I will be there. Anyone who isn't I don't blame you. I am a sucker for Uconn and will hope it gets better.
don't blame anyone for not renewing.... but I look at my blue back seat tickets NOW as a donation and nothing more in hope we will put a decent product on the field..... I support my school and donate to the UCONN Foundation, the Alumni Association and School of B. So I will be stroking checks to a great school. I might just upgrade to the best seats possible, from the 40 to the fifty yard line in hope of a turnaround since the cost is negligible...I have had restaurant and bar tabs bigger than the cost of season tickets because in the end it's a small check for the season tickets and seat donation. I can state that because financially the University gave me that ability over the course of the last almost 40 years to place myself and family in a good position. To those that don't renew, I don't fault you.
To non-Alumni or young Alumni and those that can't afford end zone corner seats, I applaud you for being cost conscious. If I were in your shoes, I would probably be saying the same things that the thread echoes. To non-Alumni, consider joining the Alumni Association-you don't have to be a graduate. or better yet-consider going to the Hockey games. The entertainment value on ice is phenomenal, the competition in Hockey East is great, we are recruiting players that some of which have already been drafted by the NHL and the coaching is tremendous.... and we have been competitive.
The bigger cost for me is the 3 hour drive one way, the cost of staying over (sometimes) and the feeling of a waste of a day even though the tailgating has been good. The best part of the season was seeing and being with old friends.
Like all of you, there was no entertainment value save for upsetting a UCF (Florida) team that did not want to play in a cold rain. The season and second half of the SMU game, losses to Army, Tulane, SMU, Temple and USF left me speechless, never mind the near loss to Stony Brook. I don't know what was worse, a five hour drive to the Bronx, the end of the Army game or watching the clock tick away yesterday knowing T O's had been burned or hearing that the players were terrible by the head Coach or losing to the worst team in the country (SMU) under an interim coach, seeing Geremy Davis on the sidelines when he could play, losing Casey and/or the perceived mistakes by players and coaches and understanding the first three games were "exhibition" games or losing a ton of experience in (19??) scholarship players that "just left" for "one reason or another". When I thought we had reached bottom, I was wrong.
I applaud HCBD in insuring that we now have the title as the worse FBS team in the country. The end result of a catastrophic season, like 1999 and 1979. I can only hope that things get better....
