Any news on Michigan start time?

[Drew]

would love for this to be a 3:30 game

 

[uconntailgater]

A 3:30 game would be fantastic. Better yet if they let us tailgate for more than four hours prior to the game would even be better.

 

[Dann]

A 3:30 game would be fantastic. Better yet if they let us tailgate for more than four hours prior to the game would even be better.

U mean like a normal college football school? Keep dreamin

 

[whaler11]

Here is mattsarz sports. If you are interested in televised college games there is no better website.

http://mattsarzsports.com/football2013/Schedule?week=4

If you want a 3:30 start you are trying to identify the regional ABC games.

The interesting games that weekend owned by ABC/ESPN:

UNC @ GT
Arkansas @ Rutgers
Purdue @ Wisconsin?
Arizona State @ Stanford

Have to figure Auburn @ LSU is primetime and Florida @ Tennessee is CBS.


If I were wagering, I'd guess ABC regional coverage at 3:30 is UConn/Michigan in the Northeast and Midwest, UNC/Georgia Tech in the Southeast and Arizona State/Stanford on the West Coast.

I'd put Purdue/Wisconsin on ESPN2 at noon and Rutgers/Arkansas as a primetime game on ESPN2 against Auburn/LSU on ESPN.

SMU/A&M will get a national network too. West Virginia/Maryland reeks of ESPNU.

Not sure you'll know until 11 days out though.

 

[UConn9604]

A 3:30 game would be fantastic. Better yet if they let us tailgate for more than four hours prior to the game would even be better.

For the 3:30 pm Rutgers game in 2005, we showed up to wait in line at 7:15, just like a normal noon game. We actually got kicked out of line.

So, we went down to the Burlington Coat Factory and tailgated there. Fired up the grill, cracked open a few beers and everything.

 

[Dann]

For the 3:30 pm Rutgers game in 2005, we showed up to wait in line at 7:15, just like a normal noon game. We actually got kicked out of line.

So, we went down to the Burlington Coat Factory and tailgated there. Fired up the grill, cracked open a few beers and everything.

You literally can't make this stuff up its so sad. And yet such simple things ppl here defend uconn.

 

[HuskyFan16]

HFD what would it matter if instead of accepting that things were crappy we just sat here and bithced? Like say for a minute that everyone here on this website instantly became as pissed off as you. We all just constantly cry and moan and write incoherent letters to Warde.

What actual difference would it make? No one on this board has any position of real authority in the University. Collectively, our whining would have ZERO effect on anyone in a position of authority in the University. There is no "we can make a difference". All it would do is turn every would be casual internet fan off of the most active UConn board and.

 

[whaler11]

They don't let people tailgate for more than 4 hours prior. Is there a single person who doesn't attend because of that limitation?

The rule is stupid and the reasoning is ridiculous - but if they changed it to 6 or 8 hours this season what would change? Nada.

 

[Dann]

HFD what would it matter if instead of accepting that things were crappy we just sat here and bithced? Like say for a minute that everyone here on this website instantly became as pissed off as you. We all just constantly cry and moan and write incoherent letters to Warde.

What actual difference would it make? No one on this board has any position of real authority in the University. Collectively, our whining would have ZERO effect on anyone in a position of authority in the University. There is no "we can make a difference". All it would do is turn every would be casual internet fan off of the most active UConn board and.

If no one bought tickets or sent the school money then the school would have to have a meeting and ask why we have no money or fans. Eventually some one in that room will say our product across the board sucks. Maybe if we change things and elevate the product then fans will buy tickets and donate and so on.

Instead all of u guys have the emotional attachment to the school that causes u to support no matter what. What you support tho is not a product wotrth investing in. It's charity at this point trying to keep uconn afloat after what many here feels was a bad set of circumstances.

What I'm saying is there is a reason we were dealt a bad hand and that reason is because uconn doesn't get it. Marketing, coaches etc u know my 2 cents from my rants. But my view is if u show them that its garbage they either have to fold up shop or fix it.

I go to church. It's a run down building and only 5 ppl showed up to mass this weekend. The priest made it maybe 15 minutes long just zipped thru things and left right after to watch football and have a cold ice tea. During the mass I gave five bucks and have been doing that for 20 years straight every Sunday. I'm emotionally invested in this church being the long time local. I remember packed pews and yard sales and picnics. Now there is nothing but a mass once a week for a handful that show up. During the winter ski season the attendance sometimes doubles with weekend locals. You enjoy your routine and so see why most locals now either don't go to church or go to the one a town over.

This is all of u.
Note- this is not a politics, religion and so on rip fest. Not at all....

I'm not saying church is a bad thing but your emotionally invested and can't take off the glasses as to why the church isn't doing so well. Most over time will go to other sporting events. You guys here won't. That's fine. But you all are completely blind to my side. Like it or not my side is about 75% of ppl that have attended a game since 2005 at the rent. Over time this argument will show in seats filled. It already is showing.

The product reeks of sucking. End of story. Say what u want about me but tell me why uconn has not done anything. P is the coach. That does not mean we can't change small things like tailgate times or marketing commercials or media allowances and so on.

