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coachcap said:
On a related point:
If 13K is a reality, UConn should offer tix at a group rate to area high schools. The first couple of years at the RENT, I distinctly remember the Southington High football team, then coach Jude Kelly & his assistants occupying a few rows in Section 105 for a game. Husky Nan & CTO even remarked about them. Couldn't hurt with local recruiting.
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We would probably get investigated for an NCAA violation but I like where your head is at.
 
Redding Husky said:
I understand. It's more fun to play schools that your friends and relatives attended. Every UConn fan knows someone who went to Syracuse or Rutgers. Very few know someone who went to SMU or Houston.

On the bright side, the quality of football is not a big drop (if any) from the Big East. Houston, UCF, and Memphis are decent teams. In the last couple years, they've beaten BYU, Pitt, and Baylor in bowl games.

Bottom line: UConn fans want to say it sucks losing local rivals, they're 1,000% correct. But if they want to say these AAC schools are no different than the MAC or Sunbelt, they're delusional.
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I think that we could live with a schedule against teams nobody cares about if we won games. We would even be ok losing in a league with teams everyone knows, the B10 or ACC in particular. It wouldn't be great but it would be tolerable. But right now we have the worst of both worlds. A league with Tulsa ( is that a real place) and Memphis (a school that makes Louisville look like Oxford) and a bad team. It is a ticket to disaster.
 
coachcap said:
On a related point:
If 13K is a reality, UConn should offer tix at a group rate to area high schools. The first couple of years at the RENT, I distinctly remember the Southington High football team, then coach Jude Kelly & his assistants occupying a few rows in Section 105 for a game. Husky Nan & CTO even remarked about them. Couldn't hurt with local recruiting.
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Definitely a good idea. Why not offer student discounts for CCSU and Eastern students as well? Most of them are UConn fans and drunken college students know how to bring the noise
 
CTMike said:
We would probably get investigated for an NCAA violation but I like where your head is at.
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I am not aware of group sales being an NCAA violation. I didn't suggest comp. tix which could be a violation.
 
freescooter said:
I think that we could live with a schedule against teams nobody cares about if we won games. We would even be ok losing in a league with teams everyone knows, the B10 or ACC in particular. It wouldn't be great but it would be tolerable. But right now we have the worst of both worlds. A league with Tulsa ( is that a real place) and Memphis (a school that makes Louisville look like Oxford) and a bad team. It is a ticket to disaster.
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Free... to your point however, we could also look at it as a plus. Almost become the "Bosie State of 2006-2013" of the East?
 
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the product is pure crap all around. fan loyalty is important but that team last year was completely unwatchable. at the level of watching paint dry.

if there's 18,000 season tickets sold by the first game i'll be surprised.
 
sanchez42885 said:
The number I'm hearing from someone I trust is 13,000 so far. No word on if that includes students or not.

Also heard about 2,000 for hockey which is considered pretty good.
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If it is not substantially higher than 13k it will be a long hard Fall season for me. One of my better friends here in Birmingham is a BC alum (northern transplants working in the same business) and if 18-200000 start showing up for games at the Rent I may have to kill him just to shut him up.
 
TheDoggPound said:
We need to rally behind all UConn sports (not just Basketball like a lot of so called UConn "fans") and let the chips fall where they may. We do that and I truly believe this is our future:

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Luv the map.

I'll take Kansas instead of Missouri if necessary. With UConn & Kansas, Big 10 basketball would be almost as good as the Big East before realignment.
 
coachcap said:
On a related point:
If 13K is a reality, UConn should offer tix at a group rate to area high schools. The first couple of years at the RENT, I distinctly remember the Southington High football team, then coach Jude Kelly & his assistants occupying a few rows in Section 105 for a game. Husky Nan & CTO even remarked about them. Couldn't hurt with local recruiting.
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It could back fire. Just sayin'
 
John Greene said:
If it is not substantially higher than 13k it will be a long hard Fall season for me. One of my better friends here in Birmingham is a BC alum (northern transplants working in the same business) and if 18-200000 start showing up for games at the Rent I may have to kill him just to shut him up.
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Start? There was less than that a couple of times last year and even back to Towson they barely had more than that.

