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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5013788, member: 71"] CL, I like you a lot but I believe you are wrong with some of your assessments here. When the Rent first opened, we played to packed houses at more than double the capacity of any game we had hosted prior to the Rent being our home. The largest factor for this was location. The proximity of the stadium to highway access and to the intersection of 91 & 84 played a tremendous role in people from our geographically small but extremely congested state being willing to check out games. If we had built an on campus stadium, we likely would have had very few games 20 years ago (when there was a tremendous amount of excitement behind the program) where the crowd reached 30k. Yes, there are schools that have on campus stadiums where fans/alumni endure far longer road trips to get there and need to deal with extreme traffic congestion for much longer than the stretch from 84 to the Storrs campus, but this has evolved over many decades (or longer). Our basketball fans aren't willing to stay for the entire game in seasons where we win national titles. There is no way football fans would endure something far worse (it would be far worse) unless it was something they have been doing for an extended time supporting a successful program. Additionally, comparing the traffic impact 40k plus football fans would have to vs 10k basketball fans should need no explanation, even if you could (not as feasible as you are implying) stagger the arrivals and departures over a number of hours. I'm curious as to when you last attended a packed house at Gampel as anyone who has any recollection of arrival/departure would laugh at the idea of four times as much traffic, even if it were to be spread on a coordinated basis (really can't be done) over four to six hours (that much time isn't something anyone would be willing to consider). Fortunately the idea (for now) is more of a dream than the football program winning consecutive titles. [/QUOTE]

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