Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

[LoyalFanCT]

Colorado State University's new on-campus Canvas Stadium, with a capacity of 36,500 (including boxes and other premium seating), cost $220 million to build in 2017. Naming rights garnered more than $37 million, so subtract that from the cost of construction. Stadium capacity can be expanded, if justified. I haven't been there but understand that it's an attractive and functional facility.

Thanks for the info Hank. Wish more people on this site understood this.

 

[Waquoit]

Thanks for the info Hank. Wish more people on this site understood this.

Wish more people understood that money doesn't grow on trees. That more people outside the UConn FB bubble would just as soon get rid of it then pony up hundreds of millions of dollars in further service to it.

 

[billybud]

#FSU, #Gators, #UCF and #USF are in various stages of football stadium construction/renovation. Combined cost: More than $1 BILLION*

 

[hank970]

Wish more people understood that money doesn't grow on trees. That more people outside the UConn FB bubble would just as soon get rid of it then pony up hundreds of millions of dollars in further service to it.

Think of it as an investment, one that could pay long-term dividends if managed wisely.

 

[ZooCougar]

Think of it as an investment, one that could pay long-term dividends if managed wisely.

This is the Key Tweets thread sir.

 

[Waquoit]

Think of it as an investment, one that could pay long-term dividends if managed wisely.

I prefer to think of it as a massive financial outlay with literally no benefit.

 

[AllHusky]

Seems to me there is a need for a new thread that is a repository for debates pertaining to How to become P2 or Realigned or some such thing, but mainly how to win in FB and the benefits accruing thereof. I've posted 8-10 times with a similar theme in probably 5 different threads, can't keep track of where my last post was anymore.

I'm sure everyone realizes the magnitude of the transformation of the University of Connecticut from 1980-2000. That transformation has continued on since, maybe not quite as dramatically. To say that we can't build an on campus football stadium denies that transformation occurred. If we can spend the $$ we did on the Hockey building, I think we can "gamble" on a FB Stadium. Is it the be all end all? No, winning is. Can you do one without the other? Sure. Having both might be the goal though.

No, Money does not grow on trees.

 

[hank970]

This is the Key Tweets thread sir.

Yes, but Key Tweets stimulate conversation, and conversations evolve and meander. As famed architect Louis Henry Sullivan noted, "Form ever follows function."

 

[CL82]

I prefer to think of it as a massive financial outlay with literally no benefit.

Well, Connecticut pays 2.7 million a year to lease the Rent, so eliminating that is a starting point for a potential financial benefit. If you add to that lost revenue from not being able to realize profits from parking in concessions I'll make a guest that's another 800,000 a season, roughly. So that would be about 3.5 million a year.

Now, I'm not arguing in favor of abandoning the rent and immediately building a new stadium, I'm just responding to your "literally no benefit" comment. Keep in mind that potentially the benefit could be significantly higher if we actually had a competitive football team.

Let me restate a point that I frequently make, and made above, right now we are blessed to have Rentschler Field and I'm not advocating that we've abandon it. But 10 years from now the Barnes will be paid off and the building will have reached the end of its useful life and we will be faced with a decision of "massive" reinvestment, or rebuilding. at that point in time it makes sense to weigh the choice of reinvesting in the Rent versus building on campus.

 

[AllHusky]

Well, Connecticut pays 2.7 million a year to lease the Rent, so eliminating that is a starting point for a potential financial benefit. If you add to that lost revenue from not being able to realize profits from parking in concessions I'll make a guest that's another 800,000 a season, roughly. So that would be about 3.5 million a year.

Now, I'm not arguing in favor of abandoning the rent and immediately building a new stadium, I'm just responding to your "literally no benefit" comment. Keep in mind that potentially the benefit could be significantly higher if we actually had a competitive football team.

Let me restate a point that I frequently make, and made above, right now we are blessed to have Rentschler Field and I'm not advocating that we've abandon it. But 10 years from now the Barnes will be paid off and the building will have reached the end of its useful life and we will be faced with a decision of "massive" reinvestment, or rebuilding. at that point in time it makes sense to weigh the choice of reinvesting in the Rent versus building on campus.

sounds suspiciously like the start to a 10 year plan to build an on campus stadium, predicated on playing winning football.

 

[billybud]

Some schools seem talked about re realignment...others not...I hear about UNC but not NC State.

NC State...not a lot realignment publicity or talk of being wanted by another conference..

But they had a good athletic year...Men's and Women's basketball to Final Fours, football 9-4. baseball to the CWS, and their guy finished as champ of the Annual International Cheese Rolling Race....and let's not forget NC State's performance in 1/4 Scale Tractor Competition.

It's not just football or UNC wouldn't get a mention...

 

[ZooCougar]

Yes, but Key Tweets stimulate conversation, and conversations evolve and meander. As famed architect Louis Henry Sullivan noted, "Form ever follows function."

No. I created this thread. Don’t tell me what it is about.

Put this somewhere else.

It’s for tweets. Not discussion.

 

[Ha Who]

No. I created this thread. Don’t tell me what it is about.

Put this somewhere else.

It’s for tweets. Not discussion.

Thread 'Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.'
Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

 

[hank970]

No. I created this thread. Don’t tell me what it is about.

Put this somewhere else.

It’s for tweets. Not discussion.

I'm not telling you what the thread's about. I'm telling you that some Tweets elicit commentary, and when they do, I'm not the only one who offers responses that apparently offend your sense of order.

 

[CoastAtlantic]

 

[CL82]

How does this impact realignment?

 

[NoSpamHere]

NBC & TNT Getting Big East Men/Women

 

[CL82]

NBC & TNT Getting Big East Men/Women

The games will primarily continue to be on Fox, but TNT will get some games along with Peacock. CBS SN is still negotiating.

I don't know how many of you have tried peacock, but it sucks as a platform. Very glitchy.

 

[Urcea]

No. I created this thread. Don’t tell me what it is about.

Put this somewhere else.

It’s for tweets. Not discussion.

I'm with you completely. Unfortunately this seems to have become "Generic Realignment Thread" more and more over the past few years, don't think the tide can be stemmed at this point

 

[UConnTrumbull]

No idea how many UConn games will be on peacock if any but currently peacock is offering a year subscription for 19.99. Ends late June I believe.

 

[ZooCougar]

I'm not telling you what the thread's about. I'm telling you that some Tweets elicit commentary, and when they do, I'm not the only one who offers responses that apparently offend your sense of order.

You’re new here. Fall in line.

 

[ZooCougar]

I'm with you completely. Unfortunately this seems to have become "Generic Realignment Thread" more and more over the past few years, don't think the tide can be stemmed at this point

We need the heavy handed totalitarian moderators to do their job.

 

[ZooCougar]

The games will primarily continue to be on Fox, but TNT will get some games along with Peacock. CBS SN is still negotiating.

I don't know how many of you have tried peacock, but it sucks as a platform. Very glitchy.

Peacock is a disaster.

 

[temery]

We need the heavy handed totalitarian moderators to do their job.

ok. Unless I'm drunk modding at 3 am, I don't give a rats ass what anyone says in this thread as long as it's not a violation of my ad contract.

 

[ZooCougar]

ok. Unless I'm drunk modding at 3 am, I don't give a rats ass what anyone says in this thread as long as it's not a violation of my ad contract.

You don’t care about customer experience?

Not surprising. We’ll just keep hazing the violators then.