New Lockers at the Rent

[jostar1]

 

[Austin316]

I figured this woulda happened when longhorn lockers hit up the Burton complex. Better late than never I guess. They look great!

 

[Kolumbo]

Nice. They can dust them off and use them half a dozen times a year. Did they use refurbished wood paneling or they just aren't finished yet? Meanwhile on the visitors side:

 

[jostar1]

Nice. They can dust them off and use them half a dozen times a year. Did they use refurbished wood paneling or they just aren't finished yet?

The hourglass in the tweet indicates that they are still working on them.

 

[CL82]

The hourglass in the tweet indicates that they are still working on them.

Oh. I thought the tweet was taking a really long time to fully load.

 

[uconnfan68]

I vote us, but won't get on X to do it.

 

[BlueWhiteKid]

We're currently up 60% to 40%

 

[Vuce]

I just voted and we are still up 60/40

 

[Purple Stein]

I vote us, but won't get on X to do it.

He has the tournament as "67 G6 schools + UConn" which is good for branding! We are not G6!

Unfortunately we are the 8 seed and will get destroyed by Army in the round of 32 (the 1 seed in our region).

Do take comfort, friends, in the fact that UMass is a 16 seed and stuck in a play-in game with Kent State.

 

[jostar1]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Jetskies]

the block C pattern on the back walls, is a very very very very ......(3 hours later)... very very ... nice touch on the lockers.

bookstore needs that on a tie or on some wrapping paper - i'd buy it lol

 

[huskymedic]

 

[jostar1]

I'm happy for the players, who look happy.
As Huskymedic posted, see uconnfootball Instagram for more photos.

 

[jostar1]

I came across this story, with some interesting comments. This was prior to the renovation of the locker rooms.

"Even sooner than that, home and visiting team locker rooms will be overhauled to meet Division I standards.

Recently, CRDA staff walked Rentschler Field with Mora, the UConn football coach, and representatives of the Gov. Ned Lamont’s office — and the locker rooms surfaced as a significant topic.

“Coach talked about how important recruiting was to improve the team,” Kim Hart, CRDA’s director of venues, said. “And you’ve got to have a nice locker room. What we have now is an original locker room. It’s a room with three outlets, and you’ve got 100 kids needing to charge cell phones.”

The renovated locker rooms will have modular lockers with individual phone charging ports and fold-out seats, Hart said. Even the visiting team locker room — now having the appearance of a locker room in a vintage high school gym — will get an upgrade, Freimuth said.

It might be easy to dismiss the visiting team’s locker room as a priority. But UConn football has competed as an independent ever since the university’s athletic programs rejoined the Big East in 2019. The Big East no longer sponsors football.

“This is an independent team,” Freimuth said. “So it’s not like you’ve got a league, right? It’s trying to attract teams to come in and they’re saying, ‘Look, you need a certain level of facilities, for training, for clinical uses, just for showering, for any of these things.”

This story originally appeared in the Hartford Courant.

 

[Austin316]

I came across this story, with some interesting comments. This was prior to the renovation of the locker rooms.

"Even sooner than that, home and visiting team locker rooms will be overhauled to meet Division I standards.

Recently, CRDA staff walked Rentschler Field with Mora, the UConn football coach, and representatives of the Gov. Ned Lamont’s office — and the locker rooms surfaced as a significant topic.

“Coach talked about how important recruiting was to improve the team,” Kim Hart, CRDA’s director of venues, said. “And you’ve got to have a nice locker room. What we have now is an original locker room. It’s a room with three outlets, and you’ve got 100 kids needing to charge cell phones.”

The renovated locker rooms will have modular lockers with individual phone charging ports and fold-out seats, Hart said. Even the visiting team locker room — now having the appearance of a locker room in a vintage high school gym — will get an upgrade, Freimuth said.

It might be easy to dismiss the visiting team’s locker room as a priority. But UConn football has competed as an independent ever since the university’s athletic programs rejoined the Big East in 2019. The Big East no longer sponsors football.

“This is an independent team,” Freimuth said. “So it’s not like you’ve got a league, right? It’s trying to attract teams to come in and they’re saying, ‘Look, you need a certain level of facilities, for training, for clinical uses, just for showering, for any of these things.”

This story originally appeared in the Hartford Courant.

True. Visiting teams will factor that in… when visiting conference execs.