In the building for Villanova... 20k is probably a bit optimistic.
 
whaler11 said:
Start? There was less than that a couple of times last year and even back to Towson they barely had more than that.

In the building for Villanova... 20k is probably a bit optimistic.
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Last year I was able to fight him off somewhat by it being BD's first year and the fact that his team was only a year away from a terrible season. I'm afraid that will not work this season so violence may be the only option. On second thought maybe the best thing to do is put a contract out on Addazio and hope they hire Spaz again or even better, PP, just to keep the Italian connection.
 
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Dooley said:
I really hope that all of us loyal season ticket holders are rewarded and grandfathered into our seat locations once we're invited to the B1G. :)
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Quite frankly, that should be more of a consideration - give more points for season tickets . UConn needs to learn to incent loyal customers not fight them.
 
John Greene said:
Last year I was able to fight him off somewhat by it being BD's first year and the fact that his team was only a year away from a terrible season. I'm afraid that will not work this season so violence may be the only option. On second thought maybe the best thing to do is put a contract out on Addazio and hope they hire Spaz again or even better, PP, just to keep the Italian connection.
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I guess I'd just hammer on the angle that UConn is terrible and BC is still afraid of them.
 
Attendance will still likely reach 20k+ for the opener IMO. I think most people just smartened up and know they can wait for Uconn to discount them or the lots where you can get a ticket for way below face. How the rest of the season goes depends on the product on the field. If we beat Nova handily I think we'd get 30k+ for Army.
 
sanchez42885 said:
Attendance will still likely reach 20k+ for the opener IMO. I think most people just smartened up and know they can wait for Uconn to discount them or the lots where you can get a ticket for way below face. How the rest of the season goes depends on the product on the field. If we beat Nova handily I think we'd get 30k+ for Army.
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We'll get over 30k for Army anyway. Service academies tend to draw well at away games. Geez, the corps of cadets could probably fill the whole visitors section.
 
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We announced 23543 for the Stony Brook game, for reference. Gut tells me it's close to this for Nova, but weather big factor.
 
pepband99 said:
We announced 23543 for the Stony Brook game, for reference. Gut tells me it's close to this for Nova, but weather big factor.
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They have gone back to announcing numbers that are completely disconnected from actual attendance.

So they will probably announce a number in that neighborhood but there is maybe a 1% chance they get 24k to show.
 
Stony Brook last year was Hot...I remember sitting there sweating my off.
 
freescooter said:
I think that we could live with a schedule against teams nobody cares about if we won games. We would even be ok losing in a league with teams everyone knows, the B10 or ACC in particular. It wouldn't be great but it would be tolerable. But right now we have the worst of both worlds. A league with Tulsa ( is that a real place) and Memphis (a school that makes Louisville look like Oxford) and a bad team. It is a ticket to disaster.
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Ok, the "CUSA west" schools are not Stanford. Although SMU is tied with UConn in the US News rankings, Tulane is slightly ahead of us, and Tulsa is a top 100 school.

In football, Tulsa had a lot of success in CUSA and they've won at South Bend recently. When Memphis plays well, they can get 50,000 at the Liberty Bowl.

I understand UConn fans think we deserve better than the AAC. But the schools we're with right now are not community colleges with no football tradition. They don't suck.
 
The AAC is a circle jerk.
Look at this year's home schedule. No disrespect to the Service Academies but come on. Look at the other teams that are coming.
When I hear about the donations my friends had to pay, on top of the ticket prices and the parking passes it's no wonder so many of them backed out this year.
I miss our old rivalries and will certainly be 100% on board again if the B1G or ACC comes calling.
But until then there is no reason whatsoever for me to invest any real money into the product that the AAC is providing.
That being said, I'll end up going to a game or two with my son and buy a $10 ticket outside (or get miracled a free one) to enjoy a nice Fall day and tailgate/game scene.
But it won't count toward any actual ticket sales because it won't be a box office purchase.

It's more the event then the product on the field for me at this point.
And that's too bad because for a short while it was the absolute best time out watching it grow and blossom.

