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Student Section is a Joke

Guapo said:
Nope, that’s not the logic. Your acting like the student section would be empty at Gampel for a game against an Illinois-equivalent quality basketball opponent and you couldn’t be more wrong
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The empty seats say otherwise. I don't really care if the students want to go or not. It's their prerogative and it's not a UConn specific problem.

What annoys me is how every single excuse in the world is made for them. They don't care enough. Period. Full stop.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
The empty seats say otherwise. I don't really care if the students want to go or not. It's their prerogative and it's not a UConn specific problem.

What annoys me is how every single excuse in the world is made for them. They don't care enough. Period. Full stop.
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I understand there’s no fixing the stadium situation now. So, that all conversation is purely academic anyway.

If you want to have an argument about Gampel than take it to the basketball board.

UConn fans (not just students, hence I was annoyed why we were picking on the students in the first place) need to care more.

But, I understand it’s hard to care when we’ve been so bad for so long playing uninteresting opponents.
 
I think a big part of this is about society today with all the choices there are. Who wants to go to a football game when you can sit in your dorm room or a coffee shop and watch Youtube videos about kittens? Safer than asking someone out on a date to the game and risking rejection.
 
I sure hope this thread has the legs to rehash this 700 times in order to eclipse the great Hurley hiring thread.

Attendance —-> east Hartford—-> not winning —-> not fun—-> on campus —-> patriots/kraft —-> rub & tug —-> oppressive rules —-> LAZ —-> attendance!
 
Exit 4 said:
I sure hope this thread has the legs to rehash this 700 times in order to eclipse the great Hurley hiring thread.

Attendance —-> east Hartford—-> not winning —-> not fun—-> on campus —-> patriots/kraft —-> rub & tug —-> oppressive rules —-> LAZ —-> attendance!
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Lol despite my consistent participation in these threads I actually hate them.

The last thing this fan base needs right now is constant infighting.
 
At least they had a good showing before departing at the half. It’s a start but pretty embarrassing and annoying.
 
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Bonehead said:
He is right but this will not go over well coming from a football player.


Saban rips the bama student section constantly and they have implemented this point system. UConn needs to tie it to BB tix.

Alabama has tried to entice students into staying longer by using a phone application that tracks location and rewards Tide Loyalty Points: 100 per game for attending a home football game and 250 per game for staying all four quarters. The points can be used toward priority access to student football tickets.
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Disagree. I think a football player is the perfect person to call them out. Hopefully it is a wake up call.
 
Many schools have student run or university run student section groups.

Here is a link to just 2 I am familiar with. UNC has Carolina Fever About | UNC Carolina Fever | Chapel Hill | Carolina Fever UCLA has "The Den." The Den | UCLA Student Tickets I'm sure many other schools have something similar. Just look at the incentives they offer to get kids to come to games of all sorts. Does UConn have anything like this? I don't believe so. Yet of course they act shocked...shocked I say...why students just are willy nilly coming to support a team that went 1-11 last year. One solid performance against what could be at best a mediocre Big 10 team is not going to move the needle.
 
ASweet3781 said:
Some of you people are not living in reality.
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No stop coddling them.

I still remember not that long ago that the student section was AWESOME, now we have to kiss their butts and give them more free stuff to stay and come to a game? Screw that, let them stay on campus and have young school students fill their spots and see how well they cheer.
Now I will add that about a hundred or so stayed throughout and that is what we should see from the majority of the student section in a game that was close throughout.
 
I’m calling BS on all the excuses. Free tickets, B1G opponent, one possession game and they walked out? Walked out? Are you kidding me? I don’t want to hear about a 25min bus ride. These so called student fans got on the bus or in a car, took the ride in. Filed into their seats (late), then left at half time. It’s one thing not to go at all, it’s another to leave at halftime of a close game.
 
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Milo65 said:
I’m calling BS on all the excuses. Free tickets, B1G opponent, one possession game and they walked out? Walked out? Are you kidding me? I don’t want to hear about a 25min bus ride. These so called student fans got on the bus or in a car, took the ride in. Filed into their seats (late), then left at half time. It’s one thing not to go at all, it’s another to leave at halftime of a close game.
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They walked out after Illinois scored 24 straight points. How many adults were thinking "Here we go again." ?
 
