Add my vote for Gampel.
You seem uncharacteristically cantankerous in this thread, alternating between claiming not to understand some things and being judgmentally certain of others. I associate such variance with people more my age, and don't know whether to ask, "What's up?" or say, "Welcome aboard."
Let's face facts: Villanova game-planned to take Joey out of the equation, and the team proved that it could win without him.
Again, the crowd made no effort to generate the Joey C type of run. Up 8 several times and Nova in possession, the crowd was quiet. The team could have used a spark to knock them out. No, I am not anti-XL. my tickets are in Hartford lower level corner. I love the environment at Gampel and miss going to games there. XL can be loud, it just wasn’t anything special last night
Nonsense the crowd was loud. Standing up many times.
UConn needs to do better business with the CDRA.
The state will never rebuild the arena, and has only shown limited interest in renovating it. Eventually, the state will recognize at its annual deficit isn’t generating sufficient facility or even community revenue to keep it open.
In the meantime, though, I wish the CDRA, would not charge confiscatory lease, venue fees and ticket surcharges. All that serves to do is shift some of the CDRA’s annual operating deficit to the UConn athletic department. That is my primary beef with playing at the XL, it is a money, losing proposition for us, except in the case of sellouts, where it is pretty much breakeven.
Still, last night sounded pretty good to me on TV. As the season progresses, and games become even more meaningful, the crowd will be better about sustaining intensity.
This. For me, at least, playing at the XL becomes more palatable if the CDRA isn’t price gouging us. Even if they just charged us, the fair market lease rate for an unaffiliated team, that would be a major improvement. But given that it’s our home court, you would think they would, and should, do better than that for us. Having the state pay the university so that the university can pay the CDRA above market lease fees, only benefits the CDRA, not the University, not the ticket holders, and certainly not Connecticut taxpayers.
Never said they weren’t loud at times. But they sat on their hands several instances. I was standing several times but it was In reaction to the team doing something. See my example of how the crowd could have sparked something and failed
What are your thoughts on schools like Duke that prioritize students getting the best seats versus donors. I haven't been to Cameron but I have been to games at the University of Illinois and their students get priority and I believe it is an excellent home court advantage to have rowdy, moronic students to be cheering courtside. Btw, when I leave my seat I always get two beers. I drink them, then I use the facilities, then repeat. It serves the dual purpose of not angering your row mates AND it cuts your odds of bumping into Chief in half.
Pretty irrelevant but thanks for sharing
Please enlighten us
“… Because, um, we think people will want to come here to bet on sports.” Was any kind of legitimate study done on the potential ROI of renovating the arena to add a bricks and mortar place to gamble?
Actually, I'm just talking about is post game quotes, how did you miss them?
