For Sale. College Football Stadium on Old Airstrip

[Dann]

Do you go to all home football games, 40 home bball games between the two programs and assorted other UConn teams?

no and no one will. well almost no one. but the point is your giving fans and alums between all the sports like 80 chances to get to campus a school year. thats huge and it molds culture. 6 or 7 home fball games, i bet most fans and alum start to make most of those. the bball crowd/base we have is already huge, it will only get better. it becomes the thing to do on weekends. those fall weekends its THE show in the state. during the winter puck on friday nights becomes a monster draw. bball is bball. in the spring the weather gets nice and we have good baseball and lax and softball doing its thing. the culture starts to tun into tailgating baseball games and having crowds vs uva types.

how many students in storrs? 20k? realistic # not reaching... how many of those are the student section of gampel or the student section at the rent? 5k for the rent? 2k in gampel? well how about 10k on campus for fball games easy and more when seats become more and 5k in a 15k arena in storrs for bball. how about 3 or 4k on a friday night for a puck game? how about drawing 1k consistently to soccer, baseball, lax and softball games? its all possible if culture is molded that way.

 

[Dann]

solution #1, your user name has a dash in it. congrats on that.

 

[Husky25]

...the culture is so far upside down here that fans can't even grasp it becuase they look thru blue glasses and like how easy it is to get to hartford instead of a extra 20 minutes down the road...

You can't get from East Hartford to Storrs in 20 minutes if you flew a Sesna.

It's 21 miles from the Rent to Hillside Road (i.e. Gampel Pavilion's front door). Going 84 to 384 to 44, it takes at least a half hour if you obey speed limits and hit all the green lights (of which there are plenty). So you tell me you speed (so do I)? Now add in traffic. No more speeding through the cow pastures on 44.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

no and no one will. well almost no one. but the point is your giving fans and alums between all the sports like 80 chances to get to campus a school year. thats huge and it molds culture. 6 or 7 home fball games, i bet most fans and alum start to make most of those. the bball crowd/base we have is already huge, it will only get better. it becomes the thing to do on weekends. those fall weekends its THE show in the state. during the winter puck on friday nights becomes a monster draw. bball is bball. in the spring the weather gets nice and we have good baseball and lax and softball doing its thing. the culture starts to tun into tailgating baseball games and having crowds vs uva types.

how many students in storrs? 20k? realistic # not reaching... how many of those are the student section of gampel or the student section at the rent? 5k for the rent? 2k in gampel? well how about 10k on campus for fball games easy and more when seats become more and 5k in a 15k arena in storrs for bball. how about 3 or 4k on a friday night for a puck game? how about drawing 1k consistently to soccer, baseball, lax and softball games? its all possible if culture is molded that way.

How many UConn games do you go to in a given year?

 

[Dann]

How many UConn games do you go to in a given year?

none until some ppl leave this state.

in college i went to 2-4 a year. in grad school i only made 1-2 a year fball wise. for bball, in college it was 5-10 games and a mix of hartford and storrs. i used to get student tix for gampel and borrow some 1s id just in case and go with my gf at the time. last year i went to 6 bball games as tuesday nigths types were great gettinga round school for my schedule. always go to a couple baseball games if i can also

i am now on the bats crazy train and wont go to any games until certain ppl are gone from storrs or things change.

travel has nothing to do with it. just certain little things with me wether its beef with class schedule or hating warde...for a non uconn student me and my friends from springfield made some noise for uconn for 4 years. you would be surprised how uconn pro that city is. a lot of the college kids either were from ct or grew up with umass sucking diick so uconn was popular. city ppl like uconn ball also. can't tell u how many times i got crowds hyped with hot 93.7 up in the building drunk as f. hof weekend was great all the time also. had big baby pay for a stripper for my table at mardi gras 1 weekend becuase my buddy had his uconn polo shirt on and he talked to us about rayray.

im no uconn slouch if thats what u think. i know a couple things and will rant until a cow eats me.

 

[Husky25]

The Chicken Lips and watered down Bud Light at Ted's are apparently that good.

 

[Dann]

psu
clemson
unc
wvu

doesn't matter who they all do the same. those ar ebig boys who we want to be like. stop having nelson syndrome and grow a pair and think big time and not bc/cuse/pitt/temple/duke small time. thats the culture issue. we looked up and then passed a bunch of dregs in bball who claimed to be fball schools. they wern't so this fanbase was looking up at the wrong crowd all along and still some old timers can't get over games vs miami and its so silly i want to freak out over it.

