Do this and get into a power 4!

[CL82]

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.

 

[Kolumbo]

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.

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.

 

[Fishy]

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.

NO ONE PURSUED IT

Imbecilic.

 

[CL82]

NO ONE PURSUED IT

Imbecilic.

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.

 

[SinBin]

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

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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.

 

[Ha Who]

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.

Are you a resident of Connecticut? Proper vision? I won’t go further because I’ll be banned.

 

[Patman]

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.

 

[SinBin]

Are you a resident of Connecticut? Proper vision? I won’t go further because I’ll be banned.

Unfortunately born and raised.

 

[LetsGoUC]

If only UConn had the space. Water towers & Gampel in the background

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This is actually perfect, cause you wouldn't have traffic directly into the center of campus.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

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.

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.

 

[pj]

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!

 

[Ha Who]

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!

Sounds like my plan to get Christie Brinkley after the SI swimsuit issue came out

 

[Patman]

Sounds like my plan to get Christie Brinkley after the SI swimsuit issue came out

Could you find industrial sized butterfly nets in 1985?

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Could you find industrial sized butterfly nets in 1985?

It was likely 1981

 

[Patman]

It was likely 1981

Twas a guess

 

[KryHavok]

Could you find industrial sized butterfly nets in 1985?

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.

 

[NC28604]

UPDATE!!! Did you see what USF is building for only $350 million? Seats 35,000 and would fit just fine where I thought to put the stadium on campus.

 

[NowInStorrs]

We should probably hurry up and do the thing.

 

[BlueandOG]

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.

 

[Chin Diesel]

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.

 

[CL82]

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.

For basketball games, everybody arrives pretty much at the same time and everybody leaves pretty much the same time. Football games are different. That's the whole reason tailgating happened, to allow people to feather their traffic over multiple hours, rather than all at the same time.

I doubt 195 would be the principal access route. At most it might pick up traffic heading south. Most people would exit out Discovery Drive onto Route 44. The on campus roads to and from the stadium could be changed to all lanes in at the start of the game and all lanes out at the end. As I'm fond of noting, virtually every other FBS program manages to get people in and out of their stadiums without a super highway leading to the front gate. We could as well.

If we built a stadium in the athletic campus, it requires no approvals from Mansfield residents. They can complain about the prospect of six games a year if they want, but in the absence of any Mansfield approvals, they'd be shouting into the wind.

Rentschler Field is now, what 25 years old. It's pretty much at the end of it to useful life absence significant investment. It's reasonable to ask whether that investment is better spent on the flagship state university's main campus. The promise of Rentschler Field acting as an economic engine for east Hartford has never really materialized. Building an on campus stadium in Storrs greatly enhances the prospect of the university joining a P4 conference, which would mean a revenue stream of roughly $50,000,000 a year (conference media rights plus CFP share). That's a debate worth having.

 

[HuskyHawk]

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.

1. So improve and widen 195. And maybe 44 too.
2. Easy fix, remove the people of Mansfield from Mansfield so that they stop being an impediment. If they want to live in a Podunk nowhere, there's plenty in surrounding towns. State could step in and build whatever most annoys those people. A nuclear plant. A skyscraper. Whatever.
3. Because East Hartford is and has always been, ass. Connecticut is not exactly setting the world on fire. Huge development, nightlife district and innovation centers built around UConn would be a draw.

 

[Ha Who]

For basketball games, everybody arrives pretty much at the same time and everybody leaves pretty much the same time. Football games are different. That's the whole reason tailgating happened, to allow people to feather their traffic over multiple hours, rather than all at the same time.

I doubt 195 would be the principal access route. At most it might pick up traffic heading south. Most people would exit out Discovery Drive onto Route 44. The on campus roads to and from the stadium could be changed to all lanes in at the start of the game and all lanes out at the end. As I'm fond of noting, virtually every other FBS program manages to get people in and out of their stadiums without a super highway leading to the front gate. We could as well.

If we built a stadium in the athletic campus, it requires no approvals from Mansfield residents. They can complain about the prospect of six games a year if they want, but in the absence of any Mansfield approvals, they'd be shouting into the wind.

