2022 Spring Game?

[uconnric]

Don't need to use 195. There is a new road heading to Route 44 from UConn's new research park. There is plenty of room for a football stadium on land there. Plus, if it has some skyboxes and rental rooms it could be used for conferences and trade shows connected to commercial research. Money maker for UConn!

Please stop. I admire your determination, but trying to tell me that either Rt. 44 or RT. 195 are decent access roads for an event like a football game is absurd. There's no money or political push for a new stadium.

 

[DoctorWho85]

Please stop. I admire your determination, but trying to tell me that either Rt. 44 or RT. 195 are decent access roads for an event like a football game is absurd. There's no money or political push for a new stadium.

Seriously 195 can't even handle morning and afternoon school traffic or even traffic for Gampel. They expect it to handle 5 times as much traffic with an on campus stadium or 7-8 times as much if we were to ever get into say the Big 10 with minimum seating requirements?

 

[Husky25]

Seriously 195 can't even handle morning and afternoon school traffic or even traffic for Gampel. They expect it to handle 5 times as much traffic with an on campus stadium or 7-8 times as much if we were to ever get into say the Big 10 with minimum seating requirements?

Traffic on 32/44/195 is not the issue if the football team were to play on campus. That is why tailgating exists. The issue as I see it would be parking and proximity to the stadium. I used to meet my folks in D-Lot when they came up for Parent's Weekend, but that was before D-1a and the team played at Memorial.

Basketball games have the "benefit" of being played in the coldest months of the year, when there is very little tailgating in the traditional sense and commuters are more than able to utilize the parking garages. Anecdotally, I arrived on campus 2 1/2 hours before tip off for Georgetown, found a spot near the exit of the North garage, and walked into a nearly empty Ted's for a couple, a few with my friends, who were already there. There was no problem getting in or out.

2 1/2 hours prior to football kickoff is considered late.

 

[Waquoit]

Traffic on 32/44/195 is not the issue if the football team were to play on campus. That is why tailgating exists.

Nonsense. Back when the Rent sold out there was traffic on Silver Lane from the Manchester line constantly before the games and people whining about how long it takes to get off the property after. That new side road from campus to 44 is only the answer in someone's fever dream.

 

[Husky25]

Nonsense. Back when the Rent sold out there was traffic on Silver Lane from the Manchester line constantly before the games and people whining about how long it takes to get off the property after. That new side road from campus to 44 is only the answer in someone's fever dream.

I respectfully disagree.

People whine because that's what people do at the slightest inconvenience. If it wasn't that 30,000 others figured out someone's super-secret backdoor entrance onto the premises, it'd be something else.

I lived in Manchester back then and went Silver Lane numerous times, but 384->84 to exit 58 was generally quicker (especially if you were parking in the grassy area opposite the southmost corner, which was general $12/game parking at that point), if not for only that it wasn't a single lane or crossing over oncoming lanes.

People whining about traffic leaving the game are almost always those looking to beat the traffic and failing. In both instances, a case can be made that the gripes were largely the result of poor planning. The game might be 3 1/2 hours long, but football Saturday is basically an all day event. Plan accordingly.

 

[History Geek]

I respectfully disagree.

People whine because that's what people do at the slightest inconvenience. If it wasn't that 30,000 others figured out someone's super-secret backdoor entrance onto the premises, it'd be something else.

I lived in Manchester back then and went Silver Lane numerous times, but 384->84 to exit 58 was generally quicker (especially if you were parking in the grassy area opposite the southmost corner, which was general $12/game parking at that point), if not for only that it wasn't a single lane or crossing over oncoming lanes.

People whining about traffic leaving the game are almost always those looking to beat the traffic and failing. In both instances, a case can be made that the gripes were largely the result of poor planning. The game might be 3 1/2 hours long, but football Saturday is basically an all day event. Plan accordingly.

We have no issue with traffic. We get there three-ish hours before kickoff. We fire up the grill again post-game and leave an hour after the final whistle when they are closing the lots.

 

[uconnric]

We have no issue with traffic. We get there three-ish hours before kickoff. We fire up the grill again post-game and leave an hour after the final whistle when they are closing the lots.

Sorry but many fans aren’t going to do that. A new stadium is not going to be built on campus.

 

[DoctorWho85]

Traffic on 32/44/195 is not the issue if the football team were to play on campus. That is why tailgating exists. The issue as I see it would be parking and proximity to the stadium. I used to meet my folks in D-Lot when they came up for Parent's Weekend, but that was before D-1a and the team played at Memorial.

Basketball games have the "benefit" of being played in the coldest months of the year, when there is very little tailgating in the traditional sense and commuters are more than able to utilize the parking garages. Anecdotally, I arrived on campus 2 1/2 hours before tip off for Georgetown, found a spot near the exit of the North garage, and walked into a nearly empty Ted's for a couple, a few with my friends, who were already there. There was no problem getting in or out.

2 1/2 hours prior to football kickoff is considered late.

Parking can be easily done with a large garage and a lot surrounding the stadium.

 

[Husky25]

Parking can be easily done with a large garage and a lot surrounding the stadium.

Garages are fine for basketball. That sort of setting is not conducive for open flame tailgating, which was considered in my original quoted premise.

 

[Waquoit]

Parking can be easily done with a large garage and a lot surrounding the stadium.

 

[Husky25]

Sorry but many fans aren’t going to do that. A new stadium is not going to be built on campus.

Right. They'd rather complain about the 7,000 other cars that in their way when they just happened to want to leave.

Both (a new stadium and traffic) are non-issues when 12,000 fans are in the stands. You can leave at any point after the 2nd quarter, battling little traffic. Coleman grills and pop-up tents are the bigger obstacle prior to halftime.

 

[Drew]

So whats the deal here? Seen almost ZERO info about this. Is it open to fans? First come first serve?

 

[CL82]

It’s not a “Pat on the head and a cookie” situation, it’s an incentive to buy season tickets. I don’t buy my season tickets for things like this, but if you offer these “exclusive events” to only season ticket holders you may get more people to purchase which is the real intent of these types of perks.

I would say differently. It’s more and acknowledgment of the university’s appreciation for the season ticket holders. They are the life’s blood. of the program