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Dooley said:
Thanks to @Chin Diesel in another thread, you can safely assume that about 150 cars per acre can fit into "open field" style parking lots. You multiply that by the additional 25 acres that UTC donated, that's about 3750 additional cars. Most cars aren't coming in with a single driver; most cars parked for tailgating have 2-4 people in it. We can conservatively deduce that the additional 25 acres could accompany roughly 10,000 additional fans. I wonder why 10,000 additional fans is important??

This is exciting news indeed. Not so much for the stadium name, but the added parking acreage donated by UTC. Let's just keep our fingers crossed that the extra land is indeed used/saved for parking and not sites to construct a UConn Wal-Mart or shopping nonsense.
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I would think that 25 extra acres of parking could accomodate 7500-1000 extra people no problem. From my experiences 3-5 people is the norm per vehicle when you are paying for parking at events.
 
Chin Diesel said:
I would think that 25 extra acres of parking could accomodate 7500-1000 extra people no problem. From my experiences 3-5 people is the norm per vehicle when you are paying for parking at events.
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Typo there. 3700ish cars and 10,000 people no problem. Based on 150 cars per acre X 25 acres and 4 people per car gets you 15,000 more people.
 
itgoeslike said:
The fact that someone is anticipating the need to expand parking by could bode well. . .
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Good catch, did not see that in the clip when I first read it. Could be taken as a way to preserve parking in the case of further development on the site, such as P&W's new HQ & engineering complex.

" Under an agreement announced Thursday, Rentschler Field in East Hartford will soon be called Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field.

The deal extends through 2030 Pratt's naming rights to the stadium in exchange for a donation of 10 acres of land and a 15-acre easement for parking. Pratt President Paul Adams and UConn President Susan Herbst announced the naming agreement during a ground breaking ceremony for a new Pratt & Whitney headquarters, which is part of a long-term $400 million tax credit deal UTC signed with the state early last year."
 
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Dooley said:
UConn announces a new stadium name (with more parking to accommodate a stadium expansion). FOX announces signing Cowherd. Cowherd predicts UConn to B1G. FOX operates BTN. Hmmm...
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Well played...
 
Dooley said:
UConn announces a new stadium name (with more parking to accommodate a stadium expansion). FOX announces signing Cowherd. Cowherd predicts UConn to B1G. FOX operates BTN. Hmmm...

Has Scott Gray weighed in on all this yet?
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So Colin Cowherd is going to be the new DJ at the Rent?
 
Mr. Conehead said:
Good catch, did not see that in the clip when I first read it. Could be taken as a way to preserve parking in the case of further development on the site, such as P&W's new HQ & engineering complex.

" Under an agreement announced Thursday, Rentschler Field in East Hartford will soon be called Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field.

The deal extends through 2030 Pratt's naming rights to the stadium in exchange for a donation of 10 acres of land and a 15-acre easement for parking . Pratt President Paul Adams and UConn President Susan Herbst announced the naming agreement during a ground breaking ceremony for a new Pratt & Whitney headquarters, which is part of a long-term $400 million tax credit deal UTC signed with the state early last year."
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The version I viewed mentioned that the parking was for UConn specifically. Did you view the full press release or was there a truncated version?

As part of the stadium agreement, UTC will donate 10 acres of land to the State of Connecticut for additional stadium parking. UTC also will provide an easement for the use of an additional 15 acres adjacent to existing stadium parking, further expanding the parking available to UConn fans. In return, UTC's stadium naming rights will be extended through 2030. Since its opening, the stadium has been known simply as Rentschler Field.

LINK
 
noeynox said:
ESPN doesn't set the price, but they're cutting costs because because cable subscriber numbers are going down and affecting their bottom line. Common sense dictates it will affect the bottom line of the "other buyers" in the market as well. Fox may see this as an opportunity to really make a dent against ESPN in terms of content they own, but that may be a stretch. NBCSN, and CBSSN, were both cheapskates before and I doubt this ever changes.
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One way to maintain/increase revenues when they are under stress is to increase the market. For the B1G that means the Northeast and the Northeast means us. Q.E.D.
 
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RegisteredUconn said:
One way to maintain/increase revenues when they are under stress is to increase the market. For the B1G that means the Northeast and the Northeast means us. Q.E.D.
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That is certainly one way to look at it.
 
I went over to Land Thieves to peruse the thread referenced by the OP. To my amazement there's Okie Lite continuing his crusade to run down UCONN at every opportunity. I scanned CSNBBS the other day and sure enough there's old Road Hunter crapping all over the Huskies in every thread. I simply can't fathom why a fan of a program that has zero interaction with Connecticut would have such a negative fixation with it. Then it came to me. Which one of you degenerates ?
 
