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

[Husky25]

Yes, and #2 is broader than it seems. It includes convenience. Driving, parking, traffic, waiting in lines (to get in, to get food, to pee).

While we all know why the Rent is in E Hartford, the reality is, home football games, at this level, on Saturdays at 1:00 would be huge in Storrs. Everyone would be there. The reality is that there is no competition in Storrs. That's why weekend Soccer was huge. But student tickets need to be cheap. Like going to a movie.

Reason #2 includes kids soccer, football, basketball, baseball, hockey, boy/girl scouts, PTO, Town Councils, etc., etc., and so on and so forth...

 

[Husky25]

I went to the last UConn football game at the Yale Bowl. I knew it would be fun when the frats pulled into the parking area with U-Hausl filled with kegs. What a joyous mess. And to this day, I only have a vague recollection how I got from New Haven to Hartford after the game (God bless the poor person who volunteered to be a DD and drive us) to hit the bars and no recollection how I went from Coach’s to the floor or my dorm room where I woke up the next morning.

I actually went into the Yale Bowl that year for the first, last, and only time at Yale Bowl. Hmm I don't recall anyone complaining back then.

 

[CL82]

Whatever people say, there are three root reasons they don't got to games and they are not particular to UConn Athletics.

1. High Def TV
2. Time Commitment
3. Reduced disposable income

4. Increased game coverage.

It's not only quality of televised games, it's the quantity. The coverage provisions of the AAC ESPN contract will definitely hurt attendance for the more casual fan.

 

[Husky25]

4. Increased game coverage.

It's not only quality of televised games, it's the quantity. The coverage provisions of the AAC ESPN contract will definitely hurt attendance for the more casual fan.

Sure, I'll buy that for a dollar. It's sort of rolled into 1 & 2, but I have no probably spiking it out. For sure one of my non-UConn fan friends who used to have season tickets with us would not bat an eye at missing tailgating and the game in order to watch Auburn vs. Southwest Lousiana Tech...State...of Bossier City

 

[billybud]

Winning will sell tickets....Charlie was right...it is about winning.

TV is the easy way and inexpensive way to watch a game. But folks will pay more for the fan experience of being in the stands celebrating and cheering a team that is winning.

 

[huskymedic]

McMurphyESPN 11:40am via Tweetbot for iΟS
RT @ByTimReynolds: President Donna Shalala is retiring from University of Miami at end of academic year

 

[Dooley]

McMurphyESPN 11:40am via Tweetbot for iΟS
RT @ByTimReynolds: President Donna Shalala is retiring from University of Miami at end of academic year

This could be good years for UCONN's ACC hopes.

 

[CL82]

It's definitely not bad news. Still it's not like we know that her successor will be CT yes vote.

 

[Dooley]

It's definitely not bad news. Still it's not like we know that her successor will be CT yes vote.

Time to start stuffing some ballots.

 

[pj]

Eh. Groveling doesn't do it for me and I doubt it sways them. Just be cordial to the new leader. If we can schedule home and homes, let's do it. Miami gets a lot of students from the northeast and they should be fine with playing here. At most, move our home game to NYC.

 

[Dooley]

Miami isn't coming up here to play at the Rent when 1) we can't sell out our stadium and 2) they already come up here to play Syracuse and BC (and they can't sell out their stadiums either). There is absolutely no incentive for Miami to play football in Connecticut until the day ever arrived that we became conference mates. Scheduling a one-off road game isn't groveling, it's reality (and it would really help us build a relationship with Miami AND help with recruiting/exposure).

Basketball, on the other hand, is something that they would more than likely be interested in. Increased exposure to the prized hoops recruits of the northeast would benefit them.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Miami isn't coming up here to play at the Rent when 1) we can't sell out our stadium and 2) they already come up here to play Syracuse and BC (and they can't sell out their stadiums either). There is absolutely no incentive for Miami to play football in Connecticut until the day ever arrived that we became conference mates. Scheduling a one-off road game isn't groveling, it's reality (and it would really help us build a relationship with Miami AND help with recruiting/exposure).

Basketball, on the other hand, is something that they would more than likely be interested in. Increased exposure to the prized hoops recruits of the northeast would benefit them.

And yet UConn has no reason to play Miami in basketball. They can't sell out their arena and aren't very good. We don't need access to Miami area recruits. I think the premise of these arrangements is that a trade can be made.

