It's Time To Start Having Fun At UConn Football Games (DiMauro)

[Drew]

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Awesome read here. Kinda a weird set up on the site- but was the only way I could get to the link on my work computer. Go Skies!

 

[huskymedic]

Alternate link: It's time to start having fun at UConn football games

 

[Palatine]

Credit where credit is due. He is right on the money.

 

[freescooter]

Broken clock theory I guess but this is right on.

 

[TheDrifter75]

The comment section on that article is unbelievable to me! Drive to far? Prices to steep? Low graduation rate? How hard is it to support the state school athletics? Is this what you all have to fight all the time? I wish I lived close enough or had the resources to attend games. Even if I did and still couldn't, why in the world be critical of what's being offered! I live in Illinois, those types of criticisms never come close to being uttered. I didn't hear them when I lived in NE, MS, MO, TX or OK either. I work every Saturday, if it was a 45 min drive I'd be finding me some ways to get to at least some games. Go UConn!

 

[Adios]

Oh, @Deepster.....

 

[Devland]

How about students can not board the bus back to campus unless they have a free pass that is distributed at the top row of the student section at the end of the game?

 

[cttxus]

The comment section on that article is unbelievable to me! Drive to far? Prices to steep? Low graduation rate? How hard is it to support the state school athletics? Is this what you all have to fight all the time? I wish I lived close enough or had the resources to attend games. Even if I did and still couldn't, why in the world be critical of what's being offered! I live in Illinois, those types of criticisms never come close to being uttered. I didn't hear them when I lived in NE, MS, MO, TX or OK either. I work every Saturday, if it was a 45 min drive I'd be finding me some ways to get to at least some games. Go UConn!

As a UConn alum, born and raised in CT and now living in TX for almost 25 years, it kills me I can't get to more games. The excuse that Rentschler Field is too far from anywhere in CT on a Saturday afternoon or evening, maybe with the exception of lower Fairfield County, is just lame. And anyone living within an hour's drive (2/3 of CT) has no legitimate excuse, other than outright apathy.

 

[31GuardTrap]

Let's see. I know some folks that come down from New Hampshire, Boston, up from NYC and northern Jersey for EVERY game. Not all of them are Alum or parents or boyfriends or girlfriends or groupies. There is no place in CT that is too far from anything in CT. The issue is with desire, not geography and GPS.

 

[uconnkelly]

We tailgated with cttxus at the Missouri game last year. He's a Husky through and through...flights and rental car weren't an excuse to miss a UCONN football game hundreds of miles from his home.

It's all about connection. Whether it's because you attended UCONN, follow a player who played in your hometown, enjoy the college football experience, love vanilla cake but wish it was fish cake...whatever. Make the connection and they will come.