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sounds and looks like theyre watching a different sport being played
 
UConn fans as a whole have reached a sense of entitlement that will likely never allow this type of atmosphere in Storrs or XL again. Too many causal fans that go to the games for an outing and to watch a win. Lose a game and suddenly the sky if falling, the team is terrible, we don’t have a good coach etc etc.

It’s sad the crowds at neutral site games our fans as a whole are louder because it’s the real fans at those games that make the noise and are into the game.
 
Gotta have a great team again. The rock fights aren’t exciting UConn fans. This is a 4 title, 5 Final Four fan base. You aren’t bringing them back in droves with an abundance of missed layups, no one that can drive to the hoop and a shooting guard that can’t shoot.
 
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Northbound said:
Who cares, it's in Lubbock - that is nowhere near enough to compensate for the location..
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I had you pegged at 8:34am this morning.
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Chin Diesel said:
I had you pegged at 8:34am this morning.View attachment 72921
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Well it's true - have you been there, I have, but my perspective is informed by a friend from Texas who went to Tech and says it's sand storms all day, it's miserable - red sand everywhere, walking across campus was like getting sand blasted.

Hartford, sucks, but you can get to NYC, Boston, and even Providence in short order - that's the difference and it's a big difference.
 
That place was crazy last night - switching between that and the PC/St Johns game
The electricity at Tech was phenomenal
I know there was a huge extra incentive for the crowd to go nuts because Chris Beard was in town but compare that or even the St Johns crowd to last night in Hartford or most of the home games this season.
I can't wait until UConn games get back to that fervor pitch as in the OBE days - hopefully real soon and it will be fun
 
Northbound said:
Well it's true - have you been there, I have, but my perspective is informed by a friend from Texas who went to Tech and says it's sand storms all day, it's miserable - red sand everywhere, walking across campus was like getting sand blasted.

Hartford, sucks, but you can get to NYC, Boston, and even Providence in short order - that's the difference and it's a big difference.
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CL82 found his buddy - just don't suggest Storrs is a farm town (I was there 3 months ago, and it is STILL a farm town)
 
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Hoophound said:
Gotta have a great team again. The rock fights aren’t exciting UConn fans. This is a 4 title, 5 Final Four fan base. You aren’t bringing them back in droves with an abundance of missed layups, no one that can drive to the hoop and a shooting guard that can’t shoot.
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So a really good team doesn’t get fans excited? 15-4, top 25 fighting for a Big East title doesn’t get fans excited? If that the case our fan base is massively overrated. Phog Allen, Cameron Indoor, etc. those places are massive home court advantages in mediocre years. Such a weird excuse
 
AntG168 said:
So a really good team doesn’t get fans excited? 15-4, top 25 fighting for a Big East title doesn’t get fans excited? If that the case our fan base is massively overrated. Phog Allen, Cameron Indoor, etc. those places are massive home court advantages in mediocre years. Such a weird excuse
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I think you may have hit on something people don't want to admit.
 
Hoophound said:
Gotta have a great team again. The rock fights aren’t exciting UConn fans. This is a 4 title, 5 Final Four fan base. You aren’t bringing them back in droves with an abundance of missed layups, no one that can drive to the hoop and a shooting guard that can’t shoot.
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That may be it. I agree that it may have to do more with the style of play than the record itself, but has the University done to make it enjoyable for both students and non-students? You can't think of anything new and exciting. I mean they don't even let signs in. They cut the student section out of the XL center and told students at one point to not go to a game.
 
Platt81 said:
UConn fans as a whole have reached a sense of entitlement that will likely never allow this type of atmosphere in Storrs or XL again. Too many causal fans that go to the games for an outing and to watch a win. Lose a game and suddenly the sky if falling, the team is terrible, we don’t have a good coach etc etc.

It’s sad the crowds at neutral site games our fans as a whole are louder because it’s the real fans at those games that make the noise and are into the game.
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That really makes no sense. If you are a real fan why arent you at home games? Certainly its not due to ticket availability. I think maybe we just dont have that many REAL fans.
 
AntG168 said:
So a really good team doesn’t get fans excited? 15-4, top 25 fighting for a Big East title doesn’t get fans excited? If that the case our fan base is massively overrated. Phog Allen, Cameron Indoor, etc. those places are massive home court advantages in mediocre years. Such a weird excuse
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LOL. Wake me up when Phog Allen or Cameron have teams that have the same 7 year lull we've had. Those teams are top 10 EVERY year. Such a crap comparison.
 
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August_West said:
LOL. Wake me up when Phog Allen or Cameron have teams that have the same 7 year lull we've had. Those teams are top 10 EVERY year. Such a crap comparison.
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Our fan base is overrated if we only support great teams. It is what it is. Take it up with God.
 
AntG168 said:
Our fan base is overrated.
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Totally agree on that. I tried to give away 9 courtside seats for free on here not too long ago and only could manage to fill 6. If you cant fill courtside seats with people who post on this board (who are obviously the most interested in UConn basketball, if you werent you wouldnt bother with this board) then I would imagine that extends to the rest of fan base, obviously.
 
The fan base has really suffered. There’s been a down period in the program just as so many baby boomers began moving south. You need to replace them with young people but you can’t if the team isn’t good. Last fall I was at the Rent and a sophomore attending UConn was sitting behind us with his parents. He was explaining to them how UConn could never fill the stadium because it’s too far from campus and that we’ve never been good at football. After a a while I struck up a conversation and told them how it used to be both at the Rent and at XL. They were clueless. The kid was saying that he’s heard how great everything used to be at UConn and figured it was just an exaggeration. He said it is kind of boring on campus and everyone thinks the teams suck. I think they were from NY or NJ iirc.
 
Hoophound said:
The fan base has really suffered. There’s been a down period in the program just as so many baby boomers began moving south. You need to replace them with young people but you can’t if the team isn’t good. Last fall I was at the Rent and a sophomore attending UConn was sitting behind us with his parents. He was explaining to them how UConn could never fill the stadium because it’s too far from campus and that we’ve never been good at football. After a a while I struck up a conversation and told them how it used to be both at the Rent and at XL. They were clueless. The kid was saying that he’s heard how great everything used to be at UConn and figured it was just an exaggeration. He said it is kind of boring on campus and everyone thinks the teams suck. I think they were from NY or NJ iirc.
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From what I've heard the GameDay experience is incredibly boring and tired. As another poster pointed out you can't even bring signs into the games. Times have changed and the campus has changed. UConn used to be a big party school, from what I've heard the party scene has been nonexistent for a very long time. You create a boring campus and boring GameDay atmosphere and most kids are just going to stay in their rooms and mess around on their phones and play video games.
 
It was a great atmosphere.

The atmosphere would not have been like that if they had forced their students to journey to an unfamiliar (for many) city a half hour plus away for a 6:30 tip
 
Our fanbase seems to divided into two camps right now. Fans that pay money and go to games versus "fans" that don't go to games and badmouth the ones that do.
 
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