Game Cancelled
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zls? PLEASE.
You can debate this until you are blue. I don't deny that the Rent has what you are stating it has in terms of accessibility. But, give me the credit for knowing the State & real estate to say ... there are alternatives. And, I am not without perspective as to folks being damaged. I'm in the middle of an apartment complex that has 5 feet of water near Schenectady where 4 buildings are big insurance losses & 32 people are displaced. I know hardship. But ... you sign up for Big Boy Football. You don't give these repeated compromises that damage your Value. (like what? How about the stupid sharing that field with Teams & Concerts that significantly damaged it.)
This is a circle jerk. I do not accept the notion that thinking that UConn football should be played makes US ... uncaring people. We understand ... and know alternatives.
You can debate this until you are blue. I don't deny that the Rent has what you are stating it has in terms of accessibility. But, give me the credit for knowing the State & real estate to say ... there are alternatives. And, I am not without perspective as to folks being damaged. I'm in the middle of an apartment complex that has 5 feet of water near Schenectady where 4 buildings are big insurance losses & 32 people are displaced. I know hardship. But ... you sign up for Big Boy Football. You don't give these repeated compromises that damage your Value. (like what? How about the stupid sharing that field with Teams & Concerts that significantly damaged it.)
This is a circle jerk. I do not accept the notion that thinking that UConn football should be played makes US ... uncaring people. We understand ... and know alternatives.
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Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know helping the National Guard was damaging to UConn's value as a football program.
I didn't know using the stadium for more events than football was a bad idea. Clearly the state should have spent $90 million for 6 days a year. That's a much better argument. Because doing otherwise MADE THE GRASS BROWN.
This isn't about football. This is more important. There isn't a way in which this makes the program worse, or hurts their perception. Tossing out the National Guard so they can play a football game? You think that would go over well?
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The Giants and the Jets need to understand big boy football. Clearly, they don't, and are just wusses, having let the Governor of New Jersey convince them to postpone the game so the Meadowlands could be used for storm relief operations. What -- there aren't other swamps and parking lots in Snookiville?
Half of friggin Vermont is gone, and I understand parts of upstate NY to be just as bad. If the Rent was determined to be the best place to locate relief operations, so be it. Hopefully they will figure out how to get the game in, there or elsewhere, this weekend.
Half of friggin Vermont is gone, and I understand parts of upstate NY to be just as bad. If the Rent was determined to be the best place to locate relief operations, so be it. Hopefully they will figure out how to get the game in, there or elsewhere, this weekend.
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You...have no...perspective...because...you do not...use...dots...in your sentences...
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I shoulda put (sarcasm off) after the post. My bad.
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So: you agree that Rentschler Field is a suitable site for what the National Guard is doing, but they should stop everything and move the entire operation to another part of the state so that a college football game should be played.
Do you realize how insane that sounds?
Don't say "US", it means you're agreeing with the person who said it "didn't happen". No power for 5 days is an inconvenience, but having to watch a football game on Saturday instead of Sunday is a life altering occurrence. There are still 425,000+ without power 2 days later.
I don't think that makes you uncaring, but it's easy to say "move it", when you don't know have to say how that happens. There may be alternatives, I've suggested one. But I have no idea what it takes to move the staging area, do you?
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Any chance that they play it on Saturday instead?
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Just blatant incompetence. With tons of vacant parking lots / stores / buildings in a state which has been poorly managed - its remarkable this conflict happened with a game that has been on the schedule for some time. Until the voters in this state stop voting for the same incompetent folks this will continue to happen.
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I think you're right. BTW, disaster relief is 1M times more important than a game against Fordham. Just wished there was a Plan B instead of using the Rent
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Rentschler Field has been the designated USNG staging area for years. It's such a shame and disgrace that they couldn't schedule this Hurricane for a more opportune time for UConn Football.
Why don't you go ahead and tell them they should wait to get supplies so we can watch the 3rd unit play Fordham in the second half on Thursday night.
Yes, I believe that's most likely to happen. There are crews flying into the state. As permanent power is restored, the temporary generators can be relocated. And they'll have a couple extra days to move some of the operations if possible.
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If it was one of the conditions to getting the stadium built, and it helps people, is that a bad thing? For anyone involved?
