2 years

[fortebleedsblue]

Wow! What a difference two years makes ...

Louisville was coming off of a 4-8 record to compete and finish .500. And was Under .500 in the Big East

Calhoun's men's basketball was on its way to a historic post season run toward winning the national championshipsWhile Louisville was dropping out of the second round

Randy Edsall Taking his big east champions (the fastest growing d1a fb team to a BCS Vs. Oklahoma)

Uconn women were in the final 4

Cuse, Pitt, WVU, Rutgers, ND and UL were committed members with talks of a big 12 collapse.

 

[Dooley]

Yup, and something tells me that two years from now, we'll look back on today with a completely different pair of eyes.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

UConn football wins it's first NEC title! Mens hoops back at full allotment of scholarships finally. UConn baseball reveals blueprints for future on campus stadium. Gampel pavilion voted one of the most outdated and undersized facilities of any major D1 program (assuming they are still considered major). Just so discouraged. This state needs to think big not small, not cheap. How does Rentschler compare with most BCS stadiums today?

 

[Adios]

How does Rentschler compare with most BCS stadiums today?

All we need is another 10-15K seats. And a dynamic head coach. Unlike PP.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

All we need is another 10-15K seats. And a dynamic head coach. Unlike PP.

I'm with ya, Brother. Anyplace else the expansion would have already taken place ( see Rutgers) and the head coach would on a bus out of town after Saturday.

 

[Durks07]

Yup, and something tells me that two years from now, we'll look back on today with a completely different pair of eyes.

Slowly getting hopeful...

UConn football wins it's first NEC title! Mens hoops back at full allotment of scholarships finally. UConn baseball reveals blueprints for future on campus stadium. Gampel pavilion voted one of the most outdated and undersized facilities of any major D1 program (assuming they are still considered major). Just so discouraged. This state needs to think big not small, not cheap. How does Rentschler compare with most BCS stadiums today?

and back to the bottle!

 

[Woof 101]

UConn football wins it's first NEC title! Mens hoops back at full allotment of scholarships finally. UConn baseball reveals blueprints for future on campus stadium. Gampel pavilion voted one of the most outdated and undersized facilities of any major D1 program (assuming they are still considered major). Just so discouraged. This state needs to think big not small, not cheap. How does Rentschler compare with most BCS stadiums today?

The stadiaum is only as large as the crowd you put in it. When we can sell out it would be due for expansion...

 

[fortebleedsblue]

The stadiaum is only as large as the crowd you put in it. When we can sell out it would be due for expansion...

Rutgers?

 

[Uconnalliance]

All we need is another 10-15K seats. And a dynamic head coach. Unlike PP.

Gonna be hard to entice new fans when your playing Tulane & UCF.

 

[Uconnalliance]

Slowly getting hopeful...



and back to the bottle!

Got your Jack here just say when.

 

[Adios]

Gonna be hard to entice new fans when your playing Tulane & UCF.

ECU can sell out.

 

[Durks07]

Got your Jack here just say when.

I'm ready to start two years ago.

 

[junglehusky]

ECU can sell out.

You are on crack if you think UConn fans will sell out to see ECU. I hope I'm wrong though.

 

[dante]

The stadiaum is only as large as the crowd you put in it. When we can sell out it would be due for expansion...

lower the prices, you will have a full stadium... they selling ticket for the acc championship for 5 dollars...

 

[huskypantz]

You are on crack if you think UConn fans will sell out to see ECU. I hope I'm wrong though.

He's saying ECU sells out their games playing in CUSA with a smaller fanbase.

 

[huskypantz]

lower the prices, you will have a full stadium... they selling ticket for the acc championship for 5 dollars...

They absolutely need to suck it up and lower ticket prices. Why is it that if I go onto ticketmaster, it's $40-60 for a ticket for a game in early December that's going to be freezing as soon as the sun goes down?

 

[CTFIRERETIRED]

Got to keep those prices up................................Lots of social programs to pay for. High taxes, high fuel prices, high union demands, got to pay for all of those State workers. Please, The Rent should have never been built in East Hartford, and Gampel should have never been a round facility. Why is it that the morons in Hartford can't get it right................EVER.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

The stadiaum is only as large as the crowd you put in it. When we can sell out it would be due for expansion...

And so with its tiny little stadium, all the big kids in college football viewed poor UConn as not ready for prime time. And they refused to play with them and include them in their gatherings (AKA Conferences). Worse still, most of the really good high school football players dreamt about far away places, with big stadiums and an on-campus excitement the like they had never seen before. And UConn, poor UConn had to shop a the clearance rack to find whatever was leftover after the best recruits were taken.

The "Happily Ever After" for poor UConn was playing such football giants as Temple, San Diego State and Tulane in front of tiny crowds that rattled around in their tiny little stadium, while the Big Kids played in front of 80K or more against teams that the Huskies had only heard tales of - you know the Georgias, the Floridas, the Penn States, the Wisconsins, et al.

 

[hexlub]

Rutgers?

Rutgers had a season ticket waiting list and was on the rise. It might have been more effective to have a way to pay for it, but it still made much more sense than expanding the Rent.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

The stadiaum is only as large as the crowd you put in it. When we can sell out it would be due for expansion...

As they reminded Kevin Costner in the Field of Dreams . . . "If you built it, they will come" "If you build it, they will surely come . . . bigger crowds eager to watch better opponents".

 

[spsct]

The stadiaum is only as large as the crowd you put in it. When we can sell out it would be due for expansion...

Unfortunately, I think this thinking is what has us remaining in the NBE and the antithesis of this thinking is what has Rutgers and Louisville out. I think that's a major part of "Big Time Thinking" that we don't have.

It may be, however, too late to rectify that now.