It can be expanded to 50,000 relatively easily.Yes, If we can build our attendance back up with the help of a competitive schedule or conference, things might change. Even still, in today’s dynamic a 40,000 seat stadium is a hindrance.
Huh? You think that people should be barred from reporting something because they or their employer has some interest in the matter being discussed?Ethics question? How can a reporter for the company responsible for much of this sheet show objectively report on this issue?
Yep and that’s without using any of the space at the concourse. You could easily get another 2500+ there as well as we did with the temporary bleachers for the Michigan game.It can be expanded to 50,000 relatively easily.
Renderings Show Rentschler Field Expansion Possibilities - A Dime Back
On Thursday evening, UConn will kick off the 2016 football season — the most important in the program’s history. In addition to rising on-field expectations, the university is auditioning for entrance into the Big 12 and is eager to show evidence that the football program adds to its overall...adimeback.com
In other words, if I am on the board of ESPN and let it slip at the car wash, that the carousel is in full swing and the attendant tells me that I have a good source, things are still heated, I can report that news. Not I am at the Ukrainian Lady and turn to the guy sitting next to me Cuse sucks. I’m surprised you didn’t come up with a better analogyHuh? You think that people should be barred from reporting something because they or their employer has some interest in the matter being discussed?
Are you not allowed to say “Syracuse sucks” because UConn fans have an interest in Syracuse sucking?
It can be expanded to 50,000 relatively easily.
Renderings Show Rentschler Field Expansion Possibilities - A Dime Back
On Thursday evening, UConn will kick off the 2016 football season — the most important in the program’s history. In addition to rising on-field expectations, the university is auditioning for entrance into the Big 12 and is eager to show evidence that the football program adds to its overall...adimeback.com
Yep and that’s without using any of the space at the concourse. You could easily get another 2500+ there as well as we did with the temporary bleachers for the Michigan game.
Expanding is easy. Stadiums have been expanded for decades. Thing is, it makes more sense to let this one run it's course and build a beauty, you know, on campus.It can be expanded to 50,000 relatively easily.
Renderings Show Rentschler Field Expansion Possibilities - A Dime Back
On Thursday evening, UConn will kick off the 2016 football season — the most important in the program’s history. In addition to rising on-field expectations, the university is auditioning for entrance into the Big 12 and is eager to show evidence that the football program adds to its overall...adimeback.com
Thanks. That would be great!It can be expanded to 50,000 relatively easily.
Renderings Show Rentschler Field Expansion Possibilities - A Dime Back
On Thursday evening, UConn will kick off the 2016 football season — the most important in the program’s history. In addition to rising on-field expectations, the university is auditioning for entrance into the Big 12 and is eager to show evidence that the football program adds to its overall...adimeback.com
Expanding is easy. Stadiums have been expanded for decades. Thing is, it makes more sense to let this one run it's course and build a beauty, you know, on campus.
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Or is it that the B1G has designs on the PAC-12’s big 3?Didn't think they would. Too much deadweight in the Big 12.
Combo of both.Or is it that the B1G has designs on the PAC-12’s big 3?
I'd argue that the Big 12 is the one with more leverage, and especially when the 4 corners programs join them. But very revealing, nonetheless.
NopeWasn’t it that the roads were inadequate to handle game day traffic and that there were problems getting town approvals which nixed that idea last time?
I'd argue that the Big 12 is the one with more leverage, and especially when the 4 corners programs join them. But very revealing, nonetheless.
and it's too far. CT is too big a state to have people drive so far for a Saturday football game. That's the problem of being the 3rd smallest state in the country.Wasn’t it that the roads were inadequate to handle game day traffic and that there were problems getting town approvals which nixed that idea last time?
Given that we could have comfortably fit the people who actually showed up to games at the end of the last year in Memorial Stadium, I’m going to say that I really don’t see the urgency for expansion of the Rent.Almost everything about the Rent is ideal.
Great sightlines from nearly every seat in the house. Sufficient parking, even when we were filling the place. Reasonable access with highways in close proximity.
The drawbacks are a) it is not on campus (but I can argue that two decades ago we never could have drawn more than 20k-25k regularly in Storrs) and b) locals in East Hartford capped capacity (although this could be negotiated) at 55k.
The issues we have been facing for the past near decade are all the result of terrible leadership from the school as a whole and from the athletic department specifically. When Hathaway returned to take over for Lew, after seeing what we were drawing in the brand new Rent as a startup, his thoughts should have been "how soon can we plan Stadium expansion". Instead, he thought " we're at capacity already, I don't need to do anything here".
An achiever would have thought "if we can draw 40k today, we can build to 65k in 15 years, 75k in 25 years". Hathaway never thought that way.