Ldandy said:
I went over to Land Thieves to peruse the thread referenced by the OP. To my amazement there's Okie Lite continuing his crusade to run down UCONN at every opportunity. I scanned CSNBBS the other day and sure enough there's old Road Hunter crapping all over the Huskies in every thread. I simply can't fathom why a fan of a program that has zero interaction with Connecticut would have such a negative fixation with it. Then it came to me. Which one of you degenerates banged his wife?
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It's more commonly known as a tube sock.
 
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Ldandy said:
I went over to Land Thieves to peruse the thread referenced by the OP. To my amazement there's Okie Lite continuing his crusade to run down UCONN at every opportunity. I scanned CSNBBS the other day and sure enough there's old Road Hunter crapping all over the Huskies in every thread. I simply can't fathom why a fan of a program that has zero interaction with Connecticut would have such a negative fixation with it. Then it came to me. Which one of you degenerates ?
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Tough to figure. That dope proclaims that his hatred stems from his time he spent here. He'd raise a question to a group of diehard UConn fans and when his questions were answered in a pro-UConn manner (surprise surprise!), he didn't like it and would play martyr troll guy. He's really hung up on our football attendance being the biggest reason why UConn is not worthy of a power conference and per capita income in the northeast being greater than in Oklahoma/most parts of the U.S. When the household income point was made (I forgot who raised it but it's a fact), all of his honky tonk Yankee hatin' bones in his body cringed. It wasn't raised in a "I'm better than you" way, just listed as fact (I think it was a Top 10 household income listing that was posted). That's when he really flipped out and is now on his own personal anti-UConn crusade.

The irony is that by trolling UConn as hard as he does, he actually creates more discussion about UConn than if he just kept his opinion to himself. And if UConn was truly un-Power conference worthy, why bring it up every single day?? I always think of him as Forrest Gump when he says "at night, I still think of Jenn-ay"...but, for okie, replace "Jenn'ay" with "the Husk-ays".

Last, it would be rude of me not to take this time to say hello to our ol' buddy, because I know he lurks over here. Hey okie! How's your anti UConn army coming along?
 
pj said:
It makes sense that the total dismemberment of the B12 would be under discussion. One-off moves are disarranging the college map and are not creating the biggest dollar payout. Managing the disposition of 10 schools at once allows a more rational rearrangement, creating more dollars ... It would explain Boren's recent comments -- the natural impulse of a former politician to get out in front of a parade he sees developing, so that he can claim to be its leader.

I'm guessing:
Texas to the ACC with a ND type deal keeping LHN.
Kansas and UConn to B1G.
OU and one other to SEC
OSU and Baylor to ACC.
Two others to either ACC or Pac, so that there is a voting majority to dissolve B12.
The last two leftovers to either Pac or AAC.

In this scenario I think WVU as the eastern outlier gets into either SEC or ACC.
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WVU to the AAC...
 
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Seaa Blue said:
News Corp is still sitting on a mountain of cash. And certain conferences aren't beholden to ESPN to make their own networks be all that it can be.
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I don't think it's that. Disney has cash. There is a sports market out there worth $XBillion. ESPN has a lot of it. Given its current channels it really has no room to grow market share. It's only going to lose market share from here on out. So ESPN is in a retrenched mode, fending off others, preserving what it has. Fox and to a lesser extent, CBS and NBC can grow a nice business by taking market share from ESPN. So they are more willing to invest and are more likely to bid aggressively for content.

I think this is why the ACCN keeps being talked about but not launched. ESPN doesn't want to spend to launch it, but it also doesn't want to lose the ACC. It has to string them along. ESPN and ESPN content/properties are the targets of the other newer 24/7 sports networks. This is not just related to college sports, but across the board.
 
How could ESPN lose the ACC? They have them under contract until the end of time.
 
whaler11 said:
How could ESPN lose the ACC? They have them under contract until the end of time.
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Members leaving...it becomes worthless. That's why the GOR and increased payout etc. Keeping them happy enough.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Members leaving...it becomes worthless. That's why the GOR and increased payout etc. Keeping them happy enough.
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I'll believe someone leaves a P5 for
another P5 when there is a GOR in place when I see it. No offense to our legal and self proclaimed legal experts...
 
whaler11 said:
I'll believe someone leaves a P5 for
another P5 when there is a GOR in place when I see it. No offense to our legal and self proclaimed legal experts...
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Yeah, and I am one of our many lawyers, but this isn't about that. That's not my point. Look back at ESPN's actions and you see a network acting defensively, protecting what it has. Others are the aggressors here. Fox, CBS and NBC can only grow 24/7 networks by picking off content that ESPN already has. That includes the American (as well as non college stuff as I mentioned).
 
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