Possible use for the $20 Million- campus stadium anyone?

[J187Money]

All you would really have to do is spend 8M a year or whatever it would cost to hire Urban Meyer or Nick Saban or Les Miles or the equivalent and you would fill the stadium. If that isn't happening we are going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars? Ok.

 

[ZooCougar]

But... aren't you supposed to be a conservative? Highway building and infrastructure is like straight out of Obama's '08 campaign platform. Obama bad! Highway bad!

Too bad he didn't follow through.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

Because the B1G might make delivering on that plan a condition of membership.

OK, so let's get to it. Stop thinking small Connecticut! Take a look a the rest of the country not called New England.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

yes. more like 6 highways. get some shovels.

-7 to 84
-25 to 84
-11 to the 395/95 split
-384 along 6 all the way to 395
-384 along 44 to storrs and up 195 to 84 and above that to 140 all the way to bradley and down to the new 6 highway from storrs
-44 on the other side of hartford all the way to the top of rt8

These things all should have been in place years ago. Stop thinking provincial Connecticut. Look beyond New England, there is an exciting world out there.

 

[junglehusky]

i want to do both. but u seem to be thinking its not possibel which is part of the probelm. no one wants to tackle hard things to do...join the warde and weyvu club.

One is a project that is in our budget and can be done in ~3 years. The other one is a 30+ year project involving billions of dollars in federal infrastructure before it's even feasible. And since this involves the state it would have to come from the governor, not the UConn AD. I'm not saying it can't be done, or that it isn't worth thinking about as a long term goal for the state. I'm saying your goals of devoting state resources and political capital to this project in time for a B1G invite in ~2 years is crazily unrealistic and amateur hour, the very thing you accuse the athletic department of. Delany would see through this plan in a minute, he knows it would take decades before it could happen. We'd be better off showing off the plans for the Rent expansion and put in a line in the end of the presentation about it lasting 50 years at which time it could be replaced by an on campus stadium if we can get a highway built. duck*, we haven't even replaced the XL center yet, that should be priority #1 for the state (#1 in terms of sports / entertainment venues, that is).

 

[Husky25]

the state will sell it and make $ off the sale. then reinvest it into uconn football what they make form the sale. its seen as a win becuase a mls team and the new mall and is now in hartford...

What ever money they make off a sale would gointo the State's General Fund. It would have no direct impact on UConn.