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UCFBfan said:
Dunno what the deal is now or what the policy is for kids to have cars on campus but it used to be that you couldn't have a car until you had the equivalent of a Junior's worth of credits...I can imagine this plays a role into getting to the Rent as well (cue HFD rant on moving football stadium to campus)
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Or a friend in Student Services with access to the temp parking passes.


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UCFBfan said:
Not trying to defend the students here but when I was at UConn (10 yrs ago, god I can't believe it's been that long!) it was a pain to get to the XL from campus. They offered three buses, THREE!, for students. You had to get a ticket (free) at the student union in order to catch the bus. The bus usually left two hours before the game so you had to hang around before the game with not much to do and then the bus left about 45 min to an hour after the game. It was not ideal for anyone. At the time there was a Wendy's still and McDonalds was still across the street at the civic center but it was a real pain. Not trying to give students excuses but it wasn't easy to ge to these games and I must admit, some games I skipped because of this (mostly non-BE games).

Dunno what the deal is now or what the policy is for kids to have cars on campus but it used to be that you couldn't have a car until you had the equivalent of a Junior's worth of credits...I can imagine this plays a role into getting to the Rent as well (cue HFD rant on moving football stadium to campus)
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Obviously, the students are not the die hard fans that some on this site make them out to be. How will giving them more tickets around the lower bowl alleviate these "problems". All it will do is deprive those who would make donations from getting tickets, and showing a lot of empty seats to the lesser games and the winter break games. Bottom line is there is no point in allotting more/better tickets to students, especially in the XL.
 
I don't get the people that make excuses for students not showing up to games during winter break ESPECIALLY at the XL. Gotta figure a lot of kids (enough to fill a few thousand seats) live closer to Hartford and have easier access to rides. And I mean for 21+ students what's not appealing about getting out of a game at 930 during winter break and hitting some bars downtown?
 
I agree whole heartedly with the camp out being the problem... The die hards get punished or priced out completely and those that do win the lottery have put no "sweat equity" into their acquisition so they don't feel obligated to go to the lesser games.

The defense of the lottery (that it is too cold or dangerous for the camp out, or that kids start the camp out too early) is preposterous. If it really is dangerous, do the camp out in the field house. And if we really are trying to breed husky pride, there should be no such thing as "too early."
 
hthusky74 said:
Obviously, the students are not the die hard fans that some on this site make them out to be. How will giving them more tickets around the lower bowl alleviate these "problems". All it will do is deprive those who would make donations from getting tickets, and showing a lot of empty seats to the lesser games and the winter break games. Bottom line is there is no point in allotting more/better tickets to students, especially in the XL.
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I agree wholeheartedly in regards to the XL Center. However, at Gampel I don't see why they can't change the seating.
 
Game on campus = greater opportunity to get drunk pre-game.

Game at XL or Rent = not so much + responsibly shouldn't.

To a college student this is important and all you need to know about student attendance. The venues are apples and oranges and shouldn't be compared.

Try to maximize off campus attendance even if it means deemphasizing students.

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I was at UConn 2008-2012. Fan-wise, I've seen the good (while Donald Brown was around, FF with Hash) and the bad (recent football and basketball). I thought about this at the bar today. There are many factors that go in to our poor fan showing.

In general, we play way too many games off-campus, and dorm cable makes it reeeeeeally easy to chill in your room and get drunk there and not worry about a ride, paying for parking, tailgating, getting caught doing whatever you do, bad weather, etc. There isn't any way to tailgate for the XL games; it's drink as much before/on the bus as you can. Not to mention there aren't many buses that go there. Getting rides is hard because you can't have a car until you have 54 credits.

With basketball, the student sections are awful. I don't need to go in to this one.

The lottery system is a joke. The best way to not get freshmen in to UConn basketball is to make it nearly impossible for them to get tickets without shelling out. A lot of people at UConn are douchey as hell and just keep the tickets to sell

Our teams have not been great these last couple years. Nothing kills interest worse or faster than losing. And we've been losing to some bad teams lately. Our fan base is used to winning. I'm not saying that excuses them from showing up and supporting if they got the tickets, but it is what it is. Unfortunately, our fan base is not comprised completely of 'yarders.

In the end, it's all about students. They set the tone, and they make the atmosphere. Our players don't feed off of grampy and grammie sitting quietly eating their pretzels. They feed off the kids in the front row beating on the endzone padding during kickoffs. Pitt doesn't take down ranked teams at Peterson because a lot of people came from off campus. And the students are the ones who keep UConn pride strong and ongoing. I don't think they deserve to drive their broke asses 30 minutes in to Hartford and back half the time they want to see their team play.
 
babysheep said:
I was at UConn 2008-2012. Fan-wise, I've seen the good (while Donald Brown was around, FF with Hash) and the bad (recent football and basketball). I thought about this at the bar today. There are many factors that go in to our poor fan showing.

