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I can tell you when I had them in the 90's I was seated on the Gampel side in the metal bleachers...they were great seats right above the visiting team bench 20-25' from the field. If I had to guess maybe 4000 to 5000.
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As the momentum was building for us to play in the Big East, I find the student season ticket head count interesting.
"UConn’s season-ticket base for 2002 stands at a school record of approximately 11,300 while the Huskies have also sold a record of approximately 600 student season-tickets."
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so in 2002 they had 11,300 at Memorial (?) And we're at roughly 15,000 now (?) Holy .
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Agreed. How many times did we hear people last year saying they had an extra pair of tickets and couldn't find anyone to take it for free?
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I was able to sell BYU. Everything else couldn't even be given away.
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Most of the time.
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Win. Football. Games.
Sure having the old Big East foes on the schedule would help, but you cannot reasonably expect to increase season ticket sales coming off a 2-10 season where the last two home games of the year featured UConn getting waxed 41-0 to Cincy and then losing 27-20 to one of the worst teams in FBS.
Sure having the old Big East foes on the schedule would help, but you cannot reasonably expect to increase season ticket sales coming off a 2-10 season where the last two home games of the year featured UConn getting waxed 41-0 to Cincy and then losing 27-20 to one of the worst teams in FBS.
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It was a foregone conclusion by about week 2 last season, that this season would be the worst ticket sales season in Rentschler history unless something significantly changed with the actual product on the field. Nothing changed and it got worse.
The good news, is that the football program at this point pretty much knows who and how many it's true core fanbase is. Whatever the number is. I suspect those of us that actually go to the game Sept. 3, will know how many. The stadium will be one of those half-full situations I would guess.
The reality is that we are 15-33 overall since going 8-4 in 2010 and losing the Fiesta Bowl and we have an abysmal home field record. We are 11-16 at home since 2010. (4-17 on the road).
2011 was the last winning season at home with a 4-3 record. We went from 11/9/12 to 11/30/13 without a single win at home. If you play numbers games, and remove the Casey Cochran starts at the end of 2013, which you can pretty much do, since Casey was really the only reason we competed on offense, in any time b/w 2012 and 2014, we are quite literally a Deshon Foxx punt return against Stony Brook from not winning a single home game from the Pitt game in Nov. 2012, until the Nor-easter freezing rain out of the Florida team from Orlando to initiate the Civil Conflict in Nov. 2014.
Think about that for a second. Minus Casey Cochran's very brief career as the starting QB at UCONN, we went nearly 2 complete calendar years without a home field win. Deshon Foxx's return against fekking Stony Brook being the only consolation, and imagine, just imagine if the weather wasn't what it was aginst UCF in Nov. 2014.
The fanbase at UCONN was built on winning games at home. That's what Edsall did. He found a way to build a team that dominated the field at Rentschler against everyone except West Virginia really.
Until we can start winning at home again, like we used to in the late 00s, I'm not going to be concerned about the fans and ticket sales. If we are winning again, and the stadium isn't full, then we've got a problem, but I'll believe that to be a problem when I see it. hasn't happened.
The good news, is that the football program at this point pretty much knows who and how many it's true core fanbase is. Whatever the number is. I suspect those of us that actually go to the game Sept. 3, will know how many. The stadium will be one of those half-full situations I would guess.
The reality is that we are 15-33 overall since going 8-4 in 2010 and losing the Fiesta Bowl and we have an abysmal home field record. We are 11-16 at home since 2010. (4-17 on the road).
2011 was the last winning season at home with a 4-3 record. We went from 11/9/12 to 11/30/13 without a single win at home. If you play numbers games, and remove the Casey Cochran starts at the end of 2013, which you can pretty much do, since Casey was really the only reason we competed on offense, in any time b/w 2012 and 2014, we are quite literally a Deshon Foxx punt return against Stony Brook from not winning a single home game from the Pitt game in Nov. 2012, until the Nor-easter freezing rain out of the Florida team from Orlando to initiate the Civil Conflict in Nov. 2014.
Think about that for a second. Minus Casey Cochran's very brief career as the starting QB at UCONN, we went nearly 2 complete calendar years without a home field win. Deshon Foxx's return against fekking Stony Brook being the only consolation, and imagine, just imagine if the weather wasn't what it was aginst UCF in Nov. 2014.
The fanbase at UCONN was built on winning games at home. That's what Edsall did. He found a way to build a team that dominated the field at Rentschler against everyone except West Virginia really.
Until we can start winning at home again, like we used to in the late 00s, I'm not going to be concerned about the fans and ticket sales. If we are winning again, and the stadium isn't full, then we've got a problem, but I'll believe that to be a problem when I see it. hasn't happened.
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15 isn't as bad as I could have been. I thought anything above 18 was good and 13 was a disaster. I thought 20 was completely out of reach.
2002 and ticket prices have nothing to do with it. It's the product on the field, the play, the results, and the opponents all of it.
