Empty seats

[August_West]

Suddenly I'm feeling a bit guilty for my casual attitude about whether to drive an hour each way to bring the family up for Sunday's game--with free tickets!

You kinda should.

I mean I know Sundays are not optimal game days. But a 5 pm start on a sunday seems great to me for anyone who lives in state of CT.

Easier than doing a 7 PM weeknight.

 

[gampelcrazies]

You kinda should.

I mean I know Sundays are not optimal game days. But a 5 pm start on a sunday seems great to me for anyone who lives in state of CT.

Easier than doing a 7 PM weeknight.

It sucks

 

[August_West]

It sucks

whys that?

 

[uconnfan68]

As a season ticket holder that just barley misses being able to get those seats. I find it very frustrating that those seats are empty. They won't even let you move to those sections during the game.

Criminal. Losing money everywhere... let the seat be resold for the game but revert back to the donor for the next game. The donors should be offering this back to the school for free if they can’t put a body in it.

 

[Padutch5]

They should rip all the seat backs out of the lower 1/2 of the lower bowl and put in bleachers for the students.

Should be nothing but students all the way around that section, and with no seat-backs more of them can fit in. They don’t need to sit anyway, certainly not in a seat-back.

They should then rip out all bleacher seating for the rest of the arena and replace them with seat-backs. Donors and non students want/require seat-backs.

At the end, the students will be happier (and more plentiful and louder); the non-students will be happier cuz they won’t be getting squeezed on a bleacher seat. And most importantly Gampel will be filled.

Come on people. Give it up already. This is the same student body that can’t be bothered to go to UCONN football games.
I know it’s difficult to comprehend, but this state is bankrupt. Without those hated donors Uconn has no ability to hire Hurley.

 

[8893]

You kinda should.

I mean I know Sundays are not optimal game days. But a 5 pm start on a sunday seems great to me for anyone who lives in state of CT.

Easier than doing a 7 PM weeknight.

I absolutely should. I was being serious.

I got the tickets yesterday to force the issue but I emphasized the "no-commitments" aspect when pitching it to Mrs. 8893 and the daughters because, well, I've learned that it goes easier that way--provided that I am prepared to accept getting shut down.

To my pleasant surprise, they are all on board and looking forward to it; my youngest even asked to stay up past her bed time last night so she could watch the game on the DVR with me after we got home from soccer, showered and ate, which she did. She was getting psyched about going on Sunday, which made me very happy.

 

[blue93]

100% on board with the move the student section argument. Only downside is if you moved it to the lower baseline section, the folks in the upper level sections wouldn't be able to see over the standing students below.

I've always believed the student section on the visitors' baseline is a huge advantage. When it's packed and loud, it must be an absolute nightmare to run an offense on that side of the court in the second half.

 

[August_West]

I absolutely should. I was being serious.

I got the tickets yesterday to force the issue but I emphasized the "no-commitments" aspect when pitching it to Mrs. 8893 and the daughters because, well, I've learned that it goes easier that way--provided that I am prepared to accept getting shut down.

To my pleasant surprise, they are all on board and looking forward to it; my youngest even asked to stay up past her bed time last night so she could watch the game on the DVR with me after we got home from soccer, showered and ate, which she did. She was getting psyched about going on Sunday, which made me very happy.

You going to Willi brew first?

 

[August_West]

Criminal. Losing money everywhere... let the seat be resold for the game but revert back to the donor for the next game. The donors should be offering this back to the school for free if they can’t put a body in it.

They do. More than you think.

 

[uconnfan68]

They do. More than you think.

Then why are they always empty?

 

[8893]

You going to Willi brew first?

That is the plan. Followed by Dairy Bar, of course.

I do miss the days when Kathy John's was in the mix.

 

[gampelcrazies]

whys that?

Just get a weird crowd for sunday night games. People are more interested in the NFL gamss

 

[Robertelamin]

Also, Sunday's game will be a better look on how attendance might be....there were several thousand give away tickets to faculty & staff for last night's game because folks wanted the Dome to look full for Dan Hurley's 1st game....

Since when are we calling it the Dome?

 

[August_West]

That is the plan. Followed by Dairy Bar, of course.

I do miss the days when Kathy John's was in the mix.

See ya there.

 

[browndog319]

It’s an every year thing up until the middle of January if the seats aren’t sold on the secondary market

Good to know. I bought mine on the secondary market. But they were lower level... and we were late.

 

[browndog319]

How have I never noticed this guy before? I thought it was the ghost of Red Auerbach.



You drove up to Storrs from Princeton, NJ on a Thursday night to see Morehead State?