In general, we play way too many games off-campus, and dorm cable makes it reeeeeeally easy to chill in your room and get drunk there and not worry about a ride, paying for parking, tailgating, getting caught doing whatever you do, bad weather, etc. There isn't any way to tailgate for the XL games; it's drink as much before/on the bus as you can. Not to mention there aren't many buses that go there. Getting rides is hard because you can't have a car until you have 54 credits.

With basketball, the student sections are awful. I don't need to go in to this one.

The lottery system is a joke. The best way to not get freshmen in to UConn basketball is to make it nearly impossible for them to get tickets without shelling out. A lot of people at UConn are douchey as hell and just keep the tickets to sell

Our teams have not been great these last couple years. Nothing kills interest worse or faster than losing. And we've been losing to some bad teams lately. Our fan base is used to winning. I'm not saying that excuses them from showing up and supporting if they got the tickets, but it is what it is. Unfortunately, our fan base is not comprised completely of 'yarders.

In the end, it's all about students. They set the tone, and they make the atmosphere. Our players don't feed off of grampy and grammie sitting quietly eating their pretzels. They feed off the kids in the front row beating on the endzone padding during kickoffs. Pitt doesn't take down ranked teams at Peterson because a lot of people came from off campus.
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Well written and not much I can disagree with. You make great points but not much in way of solutions.

As a recent grad, aside from the obvious winning and more buses to XL games, any ideas of what can be done to get the entire student body to buy in?
 
babysheep said:
I was at UConn 2008-2012. Fan-wise, I've seen the good (while Donald Brown was around, FF with Hash) and the bad (recent football and basketball). I thought about this at the bar today. There are many factors that go in to our poor fan showing.

In general, we play way too many games off-campus, and dorm cable makes it reeeeeeally easy to chill in your room and get drunk there and not worry about a ride, paying for parking, tailgating, getting caught doing whatever you do, bad weather, etc. There isn't any way to tailgate for the XL games; it's drink as much before/on the bus as you can. Not to mention there aren't many buses that go there. Getting rides is hard because you can't have a car until you have 54 credits.

With basketball, the student sections are awful. I don't need to go in to this one.

The lottery system is a joke. The best way to not get freshmen in to UConn basketball is to make it nearly impossible for them to get tickets without shelling out. A lot of people at UConn are douchey as hell and just keep the tickets to sell

Our teams have not been great these last couple years. Nothing kills interest worse or faster than losing. And we've been losing to some bad teams lately. Our fan base is used to winning. I'm not saying that excuses them from showing up and supporting if they got the tickets, but it is what it is. Unfortunately, our fan base is not comprised completely of 'yarders.

In the end, it's all about students. They set the tone, and they make the atmosphere. Our players don't feed off of grampy and grammie sitting quietly eating their pretzels. They feed off the kids in the front row beating on the endzone padding during kickoffs. Pitt doesn't take down ranked teams at Peterson because a lot of people came from off campus. And the students are the ones who keep UConn pride strong and ongoing. I don't think they deserve to drive their broke asses 30 minutes in to Hartford and back half the time they want to see their team play.
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So the problem is UConn students need to be drunk to do anything?
 
I think cell phones should be banned from the student sections. Not sure how to do it, but it should be done.
 
BoatShow said:
I think cell phones should be banned from the student sections. Not sure how to do it, but it should be done.
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Good luck. As a teacher, if you figure this out let me know so I can use it in my school. Cell phones are the downfall of our society!

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BoatShow said:
So the problem is UConn students need to be drunk to do anything?
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I was thinking the same thing until I realized I can't remember the last time I went to a sporting event where I didn't have a few pops.

Hell, I don't recall watching one on TV without suckin back on Grandpa's old cough medicine.
 
UCFBfan said:
Good luck. As a teacher, if you figure this out let me know so I can use it in my school. Cell phones are the downfall of our society!

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Haha, same here. You can get portable signal breakers that block out wifi/4G. (a colleague used one) So many times this year kids just buried their faces in cell phones at games. Probably tweeting "at the rent go uconn #huskiesbiggestfan" without ever cheering.
 
This is mainly about basketball because honestly I'm not as experienced with football games because of the above reasons. I've been to maybe 20 games. But in my opinion, the football student section is okay, but they just don't have much to cheer about. Our team just needs to start winning again.

