2021 Recruiting: Rocket Watts rumor

[MU in MKE]

So can we talk about the utter lack of bars near campus?? This seems to be the appropriate place to discuss. During a former career right out of college, I spent a lot of time at a LOT of colleges and universities. I had never had such a difficult time finding an establishment as I had whenever I was at UConn. Why is this?? (Really am curious)


Oh and ummm.... Rocket Watts!

 

[gtcam]

Sure thing Cheif00....

What does this mean?

 

[UCSouth]

What does this mean?

It was a reply to another poster who is his biggest fan. Intentionally misspelled.

 

[Guapo]

So can we talk about the utter lack of bars near campus?? This seems to be the appropriate place to discuss. During a former career right out of college, I spent a lot of time at a LOT of colleges and universities. I had never had such a difficult time finding an establishment as I had whenever I was at UConn. Why is this?? (Really am curious)


Oh and ummm.... Rocket Watts!

There are 3 bars that are, essentially, on campus. If you know you know.

 

[8893]

So can we talk about the utter lack of bars near campus?? This seems to be the appropriate place to discuss. During a former career right out of college, I spent a lot of time at a LOT of colleges and universities. I had never had such a difficult time finding an establishment as I had whenever I was at UConn. Why is this?? (Really am curious)

Did you not ask anyone when you were actually at UConn? Huskies and Ted's have been in operation for decades. They are as close to campus as you can get, literally bordering the property line.

 

[Get a Job]

Did you not ask anyone when you were actually at UConn? Huskies and Ted's have been in operation for decades. They are as close to campus as you can get, literally bordering the property line.

And then there's that one above Sgt. Pep's. I think it has had a few names over the years. The latest one I recall is The Thirsty Dog.

 

[HuskyHawk]

There are 3 bars that are, essentially, on campus. If you know you know.

Did you not ask anyone when you were actually at UConn? Huskies and Ted's have been in operation for decades. They are as close to campus as you can get, literally bordering the property line.

I get that there are very few bars in the vicinity of campus, compared to most big state schools. But I recall that Ted's used to run ads saying it was "one foot off campus", because it is. Living in Frats for two years, the walk to Ted's and Huskies was not exactly arduous.

 

[BackAftaThis]

I get that there are very few bars in the vicinity of campus, compared to most big state schools. But I recall that Ted's used to run ads saying it was "one foot off campus", because it is. Living in Frats for two years, the walk to Ted's and Huskies was not exactly arduous.

UConn is not a bar school. It's a house party school (which I greatly preferred). As seniors, we used the bars on weekends for pregames but frequented more during the week for their specials.

 

[imno1]

I get that there are very few bars in the vicinity of campus, compared to most big state schools. But I recall that Ted's used to run ads saying it was "one foot off campus", because it is. Living in Frats for two years, the walk to Ted's and Huskies was not exactly arduous.

The walk back was tougher

 

[Get a Job]

UConn is not a bar school. It's a house party school (which I greatly preferred). As seniors, we used the bars on weekends for pregames but frequented more during the week for their specials.

Same. I don't know if I ever went to a bar on a Friday or Saturday a single time while at UConn, with the possible exception of a Kegs and Eggs.

 

[Guapo]

I will not have Nickel Night besmirched or ignored!

 

[CL82]

For those of us who are a little bit older, we remember the pub in the student union. It was pretty convenient, although not as convenient as the kegs and grain punch which were pretty much on every other floor Thurs and Friday.

 

[storrsroars]

For those of us who are a little bit older, we remember the pub in the student union. It was pretty convenient, although not as convenient as the kegs and grain punch which were pretty much on every other floor Thurs and Friday.

I remember it well, mostly because I was arrested there for punching out ceiling tiles.

The best part about that story was the court appearance. Prior to my case, there were a couple of male students who were in court for shoplifting women's lingerie. Their excuse was that it was for Halloween, but pretty much everyone in court got giggity listening to the explanation.

 

[CL82]

I remember it well, mostly because I was arrested there for punching out ceiling tiles.

The best part about that story was the court appearance. Prior to my case, there were a couple of male students who were in court for shoplifting women's lingerie. Their excuse was that it was for Halloween, but pretty much everyone in court got giggity listening to the explanation.

“Son, can you explain why you punched out the ceiling tiles?”

“Because... alcohol?”

 

[Waquoit]

That student union pub was like drinking beer in a classroom, grim.

 

[8893]

I will not have Nickel Night besmirched or ignored!

Thank God we didn't have cellphones, much less ones with cameras in them.

 

[Lefty2one]

Thank God we didn't have cellphones, much less ones with phones in them.

Cell phones without phones, you say?

 

[pierogiscri]

UConn is not a bar school. It's a house party school (which I greatly preferred). As seniors, we used the bars on weekends for pregames but frequented more during the week for their specials.

Class of 2020 here, in my experience good luck going to a house party with more than 20 people that's not getting busted by the cops before 11. It seems like the only people who can take the fines associated with throwing bangers are frat's, and those are exclusive as all hell.

 

[8893]

Cell phones without phones, you say?

Ha! Ooops!

 

[TRest]

Someone may know the answer to this, but I believe the lack of bars in the actual town of Mansfield would be related to the maximum number of liquor permits the state allows per municipality/population. Back when I managed a package store in the 80's, there was a finite number of permits in each town and you had to buy an existing one to open your own store.

 

[Guapo]

Class of 2020 here, in my experience good luck going to a house party with more than 20 people that's not getting busted by the cops before 11. It seems like the only people who can take the fines associated with throwing bangers are frat's, and those are exclusive as all hell.

I graduated in 2013, maybe the last class to get the full UConn experience. Sorry about that, y’all got a raw deal in way more ways than one.

 

[BackAftaThis]

Class of 2020 here, in my experience good luck going to a house party with more than 20 people that's not getting busted by the cops before 11. It seems like the only people who can take the fines associated with throwing bangers are frat's, and those are exclusive as all hell.

Woof. I graduated in 2010 (was in a frat too). I heard a lot changed since I graduated (I believe I was the last, if not the next to last year to get the real spring weekend experience). But what you just said makes me cringe.

 

[goskis2018]

UConn is not a bar school. It's a house party school (which I greatly preferred). As seniors, we used the bars on weekends for pregames but frequented more during the week for their specials.

UConn may once have been a house-party school, but it's more of a no-party school now. I graduated in 2018 and every year I was there it felt like the school/town took an increasingly hardened stance. I'm sure that the Chinese Coronavirus was just the excuse UConn needed to smother what was left.

 

[CL82]

UConn may once have been a house-party school, but it's more of a no-party school now.

Don’t they understand it ain’t nothing but a house party?

 

[MU in MKE]

Did you not ask anyone when you were actually at UConn? Huskies and Ted's have been in operation for decades. They are as close to campus as you can get, literally bordering the property line.

Definitely asked! The students I worked with simply responded that most people at UConn didn't really go out to the bars. As someone from WI, a place where bars outnumber grocery stores nearly 3:1, you can understand my confusion.

My thought was that there must have been an original cause for this. As TRest said, maybe it was allotted number of licenses or such, and the culture just formed around the circumstances.