Drove down to Bridgeport once - what a disaster. Missed the 1st 10 minutes of the game trying to park the car.
Bingo
Yeah if you try to get near the arena it could be a diaster.
That arena is a disaster.
You realize that big time college athletics serve as the defacto pro team in states that don't have pro teams?
Ok! Thank you for saying that. I promise I’m not coming at you from a negative place with this response. But, this is a fundamentally northeastern view of the sports hierarchy, I’m telling you no one in these other places views it this way. No one in Kansas thinks Kansas basketball is “Kansas’ pro team” or that Alabama football is “Alabama’s pro team” etc. It’s difficult to explain but the relationship people have with those programs is much more like the entire state’s high school team, more so than it’s pro team.
And that’s exactly what defacto means. Nobody here actually calls UConn Connecticut’s pro team, and there are many other pro teams our fans root for, but in attendance, interest, coverage and reach, UConn basketball functions as the state’s defacto pro team just as Nebraska football, Kentucky basketball, Alabama football and Kansas basketball do in their respective markets.
This in an by itself simply blows up the authors argument, which is why he was so limited in his scope.
Winning solves everything. One thing that is so hard to understand as a fan who cares as much as anyone who checks this site is how performance-based interest of the average fan is — and how much the past five-six years impacted that. We are just starting to climb out of it, but there’s a lot of winning left to do.
I’d love to see this info plotted on a timeline or alternatively using a weighted average in which recency is given more weight.
I don’t think any of that contributed to realignment.
Seems like an excuse? Miami plays football 35 minutes from campus at the Dolphins stadium. Pitt plays off campus at Heinz, NC State plays off campus and Louisville became the apple of everyone’s eye during realignment by building a 20,000-seat downtown basketball McMansion.
Oh absolutely, but still seems like a bit of a stretch when a chunk of the conference isn’t playing home games in the shadow of its dorm rooms. And there’s a massive difference between UConn’s football and basketball situations too.
Probably neither one of those things. For what it’s worth, BCU’s dislike of Calhoun was a contributing factor. A small one but a contributing factor.
How much do students pay for a ticket? A seat donation? Do the math.
Why are you ignoring his arguments?
Calhoun was an issue. They wanted nothing to do with them.
He makes some good points in that article, but is railing against games at the XL Center on Twitter because students have GPAs to maintain, which is a transparently lazy hogwash excuse...with all respect.
