Chances that season ticket count will be above 30,000?
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zls44
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I respect your take. There's problems on both sides. Bureaucracy on one end and corporate pillaging on the other. But like you said, better than Kabul.
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Head scratching: received the e-mail back in April that payment was made (& the checks been cashed). No e-mail received that season tickets are in the mail as others have gotten. Received the e-mail that allowed for purchase of miniplans & today received the single game e-mail. Hope those season tickets don't get lost in the shuffle.
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I haven't gotten an email that tickets were in the mail, but it was mentioned Tuesday night at the alumni association event that they would start shipping Wednesday. Saw further confirmation on Twitter/Facebook. I think you'll be ok!
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I didn't get that email either. I'm not concerned.
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"I use the bleeding heart term a lot, because it's an umbrella to me. There's an interesting paragraph in that Forbes article from McGovern - who tried to run a hotel business in CT but went belly up. THe road to hell is paved with good intentions. What's happened, and Malloy himself is a product of it too, is that the state government over the years has been elected, and elected officials, the vast majority of which, are truly only concerned about one thing - getting elected - cater to the needs of those that they know will elect them. I'll leave that at that.
There has been prevailing thought among people like minded to me, for several years now. The single most effective, and wide ranging thing that can happen, to create positive, immediate, and long lasting change for government in the U.S., whether it be local, state, or federal - is that all elected officials serve at most two terms, and once their terms are over, they no longer have any government benefits, and must enter the private work force again.
I would vote for anyone, that advocated that, regardless of their political, social, views.
These are the views of a DEMOCRATIC senator and presidential candidate that ran a failed business in CT.
Former U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern learned all this the hard way. In 1988, he bought, renovated and operated a 150-room hotel and conference center in Stratford, Connecticut. The business went bankrupt two years later. McGovern reflected on his experience in the Wall Street Journal: “My business associates and I lived with federal, state and local rules that were all passed with the objective of helping employees, protecting the environment, raising tax dollars for schools, protecting our customers from fire hazards, etc. While I never have doubted the worthiness of these goals, the concept that most often eludes legislators is: ‘Can we make consumers pay the higher prices for increased operating costs that accompany public regulation and government reporting requirements with reams of red tape.’ It is a simple concern that is nonetheless often ignored by legislators.”
Carl, read the title of this discussion then read the content of your post. Once you have completed those two steps please provide a reason why you aren't posting on the CESSPOOL. Seriously, I don't come to a UConn Football board to read politics - of any agenda.
There has been prevailing thought among people like minded to me, for several years now. The single most effective, and wide ranging thing that can happen, to create positive, immediate, and long lasting change for government in the U.S., whether it be local, state, or federal - is that all elected officials serve at most two terms, and once their terms are over, they no longer have any government benefits, and must enter the private work force again.
I would vote for anyone, that advocated that, regardless of their political, social, views.
These are the views of a DEMOCRATIC senator and presidential candidate that ran a failed business in CT.
Former U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern learned all this the hard way. In 1988, he bought, renovated and operated a 150-room hotel and conference center in Stratford, Connecticut. The business went bankrupt two years later. McGovern reflected on his experience in the Wall Street Journal: “My business associates and I lived with federal, state and local rules that were all passed with the objective of helping employees, protecting the environment, raising tax dollars for schools, protecting our customers from fire hazards, etc. While I never have doubted the worthiness of these goals, the concept that most often eludes legislators is: ‘Can we make consumers pay the higher prices for increased operating costs that accompany public regulation and government reporting requirements with reams of red tape.’ It is a simple concern that is nonetheless often ignored by legislators.”
Carl, read the title of this discussion then read the content of your post. Once you have completed those two steps please provide a reason why you aren't posting on the CESSPOOL. Seriously, I don't come to a UConn Football board to read politics - of any agenda.
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I got enough on my plate than to add another website to check regularly. There was a very good article posted today (Not by me) in this discussion, that I was following up on. Skip over it if you don't want to read it.
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Nope, not the way it works. 'Yarders should not have to wade past your opinion on economics and politics in a football post on the football board, but I expected that you would value your opinion so much as to not recognize that.
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are you message board police profiling me? or do you do this with every discussion on the boneyard that is driven in a different direction by comments.
you better tell skiblets he shouldn't have posted the Forbes article, or I'm contacting businesslawyer.
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Yes Carl, you have been targeted - your insights are too unique, your opinion so earth-shattering, your commentary so persuasive that we have sought you out for silencing.
