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Message: [QUOTE="jostar1, post: 5326153, member: 1737"] 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. [MEDIA=reddit]Connecticut/comments/1h43msy[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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