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CL82 said:
There are actually three viable locations for a stadium on campus, plus one on the depot campus.

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Think I would prefer the original site behind Mansfield Supply. Most traffic would come from the north on 195 and from the west on 44.
The Mansfield Supply site would eliminate most of the incoming traffic from going in and out through campus and folks from the west can access the site using Discovery Drive which can also be used by Rte 32 and North Eagleville Road. !95 N may be able to handle the remainder from others coming up from the south. Depending on the orientation of the field and perhaps a horseshoe design seating, the elevation could offer a dramatic view of campus?
 
Duncan Idaho said:
Think I would prefer the original site behind Mansfield Supply. Most traffic would come from the north on 195 and from the west on 44.
The Mansfield Supply site would eliminate most of the incoming traffic from going in and out through campus and folks from the west can access the site using Discovery Drive which can also be used by Rte 32 and North Eagleville Road. !95 N may be able to handle the remainder from others coming up from the south. Depending on the orientation of the field and perhaps a horseshoe design seating, the elevation could offer a dramatic view of campus?
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If only UConn had the space. Water towers & Gampel in the background

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Duncan Idaho said:
Think I would prefer the original site behind Mansfield Supply. Most traffic would come from the north on 195 and from the west on 44.
The Mansfield Supply site would eliminate most of the incoming traffic from going in and out through campus and folks from the west can access the site using Discovery Drive which can also be used by Rte 32 and North Eagleville Road. !95 N may be able to handle the remainder from others coming up from the south. Depending on the orientation of the field and perhaps a horseshoe design seating, the elevation could offer a dramatic view of campus?
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Yeah, I like everything in the athletic campus being together, but the Mansfield supply spot is a good one as well for the reasons you listed. It's never clear to me exactly how much we own there. Is there enough room? if not the other side of Discovery Drive works as well.

I'm not that worried about getting out from the athletic campus since they don't really use Hillside Road anymore. You could have probably three or four lanes all heading out to Discovery Drive and then up to 44 for traffic heading north and west. For traffic heading south and east you just take S. Eagleville Rd. to 195.
 
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Kolumbo said:
If only UConn had the space. Water towers & Gampel in the background

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Campus busses already go to W and T lots. Already cleared , earth more easily moved, job site would not be as intrusive to current campus life. Not a contractor but I think I would prefer to build here? Ease of construction? Shame there was no political will at the time.
 
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CL82 said:
Yeah, I like everything in the athletic campus being together, but the Mansfield supply spot is a good one as well for the reasons you listed. It's never clear to me exactly how much we own there. Is there enough room? if not the other side of Discovery Drive works as well
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Everything within the athletic village would be a biggie.
 
Kolumbo said:
If only UConn had the space. Water towers & Gampel in the background

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There would be an insane view from a stadium here. If you look past Gampel you can see the site in the athletic campus. Anyone of them would be good.
 
CL82 said:
There would be an insane view from a stadium here. If you look past Gampel you can see the site in the athletic campus. Anyone of them would be good.
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Here is one thing so many people overlook. I spent more than 4 years on that campus and I loved it. Always will love Storrs. Heck I'd move up there if I could just because I love the area. I can't tell you the last time I spent a full day up there. Many moons ago. Now we go to a game at Gampel and that is all. At virtually ALL big-time football schools fans, family, alumni, parents, people go to football games on game day and spend time on campus. They all go to the dorms, apartments, fraternities, sororities, restaurants, tailgating, it's an entire university experience. We all go to a field in East Hartford. There is absolutely no comparison. I can't even participate in these stupid debates about travel, time, traffic anymore. It's insanity.
 
CL82 said:
Lol. no, but it is a convenient way to summarize the information and drop that into a post.


Unsurprisingly my AI summary, your AI summary and my memory say the same thing that the transaction died when district chose not to pursue it.
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NO ONE PURSUED IT

Imbecilic.
 
Fishy said:
NO ONE PURSUED IT

Imbecilic.
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Lol, absolutely agree, well, except you actually posted something that said they asked us, we we're open to it and it ended when they decided to go in a different direction.

Yeah, we can agree that that decision by Mansfield was absolutely imbecilic.

Lol smh, relax fishy.
 
powerplay said:
It's a shame of what has become of the depot campus, it's a bit of an eyesore. With proper vision and development I think a nice complex could be built.
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Are you a resident of Connecticut? Proper vision? I won’t go further because I’ll be banned.
 
is the depot campus made out of molten uranium or something? People have been talking about it forever. Even UMBC has a freaking tech park.
 
Patman said:
is the depot campus made out of molten uranium or something? People have been talking about it forever. Even UMBC has a freaking tech park.
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Actually, I want to say at one time there was some kind of university nuclear waste storage site between Bonemill Road and campus proper IIRC? But that was a long time ago.
 
It sounds like we have a plan:
1. Get $850 million
2. Spend it on a cool football stadium
3. ????
4. Get invited to a P4 conference!
 
pj said:
It sounds like we have a plan:
1. Get $850 million
2. Spend it on a cool football stadium
3. ????
4. Get invited to a P4 conference!
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Sounds like my plan to get Christie Brinkley after the SI swimsuit issue came out
 
Patman said:
Could you find industrial sized butterfly nets in 1985?
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Dude, put down the calculator...where's the love for fishing nets, eh? Large area, good tensile strength, and increase your chance at catching something...as long as it's not the mermaid version of Darryl Hannah. ;)
 
Three major issues that stand in the way of an on campus stadium:
  1. 195 is too small to carry the amount of traffic an on-campus stadium would draw. Think of how difficult it is to get out after a hoops game and multiply that by 3. The road could be improved to handle more traffic, but it would cost money and change the rustic nature of campus (point 2).
  2. Mansfield does not want the noise or traffic of an on-campus football stadium, and they do not want to change the rural character of the area by improving 195.
  3. The state built a stadium in East Hartford for UConn football. Why spend more money on an on-campus stadium to host FIU?
Regardless, if I played Powerball and won, I would buy the town of Mansfield, rename it BlueandOGville, and build an on-campus stadium.
 
There has been a pretty clear path of going from G>P status. UConn is going a different route. Hasn't worked yet, but I guess, as the saying goes, it only has to work once.
 

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