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

UConn Dan said:
I had a dream that the Big 12 finally invited us. Probably more key than a car wash or a booster leak.

So as it was envisioned, so let it be. ;)
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You could say that was a message from the universe. Can’t get more key than that
 
Fairfield_1st said:
Needs to be in a place where a concert can be held. Get some actual use out of it. The Rent could have had a lot of bands there. I'd put a roof on a new one.
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saw the Police and Springsteen there, great shows. The neighbors put a stop to that.
 
Drew said:
Is there a clip of this somewhere? That is big if true
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Charlie Brown Football GIF
 
Big 12 would be great but extra travel would suck and I say that watching several of the pac 12 teams struggling in the big10 and acc, as well as b12.
 
Travelman6 said:
Big 12 would be great but extra travel would suck and I say that watching several of the pac 12 teams struggling in the big10 and acc, as well as b12.
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I don’t know about the travel. Yeah not great we can’t go to road games easily, but I know that back in the 1960-70s there were some pretty good college baseball teams in the Northeast. UConn, Maine (had 3 pitchers who pitched in the majors on one team in the early 1970s including Bobby Witt, father of the current star) and BC all played in the college World Series at one time or another. St John’s and Seton Hall were very good and both produced top major leaguers. Over time as the academic year ended earlier and earlier, and the college season started earlier and earlier, northern clubs began to struggle. Then they figured out how to change the model and instead of 1 spring break Florida trip to start the season they began making multiple warm weather trips. They adapted and now the ones who did are competitive again. That, I think will happen to teams that need to travel long distances in basketball and football. They will figure out a strategy, be it leave Tuesday to acclimate or something else. Once they do the current disadvantages will shrink.
 
Travelman6 said:
Big 12 would be great but extra travel would suck and I say that watching several of the pac 12 teams struggling in the big10 and acc, as well as b12.
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Travel for what?

Football has 6 at most travel games. As an independent, we’ll go to whomever will take us.

Basketball travels to Midwest slot already. Is Kansas, Texas, az or Colorado that much worse than Wisconsin, Nebraska, Chicago?

Baseball spends first month playing in Florida and/or California.

The status quo is not sustainable. Some of Our marquee sports (wbb/baseball) actually suffer being in a conf with “less travel” but no sig competition ( and MBB may fall in same trap if someone in BE doesn’t get it together soon).

I understand Olympic sports suffering, but field hockey never left BE and hockey is covered. Really what we’re down to is the cross country team earning their name!
 
UConn Dan said:
Something. Is. Up.

We're not doing the monitoring. Someone Big is monitoring us. Pack the rent.
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Its been an audition here for a year now....sometimes officially, sometimes unofficially.
 
UConn Dan said:
Something. Is. Up.

We're not doing the monitoring. Someone Big is monitoring us. Pack the rent.
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Anyone who wants to improve our possibility of landing in a P level conference should invest a few hours Saturday to take in the game at the Rent. If you need tickets, they should be very reasonable through the athletic department's ticket office. If that's beyond what you want to spend, send me a DM. I may have two spare tickets.
 
The athletic department needs to do what they do for Bowl games, let people who don't live in Connecticut but want to support the football team purchase tickets that can then be given to different groups. Let's say 50 dollars for 2 tickets.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Anyone who wants to improve our possibility of landing in a P level conference should invest a few hours Saturday to take in the game at the Rent. If you need tickets, they should be very reasonable through the athletic department's ticket office. If that's beyond what you want to spend, send me a DM. I may have two spare tickets.
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AzHusky said:
The athletic department needs to do what they do for Bowl games, let people who don't live in Connecticut but want to support the football team purchase tickets that can then be given to different groups. Let's say 50 dollars for 2 tickets.
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I have six season tickets and give them away to people on the boneyard easily, but I can't for the life of me give them away for FREE to any friends and family -- and I have a big group of friends (many who went to UConn). Maybe I need new friends lol

I have not been able to get more than 3-4 friends together for a game since early 2010's. Maybe it's because we sucked so bad for so long, maybe it's because I'm based in Fairfield County, or maybe it's because we're at the age where we have young kids and a lot going on the weekends (I miss half the games too because of this), but damn it's depressing. The team clearly needs our support -- we gotta market ourselves to a power conference and I feel like it's a do or die point in time.
 
gioff2323 said:
I understand Olympic sports suffering, but field hockey never left BE and hockey is covered. Really what we’re down to is the cross country team earning their name!
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Realistically for Track/Cross Country, Swimming etc it's not a dual meet scenario where you're flying them out to win, they'll compete locally and in invitationals, then fly out for a conference championship meet.

The non-revenue sports with travel concerns are your team sports, where Wins/Losses are measured in the standings.
 
UConn Dan said:
I have six season tickets and give them away to people on the boneyard easily, but I can't for the life of me give them away for FREE to any friends and family -- and I have a big group of friends (many who went to UConn). Maybe I need new friends lol

I have not been able to get more than 3-4 friends together for a game since early 2010's. Maybe it's because we sucked so bad for so long, maybe it's because I'm based in Fairfield County, or maybe it's because we're at the age where we have young kids and a lot going on the weekends (I miss half the games too because of this), but damn it's depressing. The team clearly needs our support -- we gotta market ourselves to a power conference and I feel like it's a do or die point in time.
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When we were bad at basketball it was the same issue with giving away basketball tickets. Winning fixes everything.
 
Forte said:
How's the sell-out or near sell-out looking so far?
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I saw someone post on twitter that it was looking like only around 28k so far based on most tickets in lower bowl taken but 8-10k in upper bowl avail. Disappointing

Not sure how accurate (can’t link since username has profanity)
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Let’s not fixate too much on tickets. Crowds at places like wake, Vandy, cincy, duke are in the 30k area. Part of the challenge we have is playing teams that don’t take their allotment or draw fans. Not a lot of rice, fau, temple fans/alums in the area to show up. Keep winning, get in a P conference and the stadium will fill up. Let’s just hope the 28k get in, are loud, and stay. Go huskies, big test this weekend - wake, like temple, has a misleading record. Ole Miss is really good. Beat ncstate and lost to uva in nail biter.
 
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