 

[Husky25]

none until some ppl leave this state.

in college i went to 2-4 a year. in grad school i only made 1-2 a year fball wise. for bball, in college it was 5-10 games and a mix of hartford and storrs. i used to get student tix for gampel and borrow some 1s id just in case and go with my gf at the time. last year i went to 6 bball games as tuesday nigths types were great gettinga round school for my schedule. always go to a couple baseball games if i can also

i am now on the bats crazy train and wont go to any games until certain ppl are gone from storrs or things change.

travel has nothing to do with it. just certain little things with me wether its beef with class schedule or hating warde...for a non uconn student me and my friends from springfield made some noise for uconn for 4 years. you would be surprised how uconn pro that city is. a lot of the college kids either were from ct or grew up with umass sucking diick so uconn was popular. city ppl like uconn ball also. can't tell u how many times i got crowds hyped with hot 93.7 up in the building drunk as f. hof weekend was great all the time also. had big baby pay for a stripper for my table at mardi gras 1 weekend becuase my buddy had his uconn polo shirt on and he talked to us about rayray.

im no uconn slouch if thats what u think. i know a couple things and will rant until a cow eats me.

Did I read that right?

You don't go to any games? Sandwich it between as many words as you'd like. You not having ANY skin in the game pretty much hollows out any point about being big time you try to incoherently rant about make .

 

[Dann]

ppl who want to shop or eat at the new place at the rent will go any time but during game days becuase of the crowd. its not going to make moms and daughters want to go to the fbsll game. not how it works. sorry to ruin u and the iodot leadership we have dreams.

amy can go buy a barbie at toys r us and watch tv in her bedroom. shes not going to the rent to buy a abrbie and watch a uconn game live in the cold weather. this target audience is wrong and the idea is wrong. east hartford is nobody land. it has no emotional attachment to 99% of ppl in this state. eating at that buffalo wings vs the one in your local town is not going to make casual fans mor eliekly to come. sorry to burst your dreams. this is the basic type thinking that ppl get away with becuase other ppl around them are also weak minded.

but the patriots rah rah rah. listen the pats are a nfl team with a big established fanbase a short ride outside a major city who have been on a very impressive 10-15 what? year run as a solid franchise. a couple eats and a fan shop are nice and good things. but they were going to get crowds with or with out. what were doing isn't going to improve crowds, its going to make tailagting thinner and also slowly just eat away at the fanbase will to see thinsg uconn vs outside uconn tradition.

the dive bar u drank at in college? would u rather throw 2 back in that befor eor after a game vs go to the upscale outsider eats and bar that just moved on the block? its about the excpierence and the culture.

 

[Dann]

i try to rape them to. thats my real agenda. im uconns fanbase sandusky and u all just dont know it yet.

 

[Dann]

Did I read that right?

You don't go to any games? Sandwich it between as many words as you'd like. You not having ANY skin in the game pretty much hollows out any point about being big time you try to incoherently rant about make .

after game 6 this fall i have not been to a uconn game sice. thats when i jumped off the p bandwagon. most here know that. before that i went to a good amount of games a year over the past 5 years i would say for a kid in college/grad...

 

[Dann]

sounds liek it worked for utah and lville

 

[Husky25]

ppl who want to shop or eat at the new place at the rent will go any time but during game days becuase of the crowd. its not going to make moms and daughters want to go to the fbsll game. not how it works. sorry to ruin u and the iodot leadership we have dreams.

amy can go buy a barbie at toys r us and watch tv in her bedroom. shes not going to the rent to buy a abrbie and watch a uconn game live in the cold weather. this target audience is wrong and the idea is wrong. east hartford is nobody land. it has no emotional attachment to 99% of ppl in this state. eating at that buffalo wings vs the one in your local town is not going to make casual fans mor eliekly to come. sorry to burst your dreams. this is the basic type thinking that ppl get away with becuase other ppl around them are also weak minded.

but the patriots rah rah rah. listen the pats are a nfl team with a big established fanbase a short ride outside a major city who have been on a very impressive 10-15 what? year run as a solid franchise. a couple eats and a fan shop are nice and good things. but they were going to get crowds with or with out. what were doing isn't going to improve crowds, its going to make tailagting thinner and also slowly just eat away at the fanbase will to see thinsg uconn vs outside uconn tradition.

the dive bar u drank at in college? would u rather throw 2 back in that befor eor after a game vs go to the upscale outsider eats and bar that just moved on the block? its about the excpierence and the culture.

If you went to any games you would know that women and little girls are a big part of the crowd and it doesn't get uncomforatbly cold until after Halloween.

Foxborough is about 45 minutes outside of Boston. It might actually take a lesser amount of time to get there from Providence.

As for the dive bars on Campus? There is a reason we went there. We had no money. I think you severely overrate the nostalgia angle of this arguement. No one goes to Huskies because the $0.05 Popov well drinks tasted good. It's the $0.05 that was key.

