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Robertelamin said:
Students don't show up to XL at all. Maybe 100 and I'm counting the cheerleaders, dance team, spirit quad or whatever it is. Congrats on walking 500 yards to Gampel though.
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Yeah, such fairweather fans for wanting to watch the game at home rather than drive an hour to a tuesday night conference game against Tulane.

It's the product that's the issue. Not the students.
 
RayIsTheGOAT said:
Yeah, such fairweather fans for wanting to watch the game at home rather than drive an hour to a tuesday night conference game against Tulane.

It's the product that's the issue. Not the students.
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Can't call out the general fans in one post for not coming to Storrs and defend students for not going to Hartford. Getting to Storrs for most people is much more of a time commitment than getting to Hartford for students. And even in the Big East days when we had good teams, Hartford student section would only be full for the biggest of games

At Gampel is the upper level across from the main student section still for students? Cuz that looked empty on TV. I agree students were very loud tonight though.
 
Robertelamin said:
Students don't show up to XL at all. Maybe 100 and I'm counting the cheerleaders, dance team, spirit quad or whatever it is. Congrats on walking 500 yards to Gampel though.
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UConn has one of the highest percentages of students living on campus in the country at around 67%. For simplicity's sake, we'll say 50% don't have a car on campus as only juniors and above can have them and many not needing one . So about 33% of UConn's student body don't even have a car to get to XL Center, let alone to drive the 45 minutes there, pay to park, the 45 minutes back, on a weeknight during one of the most challenging parts of the semester
 
kemba said:
Can't call out the general fans in one post for not coming to Storrs and defend students for not going to Hartford. Getting to Storrs for most people is much more of a time commitment than getting to Hartford for students. And even in the Big East days when we had good teams, Hartford student section would only be full for the biggest of games

At Gampel is the upper level across from the main student section still for students? Cuz that looked empty on TV. I agree students were very loud tonight though.
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Fair enough, that was a bit contradictory.
Either way, you can't expect great attendance when the product on the court is so poor (between the conference and the current quality of UConn basketball). I'm just saying, students are far from the issue.

Edit: Going off of what KSC94 said, it's more difficult to pack the XL with students than for a general fan to come to Storrs. You have to figure there are plenty of people in reasonable distance of Storrs to get in their car and drive their ass down to Gampel.
 
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CL82 said:
Seriously, a couple of days before we should start selling tickets by section to students a a few bucks more than the normal student rate. I'd like to see us line the sidelines with students the way they do at Cameron.
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More? Sell students tickets in those sections for $5. Better to make only $5 on the ticket and have butts in the seats that are going to yell and have fun.
 
remember in I think it was the 06 season there was a blizzard and people donated their tickets to students if they couldn’t get there and there was like 8000 in Gampel for the fame? Yeah well do you remember losing!?
 
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brasssbonanzaa said:
More? Sell students tickets in those sections for $5. Better to make only $5 on the ticket and have butts in the seats that are going to yell and have fun.
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Yeah, just don't want to make it cheaper than getting student season tickets.
 
KO is not helping. Fans want to see either a happy KO or a pissed off KO. Instead we see a frowning KO. It's discouraging to watch.

Some of you have to a conclusion on KO, but I haven't. The roster problems are all on KO, but I thought we could give him the next 2 years to turn the roster around after it blew up at the end of last year. It's not like there're were all these 4* and 5* players around in the Spring to rebuild the roster.

I knew the players were going to struggle to come together as a team, but the lack of effort against Arkansas and the sluggishness to start the game tonight are very concerning. Throw in the injuries and this team could be in trouble, but I'm not giving up yet.
 
whaler11 said:
And these poos kids won't take a bus 25 minutes to XL with a water bottle full of Skyy. #sad
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Need to upgrade the bus
blizzard_2.jpg

The stripper pole is a nice touch.
 
@whaler11 is there anything you like about UConn other than the basketball team?

I've noticed you've liked every anti-student comment here.

You realize college sports are primarily for the students, right?

Not the entertainment for the citizens of greater Hartford.
 
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Guapo said:
@whaler11 is there anything you like about UConn other than the basketball team?

I've noticed you've liked every anti-student comment here.

You realize college sports are primarily for the students, right?

Not the entertainment for the citizens of greater Hartford.
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The greatest strength UConn athletics used to have was the full support of the entire state.

