OT: Renovating Yale Bowl...
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SonsOfNutmeg
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I could care less about Yale and their football program. And no, IMHO, UConn shouldn't play them ever again. Aren't we kind of beyond that now?? Same reason why I hate that we have schools like Holy Cross on our schedule still. We'll be lucky to draw 12K to that game- especially if we're not good this season (god help us...)
If we want to be a big-boy football program, we need to play big-boy programs. Yale (even know they would have creamed us last season!) isn't a "big-boy" program. They're just not, their fans aren't, their city isn't, and their stadium isn't. I currently work, and used to live in New Haven. People in this town could give two f*&ks less about Yale Athletics. Pretty sure when their hockey team won the national championship, the next day most of New Haven didn't even know or care. Its not a college sports town, and no matter how good their football team does its not 1950 anymore people... The only game people remotely show up for is the Harvard/Yale game every other year, which is mostly Yale "fans" attempt at "tailgating"- or rather an excuse to drink outside wearing rugby shirts, sunglasses and boat shoes... Here's a hint- you want to tailgate and expirence REAL big-time college football in Connecticut? Come to East Hartford on Saturdays in the fall. GO HUSKIES!! (drops mic...)
If we want to be a big-boy football program, we need to play big-boy programs. Yale (even know they would have creamed us last season!) isn't a "big-boy" program. They're just not, their fans aren't, their city isn't, and their stadium isn't. I currently work, and used to live in New Haven. People in this town could give two f*&ks less about Yale Athletics. Pretty sure when their hockey team won the national championship, the next day most of New Haven didn't even know or care. Its not a college sports town, and no matter how good their football team does its not 1950 anymore people... The only game people remotely show up for is the Harvard/Yale game every other year, which is mostly Yale "fans" attempt at "tailgating"- or rather an excuse to drink outside wearing rugby shirts, sunglasses and boat shoes... Here's a hint- you want to tailgate and expirence REAL big-time college football in Connecticut? Come to East Hartford on Saturdays in the fall. GO HUSKIES!! (drops mic...)
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