The whole product stinks. You guys support it. That's bad business but nice charity. End of the line is that doesn't help uconn because while charity keeps you afloat it never allows you to fix issues and then build to the point that you can take things to the next level.

Goodwill gets clothes and thing donated. It can expand stores in different towns all it wants thanks to charity. It sells items and gets more and the model continues. Goodwill can never be one Walmart or target. They can't join that big league. They stay alive on charity and are never going to change there business model. There identity is what it is.

This is what it feels like uconn is right now. We're uconn. We have good bball and bad fball. We have a small stadium and this and that. We're not going to change anything about it. It's who we are. The model is the model.

Instead we should be changing the business model. But all of u spot pot the school so the answer is well why would we change things if we still are getting all this money as is. No need to invest when your in the green. It's lazy. It's the reason we are where we are today and it reeks.

Enjoy your product.

I have all the faith in the world in Kevin Ollie and I think more highly of him then my own dad to be honest. I think he could lead a high school team in the New England prep league to a conference ship in the AAC starting in 2014 he's sucks a good coach and the league sucks so much. I think he may quickly have us looking like a run the table in conference type team. A lot of wins. But when u hammer Tulane and ecu over and over, no one is buying. You have to Jackie moon your way to keep interest to a certain degree. Uconn would rather just open the gates a hour before the game and tell you were going to win win win.

 

[Dann]

They don't let people tailgate for more than 4 hours prior. Is there a single person who doesn't attend because of that limitation?

The rule is stupid and the reasoning is ridiculous - but if they changed it to 6 or 8 hours this season what would change? Nada.

If the rules were more hours and camping out, PSU would actually do a series with us. They won't because they feel we have nothing to offer both on the field and off the field.

 

[sportsart]

Just wow. Time for ignore. Talk about the most up person in the history of the boneyard.

You are the biggest blow hard phoney I ever seen on here. It 's about the players you f' ing idiot. When they stop giving their all 12 months out of the year I/we will stop going.

You just really need to go away. Again time to ignore.

 

[Dann]

Just wow. Time for ignore. Talk about the most up person in the history of the boneyard.

You are the biggest blow hard phoney I ever seen on here. It 's about the players you f' ing idiot. When they stop giving their all 12 months out of the year I/we will stop going.

You just really need to go away. Again time to ignore.

And this is why this board has yet to catch up to college football.

Players play and lift. In exchange they get scholarships for free education and meals etc.

Soon they will get what get now plus extra walk around money. Not arguing with that it is what it is. But these"kids" you mention are first off men and second now getting paid plus school/eats/sleep to play. They are far from kids.

Your kids comment confirms that you live in the world of little league and don't understand the relationship of players to schools and where it's going.

D3 is special. They play for love. I'm not saying d1 players don't love the game, but understand this is not a charity for "kids". This is why this board is lost. You don't understand that college athletics isn't part of the holy schools are non profits 20 years ago sentiment. Things are different.

 

[HuskyFan16]

No no don't get me wrong, I completely understand your POV. My point is who in their right mind thinks the boneyard being a bunch of noisy asshats is going to make your dream suddenly come to fruition. Grow up Peter Pan. People like us don't just change things, we're just fans. There is literally no chance anyone would listen to us even if you want to think they would. Just won't happen.

The leadership might suck (probably does in a select group, although like you say I have more investment in the whole university so I generally differ on your view of Herbst). But they are the ones who make the changes, not us. We (in our community here on the haterblog) have ZERO impact on if they get substituted so why waste so much energy thinking that we do? Your an idealist, and that's not a terrible quality, but that should be tempered with a bit of pragmatism. Any credibility which you might have had where people would listen is at this point (to pull a JC) "quite frankly" shattered. If we all hop on your obnoxious bandwagon, don't we subject ourselves to the same?

 

[jbdphi]

Just wow. Time for ignore. Talk about the most up person in the history of the boneyard.

You are the biggest blow hard phoney I ever seen on here. It 's about the players you f' ing idiot. When they stop giving their all 12 months out of the year I/we will stop going.

You just really need to go away. Again time to ignore.

For what it's worth, I put HFD on ignore around a week and a half ago. I had never done that with anyone before because I usually don't like turning away from people's opinions just because I disagree with them but I just found HFD's whole shtick to be too annoying.

As a result of this, I no longer see any threads that were started by him and I no longer see any posts made by him or where someone else quotes him in a response. It has made my visits to the BY more enjoyable and more brief.

 

[CAHUSKY]

For what it's worth, I put HFD on ignore around a week and a half ago. I had never done that with anyone before because I usually don't like turning away from people's opinions just because I disagree with them but I just found HFD's whole shtick to be too annoying.

As a result of this, I no longer see any threads that were started by him and I no longer see any posts made by him or where someone else quotes him in a response. It has made my visits to the BY more enjoyable and more brief.

True dat. I was thinking about leaving the yard after roughly 15 years because he gave me such a headache and made me hate everything about this website. I finally put him on ignore and all is well again.

