Early URI thread

[BlueandOG]

They won by a lot today. We are a weak weak team. Can we beat them? What happens if we lose to FCS URI at home?

 

[Tommyboy]

Peart with the false start.

 

[minidarren]

Peart with the false start.

Crowd noise will get to him.

 

[uconnfn34]

Crowd noise will get to him.

They'll be a crowd?

 

[WrenchFan69]

Will there be a line set for this game? Could we be home dogs to URI? Scary times

 

[Palatine]

Peart with the false start.

I know why Peart had all those false starts.

 

[Exit 4]

Not sure this game deserves a thread. If they are winning at half time then we turn the thread on.

 

[Purple Stein]

They'll be a crowd?

We’re needed now more than ever.

 

[metsfan2323]

Suddenly this is a HUGE game.

 

[uconnfn34]

We’re needed now more than ever.

I'm still going Saturday, I'm a glutton for punishment it seems. Planning on dragging a few friends along as well.
Btw, if anyone was planning on doing some Nike-esque burning of their URI tickets after tonight's performance, let me know instead so I don't have to find tickets in the parking lot.

 

[J187Money]

If anyone ever told me I’d be happy to skip a UCONN game to drive 2+ hours to a DIII cross country meet I would have thought them crazy.

But here we are.

 

[RSTuthill]

If you have ticket you are going. End of story. Unless we are getting lashed by the remnants of Florence. Then maybe not.

 

[storrsroars]

I'm going to buy a six of Naragansett tall boys for this one.

If you have ticket you are going. End of story. Unless we are getting lashed by the remnants of Florence. Then maybe not.

My wife and her tiny BFF sat with their rain suits through 3 quarters of PSU's drubbing of Pitt last night in horizontal rain from Hurricane Gordon remnants (and it's gonna rain and blow here straight through Mon night). And she's not sturdy New England stock. So man up and head to the Rent. You got this.

 

[RSTuthill]

I'm going to buy a six of Naragansett tall boys for this one.



My wife and her tiny BFF sat with their rain suits through 3 quarters of PSU's drubbing of Pitt last night in horizontal rain from Hurricane Gordon remnants (and it's gonna rain and blow here straight through Mon night). And she's not sturdy New England stock. So man up and head to the Rent. You got this.

They were watching football. We will be watching something else with lower entertainment value.

 

[HuskiesFan1014]

They were watching football. We will be watching something else with lower entertainment value.

Peart doing the Macarena on the first play of every series is worth the cost of admission.

 

[UConn76]

I'm still going Saturday, I'm a glutton for punishment it seems. Planning on dragging a few friends along as well.
Btw, if anyone was planning on doing some Nike-esque burning of their URI tickets after tonight's performance, let me know instead so I don't have to find tickets in the parking lot.

UConn is giving tickets away at breakneck speed..... the question is will people even go with free tix?

 

[storrsroars]

They were watching football. We will be watching something else with lower entertainment value.

Were they? You do realize PSU took Pitt to the woodshed to deliver a beating worse than UCF did UConn.

 

[RSTuthill]

Were they? You do realize PSU took Pitt to the woodshed to deliver a beating worse than UCF did UConn.

Well then I stand corrected. You married a crazy woman if she is a Pitt alum.

 

[gopher2]

This game shapes up as a contest between what appears to be a pretty good FCS team and the equivalent of a very bad FCS team (us). URI will come in feeling confident and believing they will win. Our guys, well, who knows where their heads will be after these two brutal beatdowns. Advantage URI.

 

[BugsyCT]

But will the URI fans outnumber us? Short trip.

 

[uconnphil2016]

If anyone ever told me I’d be happy to skip a UCONN game to drive 2+ hours to a DIII cross country meet I would have thought them crazy.

But here we are.

They probably have better tackling form than our defense

 

[UConnDan97]

But will the URI fans outnumber us? Short trip.

This is a relatively easy mathematics question to answer. Short trip = 90% of their fans will show up.

Therefore, .9 x 20 fans = 18 fans...

 

[dwalks93]

Fans need to show up for the URI game. I don’t blame them for not wanted to but the URI game is the biggest of the year. If UConn loses this one it may be a complete season implosion...like an 0-11 kinda of disaster. I will watch every UConn snap this season even if I’d rather be receiving a full body waxing.

Sure it’s easy to ask how a once competitive program could become so bad that winning against a FCS school at home is a stressor but it doesn’t change the reality. That is where we are now.

 

[Dooley]

This game will play out like the Stony Brook game a few years ago. If we're lucky.

 

[UConnDan97]

This game will play out like the Stony Brook game a few years ago. If we're lucky.

The only positive about these kids being so young is that they don't have the "bad times rolodex" that the fans have. If the game gets off to a good start, they might start to roll with it. We fans are the ones who are desperate to wash the taste of losing out of our mouths. Let's hope for a great first quarter and go from there...