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

[ScottVib]

Interesting details. Max is involved on the TNT part of the package. Peacock starts up with 25 games this year including tournament games and some quarterfinal matchups.

 

[Drew]

Interesting details. Max is involved on the TNT part of the package. Peacock starts up with 25 games this year including tournament games and some quarterfinal matchups.

Not just Max, the TNT portion is TNT, TBS, TruTV and Max. Which is interesting.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

I’m surprised Peacock (NBC) is able to start a year early. Glad I got the annual subscription for 20 bucks a few weeks ago. I have a feeling UConn will have a few games on Peacock as the biggest attraction.

“Peacock will launch its coverage of BIG EAST men’s basketball in 2024-25 with a package of 25 regular season games and five early round and quarterfinal conference tournament games. Beginning with the 2025-26 season, Peacock and NBC Sports will present more than 60 men’s and women’s regular season and BIG EAST Tournament games.”

 

[ninety-nine]

I’m surprised Peacock (NBC) is able to start a year early. Glad I got the annual subscription for 20 bucks a few weeks ago. I have a feeling UConn will have a few games on Peacock as the biggest attraction.

“Peacock will launch its coverage of BIG EAST men’s basketball in 2024-25 with a package of 25 regular season games and five early round and quarterfinal conference tournament games. Beginning with the 2025-26 season, Peacock and NBC Sports will present more than 60 men’s and women’s regular season and BIG EAST Tournament games.”

I don't see the $20 offer for one year of Peacock. I only see $59.99 for the year, or $5.99 per month, and that's with ads. Guess I'll be piecemealing yet another subscription service, this time from January through March.

 

[BullDawg]

I don't see the $20 offer for one year of Peacock. I only see $59.99 for the year, or $5.99 per month, and that's with ads. Guess I'll be piecemealing yet another subscription service, this time from January through March.

$20 was an introductory rate through Roku.

 

[ElGuapo]

FYI on free Peecock if you are an Xfinity customer...

I activated mine about 6 months ago when I was poking around in Xfinity Rewards page in my Xfinity dashboard.

Peacock Premium promotional offers overview

Learn more about the Peacock Premium promotional offers available to some customers.

www.xfinity.com

Peacock Premium promotional offers​

Eligibility	Offer
New and existing Xfinity Internet customers who subscribe to Gigabit or higher speed service	You can receive Peacock Premium at no additional cost for two years.* To verify your Peacock Premium activation status, go to xfinity.com/activate-peacock and log in with your Xfinity ID and password. After two years, Peacock Premium will terminate unless you elect to continue receiving the service.
Diamond or Platinum tier Xfinity Rewards members with any level of Xfinity Internet Note: Silver and Gold tier Xfinity Rewards customers aren’t eligible to redeem the offer.	You can redeem a reward to receive Peacock Premium at no additional cost.* Sign in to xfinity.com/rewards to take advantage of this offer. You’ll then receive an email with instructions on how to activate your offer. It may take a couple hours to receive the email.
NOW TV customers	You can receive Peacock Premium included as part of your service.* If you’re eligible to receive Peacock Premium, you may need to reactivate by going to xfinity.com/activate-peacock. See the NOW TV overview for instructions and device eligibility.
New customers with Xfinity Internet and an X1 TV Box, Flex streaming TV Box, or a Xumo Stream Box from Xfinity	You can redeem an offer to watch Peacock Premium at no additional cost for six months. Open the Peacock app on your X1 TV Box, Xumo Stream Box, or Flex streaming TV Box to redeem this offer.

 

[Waquoit]

Everyone I have brought to the Rent have been impressed by the experience, especially tailgating.

Pretty much all of the folks badmouthing The Rent don't go to games.

 

[Kolumbo]

Pretty much all of the folks badmouthing The Rent don't go to games.

That's not true at all. Especially considering that the students who go to games would much rather walk than take a bus.

USF has a much better stadium situation than UConn but has chosen to make the investment and build a new on-campus stadium. Yeah, NFL stadiums aren't ideal because colleges don't sell them out. But big picture, it's a much better situation in Tampa than we have in East Hartford. AAU and a new stadium. That's progress.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

That's not true at all. Especially considering that the students who go to games would much rather walk than take a bus.

Please point out the students who have been badmouthing the Rent on this board.