I've said from the beginning we need a better student section organization. You've seen the Gampel student section, but if you were from Alaska and were dropped in during a game, you'd have no idea where it is. Our kids can't even wear their student section shirts to the game. It's either that or they don't have one because they were forced to buy the tickets from someone who won the stupid lottery, who also has the shirt (what is it with college kids and free shirts). You've seen the Kansas student section. Can you imagine the energy those kids feel among each other when they do their pregame stuff? Every time I watch a Kansas game, I want to be in there with those kids. No wonder they have Gameday come to campus like every year. We have the profile of a program that deserves a student section like that. It's like our kids somehow don't get that.

We need to get rid of the lottery system. Single file line, branching out at the doors with ID scanners. First come, first serve. You want to be on tv? Camp out. It's no big deal for kids at Cuse, UNC, Duke, OSU, etc.

Will never happen, but make the student section like the Pitt, MSU, Michigan (go figure, all great student sections) and have it loop low around to court.

Unfortunately a lot of this depends on the students themselves, who are all lazy sh!ts. I'd know; I used to be one.
 
formerlurker said:
I was thinking the same thing until I realized I can't remember the last time I went to a sporting event where I didn't have a few pops.

Hell, I don't recall watching one on TV without suckin back on Grandpa's old cough medicine.
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Yeahhhhhhh lol. Thing about these kids though is that they drink every night Thursday-Saturday. They can't be sober for a Tuesday night game at the XL or Saturday at noon?
 
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BoatShow said:
Yeahhhhhhh lol. Thing about these kids though is that they drink every night Thursday-Saturday. They can't be sober for a Tuesday night game at the XL or Saturday at noon?
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You guys are out of touch! All the dedicated kids you see at the front of the line for every game are drinking. Well not ALL, but a good amount.

It's a great excuse to get drunk.
 
BoatShow said:
Yeahhhhhhh lol. Thing about these kids though is that they drink every night Thursday-Saturday. They can't be sober for a Tuesday night game at the XL or Saturday at noon?
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We all know that a good portion of college students will drink to excess at a sporting event. I know I did.

As an adult, I never miss a game but also enjoy a few cocktails because I'm old enough to be responsible and understand the dire consequences if I drive drunk. These are kids and honestly, I'd rather they watch off-campus games ON campus if they're not yet smart enough to stay sober or use a designated driver.

We either find a way to get students to stop drinking or come up with a full proof plan to get them to and from away games safely.

Good luck with the first option.
 
formerlurker said:
We all know that a good portion of college students will drink to excess at a sporting event. I know I did.

As an adult, I never miss a game but also enjoy a few cocktails because I'm old enough to be responsible and understand the dire consequences if I drive drunk. These are kids and honestly, I'd rather they watch off-campus games ON campus if they're not yet smart enough to stay sober or use a designated driver.

We either find a way to get students to stop drinking or come up with a full proof plan to get them to and from away games safely.

Good luck with the first option.
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I think they should try to upgrade the bus situation. A chunk of the money from the state should go to getting coach buses to the Rent/XL. Stuffing all these college kids into school buses is awful.
 
I lived close enough to campus (Vernon) so getting home was never a problem and my best friend's dad has had season tickets since forever so my transport to the Rent was never an issue. Maybe I just can't relate!
 
formerlurker said:
We either find a way to get students to stop drinking
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Yeah you're right, good luck with that one! But the solution is really simple: all home games at Gampel. The Storrs center is coming together too. The football situation is fine. There are plenty of buses.
 
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babysheep said:
Yeah you're right, good luck with that one! But the solution is really simple: all home games at Gampel. The Storrs center is coming together too. The football situation is fine. There are plenty of buses.
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At least post my full statement before responding:

"We either find a way to get students to stop drinking or come up with a full proof plan to get them to and from away games safely."
 
I agree, but I think we can make the basketball situation better more simply. Do we really need to play at XL? I understand it's a bigger place so it makes more money (right?) but it really does take a toll, and not just because everyone wants to be drunk.
 
babysheep said:
I agree, but I think we can make the basketball situation better more simply. Do we really need to play at XL? I understand it's a bigger place so it makes more money (right?) but it really does take a toll, and not just because everyone wants to be drunk.
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Yes, games are held at XL because of money.

I'd love a bigger on-campus BB arena, right next door to an 80,000 seat football stadium. But that's not economically feasible at this point. We need to build the fan base despite of our current situation. That's the only way we gain enough revenue to ever see a complete, Storrs based athletic campus.

Even if that ever happens, do we end up adding student participation while losing the lucrative Fairfield County fanbase because of the nightmare game day commute? I'm not smart enough to know the answer to that question.
 
I'm of the opinion that we should provide full service limos for the students. They deserve it, right?

School buses more than suffice. Coach buses is the most ridiculous recommendation yet. How does that increase attendance?

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