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students who showed up to cheer the boys on.
Kudos to the 29
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UConnDan97
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It really was embarrassing. But kudos to the students that showed up today. Hopefully next year will continue to build some support for the football team from the student ranks...
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I called it. Our football program playing a home game 25 miles off campus doesn’t compete with Friday night on campus Halloween parties. Maybe after a generation of success on the field. And even then only maybe.
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I'm so tired of hearing excuses for students. They're not interested. They don't want to go. It's not a bus issue or a holiday issue or a Friday isse. It's a "they have absolutely no interest in football issue." When I was there I don't remember anybody complaining about the bus ride and we used to pack the student section every week, as did the classes that came after me. If you hated the bus, you found someone with a car which wasn't hard to do, because everybody was going to the game.
All season.. "well what did you expect, are you really gonna wake up early on a Saturday to get on a bus for a noon kickoff?" Yes, be still my heart, it's been done before.
"What do you expect? It's a Saturday night on campus?" Well, I remember being out til 2 or 3 in the morning in college. The party will still be there.
"What do you expect? It's a Friday night after Halloween on campus?" So wear an ephing costume.
Apparently, it has to be a 3:30 kickoff during a non-holiday month with 70* weather for them to show up ... and then vacate at halftime.
It’s unexceptable Benedict has to address it. The excuses have gotta stop, just allow people to go into the student section to make it look full, give out free tickets to replace the students who dont go do something.
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As I mentioned in the chat a few games ago, start selling season tickets in the student section. Start with the back 3 rows and hopefully they sell. Maybe if the students think they are being squeezed out they might show up more often and in bigger numbers. Just a thought.
There are creative things that can be done like husky bucks for students that go and take the bus back after Q4. Big prizes (not chicken crap $25 prizes) like the Game Day field goal. Special perks for Husky Football Fan club. Put a guest band out for pre-game party with some beer trucks. Generally stop being tightasses
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AD Dave should be telling Hurley and Geno.. we need students in the stands for Senior night. Please do the necessary and bring your teams to the game for pregame and halftime events.
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with all the respect and love to my fellow huskies:
Do not worry about the student fans. No one outside the P3 (P3 = excluding ACC) is getting good crowds. I excluded ACC bc even they don't get great crowds for their lower tier teams.
I would LOVEE to have 42,000 sellouts vs a Big 12 schedule. we're not ready for that. And that's why we're not there yet.
Do not worry about the student fans. No one outside the P3 (P3 = excluding ACC) is getting good crowds. I excluded ACC bc even they don't get great crowds for their lower tier teams.
- As bad as that camera angle looks every time we kick a FG, it's a worse look to have a full student section and a "great" schedule, just to lose 59-0 to a powerhouse like Michigan or Oregon. Look no further than UMass up the street, to see how that scheduling philosophy is working out (i know they're pay games; i don't think the money is worth the ***whooping).
- 2nd, a new stadium close to dorms, is no guarantee of student support. Too many examples of this across the G5. It's not, nor should it be, the priority (right now) for the university as it fights to rebrand/resuscitate the football program.
I would LOVEE to have 42,000 sellouts vs a Big 12 schedule. we're not ready for that. And that's why we're not there yet.
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Interesting, I always viewed the optimal independent kickoff time as 3:30 pm (and, resulting tailgating time) in general, for parents and kids going to morning high school games, dance classes, etc, AND also for UConn students unwilling to wake up for a noon kickoff, or to miss out on unusually early on-campus party kickoffs.
Inconveniently, CBSSN may have made the call on last night’s scheduling at the Rent. Or, the CBSSN contract potentially requires 1 Friday night UConn game.
Unfortunately, more UConn students and Halloween-tired parents and their kids may have attended today at 3:30 (less so at noon). Instead, CBSSN’s broadcasting UTEP-MTSU at 3:30, and Buffalo-Akron at noon).
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If UConn built on an campus stadium there would be plenty of students watching football games in person.
