Official First Night Observations and Analysis Thread

[Chief00]

Volleyball has 20 home games.. seems like that could be defined as events

Again, the only event overlap between volleyball and basketball seasons is First Night and games during one to two weeks in early/mid November.

As both Danny and Chief have said - UConn fancies itself as a “”Great basketball school” - we should have baskets that work in a building in which basketball, is in business terms, the primary critical success factor.

As Chief has emphasized, as someone who has attended the VB games as a donor and enjoyed them, women’s volleyball games don’t have a big footprint and the season largely doesn’t overlap with the men’s BB - so stop being misogynistic and blaming the women.

Facilities Management dropped the ball and we need to fix it. If the current staff can’t handled that, Chief suggests we find someone who can handle it.

 

[CL82]

This is simply not true. UConn volleyball plays almost as many home games as men’s and women’s basketball combined and practices regularly on the court. The hoops come down and go back up every time they do. Even the most casual fan should know that.

Well I’m sure the casual volley ball fans do.

 

[CL82]

Glad I didn't attempt to watch it. As omens go, I'll take it over having our star player borrow a car without permission. Our catastrophes are getting smaller.

Or scooter crashes?

 

[Jre2000]

So no one was actually in house from the yard and saw anything? Great night.

I'm a student and I was there. Everyone was buzzing with energy... Every single available seat (besides the reserved seating) was filled. The begging hype-up part of it got the entire place to be loud and excited. It was amazing. And then once it actually started, it just kept going further and further downhill. Once the women did their scrimmage, hundreds and hundreds of fans began to leave when they realized the other hoop was given up on. It went from 100mph and limitless excitement, to 1mph and everyone giving up. It was embarrassing and felt unprofessional. I could feel the energy from everyone, they were all so excited just for a taste of in-person UConn basketball. I need an open practice; the season can't come soon enough

 

[Chief00]

Or scooter crashes?

But, both incidents are characteristics of a big time program. LOL
No back up basket is a low tier D3 moment.

 

[Waquoit]

I'm a student and I was there. Everyone was buzzing with energy... Every single available seat (besides the reserved seating) was filled.

I'm thinking students only is the way the go for this event.

 

[Chief00]

Thank you Coach Hurley for speaking the truth. Chief agrees 100% regarding the importance of basketball in the UConn Brand. Yes, we are a basketball school and proud of it. No apologies for that. We expect baskets that work. We owe both our players and fans that. We both put ourselves out there advocating what’s best for the program. While its about The Program, on a personal note it’s nice that those who support the program have each other’s backs. I appreciate it.

 

[gtcam]

The whole thing was and is bizzare and makes UConn look so small. This first night stuff, if you are going to do it should be well planned out and flawless if you are a big time hoops school. No excuses. Especially no back up hoops. Cmon DB even you are better than that

 

[pepband99]

Rest assured that there is a super double probation senior junior athletic director of events that will get a stern talking to on this one. No change to their big salary, though.

 

[Chief00]

Rest assured that there is a super double probation senior junior athletic director of events that will get a stern talking to on this one. No change to their big salary, though.

It’s a deeper systematic problem. How can an organization not have a readily accessiable appropriate basket in reserve to roll out when they are unable to fix the existing one?

How can they not have a Business Continuity Plan that details all that, which has been approved by the AD?

This stern talking to stuff doesn’t address the deep rooted issues here. This is the sport that, quite frankly built the University. What do all these administrators do?

 

[husky429]

Rest assured that there is a super double probation senior junior athletic director of events that will get a stern talking to on this one. No change to their big salary, though.

Why would anyone's salary get changed because they screwed up an event? That's shockingly stupid.

Do people actually think people that work at colleges make too much money? That's a thing now? Sure ADs and the coaches make a lot but that's what you need to be competitive with P5 schools. Your average jabroni setting up the hoops for the First Night is hardly making a bloated salary.

If you're bad enough to get your salary reduced, you just need to be canned. There are more than enough people looking to work in athletic departments.

 

[pepband99]

Why would anyone's salary get changed because they screwed up an event? That's shockingly stupid.

Do people actually think people that work at colleges make too much money? That's a thing now? Sure ADs and the coaches make a lot but that's what you need to be competitive with P5 schools. Your average jabroni setting up the hoops for the First Night is hardly making a bloated salary.

If you're bad enough to get your salary reduced, you just need to be canned. There are more than enough people looking to work in athletic departments.

That was a backhanded way of saying there a lot of empty titles and big salaries in the AD. This isn't newsworthy.

 

[DOZE860]

As someone worked at Gampel, and setup for midnight madness, back when it was midnight madness, i find this really odd. there are usually have at least 3 extra set of basketball stanchions right there on the court next to all the locker room entrances.. all you have to do is wheel them in place and lift them up.. i dont know if they moved all of the extra stanchions to the basketball to the practice facility, but this seems like one of the most easy issues to resolve on the fly. they gotta give Bill Sehl a call..lol