I get that you don’t get that - because your overall premise that college sports exist for the students is 100% wrong. Turn on your TV - there isn’t a billion dollar industry because of students.

Don’t worry though - you’ll soon have the corpse of a program that you can lock up in Gampel that no non-students will want to be near.

You don’t want those rotten Hartford fans who have been attending for decades - you want kids who spend 4 years out of their whole lives in Connecticut.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
remember in I think it was the 06 season there was a blizzard and people donated their tickets to students if they couldn’t get there and there was like 8000 in Gampel for the fame? Yeah well do you remember losing!?
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There was a snow game vs Seton Hall around that time too. I remember because I ended up sitting right behind their bench and got on Bobby Gonzalez about how Luis Flores wasn't walking through the door.
 
Guapo said:
@whaler11 is there anything you like about UConn other than the basketball team?

I've noticed you've liked every anti-student comment here.

You realize college sports are primarily for the students, right?

Not the entertainment for the citizens of greater Hartford.
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Here is a reason why I am tired of the Boneyard student arguments:

You are in Washington DC lecturing me about where the games are played.

I've spent ~4k attending football and basketball games this calendar year. I sat through 10 AAC tournament games in March.

I've been doing that since before the current students were born.

Every year I go to the games and guess who is there - the same people who are always there. We graduate thousands of kids every year but SPOILER ALERT: barely any stay in Connecticut and only a fraction of them keep going to games.

So yeah, I like posts that mock the constant whining of the students. You'd think the bus was to Shawshank and not a football or basketball game.
 
HooperScooper said:
Really? Maybe 75 years ago it was that way. Do you realize that without the support of those non-students there would be no program for the students to cheer for?
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Do you realize that without the support of the students, there won't be many non-students to support the program for the students down the road? Most "non-student" fans of schools are alumni.
 
Guapo said:
@whaler11 is there anything you like about UConn other than the basketball team?

I've noticed you've liked every anti-student comment here.

You realize college sports are primarily for the students, right?

Not the entertainment for the citizens of greater Hartford.
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I was a student not that long ago, graduated in 2005. Attendance wasn't perfect either. I just get tired of the "its so hard to make it" excuses though. It's not, at least you have uber and lyft now if the students really want to go. Or figure something else out. You can park for free if you are willing to walk 3 blocks and I can tell you where, we have been making the same excuses for at least 15 or 16 years at least. Its just getting worse and worse.
 
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Got out late so I was listening while Joe D toughed out the second half tonight. I parked in a Stop&Shop when we got to OT. Streaming it on espn now tho, so that still counts right..
 
HooperScooper said:
Really? Maybe 75 years ago it was that way. Do you realize that without the support of those non-students there would be no program for the students to cheer for?
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lmao the students literally provide most of the money through exorbitant fees that keeps the program from going under
 
zls44 said:
lmao the students literally provide most of the money through exorbitant fees that keeps the program from going under
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True. Would have been nice if ESPN threw us a bone and did us some favors so that wouldn't be the state we are in.
 
Robertelamin said:
True. Would have been nice if ESPN threw us a bone and did us some favors so that wouldn't be the state we are in.
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Crystal clear Espn doesnt care if UConn succeeds or fails and feels no obligation to help the Flagship University to which its private company is based. We are their show pony, we need to have good attendance and watch all their uconn content just to stay relevant. CT politicians gravel at the toes of big business in this state with massive tax breaks. Beyond a "stern" letter requesting help from our Governer et al who know they have zero leverage.. theres nothing that can be done on this front.

The only remedy, winning.
 
whaler11 said:
Here is a reason why I am tired of the Boneyard student arguments:

You are in Washington DC lecturing me about where the games are played.

I've spent ~4k attending football and basketball games this calendar year. I sat through 10 AAC tournament games in March.

I've been doing that since before the current students were born.

Every year I go to the games and guess who is there - the same people who are always there. We graduate thousands of kids every year but SPOILER ALERT: barely any stay in Connecticut and only a fraction of them keep going to games.

So yeah, I like posts that mock the constant whining of the students. You'd think the bus was to Shawshank and not a football or basketball game.
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You know Whaler's fired up when he replies to the same post twice, at length. "And Furthermore...."
 
In the mid 90s, this facility was consistently packed. Was hard for any student to get tickets. Had to be in a lottery to get tickets. Obviously not the case anymore.
 
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