 

[Waquoit]

I don't know any students but I do remember reading a few posts by students who said it's awful.

Very weak. You disagree with me citing students then you say you don't know any. The students were there when we were in a decent league.

 

[Kolumbo]

Please point out the students who have been badmouthing the Rent on this board.

I don't know any students but I do remember reading a few posts by students who said it's awful and going to East Hartford is the problem. Is it your contention that students in Storrs would rather waste a couple hours getting to and from East Hartford than enjoy a football game on campus? I don't think any student would agree with that. That is just a given.

check that, I searched for you...

The Rent was pretty awesome at it's peak from 2007-2011 and that's coming from someone that was making the bus trip. The atmosphere in and outside the stadium was fantastic for students, alums, and fans.

The only negatives were 1) the bus ride itself was a time suck for students, but the student section was still full anyway so hardly a negative other than people's time, but 2) because of the bus, students left after the 3rd quarter most of the time to get back to campus and beat the bus line.

The problems are obvious and have already been stated here: the team needs to win, and not just win, but be good, which hasn't been the case in 13 years, and beat recognizable opponents (separate discussion that's been litigated 1,000x).

Secondarily, though, student habits around sports are not the same as they were a decade ago or even 5 years ago. Even if the team was just pretty good, I question how likely they'd actually go into the stadium.

I'm not going to act like I know the modern student that well, but anecdotally it feels like today's class of students at UConn are more studious and choosy of how to spend their time. "Why spend 6 hours in East Hartford to watch a 7-5 football team, when I can just spend 3 hours in a parking lot partying then go home." Then the supposed shutting down of much student tailgating post COVID doesn't help the situation either and further dissuades students from making the trip at all.

Anyway this is much ado about nothing in my opinion since I do not see a world where a stadium is built on campus unless something dramatically shifts and I'd give it like a <5% chance.

It took UConn Men's Basketball winning not 1, but 2 national championships back to back for the State and Athletic Department to get serious about renovating Gampel and I'm still unsure how substantial the changes will be. That's the type of mountain you are talking about climbing here.

I can second that. The entire experience felt disconnected from the college atmosphere. The setup seemed geared more toward the general public than the student body, especially now that students are crammed into the far reaches of the red lot.

I'm not saying it wasn't exciting at times, but overall, it lacked the campus experience. Even in victory, the excitement never carried over to the campus community. Getting off the bus or parking back on campus always felt very anticlimactic.

I was at UConn at the height of football success. I completely agree about losing the college atmosphere. It felt like I was off to watch a AAA baseball game or something. The bus ride is just too long. By the time you get there a lot of the hype is lost.

A college sports event should first and foremost cater to the college students. It's for them first and the community second.

 

[huskymedic]

-> University of Virginia President James E. Ryan will serve as the league’s Chair of the Board of Directors for the second year of his two-year term. He will be joined by Wake Forest University President Susan R. Wente as the Vice-Chair of the league’s Board of Directors, announced by the Board of Directors following the annual winter meetings in February…

… The Conference’s Executive Committee will include Ryan, Wente, Boston College President William Leahy, University of Miami Chief Executive Officer and Acting President Joe Echevarria, University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Joan Gabel, and Georgia Institute of Technology President Angel Cabrera. <-

 

[LoyalFanCT]

-> University of Virginia President James E. Ryan will serve as the league’s Chair of the Board of Directors for the second year of his two-year term. He will be joined by Wake Forest University President Susan R. Wente as the Vice-Chair of the league’s Board of Directors, announced by the Board of Directors following the annual winter meetings in February…

… The Conference’s Executive Committee will include Ryan, Wente, Boston College President William Leahy, University of Miami Chief Executive Officer and Acting President Joe Echevarria, University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Joan Gabel, and Georgia Institute of Technology President Angel Cabrera. <-

Jim Ryan may be one of the best university presidents in the nation. UVA is lucky to have him.

 

[hank970]

Pretty much all of the folks badmouthing The Rent don't go to games.

Similarly, most folks who badmouth Porta Potties would rather not use them.

 

[noeynox]

Jim Ryan may be one of the best university presidents in the nation. UVA is lucky to have him.

How do people know such things?

