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[QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4351835, member: 71"]
Almost everything about the Rent is ideal.

Great sightlines from nearly every seat in the house.  Sufficient parking, even when we were filling the place.  Reasonable access with highways in close proximity.

The drawbacks are a) it is not on campus (but I can argue that two decades ago we never could have drawn more than 20k-25k regularly in Storrs) and  b) locals in East Hartford capped capacity (although this could be negotiated) at 55k.

The issues we have been facing for the past near decade are all the result of terrible leadership from the school as a whole and from the athletic department specifically.  When Hathaway returned to take over for Lew, after seeing what we were drawing in the brand new Rent as a startup, his thoughts should have been "how soon can we plan Stadium expansion".  Instead, he thought " we're at capacity already, I don't need to do anything here".

An achiever would have thought "if we can draw 40k today, we can build to 65k in 15 years, 75k in 25 years".  Hathaway never thought that way.
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