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metsfan2323 said:
Oh the humanity. Who cares? I just want to see football.
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While I agree with you premise (I think you're advocating for on field results > embellishments to our stadium), it does speak poorly upon the athletic department/stadium operator, state funding, university...whoever oversaw this operation. This is a year that UCONN needs to put its best foot forward, both on the field and off, and this kind of mismanagement shows disorganization. There is no excuse that the new scoreboard and ribbon boards are not in place right now or by the time Opening Night rolls in about 4 weeks from now.
 
Beyond this F up, I am very interested to see if Warde will be changing the game day experience at all. He came on board too late in the game to make any real changes last year but we'll see. Would love an end to the incessant time out advertising, DJ Joey, in game reporter stuff. Let the award winning Pride of CT play their stuff
 
Only a big committee could design the cluterf**ck that is the "management" system of the Rent. UConn has to pay $170,000 / game to play in a building that only exists because of its football team. Everyone is charge, no one is in charge. They have barely figured the parking out after 10 years, and it's a new drill every season. Sadly not surprised by this. Expect 'portable' board to be up for Michigan game.

Are you seriously telling me the company installing this thing can't work 24/7 & weekends to get this done?
 
Skiblets said:
Beyond this F up, I am very interested to see if Warde will be changing the game day experience at all. He came on board too late in the game to make any real changes last year but we'll see. Would love an end to the incessant time out advertising, DJ Joey, in game reporter stuff. Let the award winning Pride of CT play their stuff
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I agree about DJ Joey, but Emily Noonan has grown on me in a huge way, so I'd like to see her stay. More UCMB too, much more.
 
Skiblets said:
Completely unacceptable. But when you don't own your own stadium and have to deal with state bureacracy who is really surprised?
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Combination of State Government financing the deal late + the transition from Bushnell to Spectrum Global + falling off behind schedule due to existing stadium bookings (i.e. USMNT) probably all had something to do with it.
 
To each his own I guess, to me a huge issue would mean the game itself is threatened (like opening night two years ago). I'm old and old school, I'm not concerned about bells and whistles.
 
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We paid for the scoreboard and expect it to be ready for opening game. They've had all summer since Malloy signed the bonding bill to get this done. This is a huge red 'X' against the new stadium management company.

As for other stadium gameday embellishments: Dairy Bar vendors. Get this done, Warde.
 
not sure I'd blame Global Spectrum. Their heads are probably spinning from all the state bureaucracy they have to deal with.

Maybe they can borrow a few busway builders for a couple of days.
 
Here's a pic of the Towson scoreboard:
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I believe we are winning 7-5 but its 4th and 13 somewhere in the 2nd quarter.


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ruskin said:
Only a big committee could design the cluterf**ck that is the "management" system of the Rent. UConn has to pay $170,000 / game to play in a building that only exists because of its football team. Everyone is charge, no one is in charge. They have barely figured the parking out after 10 years, and it's a new drill every season. Sadly not surprised by this. Expect 'portable' board to be up for Michigan game.

Are you seriously telling me the company installing this thing can't work 24/7 & weekends to get this done?
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Nope. Not if their working under a state contract, for a state agency, which means that all work not performed by actual state labor unions, be done in accordance with state labor union mandates. We've been through this discussion.

Ask questions of the people that you vote for, and vote based on their answers. Learn from things like this.
 
This thing seriously won't be there for the opener? Like is this real life?
 
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BoatShow said:
This thing seriously won't be there for the opener? Like is this real life?
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Yeah... supposedly the temporary one for the Towson game will be bigger than the old video board, who knows. They have 2 weeks between Towson and Maryland - they'd better have all the cables and the computer to control the system sorted out by the, or there will be some desperate phone calls to the Geek squad.
 
I suppose an appeal could be made to the governor's office, to bypass CT labor laws, and allow workers to be on the job 24/7 for the next 3 weeks, but it would probably take 4 weeks before he actually heard and considered the appeal, and then another 2 months before it actually made it through to a decision. LOL.
 
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DC gets some quotes from the Capitol Region Development Agency... basically it was the timing of the legislature passing the spending bill.

Also note this quote... this sounds like press-release-speak from WM saying "you done duck*ed up".

The UConn athletic department released a statement on the scoreboard delay: "UConn is a paying tenant at Rentschler Field and our expectation is that our fans enjoy a first-class experience every time that they attend a Husky football game there."
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So schedule a meeting before July 26th...or a conference call to address this one matter or something creative. Absolute incompetence in state government
 
Love UConn's statement. Hope it went thru SH's office. She should be on the phone with Malloy and vice versa. And don't want to hear "they have bigger things to worry about"
 
The temporary board is gonna be bigger and better than the one we had...non issue in my eyes. I'm assuming the cash wasn't available till July 1st...and it's gotta get voted on. I'm used to this crap working for the government...it is what it is?
 
You are assuming the temporary board will work Pags, I work in a State Dept and it is never easy or uncomplicated. Think about the level of incompetence that went on with the I-84 fiasco in Southington or the UConn dorm fire code violations, or the UConn Greek houses, newly built at the time, having pipes freeze and burst, like the architects never considered winter. In this case UConn should get the rental fee reduced for hopefully only the Towson game.
 
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