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Message: [QUOTE="NowInStorrs, post: 2402230, member: 8128"] I grew up in Connecticut and have been a UConn fan for as long as I can remember. I've been to several games in Hartford, but mostly I've attended away games that were somewhat close to where I was living at the time. Now that I think about it, those games have always been on a college campus somewhere, at several different universities. They've never been at a "home away from home" some distance from the campus. Except for the AAC tournament a couple of years ago, but that's a different story. I attended undergrad at a different university that was a part of a "high-major" conference. There is a large city about 45 minutes away from campus, and there was on average one game played there every year, usually against a high-profile opponent. Some years there might be two games and others there might not be any games up there, but those would be considered neutral games and not home games. Basically all of the home games were played on campus. The student section there is huge. It is almost the entire side of the court on one side of the stadium and it goes up to the upper section of the stadium as well. It's general admission (if you have a student sports pass, which you have to buy) so the students that get in line early get the best seats. My friends and I camped out for a few days for one game against a very good opponent and ended up in the 2nd row front right at halfcourt. That's just how one university does things, but it is quite a difference from UConn's half Storrs and half Hartford scheduling. It seems unfair to the students and to the players to have to travel to and from Hartford so much. To be fair, in the case of my undergrad university there is another large university in that nearby city, so maybe there's no real reason to have two large universities playing games there. Regardless, it was nice having practically all of the home games on campus. I could walk from my apartment to the basketball stadium, and if I wanted to, I could show up a couple of hours early and get great seats. It was a nice experience as a student. I have never been a student at UConn, but it sounds like the experience is not so positive. For what it's worth, I attended grad school in a college town with a large city about an hour and a half away. They almost never had any games over there. [/QUOTE]

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