After the Baylor game, I read a Baylor beat guy say our student section was "the equal of any in the Big 12". All this "losing the college atmosphere" is just more piffle. The place was rocking when we were in the Big East.
Especially as he spent a few years as UCLA's head football coach. Not only did he know what the situation was at UConn prior to accepting the position, he had prior first hand experience running a program that had to commute ~30 minutes from their campus to the stadium where they played home games
He got loud about not having money to pay for players- he got money to pay for players. Now he’s getting loud about not having an on campus stadium. Let’s hope the trend continues
Somewhere in the catacombs there is an archive of blueprints that are the original renderings for Rentschler Field. The pages show a 50,000 seat domed multi-use facility for football with modifiers for basketball. Maybe it's time to dust them off & update them for current building codes. Would be less expensive than going back to Square 1...
If I recall correctly those renderings included things that now are already included in the Shenkman and Burton buildings. All we need is a stadium.
IIRC, that was when the Whalers were still in Hartford and the idea was a multi-purpose arena that could handle football, ice hockey and basketball. That barely got beyond sketches (a few mockups made it to newspapers) before Karmanos shot down the Whale being part of it (he stated he'd only remain in state if he could have an arena in Fairfield county). It came up again briefly when the Pats were in discussion for Adrien's Landing but the covered stadium part was quickly dismissed.
I don't know, maybe the idea is that they don't want the presence of a law making them less attractive prior to a conference change.
I liked you Post, but Uconn needs to go big, and a Domed Stadium on campus would show The Big, and SEC that UCONN needs to be in the last round of moving chairs.
I don't see it happening in the near term, unless it was an express requirement. I agree with the poster who said that doing a feasibility study is probably a good idea.
Bill will not advance.
Ongoing maintenance isn't the states job, that is what the CDRA should be doing. One of the things that I find incredibly annoying about the CDRA is their ongoing practice of not doing maintenance for a decade or two and then presenting the need for remediation as a capital improvement. Yet somehow, even without doing routine maintenance, they manage an annual multimillion dollar loss, even after being grossly subsidized by the university. They are possibly the most inept organization ever to exist on the planet.
Kind of. If you bring up the issue of "maintenance of the stadium" inviting the organization which is responsible for it into the chat.
What this says is that we are (partially) allowing the CDRA to determine our success in Football(which is everything). That is frightening.