 

[buddy]

-> University of Virginia President James E. Ryan will serve as the league’s Chair of the Board of Directors for the second year of his two-year term. He will be joined by Wake Forest University President Susan R. Wente as the Vice-Chair of the league’s Board of Directors, announced by the Board of Directors following the annual winter meetings in February…

… The Conference’s Executive Committee will include Ryan, Wente, Boston College President William Leahy, University of Miami Chief Executive Officer and Acting President Joe Echevarria, University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Joan Gabel, and Georgia Institute of Technology President Angel Cabrera. <-

I imagine having the BC President on that committee eliminates UConn from joining the ACC in the event of a shakeup. I also believe that Miami and Georgia Tech also were opposed to UConn in the past.

 

[dayooper]

-> University of Virginia President James E. Ryan will serve as the league’s Chair of the Board of Directors for the second year of his two-year term. He will be joined by Wake Forest University President Susan R. Wente as the Vice-Chair of the league’s Board of Directors, announced by the Board of Directors following the annual winter meetings in February…

… The Conference’s Executive Committee will include Ryan, Wente, Boston College President William Leahy, University of Miami Chief Executive Officer and Acting President Joe Echevarria, University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Joan Gabel, and Georgia Institute of Technology President Angel Cabrera. <-

I know it goes without saying but look who’s not on the board (or what schools are not represented).

 

[UConnTrumbull]

I imagine having the BC President on that committee eliminates UConn from joining the ACC in the event of a shakeup. I also believe that Miami and Georgia Tech also were opposed to UConn in the past.

What power do these presidents have above the ones not listed? Also I thought I read it’s on a rotating basis.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Please point out the students who have been badmouthing the Rent on this board.

USF is not remotely comparable to UConn vs an on Campus Stadium
It has many more students ( 50k) on campus than UConn but that almost irrelevant. Its campus is located in Tampa close to the greater metro area . So building an on campus stadium doesn’t make it more difficult for their non student fans . Face it Storrs is a brutal place to get to for the majority of the state’s population . The access roads are clogged for 10,000 at Gambel. I could not even imagine the nightmare of 40,000 at a football game . . I went to a BB game there last year with my grandson who lives in the Middletown area and it took us an hour with that traffic
His comment was why didn’t they build this campus in the Hartford area . My reply was that would have made to much sense,
I understand the land was donated Or extremely cheap
The reality is without substantial infrastructure improvement an on campus stadium is insane.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

How do people know such things?

He was on the short list for president of Harvard and Yale, just for starters

 

[noeynox]

USF is not remotely comparable to UConn vs an on Campus Stadium
It has many more students ( 50k) on campus than UConn but that almost irrelevant. Its campus is located in Tampa close to the greater metro area . So building an on campus stadium doesn’t make it more difficult for their non student fans . Face it Storrs is a brutal place to get to for the majority of the state’s population . The access roads are clogged for 10,000 at Gambel. I could not even imagine the nightmare of 40,000 at a football game . . I went to a BB game there last year with my grandson who lives in the Middletown area and it took us an hour with that traffic
His comment was why didn’t they build this campus in the Hartford area . My reply was that would have made to much sense,
I understand the land was donated Or extremely cheap
The reality is without substantial infrastructure improvement an on campus stadium is insane.

A whole hour?

 

[Rdkid]

The on-campus/off-campus stadium debates are the biggest wastes of thumb typing time on this board.

 

[TheDrifter75]

USF is not remotely comparable to UConn vs an on Campus Stadium
It has many more students ( 50k) on campus than UConn but that almost irrelevant. Its campus is located in Tampa close to the greater metro area . So building an on campus stadium doesn’t make it more difficult for their non student fans . Face it Storrs is a brutal place to get to for the majority of the state’s population . The access roads are clogged for 10,000 at Gambel. I could not even imagine the nightmare of 40,000 at a football game . . I went to a BB game there last year with my grandson who lives in the Middletown area and it took us an hour with that traffic
His comment was why didn’t they build this campus in the Hartford area . My reply was that would have made to much sense,
I understand the land was donated Or extremely cheap
The reality is without substantial infrastructure improvement an on campus stadium is insane.

I feel for ya. I just looked up Middletown to Storrs and it says it's a 43 minute drive. That means an additional 17 minutes was tacked on to an approximately 40 mile drive. That's a huge sacrifice, the travesty.