 

[Dooley]

And yet UConn has no reason to play Miami in basketball. They can't sell out their arena and aren't very good. We don't need access to Miami area recruits. I think the premise of these arrangements is that a trade can be made.

Miami is in a P5 conference. We are not. The reality is that UCONN needs Miami far more than Miami needs UCONN. We're trying to sway some anti-UCONN votes in the ACC. Call it groveling or bowing or whatever - if it helps UCONN get out of the AAC, I'll fly to friggin' Miami and wax Shalala's bikini line. Now is not the time for UCONN to play the "we're too good for _____" nonsense.

 

[CL82]

We need them more than they need us so that has to be factored in but yeah.

 

[Dooley]

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that UCONN basketball needs Miami basketball. We obviously don't. But our football program sure could use Miami on the schedule, even if it's one road game. If we have to schedule a H&H hoops series to get 1 road football game, then do it. This is more about mending fences with a school that clearly hates us. We need to build relationships with as many P5 schools as possible and it would be great if we could do something with Miami, now that Shalala is gone.

 

[ThetaZoo]

That UConn football can lose attendance to college soccer makes me want to poke my eyes out.

I'm now blind in both eyes after watching UC men's soccer for 10 years

 

[HuskyHawk]

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that UCONN basketball needs Miami basketball. We obviously don't. But our football program sure could use Miami on the schedule, even if it's one road game. If we have to schedule a H&H hoops series to get 1 road football game, then do it. This is more about mending fences with a school that clearly hates us. We need to build relationships with as many P5 schools as possible and it would be great if we could do something with Miami, now that Shalala is gone.

But why Miami? I know she's gone, but the football program is in tatters as well. And is there any school in the country that likes Miami? We need allies, I just don't know if that is the best one, even if you can't wait to break out that bikini wax.

 

[pj]

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that UCONN basketball needs Miami basketball. We obviously don't. But our football program sure could use Miami on the schedule, even if it's one road game. If we have to schedule a H&H hoops series to get 1 road football game, then do it. This is more about mending fences with a school that clearly hates us. We need to build relationships with as many P5 schools as possible and it would be great if we could do something with Miami, now that Shalala is gone.

There's nothing easier than getting a road football game in exchange for nothing. That's worth millions of dollars to the host school. We could get a road football game with no return from every single member of the P5.

Offering such concessions isn't likely to get us into the P5.

We do need to build relationships but they need to be based on mutual respect, not desperate supplication and submission.

 

[HuskyHawk]

There's nothing easier than getting a road football game in exchange for nothing. That's worth millions of dollars to the host school. We could get a road football game with no return from every single member of the P5.

Offering such concessions isn't likely to get us into the P5.

We do need to build relationships but they need to be based on mutual respect, not desperate supplication and submission.

Which is why I suggested that rather than playing a road game against any P5 team, we offer up home-home basketball, women too, to get a home-home engagement. There are schools that could benefit from that arrangement, a school like UGA or Ole Miss, trying to be the third team from the SEC with UK and Florida, could point to UConn on the future schedule to recruits.

 

[businesslawyer]

We do need to build relationships but they need to be based on mutual respect, not desperate supplication and submission.

If you could have built a relationship based on desperate supplication and submission, I wouldn't have been so lonely in high school.

 

[ThetaZoo]

And yet UConn has no reason to play Miami in basketball. They can't sell out their arena and aren't very good. We don't need access to Miami area recruits. I think the premise of these arrangements is that a trade can be made.

They had our number back in 2002 and 2003. Johnnie Salmons

 

[whaler11]

Which is why I suggested that rather than playing a road game against any P5 team, we offer up home-home basketball, women too, to get a home-home engagement. There are schools that could benefit from that arrangement, a school like UGA or Ole Miss, trying to be the third team from the SEC with UK and Florida, could point to UConn on the future schedule to recruits.

I wish someone had thought of that. Those schools don't care about their men's basketball programs nevermind the women's.

 

[junglehusky]

@McMurphyESPN
SEC commissioner Mike Slive is retiring after this academic school year

@McMurphyESPN
SEC commish Mike Slive is retiring June 30, 2015, beginning treatment for recurrence of prostate cancer

 

[ZooCougar]

SEC still has an academic year?

 

[MilliniumPrince]

SEC still has an academic year?

Don't be silly, of course they do. February 30-February 31.