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Message: [QUOTE="Jetskies, post: 5015510, member: 12253"] with all these NFL stadium re-development announcements (just saw carolina panthers today), i wouldn't be totally against seeing a mockup of an expanded and TRULY modernized Rent, along with commitments to get the funding to do so, obviously. It would be a beautiful facility, and we have so much Pratt & Whitney land to do it on. The site is really really not bad. so imagine it with the proper landscaping, exterior design covering the soviet concrete, lighting/entertainment package, party/happy hour decks, diverse dining options, updated pressbox, glass-enclosed player entry tunnel with access to the glass to see them walking out to the field, massively upgraded & larger mitsubishi scoreboard, 360 ribbon LED displays around the whole mezzanine, not just the visitor side, etc. etc. etc.... I'm thinking of Ryan Field, for northwestern, as inspiration, but to a lesser degree, to justify the savings compared to building in storrs. I know lots of people will disagree with me and let me be clear that i would NOT object to a statdium in storrs obviously. but i sense that we're sick of the rent because we're sick of the team that plays inside it lolol. If UConn was winning and CT made the decision to invest in the rent the way Penn State is investing in beaver stadium, I think there'd be fewer naysayers to the idea of staying in East Hartford, close to 91/84. [/QUOTE]