Rentschler Field is now, what 25 years old. It's pretty much at the end of it to useful life absence significant investment. It's reasonable to ask whether that investment is better spent on the flagship state university's main campus. The promise of Rentschler Field acting as an economic engine for east Hartford has never really materialized. Building an on campus stadium in Storrs greatly enhances the prospect of the university joining a P4 conference, which would mean a revenue stream of roughly $50,000,000 a year (conference media rights plus CFP share). That's a debate worth having.

 

[CL82]

Eh

Meh. I like to knock down this mythology whenever it crops up. It's it's fine to think that it's not worth building in Storrs, but another to manufacture reasons why it's impossible to build in Storrs and then state them as fact.

To paraphrase Daniel Patrick Monahan, "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."

 

[HuskyHawk]

Eh

Meh. I like to knock down the mythology whenever it crops up. It's it's fine to think that it's not worth building in Storrs, but another to manufacture reasons why it's impossible to build in Storrs and then state them as fact.

To paraphrase Daniel Patrick Monahan, "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."

Looking at the USF thread, and their new stadium and the whole complex adjacent to it, that's what we need. For the ACC or Big XII that signals a level of seriousness that UConn hasn't shown. Mora helps. Having people turn out for CCSU helps. Wins help. But until UConn has a legitimate campus culture that is excited about football, it will be easy for them to dismiss us.

I always thought the Rent was a mistake because while it made practical sense (free location, central to population centers) it seemed like a half measure. It sent the wrong message.

 

[Kolumbo]

Looking at the USF thread, and their new stadium and the whole complex adjacent to it, that's what we need. For the ACC or Big XII that signals a level of seriousness that UConn hasn't shown. Mora helps. Having people turn out for CCSU helps. Wins help. But until UConn has a legitimate campus culture that is excited about football, it will be easy for them to dismiss us.

I always thought the Rent was a mistake because while it made practical sense (free location, central to population centers) it seemed like a half measure. It sent the wrong message.

There is no question, an on-campus stadium would attract many more students to games. Game day would be an entire campus experience. Today game day does nothing but take away from the campus. Even FCS and Div III have games which liven up the campus. I've accepted the fact that we will not be seeing an on-campus stadium and that's a shame. The chickens will come home to roost sooner rather than later. IF we get invited to a conference, it will most likely be at a significant discount, and we'll need to continue to throw money at The Rent to keep it satisfactory.

Traffic, forgetaboutit. They could add at least one lane to I-195. Then on game day have all lanes but one go in one direction for an hour or so. Reverse it later for an hour or so. Problem solved.

 

[CL82]

Looking at the USF thread, and their new stadium and the whole complex adjacent to it, that's what we need. For the ACC or Big XII that signals a level of seriousness that UConn hasn't shown. Mora helps. Having people turn out for CCSU helps. Wins help. But until UConn has a legitimate campus culture that is excited about football, it will be easy for them to dismiss us.

I always thought the Rent was a mistake because while it made practical sense (free location, central to population centers) it seemed like a half measure. It sent the wrong message.

We already have Burton and Shenkman. We don't need to re-create them, especially if a stadium is built in the athletic campus. We are going to need game day locker rooms etc.

 

[Kolumbo]

half measures and crappy football. CR threads are meaningless. I might be interested if UConn decides to take football seriously, builds a real college campus football stadium like every other college football program, can compete with CUSA level programs. what a freaking disaster this program is. at least UMass got into the MAC. things will only get worse as an independent.

 

[FightOnCT]

I got some advice: let’s not lose to FBS rookies. I mean, Villanova had no issues beating them in the FCS.

 

[Kolumbo]

"Just win"

"Winning this game wasn't gonna get UConn into a power conference anyway"

"Losing this game isn't gonna hurt UConn's chances"

Does it even matter anymore? wins and losses? Can UConn Football hope to compete on such an uneven playing field? The goal here is to play in some random bowl game. I don't see how to continually build the program when UConn Football may as well be in the gulag (no, not the AAC gulag). Is the next Skyler Bell going to stay when we can't beat Delaware, or even choose UConn in the first place? If and when UConn gets another conference invitation, it will likely be a G6 or really bad terms. It has gotten to the point where every game feels like a must win game but also feels like it doesn't make a difference.