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gioff23 said:
Here's what Herbst should offer

Dear Student,

As part of our BIG efforts to upgrade the university, if you attend football game on 11/21. you will be eligible to receive 2 extra credit points on a final exam of your choice if you attend and stay until the end of the game. So, get an 88 on your Chemistry exam, bring your ticket stub and proof of your purchase, and you got yourself an A! So, go BIG and don't go home Sat.

SH
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I was going to admonish you for stealing a North Carolina idea; then realized your idea requires actually taking the test.
 
Dooley said:
Yup. Getting $15 for a ticket is better than getting $0 for a ticket and going through the emotional letdown and embarrassment of having less than 30K in the stadium for the biggest game in years.
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For years I have been preaching this. Perception! And yes, I am a season ticket holder. I don't care if I get screwed out of a few bucks. I just want filled venues.
 
Any season ticket holder complaining about giveaways or discounts is an idiot.

Season tickets are a long-term, locked-in investment. Better crowds increase the value of that investment. Demand is low, so the price drops.

This really isn't any different from buy-and-hold in your 401k, except for maybe the fact you're buying in a bit early with your heart, and not your head.

If supply/demand dictates $15 - so be it. You're holding your investment for other reasons. Maybe it's to recoup losses when tickets become scarce. Maybe it's for the joy you'll get when things go well. Who cares? You bought in - suck it up.
 
pepband99 said:
Any season ticket holder complaining about giveaways or discounts is an idiot.

Season tickets are a long-term, locked-in investment. Better crowds increase the value of that investment. Demand is low, so the price drops.

This really isn't any different from buy-and-hold in your 401k, except for maybe the fact you're buying in a bit early with your heart, and not your head.

If supply/demand dictates $15 - so be it. You're holding your investment for other reasons. Maybe it's to recoup losses when tickets become scarce. Maybe it's for the joy you'll get when things go well. Who cares? You bought in - suck it up.
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You didn't get a hat or a plastic soda cup and you can't tailgate for 5 hours. So there.
 
Following on my analogy, those things are "dividends"
 
If it were up to me I would say they shouldn't schedule any home BB games the same WEEKEND as any home FB game. Unless you have nothing going on in your life most people wouldn't make both no matter when they are scheduled (unless you had a marquee opponent). Just eats up too much time.
 
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Here's an idea, our men's basketball team plays Furman on Saturday at noon on campus... It doesnt matter in the grand scheme of things, and its against a nothing opponet. I say if you're a student you skip the hoops action, and get your ass to the Rent to tailgate at 10 or 11 like the rest of us! The Football program needs them wayyyy more than Kevin Ollie and the basketball team does. Let's be honest.

Bonus Points- You can't tailgate at Gampel.
 
SonsOfNutmeg said:
Here's an idea, our men's basketball team plays Furman on Saturday at noon on campus... It doesnt matter in the grand scheme of things, and its against a nothing opponet. I say if you're a student you skip the hoops action, and get your ass to the Rent to tailgate at 10 or 11 like the rest of us! The Football program needs them wayyyy more than Kevin Ollie and the basketball team does. Let's be honest.

Bonus Points- You can't tailgate at Gampel.
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genius
[mawr-on, mohr-] /ˈmɔr ɒn, ˈmoʊr-/
noun
1. A person who has tickets to both major UConn sporting events on November 21, 2015 and passes up basketball for a game of flip-cup (or the like) in the Rentschler Field parking lot

2. Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded genius to Congress.

3. Psychology. (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) a person of borderline intelligence in a former and discarded classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50 to 69.
 
Husky25 said:
genius
[mawr-on, mohr-] /ˈmɔr ɒn, ˈmoʊr-/
noun
1. A person who has tickets to both major UConn sporting events on November 21, 2015 and passes up basketball for a game of flip-cup (or the like) in the Rentschler Field parking lot

2. Informal. a person who is notably stupid or lacking in good judgment:
I wonder why they elected that narrow-minded genius to Congress.

3. Psychology. (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) a person of borderline intelligence in a former and discarded classification of mental ation, having an intelligence quotient of 50 to 69.
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Hey, who you calling a genius!?!

