The only way to move on it, was to keep the local politics in the dark, and to my knowledge, that's exactly what happened. My recollection is that UCONN was ready to break ground on a 65,000 or so football stadium, with all specs and planning in place, adn was waiting for the final vote from teh state senate, on a relatively small amount of state funding (as compared to what eventually went into the Rentschler construction as state funds). The locals did find out what was about to happen though,a nd had a fit, and went straight to the CT general assembly as fast as possible and through legal/political roads, got it stopped due to partisan politics.
THe ultimate irony, in this liberal minded hell hole that our state government has become over the past decades, is that from ALL of the studies done on the CT population, studies etcs - (adn there were many surveys/ etc.) - the majority of the state, including fairfield county WANTED uconn to have an oncampus football facility, adn were in favor of upgrading football. THe majority of people also did NOT want to the facilities and process to be funded by state tax dollars. The oncampus facility that was planned, had very, little state tax money funding coming its' way, it was going to be paid for mostly by UCONN.
What happened, is that a small minority of activist people got a liberal minded elected assembly to go along party lines, because they thought their civil rights were violated by UCONN not consulting them first about building a stadium on campus - and the majority of people in CT, that wanted an oncampus stadium with minimal state tax dollars paying for it - actually ended up getting an off campus facility that was primarly funded by state tax payer dollars.
