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[CL82]

Yes. That’s my pic above.
I’ll be there Saturday at XL and Tuesday at MSG too. Because, you know, I’m a UConn basketball fan.

Any insights on interaction between KO and the players?

 

[CL82]

The should let them in free on slow nights. You want students to buy fan seats?

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.

 

[August_West]

Oh God - I have a meeting that ends in Hartford at 2:30 on Tuesday and have a 9:00 am meeting on Wednesday. I already have a hangover just thinking about it.

Yeah it’s gonna be rough. I’m in office next day even earlier.

 

[gampelcrazies]

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.

This will never happen

 

[CL82]

This will never happen

Et tu @gampelcrazies?

 

[August_West]

Any insights on interaction between KO and the players?

Yeah actually . Give me a few . I’m still on way home . I live 70 min from Gampel. Don’t want to type a book with my dad driving.

Was 3 yards from him all night and paid attention

 

[Paesano]

Yes. That’s my pic above.
I’ll be there Saturday at XL and Tuesday at MSG too. Because, you know, I’m a UConn basketball fan.

Did you see Calhoun leave during the game? Did you call him a bad fan?

 

[whaler11]

Yeah actually . Give me a few . I’m still on way home . I live 70 min from Gampel. Don’t want to type a book with my dad driving.

Was 3 yards from him all night and paid attention

And these poos kids won't take a bus 25 minutes to XL with a water bottle full of Skyy. #sad

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

Pisses me off when people complain about student attendance.

I am a student, and the student section was packed. We came in at 7 exactly and had to sit nearly at the top row. And it's like that pretty much every Gampel game. The Colgate game, they started denying people entry into the student section because it was overfilled. They had to send students to the general sections, where no one was. So stop with this myth that students dont show up. Look at the student section each game.

How about we talk about the general fans. Barely a soul in the upper sections.

 

[Wordbomar]

Students are not the problem. At gampel, they are the strength and nobody can deny that.

 

[Robertelamin]

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.

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

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.

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.

 

[kemba]

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.

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.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

This just keeps getting worse and worse at our chances for getting into another conference.

 

[WrenchFan69]

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.

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

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

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.

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.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

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.

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.

 

[August_West]

Did you see Calhoun leave during the game? Did you call him a bad fan?

No. He’s a good fan.

 

[zls44]

REMINDER: UConn students pay a HUGE subsidy to the athletic department. BEFORE tickets.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

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!?

 

[gampelcrazies]

Et tu @gampelcrazies?

Donors will never give up there seats.

 

[August_West]

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!?

Against Pitt. Was great until Chevy Troutman ate our lunch

 

[CL82]

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.

Yeah, just don't want to make it cheaper than getting student season tickets.

 

[CL82]

Donors will never give up there seats.

Should be some kind of buy back say for student rate, or give them points for donating.

 

[UConnJim]

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.