ESPN will go wherever the game is treasured AND the fans will actually show up. Yale Bowl is a great venue to watch a contest, BUT it's cavernous unless the opposition is Princeton or Harvard. If the Elis get a gate of 30,000, it's a moral victory at the box office. This game may be different if the corps of cadets is bussed in & military dignitaries show up, but 30k in a 65,000 capacity building is a comparative drop in the ocean.
coach, we don't get this ship turned around right quick, like now, and we'll be counting gate counts of 30,000 as a moral victory too - we kind of already are. We also bus UConn students to games too, and sometimes the dignitaries show up in the boxes. The good news, is that Rentschler isn't quite the cavern that the bowl is, when you've got 20,000 there. It's just where we're at.
While UCONN has enormous growth potential, that Yale/Army do not, and Temple, is Temple.....and man, does it itch me in the wrong places that I'm worried about beating Temple....we're not realizing that potential - yet. And until we start winning regularly again, we won't.
So - college football played in Connecticut, this Saturday, for one weekend this fall, is going to be played entirely for the purists, that are there for the game, and to see the players. I actually am ok with this. I'm tired of the pimping and corruption and what the NCAA has become pushed by ESPN.
I really just want to see good football played, and I fear, I really fear, that between the two games played in CT this Saturday, we aren't going to be the ones playing the best football.
I want that changed, but really, nothing I can do about it but piss and moan, and keep going to the games.
So be it.
I'll be there at Rentschler, with the rest of purists tomorrow. It's a much better place to tailgate, and watch a game, than the bowl, and my huskies are playing - which makes it a non-decision anyway.