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What surprises me is that many fans at games don’t seem to be enjoying the experience or know when to make noise. When watching on TV, the cameraman often pans the crowd, and I notice that a significant number of fans are sitting down, not cheering or standing during critical moments like third downs. I recently watched the replay of Brinson’s interception, and in the background, several people in the front row had zero reaction—it was as if they weren’t even watching the game. Unlike other parts of the country, we don’t grow up with the Friday night lights culture here in New England, which contributes to fans leaving early and a general lack of support.
Anybody who thinks they can justify a new stadium, on campus or off campus, before they start putting more fans in the seats here in delusional. It is the full paying fans that create the revenue not the students. I gave away the 4 free tickets I received for being a season tickets holder. If they gave 4 free tickets to every season ticket holder and still only got 22000. That is pathetic.
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Out of curiosity, when did you go to UConn? Our Big East days? There are two big reason no one cares about these games. One is the consistent terrible football we've played for the past decade plus. The second is the opponents we play. There is no connection to them. Even a P4 ACC team isn't that enticing. What do we care about with Wake?
The student section was packed when we were in the Big East and we hated schools because of our basketball history. Even though we didn't have a real football history, we all hated Syracuse and Rutgers football. We had history between the universities and fanbases. Who the heck cares now about the teams we play?
If I'm a student, I'm not buying in as a casual fan on a Friday night when it's unseasonably warm. If I can't stumble to the game on a Friday night, I'm out for a game vs GA St. (I'm speaking for a general student, not myself)
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The opponent changes nothing. The record changes nothing. They go to the game to meet people, and if they have somewhere else to go to meet people, they will go there instead.
The reason I'm confident that I know this to be true is the amount of times that the students showed up and then bolted at halftime. It's the biggest reason why I laugh at the posters that continue to advocate for an on-campus stadium for a student body that has shown little interest in football...
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'04 was freshman year. The Big East rivalries were irrelevant for football. I didn't care if we were playing Syracuse or Rutgers or some other school. My floormate was in the band, my classmates were on the team or on the cheerleading team. My floormates were going to the game. The girls I was into were going to the game. Being in the stands was a social event and I wanted to watch football. The ride to and from the game was a social event singing to whatever was on the radio and trying to see out of the extremely hazy interior of the car before we ate all the chips at someone's tailgate.
It's unseasonably warm? That's all the more reason to go to the game. Friday night lights and I'm not gonna freeze my ass off? Sounds good to me. It's a fall evening on a Friday, go watch a football game. Unless of course.. you just plain old don't give a fiddler's fart and it doesn't matter if the stadium is on campus, or the game is on a Saturday at 4PM, or there's an exclusive students only tailgate or whatever other bend over backwards to get some sort of attention type schemes people on here come up with.
At a certain point, you have to realize... it doesn't matter if you take her to dinner, wash her car, do her homework and walk her dog. She's not into you. So its time to stop swooning over them.
It's unseasonably warm? That's all the more reason to go to the game. Friday night lights and I'm not gonna freeze my ass off? Sounds good to me. It's a fall evening on a Friday, go watch a football game. Unless of course.. you just plain old don't give a fiddler's fart and it doesn't matter if the stadium is on campus, or the game is on a Saturday at 4PM, or there's an exclusive students only tailgate or whatever other bend over backwards to get some sort of attention type schemes people on here come up with.
At a certain point, you have to realize... it doesn't matter if you take her to dinner, wash her car, do her homework and walk her dog. She's not into you. So its time to stop swooning over them.
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No one gives a flying fig about games against the likes of GSU. Die-hards who are old enough to remember Uconn's football golden age in the OBE stay tuned because of memories of glory and fading hope of some sort of revival and recapturing of national relevance. Current students, who were 5 years old in that era, do not have (and should not be expected to have) the same affinity. I wish it was otherwise, but no creative marketing, promotion, or incentives, nor even an on-campus stadium, will make any difference. Until UConn joins some meaningful conference and has a schedule full of national brands, student interest will be weak.