beautiful places in the US
The rivers are picturesque and It has 120 miles if coast line
Its smack between two of Americas favorite City destinations NYC ,and Boston
A visitor can stay in Ct and easily spend a day in either city or stay in either city
and make the game. Good restaurants abound
Little Italy in New Haven is home to Pepes s pizza
The ocean usually moderates the weather and snow or extremely cold weather is rare before Christmas.
You actually can fly into many airports to get to a game
although Storrs is tucked away in a rural corner of the state ,as it started life as an Aggie school ,football is played right in the center
Depending on how you plan your trip you can fly into
The Three major NY airports , Hartford ,Boston , Providence ,
Westchester ,and Newburgh all can get you close enough to the game.
If it's a late Nov. Game ,the ski resorts might be making snow or its a short drive to Vermont
If you fly to Providence you can explore the coast , or visit the Newport RI mansions, even visit the USS Massachusetts a WWII battledhip
Or stay at either if two great Connecticut Casinos ,which are also near Mystic Aquarium,and Seaport
My wife always makes a pilgrimage to the Clinton Crossings Outlets and the Dooney and Burk store
There are some great Ct river towns like, Essex , there is also a submarine base in Groton
You Texas guys can visit the ancestral home of the Austin family ( only a Ct Yankee could have pulled off that scam) in Ct your not a Yankee unless your family has been here for 400 years. My wife's a Yankee difficult people to deal with.
You folks from Iowa or Kansas might trace your ancestors back to Ct
Living in Aruzona where an old house was built in 1990's I love the old houses
There are so many quant little New England towns with houses dated as far back as the 17th century
One of my favorite towns is Concord Mass, home if Walden pond, and a bunch of writers and absolutely post card New England
But if you want a real thrill stand in Concord Bridge and imagine the guts of those hick Yankee farmers as they faced off against one of the best armies in the world .fought them to a draw and harassed them all the way back to Boston
If you like to travel with your team there is no better destination.