Hanging out on the CR board I believe that the wheels are already set in motion for us and the B1G.
Season ticket sales at this point don't matter.
Any suitors that we have know what we are capable of from our past and are surely aware that all of the seats plus many more will fill again instantaneously with an invite.
Pi$$ing money away on East Carolina and Villanova just doesn't make sense.
 
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ElGuapo said:
The AAC is a circle jerk.
Look at this year's home schedule. No disrespect to the Service Academies but come on. Look at the other teams that are coming.
When I hear about the donations my friends had to pay, on top of the ticket prices and the parking passes it's no wonder so many of them backed out this year.
I miss our old rivalries and will certainly be 100% on board again if the B1G or ACC comes calling.
But until then there is no reason whatsoever for me to invest any real money into the product that the AAC is providing.
That being said, I'll end up going to a game or two with my son and buy a $10 ticket outside (or get miracled a free one) to enjoy a nice Fall day and tailgate/game scene.
But it won't count toward any actual ticket sales because it won't be a box office purchase.

It's more the event then the product on the field for me at this point.
And that's too bad because for a short while it was the absolute best time out watching it grow and blossom.

Hanging out on the CR board I believe that the wheels are already set in motion for us and the B1G.
Season ticket sales at this point don't matter.
Any suitors that we have know what we are capable of from our past and are surely aware that all of the seats plus many more will fill again instantaneously with an invite.
Pi$$ing money away on East Carolina and Villanova just doesn't make sense.
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Thank you for gracing us with your prescence.
 
ElGuapo said:
The AAC is a circle jerk.
Look at this year's home schedule. No disrespect to the Service Academies but come on. Look at the other teams that are coming.
When I hear about the donations my friends had to pay, on top of the ticket prices and the parking passes it's no wonder so many of them backed out this year.
I miss our old rivalries and will certainly be 100% on board again if the B1G or ACC comes calling.
But until then there is no reason whatsoever for me to invest any real money into the product that the AAC is providing.
That being said, I'll end up going to a game or two with my son and buy a $10 ticket outside (or get miracled a free one) to enjoy a nice Fall day and tailgate/game scene.
But it won't count toward any actual ticket sales because it won't be a box office purchase.

It's more the event then the product on the field for me at this point.
And that's too bad because for a short while it was the absolute best time out watching it grow and blossom.

Hanging out on the CR board I believe that the wheels are already set in motion for us and the B1G.
Season ticket sales at this point don't matter.
Any suitors that we have know what we are capable of from our past and are surely aware that all of the seats plus many more will fill again instantaneously with an invite.
Pi$$ing money away on East Carolina and Villanova just doesn't make sense.
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I get it, the AAC sucks, but...

A lot of the angst we all feel will subside (at least a little) once games become meaningful again. If the ECU game means anything for the conference race, you won't care if it's ECU or FIT on the other jersey - you'll want a W.
 
the AAC sucks when we go 11 - 0 in back to back seasons enroute to a thoroughly disrespected bowl bid and have to sit through snooze fest blow outs every saturday. right now in football this sucky conference sucks less than us. we are the suckiest. in all other sports, uconn is pretty awesome....not football over the past 4 years.
 
Gracing you with my presence is not the point.
Enjoying a fun day out without the extra $100's (for the game) or $1,000's (for the season) on top of it for the privilege of continually seeing sub-par teams visit East Hartford.
It can be done much cheaper than paying for it all up front

Truth is my group just gave up our Patriots season tickets after 6 years of having them (11 years on the waiting list since the Hartford announcement) for entirely different reasons.
Although we paid a hefty yearly price each March during the renewal period, we saw some pretty awesome games against great opponents over those years.
But in the end it just became too much of a time, resource and money investment to continue each year.

So with all of that extra time I'll have now in the Fall, I hope to someday soon be able to channel some of my attention and money to a competitive UConn team playing a name brand schedule again against peer institutions and rivals.
The AAC is just not cutting it for me and many of my former UConn season ticket holder friends.
It really is too bad how harsh our reality has changed.
Those Big East days were such a blast and I can't wait for it to change back again to our favor.
 
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