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see!! I knew it. My rights have been infringed. But never mind going to a different website, maybe if you and I have a problem, we should just step outside.
have a nice weekend. First fall practice starts in about 20 minutes.
No joke.
20 minutes.
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Whoa whoa. Don't pull me into this battle. My posts are always politically agnostic. But I found the article to be pretty well written. I am concerned about the state of affairs in CT. Just moved back from Boston after five years up there and didn't realize how much had changed here. It is stark. When you're in a place every day, you don't appreciate the changes. But the CT I left five years ago looks starkly and negatively different
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There's no getting around the unfavorable demographics or employment trends. Education and Health, both subsidized via loans, insurance, or debt and sometimes all 3 are the backbone of the states middle class.
Litchfield County lost 10% in median income.
Mass is opening casinos.
Higher education will come under fire from low cost schools using open source curruculum and online canned lectures from the best in the field. Technology will hit higher ed hard in 10 years.
You can see the charts at the CT DOL by industry. The picture isn't rosy for financial services, insurance, or IT in the state. The 3 are intertwined.
6% pay half the income taxes and always will as long as CT is a NYC suburb.
The blue hairs are dying or ready to move when the market improves. They are being replaced by a more diverse yet less wealthy demographic
Admit it.......you want that new OLED 84" Touchscreen 4K TV for the Home Theater, not season tickets!
That's the other half of the problem.
In 10 years the mutant mice will be buying season tickets. Jackson labs says so. Consider yourselves obsolete.
Litchfield County lost 10% in median income.
Mass is opening casinos.
Higher education will come under fire from low cost schools using open source curruculum and online canned lectures from the best in the field. Technology will hit higher ed hard in 10 years.
You can see the charts at the CT DOL by industry. The picture isn't rosy for financial services, insurance, or IT in the state. The 3 are intertwined.
6% pay half the income taxes and always will as long as CT is a NYC suburb.
The blue hairs are dying or ready to move when the market improves. They are being replaced by a more diverse yet less wealthy demographic
Admit it.......you want that new OLED 84" Touchscreen 4K TV for the Home Theater, not season tickets!
That's the other half of the problem.
In 10 years the mutant mice will be buying season tickets. Jackson labs says so. Consider yourselves obsolete.
Do we have to sign for them? I know they are sent out. I have to keep my eyes peeled for them.
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I saw something on Facebook this afternoon that they only had 200 Top of the Rent tickets left. I don't know what this potentially means but I'll keep my fingers crossed that this means the upper tank is filling in with season tickets.
UConn Huskies
Less than 200 "Top of the Rent" discounted season tickets remain. See all 7 home games for only $140http://Post original url/1bBtg8w
UConn Huskies
Less than 200 "Top of the Rent" discounted season tickets remain. See all 7 home games for only $140http://Post original url/1bBtg8w
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Based on the secondary market... Scalpers bought up the Top of the Rent to try and make money on the Michigan game and whatever they get for the balance they will take.
Fine by me - UConn sells the tickets. I think they are making a mistake - I imagine Michigan will settle around 75-80 day of the game.
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Single game tix for 6 of 7 home games were offered today to season ticket holders. Michigan must be included in a 3 game mini plan.
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Yeah...for now. (see above) And when mini-plans stop selling I hope to buy a few single game tix before the scalpers buy them all.
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same crap as last time - didn't get the email (8 season tickets since 03 at the Rent) - last time I didn't get the mini-plan email (and it wasn't in my spam folder), I got a lame response from the ticket office - so this time my complaint was CC'ed the the athletic director - its pretty obvious the ticket offices isn't up to "Power Conference" status
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oh yes, we went through that last time and I was assured by two different people that the correct boxes have been unchecked - there's never a problem getting my INVOICE - would figure since I'm writing a +/-$4K check for tickets and parking each year that they wouldn't screw it up. Thrice-weekly emails soliciting additional donations from the university (& school of business), foundation and athletics seem to have no trouble getting through any SPAM filters - just a crappy job all the way around, not even up to D-II standards
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I'm sorry, but when industries are moving jobs to Florida (and believe me, the electric rates in FL is not cheap) and other RIGHT TO WORK - and low TAX states - good paying manufacturing (Colt Industries is building a gun plant in Kissimmee, Florida) and headquarters are moving from CT, you know that a state (no matter if it is California or Connecticut) is in trouble. Look at the states gaining population (Ca is an exception) they are business friendly - right to work states with low taxes.
What CT needs is a strong statewide REPUBLICAN Party. (The GOP is good is the small towns, but in other towns (ie: East Hartford, my hometown) - the GOP is a joke.
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