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

[Dann]

You guys are missing the point. Instead of the basketball practice facility next to Gampel, let's build it next to the stadium. Then using the move of the Hartford Branch as a tie in, let's move it not to Hartford, but to East Hartford next to the stadium. As we continue to build, every new building should be build in the Rentschlear parcel. Eventually we move the entire main campus to East Hartford and have the University become a vibrant part of a growing city rather than out in farmland. Just like Michigan State, Georgia Tech, USC (either of them), and Wisconsin. Becomes a better draw for sports and for students since there is finally something to do other than school.

and ppl get mad at what i thorw out and about here?!?!?!?!?!?

 

[CTMike]

Main Campus is never, ever moving to East Hartford. An on campus stadium will never, ever be built... Not in the next 50 years, anyway. Can we move on from these pipe dreams and keep at least a toe in reality??

 

[pj]

how about we spend 20k on a study to put a 200mil stadium on campus and then pimp that for the minute we get a b10 invite.

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

 

[pj]

20k will get you about a weeks worth of traffic counting around storrs that's about it. Maybe a quick look into planning and zoning.

I'll do two weeks of traffic counting for $20k!

 

[Dann]

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

that would be a good thing

 

[UCHuskies08]

What fricking idiot who's never driven to Storrs would want a football stadium there? Are you going to build a new highway there too?

 

[Dann]

What fricking idiot who's never driven to Storrs would want a football stadium there? Are you going to build a new highway there too?

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

 

[ZooCougar]

What fricking idiot who's never driven to Storrs would want a football stadium there? Are you going to build a new highway there too?

That's not a terrible idea, long term that may be a great initiative.

 

[junglehusky]

That's not a terrible idea, long term that may be a great initiative.

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!

 

[CL82]

or #58 here

or #43 here

I suspect a lot people have though about Horsebarn Hill as a possible stadium location. If you know the campus, it just makes sense.

 

[gampelcrazies]

Is this real?

 

[Husky25]

because we can sell the 1 in east hartford

UConn cannot sell what is not theirs. The Rent is owned by the state. The school would see zero proceeds from any sale and the state will not support an on campus facility while the Rent is still viable.

 

[gampelcrazies]

Do you have a link for this article? Or is this fake

 

[CAHUSKY]

Do you have a link for this article? Or is this fake

really?

 

[gampelcrazies]

really?

Nope

 

[husky210]

I'll do two weeks of traffic counting for $20k!

Have you ever done traffic counting? It's worse than watching grass grow

 

[BleedHuskyBlu]

The problem with that is there are a lot of people that look at UConn as a redevelopment anchor for Hartford. That may be good for Hartford, but I don't see how it is good for UConn sports-wise. The quid pro quo from politicians is probably the gazillion dollar funding of the tech park, jackson lab, move to downtowrn, etc.

I hate the fact how Malloy is trying to improve the quality of Hartford at the expense of uconn sports. If their going to make all this money from uconn sporting events in hartford at least tear down the XL center and make a newer more modern version of what an arena should look like.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Main Campus is never, ever moving to East Hartford. An on campus stadium will never, ever be built... Not in the next 50 years, anyway. Can we move on from these pipe dreams and keep at least a toe in reality??

More nightmare than dream. East Hartford blows.

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[RS9999X]

The Rent is going nowhere.





Moving it near campus is an admission of defeat: we will see student season tickets built into the student fee structure to address the declining ticket sales to the general public.

The General Public is aging and looking to exodus this state to preserve wealth. Young CT is poorer and increasingly minority and not as hooked as the older crowd was in the 90s. Bad demographics for growth. Good demographics for a slow decline to the 30,000 attendance level.

 

[RS9999X]

I hate the fact how Malloy is trying to improve the quality of Hartford at the expense of uconn sports. If their going to make all this money from uconn sporting events in hartford at least tear down the XL center and make a newer more modern version of what an arena should look like.

Won't happen during a recession and won't happen without another major tenant. When American Idol and Bruce Springsteen refuses to book the XL then they are in trouble

 

[pj]

Have you ever done traffic counting? It's worse than watching grass grow

I plan to lay down one of those pneumatic tubes on the street and head to the donut shop.

 

[Dann]

or #43 here

I suspect a lot people have though about Horsebarn Hill as a possible stadium location. If you know the campus, it just makes sense.

dammit! now your going to make me dig more to find a old rant thread when i wanted to blow up 195 and put a turf field and also move the swim team to mirror lol. that wa sa solid rant on my part...

 

[Dann]

UConn cannot sell what is not theirs. The Rent is owned by the state. The school would see zero proceeds from any sale and the state will not support an on campus facility while the Rent is still viable.

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...

