Wealthy donors, and there are a lot of them. Wealthy alumni, and there are a lot of them too. Bond offerings, donate more than $10k and get free season tickets for the first 2 seasons, Corporate sponsorships, etc. Those are some of the ideas I’ve heard thrown around, and what’s interesting is who is doing the exploratory “throwing around “.
CT’s marquee stadium needs $63M in repairs. Why increased attendance is making a difference.
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$10k for free tickets for two years is a Div III incentive.
If they expand the on campus stadium to 40 or 50 thousand and make other improvements to parking and support facilities. Then UMass gets better players (recruits and the portal) and the Big 12 invite and UConn is relegated to purgatory and a ball & chain called Rentschler Field.I am sure all of these repairs will cost well over $100 million. If that is the case, we need to be committed to staying in East Hartford and keep investing in the stadium. The report seemed to indicate the stadium was maintained well. It's only 20 years old. But I do agree about the CDRA in general.
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McGuirk is a dump, but at least it's on campus and UMass could decide to expand or start from scratch. Whatever it does, it is an investment to its campus.
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UMass just hired a new coach is headed to the MAC and they are gonna expand McGuirk to 40-50k capacity?
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I could be wrong (it's been my years since I've looked these things up) but I believe the bill of the football stadiums in the MAC are 25k-30k capacity and seldom are more than 2/3 full.
If UMass can add another 12,000 seats their stadium will be sufficient in terms of capacity.
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This work is a mixture of modernization (I had a blackberry the first time I went to a game at the Rent. My internet was aol dial-up). It was built before current technology which has been jury rigged over time and needs to be rationalized, deferred maintenance, replacement of equipment and facilities which have reached their useful life. Anyone who owns a home, or even a car, understands that things wear out. Anyone who owns a home, have you gone through 2 decades without a roof, furnace, kitchen appliance? In theory you would budget for at least replacement but that is not how government typically works anywhere because taxpayers generally won’t stand for putting away money for future expenses. If you aren’t going to spend it then they want it in their pocket, not the gobmint’s. Had the state said let’s put away $2.5 million annually so in 25 years we’ll have funds to upgrade/repair the Rent, taxpayers would scream bloody murder. If you don’t do that, then look for $60 million every 25 years, taxpayers scream bloody murder. Nature of the beast.
But here’s the dirty little secret. Private real estate companies don’t do this either.
But here’s the dirty little secret. Private real estate companies don’t do this either.
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We don't have billionaire sugar daddies like those schools.
Um…. I think UConn once hired a new coach, and shortly after opened up a brand spanking new stadium, only mistake was it wasn’t on campus.
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If UConn got into a power conference, they may come out of the woodwork.
Who are our wealthy donors who would pay for an on-campus? Name 3.
You’re wrong. UConn didn’t open a new stadium. The state of CT did.
…..and I supposed they opened it for Women’s Pro Soccer.
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We might even catch someone's eye if we keep winning like we did this year.
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Same thing, really. UConn is a Public University. The state bilks UConn out of huge $$$$ every year by charging UConn to play at XL and The Rent. It's just journal entries, debits and credits.
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Because UConn was invited to join a BCS conference at the time, WVU Miami Vtech Cuse... not NIU, Ohio BG Ball St and Michigan directional schools. A 7=10k expansion would be fine for the MAC.
Yes and no. And the state doesn’t bail UConn out for every lost penny. Some of the stop gap is covered by donors, which I am. Ans hope you are too.
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Thank you for your unsubstantiated opinion. On campus stadium is not happening, period.
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Here's a really bad idea
Build one brand new state-of-the-art retractable roof stadium directly on the CT-MA border. UConn and UMass share the stadium and the costs to build it. They both play their homes games and annual rivalry game there. Half the stadium has blue seating, the other half red. The winner determines the color of the accent lighting. Both programs have stadium issues right now so combine to build the most cost effective solution. They then both get to play in the premiere college football stadium in the Northeast.
Route 91 is probably the optimal location and not too far from 6 Flags. Call it Riverside, iykyk.
Build one brand new state-of-the-art retractable roof stadium directly on the CT-MA border. UConn and UMass share the stadium and the costs to build it. They both play their homes games and annual rivalry game there. Half the stadium has blue seating, the other half red. The winner determines the color of the accent lighting. Both programs have stadium issues right now so combine to build the most cost effective solution. They then both get to play in the premiere college football stadium in the Northeast.
Route 91 is probably the optimal location and not too far from 6 Flags. Call it Riverside, iykyk.
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