Stuff our AD should at least try to do for the 21st, but won't...

[Pudge]

Furman isn't a must see at anytime, unless of course you visit the BB forum.

Or you are the QB Brendan Bisack family ... who's son Tyler played PG at Furman.

 

[HuskyBandDad]

Give away or reduce price as many tickets as possible. As a football season ticket holder give me a free beer or hotdog and I would be happy.

 

[freescooter]

Um, how about move the game to Friday or Sunday or even Thursday. I know Furman would protest and might never agree to play us again!

 

[mes5107]

Most importantly, do everything in your power to make it a 7pm kickoff. The basketball start time isn't moving from 12 but the football start time is still being decided by the TV powers. For all the sack kicking ESPN has provided us the past few years the least we can do is get our game on the 7pm ESPN/NEWS time slot.

The only networks left for the 7-8 pm timeframe on 11/21 are ABC, FOX, and CBSSports. All of the ESPN's have games scheduled already.

 

[sub legacy]

I've never understood why UConn didn't offer student prices to students at all Connecticut universities. There are plenty of kids who go to Central & Eastern or community colleges in the area who would like to go, and why not promote UConn sports to them as well?

Exactly. Exclusivity won't get them the fanbase they want.

 

[NYUConn]

I wonder if fans grab the pitchforks like this at other schools when scheduling conflicts occur?

Duke's opener at Cameron is this Saturday a few hours after the football team is home against Miami.

This happens at big universities more than you think.

 

[Husky25]

Sure these are all great ideas without acknowledging the biggest problems and concerns. Budgets, approvals, and most of all, staffing.

• The athletic department was millions of dollars in the hole last year. These ideas will cost upwards of tens of thousands of dollars without moving the needle immediately. Without the immediate payback, there is no way these things get approved.
• Making anything happen in the UConn Athletic department is like trying to run through a brick wall. With the talking heads that remain under the AD, things take forever to get approved because nothing gets run up the latter unless it is straight from a coach. Unless Bob Diaco is the one asking for it, it will never happen.
• Staffing issues - The Marketing department is made up of 3-4 full time staff. That's it. One to oversee everything, one in charge of Football, MBB, and oversight of all other sports, and one in charge of group sales / fan development. The other staff are a couple GA's who run the other revenue and olympic sports.

These ideas sound like great options on paper, but when you actually try to execute any of them, it is impossible. Even attempting to get extra T-Shirts would likely be impossible because of the process it takes to get extra line items approved into the budget.

SUBOG? USG? Dorm Area Councils? West Campus had two full buses going to Yale Bowl when I was Treasurer. The Athletic Department had nothing to do with our arrangements.

 

[Dooley]

YES! Someone is reading the Boneyard...

 

[SubbaBub]

Not on 11/21. The product? A 5-win team trying to gain bowl eligibility for the first time since the Fiesta Bowl. The opponent? Top 25 ranked and undefeated Houston (highest ranked opponent to come to the Rent in years).

I'm only talking about what we need to do to get more fans to the Rent on Saturday, November 21 versus the Houston Cougars. We can discuss increasing season ticket base in the offseason. The more people in the stands = the louder the stadium = better for our players if we are going to entertain the thought of pulling off the upset.

It means there is little to be done at this stage other than try to squeeze a few more people into busses.

You can do a media blitz asking for people to come, but that may not come off well.

I would at least have the coach do a few TV hits and maybe a few ads.

On the student side, you could open the dorms Saturday if they are closed and provide more busses from campus. Other than that, the old T-shirt day is a standby that the U has never warmed to. You telling me Bob's or one of the banks wouldn't sponsor 5000 the shirts for the student section?

 

[Husky25]

On the student side, you could open the dorms Saturday if they are closed and provide more busses from campus. Other than that, the old T-shirt day is a standby that the U has never warmed to. You telling me Bob's or one of the banks wouldn't sponsor 5000 the shirts for the student section?

What happened to the T-shirt giveaways? I recall getting about 8 T-shirts my senior year, 5 just for being a basketball season ticket holder.

 

[Marty Jackson]

Pricing tickets at $15 is not going to move the needle. The only thing that will accomplish is pi$$ing off people who paid full price.

I like the parking at the Rent early and getting a shuttle to and from Gampel, but I worry about the LAZ cartel not being kind to that.

Realistically that only thing I think they can do that makes any sense? Let students who have tix to the hoops game board the bus and get into the Rent at no charge. Your hoops ticket is a 2-for-1 deal. One time only.

Laz Cartel?