 

[hexlub]

As for the dive bars on Campus? There is a reason we went there. We had no money. I think you severely overrate the nostalgia angle of this arguement. No one goes to Huskies because the $0.05 Popov well drinks tasted good. It's the $0.05 that was key.

Your mention of Popov gave me immediate liver pain.

 

[Dann]

If you went to any games you would know that women and little girls are a big part of the crowd and it doesn't get uncomforatbly cold until after Halloween.

Foxborough is about 45 minutes outside of Boston. It might actually take a lesser amount of time to get there from Providence.

As for the dive bars on Campus? There is a reason we went there. We had no money. I think you severely overrate the nostalgia angle of this arguement. No one goes to Huskies because the $0.05 Popov well drinks tasted good. It's the $0.05 that was key.

im sorry but the crowd does not have a huge number oif little girls. and guess what those little girls dont pay for drinks or buy tshirts of talk on message boards or watch games late at night or wear uconn stuff pround 24/7 or so much more. there dads do.

i have never met a fan(besides red) who went to more uconn stuff or rooted for them more than me considering i didnt go to uconn. keep chipping away, your not getting anywhere. you want to mold a culture of little girls as fans at the rent? brillant! call up susan and the govt and lets make sure we get a toy r us and a build a baear sotre in this plazza they are building at the rent. have special packages for little girls to host birthday parties on game weekends. this is going to double the fanbase easily...

 

[Waquoit]

Exactly. It's not a bad thing that our lives don't revolve around college football.

 

[Dann]

kids leave early now becuase its possible which is another story that uconn and the bus sytem shoudl fix but im not going to rant that up right now. i think u know of that issue.

fans who leave early are casual. uconn nees to leave the rent open for hours after not 1 and the whole time be pushing ppl out anyway. there nothing to do after the game at the rent. on campus u could have fans going to dts(once u develope it with a stadium) the bookstore to uy gear, the building to check out the cafe or revisit a old memory and other things. have post game events and other things. on campus bring many new iseas and event possibilities to the table to keep ppl around longer. right now the ren tis tailgate-game-go home or just game-go home. on campus opens a ton of new doors. its a culture thing that i keep saying but its true.

 

[Dann]

Exactly. It's not a bad thing that our lives don't revolve around college football.

it doesn't need to be around "college football". it neds to be around the school. the unviversity as a whole. its the fact that your pround of your degree and your job thanks to it. its the getting aau staus and having a ton of in state jobs revelve around that. its the sports side of entertainment vs going to nyc or boston for a pro sports game. stuff liek thaat. your wife likes going to broadway? cool. maybe she takes u one friday night to a play at uconn or soemthing. its the over all school/state culture.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

none until some ppl leave this state.

in college i went to 2-4 a year. in grad school i only made 1-2 a year fball wise. for bball, in college it was 5-10 games and a mix of hartford and storrs. i used to get student tix for gampel and borrow some 1s id just in case and go with my gf at the time. last year i went to 6 bball games as tuesday nigths types were great gettinga round school for my schedule. always go to a couple baseball games if i can also

i am now on the bats crazy train and wont go to any games until certain ppl are gone from storrs or things change.

travel has nothing to do with it. just certain little things with me wether its beef with class schedule or hating warde...for a non uconn student me and my friends from springfield made some noise for uconn for 4 years. you would be surprised how uconn pro that city is. a lot of the college kids either were from ct or grew up with umass sucking diick so uconn was popular. city ppl like uconn ball also. can't tell u how many times i got crowds hyped with hot 93.7 up in the building drunk as f. hof weekend was great all the time also. had big baby pay for a stripper for my table at mardi gras 1 weekend becuase my buddy had his uconn polo shirt on and he talked to us about rayray.

im no uconn slouch if thats what u think. i know a couple things and will rant until a cow eats me.

I'm just going to respond to the first paragraph because I can't understand a thing you wrote from the second one. So my understanding (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is that you expect us to change the culture around UConn athletics, to grow our fanbase, think traveling an extra couple of hours for a lot of people isn't a deterrent, want to build a new football stadium on campus, and you only go to a couple of games a year? No offense, but put up or shut up. You probably invest more time into UConn athletics than 99.9% of UConn fans and have exacting standards of how things should be, but you only make it to a handful of games a year. Come on man.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

it doesn't need to be around "college football". it neds to be around the school. the unviversity as a whole. its the fact that your pround of your degree and your job thanks to it. its the getting aau staus and having a ton of in state jobs revelve around that. its the sports side of entertainment vs going to nyc or boston for a pro sports game. stuff liek thaat. your wife likes going to broadway? cool. maybe she takes u one friday night to a play at uconn or soemthing. its the over all school/state culture.

Which will be completely revolutionized by putting a football stadium on campus?