Fans for Saturday at Gampel (Poll)?

[JustbrewitMan]

CT is addressing current guidelines for restaurants, etc. this week...do you think they will allow a limited amount of non-family/friend-group fans into Gampel for this Saturday's final home game (Senior Day)?

I know my answer but let's see what the eternal optimists and pessimists of the BY opine...

 

[UCFan1513]

Don’t think it’s a good idea. Wait until next season

 

[Danbury Dan]

CT is addressing current guidelines for restaurants, etc. this week...do you think they will allow a limited amount of non-family/friend-group fans into Gampel for this Saturday's final home game (Senior Day)?

I know my answer but let's see what the eternal optimists and pessimists of the BY opine...

Hope so, would love to have a nice send off for the seniors and Bouk. I wrote to the governors office this morning to give it consideration, but probably on the bottom of the list. Let’s see what happens.

 

[MexicoHusky]

At this point? Probably not.

Off topic a bit. I don't recall seeing any posts about senior night. Is there no senior night? We have seniors. Do they not get any thank you at all?

 

[UConnSwag11]

lol

 

[How Sway?!]

Too short of a turnaround imo. If it was a week later I would say it would have good odds

 

[ZackB05]

Should be families of players and students. Put a couple thousand students in there socially distanced and masked. Send the seniors and other non-returning players out on a high note.

 

[gampelcrazies]

Should they? Yes.
Can they? Yes.
Will they? No.

 

[JustbrewitMan]

*bump

Pessimists outnumbering optimists ~6:1.

never woulda predicted this on the boneyard!

 

[August_West]

Should they? Yes.
Can they? Yes.
Will they? No.

post/handle

 

[Excalibur]

*bump

Pessimists outnumbering optimists ~6:1.

never woulda predicted this on the boneyard!

The question was "will they?". This is CT, so the answer is "no".

If he asked "should they?", it would probably be 2:1 in favor.

 

[87Xfer]

I'm probably in the minority, but with vaccine for everyone on the horizon, and given the fact that another COVID stop for us would crush our season, I'm in the no-thanks camp.

 

[freshler40]

Should be families of players and students. Put a couple thousand students in there socially distanced and masked. Send the seniors and other non-returning players out on a high note.

Why not allow seniors and others with shots in, flash your card and sell a limited number of tickets.

 

[Excalibur]

1,200 people, with masks, properly distanced is nearly zero risk. It should be done. It won't be.

 

[August_West]

1,200 people, with masks, properly distanced is nearly zero risk. It should be done. It won't be.

I dont think the logistics can be put in place this quickly to allow it, If we were where we are at, as it stands today, in regards to vax rate and dropping positive tests 4-5 weeks ago Im sure they would've had people for the last few games of the season. At this late point with a single game remaining only days away it makes it easy to say "screw it" . They could do it, but I get why they don't at this juncture.

 

[JustbrewitMan]

How about 1,000 ish vaccinated fans? CT healthcare workers, 1st responders, and vaccinated UConn students. We have a lot of fully-vaccinated medical/dental, nursing, pharmacy, PT, Nutrition/Dietetics students...

 

[Excalibur]

I dont think the logistics can be put in place this quickly to allow it, If we were where we are at, as it stands today, in regards to vax rate and dropping positive tests 4-5 weeks ago Im sure they would've had people for the last few games of the season. At this late point with a single game remaining only days away it makes it easy to say "screw it" . They could do it, but I get why they don't at this juncture.

I understand that it will be a challenge logistically, and that may be enough to justify not trying. It is not a significant challenge in terms of mitigating risk to the people in the building.

 

[JonnyRI]

I would cut off my left (pick one) to go to the game on Saturday with my family.

 

[ZackB05]

I get the logistics may be an issue for the public. But tell the students first come first served. Count stops at 10-20% of capacity. Simple.

 

[navery12]

 

[ucawn]

Ayo??

 

[Hoophound]

Dave will probably get fired for that comment. Lol.

 

[HeGotGame]

I am not convinced the powers at be will even allow football in the fall, the idea that they allow fans to an indoor game probably makes their heads explode.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

If they had more time to set up the infrastructure to verify entrants, allowing ~1,000 people with proof of completed vaccination >14 days ago would carry virtually zero risk. At this point though, it's probably too late.

 

[JustbrewitMan]

👀 hmmmm

 

[JustbrewitMan]

I was hopeful it was going to be more like 500-1000, but 200 was better than 0!!!

 

[formerlurker]

@temery and @BlueWhiteKid should be in the building