 

[Husky25]

Um, how about move the game to Friday or Sunday or even Thursday. I know Furman would protest and might never agree to play us again!

Yeah, I'm with you. I think we should complain about something the Athletic Department had virtually no control instead of suggesting viable options for those who have to opportunity to attend both events.

 

[pepband99]

Laz Cartel?

The parking people, though it's likely a combination of LAZ, P&W, East Hartford, and UConn.

 

[Marty Jackson]

The parking people, though it's likely a combination of LAZ, P&W, East Hartford, and UConn.

I know who LAZ is... Just never heard of him referred to as a cartel. Alan is a Uconn grad and I believe a 'friend' of the athletic dept.

 

[BNich]

5 minutes before kickoff, all seats become first come first serve. Fill the lower bowl at a minimum. Arrive late? Enjoy the second row of the upper deck on the shady side.

I actually like that. But watch out for season ticket holders.

 

[freescooter]

Yeah, I'm with you. I think we should complain about something the Athletic Department had virtually no control instead of suggesting viable options for those who have to opportunity to attend both events.

Yeah because no other football school in this faux tournament has this conflict of both teams at home. Only UConn. Guess we were the only one with "virtually no control". How come Michigan Syracuse, even Frigen Charlotte don't have a conflict? As Jacobs would say that's so much bull spit. We continue to have this Yankee Conferene attitude about these things. Oh my if we don't screw ourselves, we might not get invited to a crappy tournament where we get to play in a hotel ballroom. And Furman might not schedule us ever again. We have more national titles than half the so-called blue bloods. We really need to start acting like it.

You want to do something? Move the basketball game to Hartford at noon. Though no doubt it would be impossible to have the ice ready for 7 for the Wolfpack.

 

[BNich]

I've never understood why UConn didn't offer student prices to students at all Connecticut universities. There are plenty of kids who go to Central & Eastern or community colleges in the area who would like to go, and why not promote UConn sports to them as well?

How can you be so sure? Just curious where you came up with this assumption from.

 

[CTMike]

I actually like that. But watch out for season ticket holders.

Restrict it to the corners, I think it would still work.

 

[BNich]

Restrict it to the corners, I think it would still work.

Even better idea.

 

[UChusky916]

Do we know what time the game is yet? If not, when do we find out? All I see is TBA everywhere

 

[Doggie Style]

Yeah because no other football school in this faux tournament has this conflict of both teams at home. Only UConn. Guess we were the only one with "virtually no control". How come Michigan Syracuse, even Frigen Charlotte don't have a conflict? As Jacobs would say that's so much bull spit. We continue to have this Yankee Conferene attitude about these things. Oh my if we don't screw ourselves, we might not get invited to a crappy tournament where we get to play in a hotel ballroom. And Furman might not schedule us ever again. We have more national titles than half the so-called blue bloods. We really need to start acting like it.

You want to do something? Move the basketball game to Hartford at noon. Though no doubt it would be impossible to have the ice ready for 7 for the Wolfpack.

Who gives a about the Wolfpack! If they left town tomorrow, 10 people would care.....

 

[uconnric]

Due to a 6 day hold the game time won't be announced until late Saturday or Sunday. This may end up as a night game.

 

[BoatShow]

Could have sworn I saw it was definitely 3:30 somewhere?

 

[Husky25]

Yeah because no other football school in this faux tournament has this conflict of both teams at home. Only UConn. Guess we were the only one with "virtually no control". How come Michigan Syracuse, even Frigen Charlotte don't have a conflict? As Jacobs would say that's so much bull spit. We continue to have this Yankee Conferene attitude about these things. Oh my if we don't screw ourselves, we might not get invited to a crappy tournament where we get to play in a hotel ballroom. And Furman might not schedule us ever again. We have more national titles than half the so-called blue bloods. We really need to start acting like it.

You want to do something? Move the basketball game to Hartford at noon. Though no doubt it would be impossible to have the ice ready for 7 for the Wolfpack.

Which game are you going to? Furman plays on Thursday, they travel on Friday. If they played basketball on Sunday, you'd b1tch about UConn basketball going up against NFL football, and blame Warde for lack of foresight.

 

[J187Money]

Um, how about move the game to Friday or Sunday or even Thursday. I know Furman would protest and might never agree to play us again!

The only chance I would go to the Furman game is if it is the same day. I would drive to Storrs on Friday night and then back to EH on Saturday? Not when the opponent is Furman.

I know I've said that I wouldn't watch Furman if it was played in my street, but I'm actually entertaining the double header.