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UConn men's basketball tickets are in high demand and prices have grown expensive

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The idea that the university is forgetting the disabled, or using their seats for non-disabled folks is not really supportable. If you have proof of such a practice, I'm sure you would win in court. And it would be vile in the extreme.

There have always been a limited number of handicap accessible seats just as there are a limited number of seats in the arena. When the demand for tickets went up, the demand for the demand for those seats also went up. They didn't suddenly start selling them to the physically able. It's not some evil capitalist plot.
Yeah, in theory. Ive been in a chair as an adult for 35 years youd be surprised the vile crap ive been through. If i told you, youd swear i was making it up. btw i wasnt accusing the university of anything i was responding to the comment that was made just to be clear.
 
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Per UConn, the st johns game broke the attendance record for men's basketball. Another sign that the fanbase is back
Heard that on the post game show on the way home. Not sure how that is possible. The end zone bar removed seats, as did the increased disability areas around the top of several 100 level sections which removed a row or 2 in each of those sections. Are they counting people in the sportsbook as being in attendance even if they don't have a ticket to the game?
 
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Heard that on the post game show on the way home. Not sure how that is possible. The end zone bar removed seats, as did the increased disability areas around the top of several 100 level sections which removed a row or 2 in each of those sections. Are they counting people in the sportsbook as being in attendance even if they don't have a ticket to the game?
Agree, I don't know how that's possible when the XL Center used to seat almost 16,300 people (16,294 is stuck in my head) before the addition of the sports book area.
 
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Is there a tie in with football tickets? Where if you buy football seats or season tickets you obtain either discounted basketball tickets or an opportunity to have upgraded basketball seats? I’m genuinely curious to know.
I received two free tickets to one of the buy games a few years ago in exchange for purchasing two season tickets. Not on the level of what you're asking, but the athletic department has definitely leveraged basketball to help football
 

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Let's stop playing games at XL crowd needs to pipe down. We have more season tickets at XL than capacity at Gampel.
Only morons want to stop playing at XL. Place gets filled and rowdy and offers a large capacity venue that the rest of the state can get to easier than Storrs. A night downtown is fun. Go get some food, hit a bar, and pack the XL.
 

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Per UConn, the st johns game broke the attendance record for men's basketball. Another sign that the fanbase is back
There's a discussion right now on Twitter (including AD Dave) surrounding a 5 second video (which lacks context) regarding the campus parking "crisis." Complaining about parking is how we know the fanbase is back.
 

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It's nice to have first world problems again.
This is how I descried it on another Non-Twitter forum.

I parked in the North Garage on Tuesday. Picked up my son from track practice and got there right around 5:00. No wait at the kiosk and the the walk back to the garage took longer than getting out to North Eagleville Road.

Plan accordingly and crowd size matters not one iota.
 
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Yeah, in theory. Ive been in a chair as an adult for 35 years youd be surprised the vile crap ive been through. If i told you, youd swear i was making it up. btw i wasnt accusing the university of anything i was responding to the comment that was made just to be clear.
Hope AD Dave reads this. He needs to comp you.
 

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There's a discussion right now on Twitter (including AD Dave) surrounding a 5 second video (which lacks context) regarding the campus parking "crisis." Complaining about parking is how we know the fanbase is back.

What context did you want I was there for 40 minutes, dingbat. It stinks. Fix it. Make the experience better. Make it match the level of the rest of the product.
 

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What context did you want I was there for 40 minutes, dingbat. It stinks. Fix it. Make the experience better. Make it match the level of the rest of the product.

I was at the kiosk for 2 minutes. Didn't know of or use the app (though I will in the future, provided I park in the garage.), no line, no crowd, and plenty of spaces on the 1st level. Even found one near the exit. We were in the arena in time for the Anthem, to our seats by player introductions, and the post-game walk back to garage took longer than the egress to N. Eagleville Road.

Context would provide for the difference between my experience and yours, but sure. I'm the dingbat.
 

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