Milo65 said:
I’m calling BS on all the excuses. Free tickets, B1G opponent, one possession game and they walked out? Walked out? Are you kidding me? I don’t want to hear about a 25min bus ride. These so called student fans got on the bus or in a car, took the ride in. Filed into their seats (late), then left at half time. It’s one thing not to go at all, it’s another to leave at halftime of a close game.
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Stop.
 
I went to a few UConn graduation parties this May. Just taking the temperature of some of the grads - they do not give a flying f about the athletic department.

Some probably because the teams have been terrible - but the grads they are cranking out aren’t anything like the kids who graduated like 15 years ago.

Watch TV - this isn’t a UConn specific issue.
 
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whaler11 said:
I went to a few UConn graduation parties this May. Just taking the temperature of some of the grads - they do not give a flying f about the athletic department.

Some probably because the teams have been terrible - but the grads they are cranking out aren’t anything like the kids who graduated like 15 years ago.

Watch TV - this isn’t a UConn specific issue.
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Yep - tis true. Kids today (people under 25) aren’t that into sports. I see it my office. I think their only real passion is checking off bucket lists and watching social media video clips of any variety that are less than a minute long.
 
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whaler11 said:
The students came they just didn’t stay.
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The student section was ok to start the game. And there were many more students tailgating that never went into the game. The line of cars leaving the Red lots at 3 PM was startling.

We can all argue about the reasons for the student apathy, but I want to see what happens when the team starts winning. There hasn’t been a really good UConn football team in a decade and that has really killed the fan base.
 
whaler11 said:
The students came they just didn’t stay.

They don’t want to sober up so they leave. Lower the drinking age and stick kegs in the student section and they stay.ht ou
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Like more and more U's, here in Charlottesville, UVA just this year has implemented 2 areas, "beverage gardens", beer, wine and hard cider, bracelets not more than 4 drinks, not in the stadium, but just outside. Closes at end of 3rd Qtr. HC Bronco Mendenhall's 4th year, UVA picked to win their division and meet Clemson for ACC title.....
 
Exit 4 said:
Yep - tis true. Kids today (people under 25) aren’t that into sports. I see it my office. I think their only real passion is checking off bucket lists and watching social media video clips of any variety that are less than a minute long.
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They are also much more serious students. One girl at a party was going to be a trauma ER nurse at Hartford Hospital in like 2 weeks. To be qualified to do that after a full academic scholarship at 22/23 isn’t what UConn was like decades ago. Kids went there because they liked the bb team not the other way around.
 
UConnJim said:
The student section was ok to start the game. And there were many more students tailgating that never went into the game. The line of cars leaving the Red lots at 3 PM was startling.
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... and for some there was never an attempt to go to the game. There are some “entrepreneurial” student run “tailgate” buses to the game for $15 RT that are scheduled to leave 20 minutes before game-time. No game ticket needed to get on the bus.
 
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I feel for the players and don't blame them for calling out the student section. As a UCMB alum, I know how it feels to put in all that work just to see the majority of the crowd get up and walk away. I know it's half time and you need your bathroom break, but still it was frustrating to the band to see everyone get up
 
whaler11 said:
They are also much more serious students. One girl at a party was going to be a trauma ER nurse at Hartford Hospital in like 2 weeks. To be qualified to do that after a full academic scholarship at 22/23 isn’t what UConn was like decades ago. Kids went there because they liked the bb team not the other way around.
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And the BB programs, in my opinion, played a major (if not even the biggest) role in making UConn an attractive destination for higher quality students. Funny,
 
Guapo said:
And the BB programs, in my opinion, played a major (if not even the biggest) role in making UConn an attractive destination for higher quality students. Funny,
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the bb programs were part of the reason the state invested so muc so yes.
 
whaler11 said:
the bb programs were part of the reason the state invested so muc so yes.
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Definitely and they made UConn a school kids wanted to go, rather than a safety school, which in turn made it more competitive which in turn attracted higher quality students yada yada yada nursing majors with no time for sports.
 
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