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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 5110690, member: 44"] Well, the answer to your first question is no, because no big-time conference is clamoring for us now. Most P4 schools average about 20 to 25,000 people at their football games. We're right at that mark now. So unless you're envisioning a 200 to 250,000 seat arena, we're going to do better than 10%. And that's today, without a P4 affiliation. So now that we've blown up your "rhetorical" question, your second question is, well, equally meaningless. I'm at a loss why so many people are so adamant about being opposed to an on-campus stadium when it's not even being discussed. I have to ask myself. What is the motivating fear that makes people manufacture reasons why it can't happen. Heck I can give you a good reason right now. Today, we have a perfectly serviceable stadium that happens to be 30 miles too far west. It makes no sense to build on campus given that circumstance. So, it makes me wonder why people try to manufacture things like a traffic Armageddon heading into Storrs or empty 200,000 seats stadiums. I mean, those are just silly nonsensical arguments about something that isn't even on the table. I will say, if there comes a time when we are putting a nine figure investment into an aging stadium rapidly approaching the end of its useful life in East Hartford, the university and the state should absolutely consider whether that money is better spent as part of a new stadium built on campus. It would be malfeasance not to do that analysis. [/QUOTE]

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