Rutgers officially out

[Pudge]

Merit on both sides ... I think.

We really haven't marketed and sold that Rentschler seating as well as it should have been (I blame Hathaway). But, geez, 35,000+ averages and most years we had good season ticket sales. I believe we could have a solid emotional Diaco and really build towards a better place. Hoop too. But ... winning and spirit and connectedness in the fanbase has to be a consistent thing. We draw well for our history; we can be a far better brand.

 

[rich1122]

Glad you were there Hank. I'll leave it here until I come back in a few weeks and irritate you more. I constantly hear the problem is Academics Susan Warde Hathaway GDl PP Recruiting, Big Donors. The fact is we are going nowhere unless the place fills up. The trend started long ago and I really hope that Diaco can do something to invigorate the fan base. Would we have filled every seat for MI if not for their fans? The fact is that SY, Lville RU and MD made and we did not so we have stop whining and blaming everything else, and go to games.. They get more we get less - bottom line. And Hank and I can't be the only guys left there at end of the game no matter how cold. . Jimmy I'm exactly correct on this. If we had 38K every game we would have had the invite. long ago, notwithstanding the PP GDL mess.

 

[Adios]

Not to let facts get in the way of stupid comments, but I was at the Memphis game utnil the end.

So was I. High five?

 

[rich1122]

So was I. High five?

 

[RedSoloCup]

You are Rich are so painfully wrong on this it hurts my head.

Yes, the B1G took RU and Maryland because of their winning traditions, packed home games, and huge traveling fanbases. Rutgers had so many fans at the Rent last November I was seeing red for a week.

Hmm, geez, all those fans packing the Maryland game when our team went down... I didn't realize it was costume day and many were dressed as seats! I was there. In ND and in MI, the crowd at the game thinned out after the half... I was there. I didn't make Birmingham, did the USC fans leave early? I am sure someone knows, but it won't matter to those that p1ss and moan.

Jimmy, you won't win. The 25K turned to 20K. You can fight the good fight but pretty soon the rant will be that the only fan was a players mom.

 

[Fishy]

Always have to remind you what the real problem is. Everybody likes to dance around it, but it is the issue for any move to another conference. We don't draw and we have to change it. At the end of the Memphis game I could literally count the fans left. Same for he RU game. Most of you guys either did not show or had been long gone so pleae don't lecture me on my act. We need to fill it every week and people can't leave early.

Liar.

 

[J187Money]

If we had 38K every game we would have had the invite. long ago, notwithstanding the PP GDL mess.

Maybe you can get in the time machine with Freescooter - you can convince more people to come to the games. He can make sure Warde doesn't go to the beach.

I can see it now: Miami/FSU/Clemson capitulate because "damn - how can you leave out a school that puts 38K in the seats!!"

 

[rich1122]

Liar.

S

Liar.

We can count you as a person who did not show up for that game.

 

[rich1122]

Hmm, geez, all those fans packing the Maryland game when our team went down... I didn't realize it was costume day and many were dressed as seats! I was there. In ND and in MI, the crowd at the game thinned out after the half... I was there. I didn't make Birmingham, did the USC fans leave early? I am sure someone knows, but it won't matter to those that p1ss and moan.

Jimmy, you won't win. The 25K turned to 20K. You can fight the good fight but pretty soon the rant will be that the only fan was a players mom.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

I still don't get how we can fit 38k people in a 25k seat stadium?

 

[Fishy]

I still don't get how we can fit 38k people in a 25k seat stadium?

Have you tried just making s--- up?

It works for the troll.

 

[Dooley]

RU had 17,000 people in the stands (but they announce attendance by tickets sold) for their game against USF to gain bowl eligibility. Louisville was getting 20,000s crowds at the end of the Kragthorpe era. BC can't fill their stadium. Pitt plays in front of 45,000 yellow seats every home game. Syracuse can't get anyone inside of their climate-controlled dome for football games. Attendance has been steadily declining around the country for years, thanks to HDTVs and readily available content on the thousands of channels and websites. Sure, UCONN needs to improve attendance. The first step in doing that was dumping the old regime and getting a fresh start. Diaco and staff's positive energy is contagious and I think the fanbase has been energized. By the time games start, I think many fans will give the team a chance. If they like what they see on the field and have a good time, they will come back. It's that simple.

 

[rich1122]

OK you guys win. We do not have a long term attendance problem and miraculously we will fill the stadium and the ACC and Big1G will be at our door step. And everybody will stay till the end of the game.

 

[specialisthusky]

OK you guys win. We do not have a long term attendance problem and miraculously we will fill the stadium and the ACC and Big1G will be at our door step. And everybody will stay till the end of the game.

You know that there is a way to discuss the issues that surround this program without sounding like a total /troll, right?

ditching the hyperbole would be a good start.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

OK you guys win. We do not have a long term attendance problem and miraculously we will fill the stadium and the ACC and Big1G will be at our door step. And everybody will stay till the end of the game.