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Oh bullshit, people around the country are mocking UConn and laughing at them for letting their stadium be used by soldiers to help the needy.
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I don't think they should just pack up and move the relief efforts and I also don't think a game against Fordham is more important than relief efforts. It just hurts because if there was ever a year when UConn football needed a tune up game, this is it.
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Oh, from a football perspective, it sucks. But I'm hopeful they can play it on Sat or Sun. QB carousel for game 1 on the road at an SEC team (Vandy, but still) is a pretty bad scenario.
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Bingo
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The irony here is that we should all make money off of this...
If UConn won't give you a refund for your tickets, that would be horrible PR. Take your refund and buy tickets for the likely $5 price.
I'd be shocked if any more than 15,000 show up for this game, IF it gets played. Which I don't think it will. In the interest of getting the game played such that it doesn't inconvenience the team, I'd be fine if they played at Memorial Stadium Thursday and only allowed students to attend. Would stink for me but at least it would keep us on schedule.
If UConn won't give you a refund for your tickets, that would be horrible PR. Take your refund and buy tickets for the likely $5 price.
I'd be shocked if any more than 15,000 show up for this game, IF it gets played. Which I don't think it will. In the interest of getting the game played such that it doesn't inconvenience the team, I'd be fine if they played at Memorial Stadium Thursday and only allowed students to attend. Would stink for me but at least it would keep us on schedule.
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Alright, we get it - you have perspective and nobody else does. Now - will you just SHUT UP and let people be a little upset? Geez...
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Since ZLS is using the other game cancelled thread as his personal soap box to make everyone feel bad about themselves, I have opened this thread where people with knowledge can post anything they hear about real updates on the new time of the game. Thank you.
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Everyone in this thread who used the challenges facing this state post-Irene to get self righteous and excuse this incompetence should be ashamed of themselves.
First of all, Central Connecticut was not hit that hard. The Southwest and the East were hammered. How does Rentschler help someone in Redding or Montville get their power back?
Secondly, within about 10 miles of the Rent there are about 8 large empty lots or vacant warehouses that would serve this purpose just as well. Or, better yet, why not set up a staging area a little closer to where people are actually in need? Hartford has less than 1% of its customers without power and East Hartford is at 3%.
Finally, we are facing a prolonged power outage, not widespread human suffering. This isn't New Orleans post-Katrina, and we aren't even Vermont or New Jersey post-Irene. There was probably stuff in the back of most fridges that needed to be thrown out for a long time now. Being without power sucks, we all get it. But we are not facing widespread starvation, and those people with special needs are not going to be helped by a bunch of pallets sitting in the Rentschler Field parking lot.
What happened here was someone pulled out a plan and never thought about a $4 million net revenue event that the state could desperately use right now. How do I know that? Because they didn't cancel the game until 6 pm two days before it was supposed to be played. It wasn't any one's decision to pick commodity storage at Rentschler over a very profitable night for the state university, it just happened. Any by the time anyone realized there was a conflict, it was too late to do anything about it.
First of all, Central Connecticut was not hit that hard. The Southwest and the East were hammered. How does Rentschler help someone in Redding or Montville get their power back?
Secondly, within about 10 miles of the Rent there are about 8 large empty lots or vacant warehouses that would serve this purpose just as well. Or, better yet, why not set up a staging area a little closer to where people are actually in need? Hartford has less than 1% of its customers without power and East Hartford is at 3%.
Finally, we are facing a prolonged power outage, not widespread human suffering. This isn't New Orleans post-Katrina, and we aren't even Vermont or New Jersey post-Irene. There was probably stuff in the back of most fridges that needed to be thrown out for a long time now. Being without power sucks, we all get it. But we are not facing widespread starvation, and those people with special needs are not going to be helped by a bunch of pallets sitting in the Rentschler Field parking lot.
What happened here was someone pulled out a plan and never thought about a $4 million net revenue event that the state could desperately use right now. How do I know that? Because they didn't cancel the game until 6 pm two days before it was supposed to be played. It wasn't any one's decision to pick commodity storage at Rentschler over a very profitable night for the state university, it just happened. Any by the time anyone realized there was a conflict, it was too late to do anything about it.
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