 

[junglehusky]

Who is going to buy it from the state? The MLS team? I don't think so - they are going to want the state to build them a ~20,000 seat facility like, oh, I don't know, the Columbus Crew Stadium, The Houston Dynamo stadium, the FC Dallas stadium, the Montreal Impact stadium, the Home Depot Center, Red Bull Arena, the new Colorado Rapids stadium, the Philly Union stadium, the Real Salt Lake stadium... It's not like there isn't a precedent. If Hartford gets an MLS franchise or one moves here, they will use the Rent as a temporary home while they get the state to build them their soccer specific home.

Besides, MLS's modus operandi has been to select expansion locations based on them demonstrating a market / fanbase before even putting the club there. Seattle, Montreal, Portland, Philly all had Tier II soccer franchises with good support before they got selected. Supposedly Orlando FC is next, unless the NY Cosmos jumps ahead of them.


So if you really want this to happen dan, you'd better get busy attracting a minor league soccer club to Hartford, and building up a season ticket base. 10k minimum, but maybe more like 15k. IMHO we'd be better off getting 10,000 more UConn season ticket holders, but why do it the easy way when you can do a much more complex plan that has even less chance of working? But even if the stupid MLS plan works and thanks to your efforts we get a MLS team, they're not going to want to play in the Rent, and they're certainly not going to "buy it" from the state.

 

[Dann]

Who is going to buy it from the state? The MLS team? I don't think so - they are going to want the state to build them a ~20,000 seat facility like, oh, I don't know, the Columbus Crew Stadium, The Houston Dynamo stadium, the FC Dallas stadium, the Montreal Impact stadium, the Home Depot Center, Red Bull Arena, the new Colorado Rapids stadium, the Philly Union stadium, the Real Salt Lake stadium... It's not like there isn't a precedent. If Hartford gets an MLS franchise or one moves here, they will use the Rent as a temporary home while they get the state to build them their soccer specific home.

Besides, MLS's modus operandi has been to select expansion locations based on them demonstrating a market / fanbase before even putting the club there. Seattle, Montreal, Portland, Philly all had Tier II soccer franchises with good support before they got selected. Supposedly Orlando FC is next, unless the NY Cosmos jumps ahead of them.


So if you really want this to happen dan, you'd better get busy attracting a minor league soccer club to Hartford, and building up a season ticket base. 10k minimum, but maybe more like 15k. IMHO we'd be better off getting 10,000 more UConn season ticket holders, but why do it the easy way when you can do a much more complex plan that has even less chance of working? But even if the stupid MLS plan works and thanks to your efforts we get a MLS team, they're not going to want to play in the Rent, and they're certainly not going to "buy it" from the state.

how long is the mls schedule. any clue? i know they start in the spring and play till early fall iw ant to say? but im not sure. we should get a club now and just work the schedule out with uconn football and then in 2018 when the naming rights thing comes up sell the sadium....that would be the idela way to do it imho. build a 10 to 15k season tix base and build that malla nd ets places in the rent parking lot. mkae the area a nice place and w/e. then sell it.... heck if 40k is to big they can knock down certain spots. i mean the corners on the open endzone can go and the oother endzone 2nd level doesn't need to eb there....or the 2nd deck opposite the press box. they have options if its to big...

 

[junglehusky]

MLS just kicked off this past weekend. I think the regular season runs through October-ish, MLS cup playoffs last year went through november.

Just for the record, Mr. I'm-a-frucking-genius-compared-to-Manuel, should we concentrate our efforts on the long-shot 10-15k season tickets for the MLS franchise, for which there is no potential owner, and no current franchise looking to relocate, and zero interest from MLS with orlando and the Cosmos on the docket and probably a few other places, or should we maybe concentrate on (oh gee I don't know) selling UConn season tickets? Because the way I see it, one is a waste of time, and the other has tangible benefits for potential conference realignment. I'm talking about 2013, 2015. If you want to talk about a 500 billion dollar federal stimulus package that Blumental and Murphy can break a piece off for an extension of I384 to get built 25 years from now, that's a different conversation. It's also a hypothetical conversation. I can make up hypothetical situations where we move the entire main campus to Hartford or Stamford, but those would be just as much of a waste of time.

 

[Dann]

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.

 

[businesslawyer]

I hate the fact how Malloy is trying to improve the quality of Hartford at the expense of uconn sports. If their going to make all this money from uconn sporting events in hartford at least tear down the XL center and make a newer more modern version of what an arena should look like.

We have a governor who is trying to improve the quality of life in the state's Capitol city? The bastard.

 

[jdb50]

Still waiting for the original "Top Secret" plans for Rent expansion to see the light of day. This would be what I would use the money for. Otherwise it will be pissed away and we will have nothing to show for it when it's gone!

 

[CTMike]

I hate the fact how Malloy is trying to improve the quality of Hartford at the expense of uconn sports. If their going to make all this money from uconn sporting events in hartford at least tear down the XL center and make a newer more modern version of what an arena should look like.

Not sure how this is on Malloy when UConn has been playing in Hartford for how many years?