Aren't you moving down south? You gonna fly up for every home game with your #1 Fan foam finger waving at the end of every game?

 

[noeynox]

OK you guys win. We do not have a long term attendance problem and miraculously we will fill the stadium and the ACC and Big1G will be at our door step. And everybody will stay till the end of the game.

Because you can't post a picture like that from RU, BC, SU, Pitt, etc. you know the teams that moved to other conferences already. Right, they are always full start to finish. Your so full sheet.

 

[Dooley]

Sweet! I like to post pics too! When do you expect to see Miami, Fruit, BC, Rutty, Louisville, Pitt and Maryland to join the AAC?

 

[Dooley]

 

[UConn9604]

I didn't make Birmingham, did the USC fans leave early? I am sure someone knows, but it won't matter to those that p1ss and moan.

Assuming that your question wasn't rhetorical, yes. They left early, for two reasons. One, it was cold (colder in Birmingham than in Hartford that day), and they showed up in sweatshirts and without gloves.

Two, Andre Dixon tore them up like his name was General Sherman, and their brigades of SUVs (they really did travel very well) hit the road and headed for home.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

If it's all about attendance then why did BYU get left out of a P5? They averaged over 61K for this past year. Does UCONN need to increase attendance. Obviously yes. Is that why we didn't get chosen, no way. You're either naive or being disingenuous to think that any league's primary concern is stadium attendace. Does stadium attendance increase TV contracts? That's what the P5 conferences are concerned with, securing the largest TV contract they can. It's about what can a market do for the league. NJ, it's population, plethora of top quality HS recruits and proximity to NY made it an attractive target. Ditto MD.
I was at the Memphis game, but can't remember how long I stayed. They were winning big and I was freezing, so my guess is somewhere late in the 4th quarter.

 

[Dooley]

Assuming that your question wasn't rhetorical, yes. They left early, for two reasons. One, it was cold (colder in Birmingham than in Hartford that day), and they showed up in sweatshirts and without gloves.

Two, Andre Dixon tore them up like his name was General Sherman, and their brigades of SUVs (they really did travel very well) hit the road and headed for home.

That Husky team was, by far, my favorite. Hard-nosed, tough team that would punch teams in the mouth and quickly get up off the mat when their opponent punched them. They dominated USCe that day.

 

[UConn9604]

That Husky team was, by far, my favorite. Hard-nosed, tough team that would punch teams in the mouth and quickly get up off the mat when their opponent punched them. They dominated USCe that day.

This is off-topic for this thread, but that 2009 team might be my favorite sports team of all time (it's definitely up there). No team has given me any wider swings of emotion than that squad. Five losses, by a total of 15 points. Just a great group of guys and the main reason I went to Birmingham was because I'd have done just about anything to see 60 more minutes of football from that team.

 

[DoctorWho85]

That Husky team was, by far, my favorite. Hard-nosed, tough team that would punch teams in the mouth and quickly get up off the mat when their opponent punched them. They dominated USCe that day.

I will never forget that day. I was nervous all day because every talking head and SEC homer wasn't giving UConn a chance. Then the game started and it was utter domination the whole game. I was rooting for a shut out, but that got ruined on a garbage TD.

 

[rich1122]

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You know that there is a way to discuss the issues that surround this program without sounding like a total /troll, right?

ditching the hyperbole would be a good start.

By pointing out that we have an attendance problem makes me a ? Wow we are a little bit thin skinned are we? The fact is that the other teams were chosen and we were not. Stop making all of the other excuses why or why not. We either get people in seats or we don't. If not we go nowhere. (That's being a ?)

You make it sound like I don't like the team or the Diaco hire or the new staff, which is absurd. I have been to every game every spring game and every signing day. Nobody supports more than I do.

Maybe we got it right this time. I hope the paradigm has shifted.

You guys just have to stop whining like babies.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

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By pointing out that we have an attendance problem makes me a ? Wow we are a little bit thin skinned are we? The fact is that the other teams were chosen and we were not. Stop making all of the other excuses why or why not. We either get people in seats or we don't. If not we go nowhere. (That's being a ?)

You make it sound like I don't like the team or the Diaco hire or the new staff, which is absurd. I have been to every game every spring game and every signing day. Nobody supports more than I do.

Maybe we got it right this time. I hope the paradigm has shifted.

You guys just have to stop whining like babies.

Nobody is whining like babies. We're just saying you're wrong about why we didn't get chosen. And we've provided strong evidence. It does sound like you're trolling your fellow UConn fans.

 

[J187Money]

OK you guys win. We do not have a long term attendance problem and miraculously we will fill the stadium and the ACC and Big1G will be at our door step. And everybody will stay till the end of the game.