My guess is we are looking at the last holdouts. If no new conference and another hopeless season will send attendance back through the floor. A little better schedule may entice a few to stick around, but we sure aren't attracting new fans.
2002 and ticket prices have nothing to do with it. It's the product on the field, the play, the results, and the opponents all of it.
My guess is we are looking at the last holdouts. If no new conference and another hopeless season will send attendance back through the floor. A little better schedule may entice a few to stick around, but we sure aren't attracting new fans.
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Good thing we play in East Hartford so its easier for all those extra season ticket holders to get there
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Winning is the most important thing, it's the first step, but it's far from the only thing. Number two is playing teams we care about and that's not something people are going to warm up to in the AAC. I know, not saying anything earth shattering, but OOC becomes that much more critical.
After that there's a significant drop to things like game day experience (improving) and pricing and everything else.
Point is, it's all important, and no one should think we have the luxury of ONLY winning curing all our ills - it's only the first step.
After that there's a significant drop to things like game day experience (improving) and pricing and everything else.
Point is, it's all important, and no one should think we have the luxury of ONLY winning curing all our ills - it's only the first step.
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The other intangible that we aren't talking about is playing exciting football. Winning is most important, but if we can play in a way that is fun to watch, you'll get more butts in the stands.
What has driven me nuts about the team over the last few seasons is that on offense we are completely non-creative and boring in our approach. Offenses can succeed by having overwhelming athleticism or a tremendous system. Clearly we haven't had the athletes in quite some time, but if you can outplan and out-execute an opposing team's defense you can win. You can't do that by abandoning the passing game and running dives off tackle 95% of the time.
Our offenses are not only ineffective, but is boring as hell to watch.
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it does become a question of, if we run the table in the AAC, does THAT get people jacked up enough to spend the $$$ on season tickets? Would it move the needle?
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To me winning football will breed season ticket sales...a winning program all of the sudden will put UCONN in the talk when CR gets mentioned..the down cycles will be able to get isolated like UL's did. But fact of the matter is games have to be won. The OOC schedule is getting better too so that will help.
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Right now, I think a lot of people don't actually believe the football team will ever get us out of this crappy situation so they see no reason to pour money into the program. Win the AAC and you could probably gain a lot of momentum by selling the "We need to sell tickets to look more attractive to the B1G" angle. It's a show me attitude that most hardcores on a message board neither have nor approve of but that's just the way it is.
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I'm telling.
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Basketball is a different animal obviously but the XL Center was overflowing with fans for the AAC title game. If we're 10-2 and 8-0 in the league which should have us at least hovering near the top 25 do you think there'd be a problem getting at least high 38k or so to an AAC Title Game at the Rent? An inch of snow could be the only thing keeping fans away.
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From an original group of 8, down to just me. Ordered 2 reserved seats today out of a sheer sense of obligation. I don't know exactly how many games I will make due to my own kids activities/schedules, but If I know I can't make it and can't get rid of them I'll offer them up here with a parking pass for free. Let's go Huskies, beat NoVa.
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The XL Center was overflowing with fans for the AAC title game, but the sad thing is that none of the games leading up to the championship were anywhere near as crowded. We're lucky Uconn even went that far, otherwise it would have been an embarrassing ghost town.
That being said, if UConn is sporting a record like that, I'd expect the Rent to get close to 40K. In the immortal words of David Puddy, "You gotta support the team!"
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I just clicked on the link (Wife works for HHC). According to the UConnhuskies website, seats in the upper corners are made available for that promotion (At least for Navy). When you don't put in the promotional code, it looks like the Navy game will be pretty well attended, but I fear they are pulling a BYU-2014 again. We may purchase tickets for Navy just to get my wife and son in the building, but they will sit with the tailgate group in the lower bowl.
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What really moves the needle on attendance and viewership is more than winning while playing exciting football. It's having a superstar everyone wants to see play. Star power sells. Arkeel Newsome could be a breakout star. Maybe it's Shireffs. Diaco can be one of those guys.
Now add in promotion and you create a buzz. The Rent is where it's at and where you should be. There's lots to do to make it happen and we've hashed that out in past years. As for right now it's a simple progression:
Beat Nova, win again, win some more, excite the crowd even in a loss, promote the stars, advertise the product, go to a Bowl, rinse and repeat.
Now add in promotion and you create a buzz. The Rent is where it's at and where you should be. There's lots to do to make it happen and we've hashed that out in past years. As for right now it's a simple progression:
Beat Nova, win again, win some more, excite the crowd even in a loss, promote the stars, advertise the product, go to a Bowl, rinse and repeat.
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I agree it would have been a ghost town if UConn did not make it to finals. But I think you can say that for any AAC tourney where the home team does not win. We had a group of 10 that went to Memphis for the first AAC tourney. After UConn beat Memphis we got 10 tickets for $50 ( $ 5 per ticket ) for semis and finals. There may have been 2,000 - 3000 people there for those 2 games.
Unfortunately I don't think it would have been an embarrassment for Hartford , as much as the AAC
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