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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 1308478, member: 71"] The one unfortunate thing is that the Giants are playing the Saints in New Orleans that day (what would have been perfect is if the Giant game were a week later, one day after we play Tulane) but for a fan base that believes it has a presence in NYC, there is nothing about this game that can't be viewed as a positive (despite what a few people are claiming). You are correct, if you are a UConn fan (or just a hockey fan) and you can make it to this game, there is no reason not to make it to this game. On a side note, my son's girlfriend is from East Williston LI (a pretty wealthy NYC suburb) where HS ice hockey is pretty significant. A little less than a year and a half ago I was at an ice rink near her home that had a lot of BC & BU logos in different places in the arena even a big Quinnipiac logo and a couple small UConn logos (along with about a dozen other NCAA schools). From what I've been told (from what she has heard from many of her friends) we are now viewed at a far different level than we were just one year ago in LI. This is a region where sports, such as hoops, football, hockey and even lacrosse (men's, which we are rumored to adding as a varsity sport soon) would help greatly in an attempt to claim as ours. I realize that there are posters here from the central part of Connecticut who believe that they and they alone should be viewed as UConn territory and resent the idea that NYC suburbs (including Fairfield County, which is part of Connecticut, although many CT residents from outside of Fairfield county will only grudgingly admit that) be addressed by the school. This is idiotic as the school would be that absolute biggest beneficiary of a presence in Westchester, Nassau, the five boroughs and lower Fairfield county. Many here resent Notre Dame and their presence in many parts of the country but this is due to work they began a century ago (out of need at that time) in an attempt to attract fans in large metropolitan areas outside of their specific geographic footprint. We criticize Syracuse for advertising in NYC and knock Rutgers (and resent their membership in the BiG, due to their capitalization on their geography) yet we resist the idea of attempting to capitalize on ours. Hell if we want to be Vermont or Maine, we can. We'll just need to pull the plug on the athletic department and say goodbye to everything we've accomplished academically over the past two decades. [/QUOTE]

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