Nobody stays in ANY stadium until the end of the game when there is nothing on the line. I've said this before, but my old boss went to Tallahassee this fall to see Cuse/FSU. NOBODY was there after HALFTIME. And they won the National Championship. So bitching about things that aren't possible is pretty stupid. And saying that attendance is the reason we got passed over is equally silly. Rutgers was always going to get in before us unless we somehow moved the campus to NJ.

When we won, people came. When we stopped winning, they stopped coming. If we end up 9-1 in November and ranked and nobody shows up, I'll believe you. But *I* believe we'd be packed to the gills if that was the case. It never has been. Win.

 

[J187Money]

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By pointing out that we have an attendance problem makes me a ? Wow we are a little bit thin skinned are we? The fact is that the other teams were chosen and we were not. Stop making all of the other excuses why or why not. We either get people in seats or we don't. If not we go nowhere. (That's being a ?)

You make it sound like I don't like the team or the Diaco hire or the new staff, which is absurd. I have been to every game every spring game and every signing day. Nobody supports more than I do.

Maybe we got it right this time. I hope the paradigm has shifted.

You guys just have to stop whining like babies.

It's a winning problem. We haven't been winning at football for long enough. The program is not respected enough by the people that make these decisions. We need to win and force their hand. And if we do win enough, we won't be talking about attendance problems.

(or maybe you were the guy posting about how nobody filled the field house in 1982 and how we were never going to go anywhere in hoops until people started coming to the games)

 

[rich1122]

I appreciate that everybody disagrees and has stopped the name calling. I think attendance is the problem an you guys don't. I appreciate many points of view. I will leave you with this. Who is in and who is out. You can find each team - hit the Search Again button above the Cuse chart.
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/...crowds_in_201.html?appSession=029437076240734



Assuming that numbers are fudged evenly attendance vs turnstile shows the bottom two teams did not get invites and the others did. Enjoy the snow. See you at the spring game.

2013 Avg attendance

CT 31,000
Cincy 32,000
SU 38,000
MD 39,000
RU 47,000
Lville 52,000

 

[Dooley]

O

By pointing out that we have an attendance problem makes me a ? Wow we are a little bit thin skinned are we? The fact is that the other teams were chosen and we were not. Stop making all of the other excuses why or why not. We either get people in seats or we don't. If not we go nowhere. (That's being a ?)

You make it sound like I don't like the team or the Diaco hire or the new staff, which is absurd. I have been to every game every spring game and every signing day. Nobody supports more than I do.

Maybe we got it right this time. I hope the paradigm has shifted.

You guys just have to stop whining like babies.

We all know UCONN's attendance has declined in the past few seasons. Losing does that. Scroll up and you'll see the same thing occurs at other places across the country (and at schools that were recently invited to a P5 conference). But how about taking a different approach with your attendance crusade? Most of the guys on this board are season ticket holders and as avid a UCONN fan as you will find. The 'Yarders who live out of town do everything possible to follow the team and support the school. We're not the casual crowd showing up late and leaving games at halftime. We're part of the diehard fan segment that tries to promote the school, the program and the atmosphere to casual fans in hopes of making new diehard fans. Instead of complaining that attendance dwindled under Pasqualoni (like Louisville's did under Kragthorpe, BC's has for decades, Pitt's always does when not playing ND or WVU, the Fruit's has since Pasqualoni, and Miami's has for as long as they play sports in Miami), how's about you turn some negative energy into positive and come up with ways to improve attendance and enhance the game day experience? You're obviously as big of a fan as we all are here if you were at the Memphis game and saw the scoreboard clock read 00:00. Go out and recruit more fans. It's a new era for UCONN football and positive things are happening. Time for us fans to catch up with the positive energy, embrace it, and look forward.

 

[Dooley]

I appreciate that everybody disagrees and has stopped the name calling. I think attendance is the problem an you guys don't. I appreciate many points of view. I will leave you with this. Who is in and who is out. You can find each team.
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/...crowds_in_201.html?appSession=029437076240734



Assuming that numbers are fudged evenly attendance vs turnstile shows the bottom two teams did not get invites and the others did. Enjoy the snow. See you at the spring game.

2013 Avg attendance

CT 31,000
Cincy 32,000
SU 38,000
MD 39,000
RU 47,000
Lville 52,000

Just FYI, UCONN reports tickets scanned at the gate. Hence why it reported the lousy attendance figures for Memphis, Rutgers, and Louisville games. Other schools (ex - Rutgers) reports tickets sold. While RU sold some 38,000 for their last game at USF, its' been widely reported/speculated that 17,000 (the same number we had for Memphis to watch two 2-win teams) fans actually showed up to watch their team try to gain bowl eligibility. When UCONN wins again and has a home game to try to gain bowl eligibility, we are getting MUCH more than 17,000 at the Rent.