You honestly don't agree that going to a basketball game against a terrible SoCon school is pretty worthless right now considering how good the team is, and considering what's a stake for the Football Huskies?? We NEED fans to fill The Rent... hope its colder and that the elements combined with a raucious crowd can put some added pressure on Houston's offense.
 
SonsOfNutmeg said:
Hey, who you calling a genius!?!

You honestly don't agree that going to a basketball game against a terrible SoCon school is pretty worthless right now considering how good the team is, and considering what's a stake for the Football Huskies?? We NEED fans to fill The Rent... hope its colder and that the elements combined with a raucious crowd can put some added pressure on Houston's offense.
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I'll let a past post in a different thread speak for itself:

Husky25 said:
For those who have tickets to both Basketball and Football that day, the importance hierarchy of where you should be, given a conflict, as follows:

1. Football game vs. Houston
2. Basketball game vs. Furman
3. Tailgate before football game

My personal best case scenario is that the basketball game will occur within the 4 1/2 hours preceding 1/2 hour before kickoff, so I can watch basketball in the parking lot at that football game and still have time to pack up and make it into the stadium.
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There will not be a conflict in game time. Provided a conflict, tailgating is the least important priority.
 
The question is... how many out of state kids are going to hang around CT during Thanksgiving break to see either game? How many instate kids are? I hate to say it but are there enough UConn alumni to make up the difference? What I don't understand is why there isn't special packages for high school coaches to bring their teams to the Rent along with those kids parents. It'd be nice to see a parade of yellow buses pouring into the Rent. Talk about a win/win scenario...high school coaches getting a extra chance to talk and analyze football with their kids while watching the college game...right in their back yard. If I was a high school coach I'd jump at that chance.
 
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So the gist of this thread is that the AD should give away all unsold tickets and give free stuff to those whom already have tickets. Is that about right?
 
Waquoit said:
So the gist of this thread is that the AD should give away all unsold tickets and give free stuff to those whom already have tickets. Is that about right?
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Yup
 
Waquoit said:
So the gist of this thread is that the AD should give away all unsold tickets and give free stuff to those whom already have tickets. Is that about right?
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You can't have it both ways. We're either small-time thinking, and doing nothing, or we do something that, yes, costs money. The question is - would there be reasonable return on investment? The 330 kick took some of the wilder stuff out of play (including most plans to attend both games), but we should do *something* when presented with this situation...
 
Really Warde should do 3 things:
A. Admit this scheduling was a bad mistake that won't happen again.
B. Reassign whoever agreed to put the Furman game here to handling scheduling the deliveries of towels to various locker rooms.
C. Issue an edict that there will be no home games on Saturdays when football is home in the future. The same should apply to games in Boston and New York, too.
 
They are practically giving away tickets at this point. If the Rent crowd is poor, and it looks like it will be, then that is 100% on the fanbase.

Attention UConn Students: $10 tickets for you and friends/family with an ID. SENIORS ARE FREE!

#FillTheRent

UConn Student Tix ‏@UConnStudentTix 1h1 hour ago
UConn Student Tix Retweeted UConn Football
Stop by the ticket office for $10 student and friends & family tix. Seniors are free with your ID! #bleedblue

UConn Student Tix added...
UConn Football @UConnFootball
UConn vs @UHCougarFB will kickoff this Saturday at 3:30 pm and be televised by @ESPNU #work2win
 
When I was in Pensacola, FL, the independent minor league baseball team had dollar beer nights on Wednesdays and then $9.99 all you could eat (burgers/hotdogs) and drink on Fridays, from 5 - 7 in the left field stands
 
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The odd thing is that the only possibility that I would do both games in a weekend is to have them stacked the way they are now. Much easier to decide to not tailgate and just hit both games. Wouldn't even think about going on Friday or Sunday after making a day of it for football on Saturday.
 
freescooter said:
Really Warde should do 3 things:
A. Admit this scheduling was a bad mistake that won't happen again.
B. Reassign whoever agreed to put the Furman game here to handling scheduling the deliveries of towels to various locker rooms.
C. Issue an edict that there will be no home games on Saturdays when football is home in the future. The same should apply to games in Boston and New York, too.
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Sure - so we drop our atlantis invite next time? Got it...
 
pepband99 said:
Sure - so we drop our atlantis invite next time? Got it...
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Yeah, 'cause I mean we're just some filler program that the sponsors wouldn't want in their tournament. They probably would just take one of the other 4 time national champions to replace us if we said we want to play Friday night instead of Saturday like, oh most of the field...

