The crowd sucked tonight

[Carl Spackler]

Playing this schedule...YES.

I disagree with that. Until it's proven otherwise, there is no reason to think that a winning UCONN football team will not draw very well to Rentschler regardless of schedule. A Big 10 schedule of games will draw based on opponent, regardless of our quality of play, but we don't control that. I was at the Navy game, and we had a decent crowd, for a team that was showing signs of a pulse after 4 years of suck. But we lost. We had a 30k+ for USF, still - the outcome of which was a kick in the nuts to the home crowd, I'm sure, and then the subsequent performances? - a losing UCONN team is not going to draw. Period. Expecting a losing UCONN football team to draw is dumb.

I suspect that if we win this week, that Houston game will show a bump up in attendance from the ECU game. I suspect that if we make it to a bowl game, and show some real life next season, we'll start to approach that 95-100% capacity again sooner than later.

As for complaining about this? This is my last post on attendance. A full stadium isn't going to make me pat any other fans on the butt and fluff my chest, but the team will sure get a Bravo Zulu from me for the next sellout.

 

[Bonehead]

I disagree with that. Until it's proven otherwise, there is no reason to think that a winning UCONN football team will not draw very well to Rentschler regardless of schedule. A Big 10 schedule of games will draw based on opponent, regardless of our quality of play, but we don't control that. I was at the Navy game, and we had a decent crowd, for a team that was showing signs of a pulse after 4 years of suck. But we lost. We had a 30k+ for USF, still - the outcome of which was a kick in the nuts to the home crowd, I'm sure, and then the subsequent performances? - a losing UCONN team is not going to draw. Period. Expecting a losing UCONN football team to draw is dumb.

I suspect that if we win this week, that Houston game will show a bump up in attendance from the ECU game. I suspect that if we make it to a bowl game, and show some real life next season, we'll start to approach that 95-100% capacity again sooner than later.

As for complaining about this? This is my last post on attendance. A full stadium isn't going to make me pat any other fans on the butt and fluff my chest, but the team will sure get a Bravo Zulu from me for the next sellout.

Fair enough - I am wrong a lot and time will tell

 

[EdgewoodNHV]

I got bombed at the tailgate beforehand then had a good time. Even if you hate football join me in drinking excessive amounts of alcohol, how can you turn that down.

Pretty much my modus operandi too. The team can never get so bad I won't enjoy tailgating in a field.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Fair enough - I am wrong a lot and time will tell

This one that I hope you're wrong and I'm right about!

The one thing that very few people that actually are on the field and sidelines right now for the program know, and have experienced, is the energy and sound of a full Rentschler field populated by UCONN fans. Diaco has experienced, when he was an assistant at Virginia. The stadium hasn't come close in 5 years, and really - there hasn't been any reason to expect it,a nd Michigan doesn't count - I'm talking about a full UCONN attendance.

I hope that as many guys in the program right now as possible, get to experience Rentschler at some point - in the same way that the quote from RGIII that lives in boneyard infamy about Rentschler reflects. There is only one more chance this season - and it's highly doubtful it's going to happen this year.

Semper Fidelis.

 

[Dooley]

If we've learned anything this season, it's that selling out the Rent is extremely difficult when the ST base is so low. I don't think Houston will be a sellout either, regardless of what happens in Tulane. But the finish to this season is extremely important to next year's ST number. Hopefully, the base will go up a couple thousand with the improved play and improved schedule. If we have a ST base of 23-26K next year, then a few games could sell out. Selling out the Rent when we are in the teens is nearly impossible.