 

[J187Money]

You literally can't make this stuff up its so sad. And yet such simple things ppl here defend uconn.

Nobody defends this.

 

[J187Money]

Since you brought your dad into it...there is a difference between agreeing with every decision a parent makes and boycotting your family because they don't do everything you want.

To varying degrees that's how a lot of us feel about UConn. You don't have that connection. How you feel is completely understandable. For you. The school is nothing but a peripheral extension of its sports teams. But for you to basically advocate that the rest of us stop supporting the program so they make changes?

It isn't happening. Just like I'm not going to put one of my kids up for adoption because they get a bad report card.

Every team I've ever been a fan of has made terrible decisions at some point. By your standards I should have just given up on sports completely by now. But that's not how it works. The highs are higher because the lows are lower. That's why nobody even cares about the Yankees anymore. There is no euphoria. Only mild happiness when it goes their way and disgust when it doesn't.

This has been an interesting ride for UConn. I was there when hoops got big, and I've been to every major football game as we try to build something here. I'm supposed to give up after a 24 year affiliation with the school because it isn't going perfectly? Good luck with marriage my friend. If you ever get engaged your fiancé should read the board to understand what she is in for.

So yes, I support the school. Yes, I will donate money. Yes, I will buy tickets and go to games. I can afford to, and I don't have to choose NOT to do something else to give that support. I bring my kids to games. To try to build that next generation of fans. And guess what? I have a good time. I see friends at the tailgates that I wouldn't ever see. I sit with my sister, who lives up near Simsbury that I don't get to see on a regular basis because I work in NYC.

Why ANY of this makes you think that I agree with one decision that the school has made means that YOU don't get it.

Or next time your mom fucks up the mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving tell her to off and that you won't be coming next year unless she can figure out how to step up her game and be big time.

 

[CTMike]

Well we don't have a start time yet- so I hope that folks who are in a position to speak up about this are pressing hard for 3:30.

I would also hope those same folks have the sense and foresight to see that a tailgating exception NEEDS to be made for this game. RVs should be welcome 24 hours prior, and cars starting at 8am that day (if its a 3:30 kickoff).

 

[UConn Dan]

They don't let people tailgate for more than 4 hours prior. Is there a single person who doesn't attend because of that limitation?

The rule is stupid and the reasoning is ridiculous - but if they changed it to 6 or 8 hours this season what would change? Nada.

It might get the people who should be in their seats in their seats prior to kick off but likely not.

 

[junglehusky]

Got it. UConn's going 5-7 and being stuck in the AAC is my fault, it's JMoney's fault, it's sportsart's fault, it's the fault of every fan who buys tickets, but hey, it's not HFD's fault because he's a marketing genius for boycotting the program and publicly undermining everything UConn does.

 

[UConn9604]

You literally can't make this stuff up its so sad. And yet such simple things ppl here defend uconn.

Dan, you are certainly entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine.

I hate the four-hour rule as much as anyone (probably more than just about everyone, including you), but I really don't have time to rattle off 1,750-word E-mails about why I'm so angry about it, about why I'm not going to The Rent anymore or about what I would do if I were King of UConn. (If you do, that's obviously your choice, it's a free country.)

Instead, I would rather go to the games, have a good time with my friends, donate as much to UConn as I can afford, and lend a hand to as many UConn students as I can. Simply, I support my alma mater because even though it may not be perfect, it's the only one I've got.

 

[spsct]

Just wow. Time for ignore. Talk about the most up person in the history of the boneyard.

You are the biggest blow hard phoney I ever seen on here. It 's about the players you f' ing idiot. When they stop giving their all 12 months out of the year I/we will stop going.

You just really need to go away. Again time to ignore.

I'm with you, Art. This clown has caused me to avoid the BY for the last several months... The period where he was bought into silence was sweet heaven for me.

 

[SubbaBub]

HFD what would it matter if instead of accepting that things were crappy we just sat here and bithced? Like say for a minute that everyone here on this website instantly became as pissed off as you. We all just constantly cry and moan and write incoherent letters to Warde.

What actual difference would it make? No one on this board has any position of real authority in the University. Collectively, our whining would have ZERO effect on anyone in a position of authority in the University. There is no "we can make a difference". All it would do is turn every would be casual internet fan off of the most active UConn board and.

It would actually made a great deal of difference. Maybe you don't get everything you want right away, but it has an effect on decision making. I don't like the boycott idea. It's right up there with not voting. You must be present to win.

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[J187Money]

It would actually made a great deal of difference. Maybe you don't get everything you want right away, but it has an effect on decision making. I don't like the boycott idea. It's right up there with not voting. You must be present to win.

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Right. Which is why I try to spend time with ANY high ranking person in the University that I can. And when I do, I let them know about things I like and don't like. If everyone does so, change will happen.

BTW - any of you coming to the event at the Public House in NYC tomorrow?

 

[huskymedic]

Legitimate question... how much of the "gates open" time is a function of a "UConn decision" versus a State property/East Hartford P & Z agreement (similar to decibel level restriction)? I'm still looking for details when approved but figured an East Harford denizen might now.