So Michigan has a home game with Penn State on Saturday. I wonder how they managed to avoid a conflict and got to play another night. Why I bet they said "sure, we'll play in your little tournament but we won't schedule it against our home football game.
 
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freescooter said:
Yeah, 'cause I mean we're just some filler program that the sponsors wouldn't want in their tournament. They probably would just take one of the other 4 time national champions to replace us if we said we want to play Friday night instead of Saturday like, oh most of the field...

So Michigan has a home game with Penn State on Saturday. I wonder how they managed to avoid a conflict and got to play another night. Why I bet they said "sure, we'll play in your little tournament but we won't schedule it against our home football game.
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Asked and answered.
 
pepband99 said:
Asked and answered.
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In my estimation, the only fans this really affects are students who have tickets to both events and no mode of transportation. How big is that population?

There will be about 90 minutes between the final buzzer and kick-off and even with traffic, it shouldn't take much more than 45 minutes to get from Storrs to East Hartford. So, the amount of complaining is no where near proportional to how big of a "problem" this really is.

It's not like Maryland 2013 when the basketball team played in Brooklyn and just before the football game in East Hartford. There was no possibility to be at both games, adult or student. This is absolutely doable with little to no imagination.
 
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pepband99 said:
Asked and answered.
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Oh. So how did Michigan manage to play a mid-week game to avoid the conflict? And please, I'm begging you don't tell me Furman had to travel. Guess what? They could have played here Thursday and gone to Charlotte, which by the way would have been cheaper since Elon, there next stop is also in North Carolina. But you keep on believing that nobody f@&ked up.
 
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freescooter said:
Oh. So how did Michigan manage to play a mid-week game to avoid the conflict? And please, I'm begging you don't tell me Furman had to travel. Guess what? They could have played here Thursday and gone to Charlotte, which by the way would have been cheaper since Elon, there next stop is also in North Carolina. But you keep on believing that nobody f@&ked up.
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21st November Logistical issue - uh oh...

...because Michigan's designated cupcake is playing that Saturday at Cuse, who got lucky by being off that weekend. It's entirely possible UConn decided that between this conflict and the football team not getting a bye for yet another consecutive week, they chose the conflict (and in my opinion, rightly).

The majority of my travel concern was logistics, not $$$. You're saying it makes more sense to go to a game in NC on the 17th, a game in CT on the 19th, followed by a game in NC on the 21st? That's pretty taxing on the players. NC on 17th, NC on 19th, CT on 21st, followed by a long layoff (which you conveniently don't mention) is much better.
 
A. It's Furman
B. Michigan and Syracuse did NOT "get lucky"
C. This should have been scheduled so Furman played in Connecticut first then back to Charlotte then on to Elon. The conflict simply screams small time, basketball first, jammed into a mid-major conference. It actually helps explain our current predicament. We can be basketball first. We just need to be a little bit subtle. But hey, you'd probably be happy to drop football and go to the Big East 3.0 if the Battle for Atlantis is that important to you.
 
Well done. Ignore my entire response (or misquote it), and stay on your soapbox.
 
freescooter said:
A. It's Furman
B. Michigan and Syracuse did NOT "get lucky"
C. This should have been scheduled so Furman played in Connecticut first then back to Charlotte then on to Elon. The conflict simply screams small time, basketball first, jammed into a mid-major conference. It actually helps explain our current predicament. We can be basketball first. We just need to be a little bit subtle. But hey, you'd probably be happy to drop football and go to the Big East 3.0 if the Battle for Atlantis is that important to you.
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I don't understand your fixation on the Battle 4 Atlantis....the Furman game has NOTHING to do with that tournament
 
You still haven't shared which game you are reluctantly giving up attending due to the hardship of traveling 23 miles in 90 minutes in the Year of our Lord 2015 has caused.
 
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