#P6 #AmericanRising

YES!
I took Wednesday - Friday off because schools here in NJ are closed for this mysterious NJ Teachers Conference. It seemed like a good thing to do with my 13 YO daughter. She’s getting into it and it’s something fun to do. And she wants to go to UConn. She normally only sees games at Hartford or MSG.
On a regular Thursday night? Not happening.
We stayed up there after the game. That would have been a really long day. But it was really, really fun.

 

[zls44]

More of a downside would be the mass closing of donor checkbooks.

Move them back a section to provide a better atmosphere turns them into snowflakes who need a safe space?

 

[Lynyrd]

If the seats aren’t filled by half allow people to pay an extra $5 to sit there

 

[UConnSwag11]

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Lol The school needs revenue

 

[Guapo]

Come on people. Give it up already. This is the same student body that can’t be bothered to go to UCONN football games.
I know it’s difficult to comprehend, but this state is bankrupt. Without those hated donors Uconn has no ability to hire Hurley.

Lol.

 

[Chief00]

They should rip all the seat backs out of the lower 1/2 of the lower bowl and put in bleachers for the students.

Should be nothing but students all the way around that section, and with no seat-backs more of them can fit in. They don’t need to sit anyway, certainly not in a seat-back.

They should then rip out all bleacher seating for the rest of the arena and replace them with seat-backs. Donors and non students want/require seat-backs.

At the end, the students will be happier (and more plentiful and louder); the non-students will be happier cuz they won’t be getting squeezed on a bleacher seat. And most importantly Gampel will be filled.

Just like the student section is filled at The Rent.

 

[Chief00]

I absolutely should. I was being serious.

I got the tickets yesterday to force the issue but I emphasized the "no-commitments" aspect when pitching it to Mrs. 8893 and the daughters because, well, I've learned that it goes easier that way--provided that I am prepared to accept getting shut down.

To my pleasant surprise, they are all on board and looking forward to it; my youngest even asked to stay up past her bed time last night so she could watch the game on the DVR with me after we got home from soccer, showered and ate, which she did. She was getting psyched about going on Sunday, which made me very happy.

Good job!
#ChiefCertified

 

[zls44]

Come on people. Give it up already. This is the same student body that can’t be bothered to go to UCONN football games.
I know it’s difficult to comprehend, but this state is bankrupt. Without those hated donors Uconn has no ability to hire Hurley.

And who will be the next generation of donors? The current students? Who have to haul off campus to see most games? Think those memories of piling onto a school bus or into someone's beater are gonna tug the heartstrings?

 

[RichZ]

There was one guy close to the floor with a huge cigar in his moth...I had to laugh.

I noticed that too. But then the next time they showed him I made it a point to check it out and the cigar wasn't lit. He was just chewing on it. I don't know maybe he did an Auerbach back after we won

 

[Vuce]

And who will be the next generation of donors? The current students? Who have to haul off campus to see most games? Think those memories of piling onto a school bus or into someone's beater are gonna tug the heartstrings?

Maybe I am the odd one out but I actually do have good memories of loading up a car and heading to the then HCC as a student to watch games. Did I like Gampel more? Yup. But we had a blast on game nights in Hartford for 16k filling up the joint in those big games. I still donate and I still go to every home game. I do get it that students today don’t have Big East games but you are a student for only 4 years (most of us). Thats about 30 games or so in Hartford over those years. It’s 8 games between November and February. Suck it up and go support your freakin school. Maybe the kids are just more into Fortnite, Snapchat, etc. it’s not really a big commitment to go to 2 games a month in the winter. Now get off my lawn!!

 

[SoFla Steve]

Since when are we calling it the Dome?

Back in the day, before the Gampel sisters got their father to pony up the $1M donation, the arena didn't have a name. We used to call it the Conn Dome.

 

[SoFla Steve]

Can the Athletic Department do anything about the empty seats in the lower bowl? They should allow people sitting up top to be able to fill in those seats after halftime. Looks really bad on tv

Isn't there some kind of ticket exchange where people who aren't using their tickets can sell them? Or did they end that? I never had to use it so I don't really know.

They should then rip out all bleacher seating for the rest of the arena and replace them with seat-backs.

IIRC, bleacher seats weren't in the original plan. I think all seats were supposed to be chairbacks (not sure about the student section), but the project ran over budget. Putting in bleacher seats was cheaper.

 

[Waquoit]

Back in the day, before the Gampel sisters got their father to pony up the $1M donation, the arena didn't have a name. We used to call it the Conn Dome.

That's when it was the nicest and newest superjohn on campus.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Anyone else feel like the number of student buses leaving 1/2 hour before kickoff was way more than usual yesterday day? They should at least wait til halftime to shuttle them back.

 

[huskymedic]