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The Ribbon boards and Temp seating revealed

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Also want to say thanks Gilligan. Stuff like this keeps me coming back to the boneyard. Love this place.
 
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DSquiz said:
John Silver posted that only 2,000 seats are left for the Maryland game. I asked if the temp were being used for Maryland he said he was unsure but will check.
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think they are. I went online looking for an extra for someone and I could swear one was in the temps.
 
freescooter said:
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think they are. I went online looking for an extra for someone and I could swear one was in the temps.
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based on the uconn ticket site...If you use the seating map to select a ticket...the TEMP seats are not options. the vast majority of seats remaining are in the usual visitor section and then some in the last couple rows of the chairbacks
 
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They are an improvement but I'm not impressed with the ribbons. They're almost too this to notice. Maybe for a night game they'll something but that's about it.
 
Went to NC State/ UNC game a couple years ago.. @NCState... They have temp-like bleachers in their endzone just like that..
 
DSquiz said:
Do we know how many extra the temp seats hold? I have heard anything from 2k to 5k.
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I was wondering the same. Would not be hard at all to make those permanent. Would seem like a cheap and easy first step at increasing capacity (not that it is needed at this point). A 44,000 seat stadium surprisingly sounds a lot better than a 40,000 seat stadium to me. Again though, it is all irrelevant until we can fill more seats on a weekly basis.


ETA: I don't like the looks of "1st and 55 to go" on the scoreboard though. That may be a little much for this offense to handle.;)
 
Gilligan said:
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Looking at this picture, The Rent should remove the glass for the 'club seats.' Would make it look like there's more people and wouldn't cut off any fans from the 'atmosphere.' They can still go inside and stay warm and get food and all, but the actual seats should be outside.
 
Husky25 said:
(Read: Sarcasm) Real fans don't need up to the minute statistics. That is just a distraction to the real fan. :rolleyes:
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Order of the Day:
No Non-football fun allowed.
Report to your seats.
Eyes front on football field only.
Eyes right to scoreboard during stoppage of play.
 
sportsart said:
The red liners by the scoreboard are gonna throw a fit. :cool: I expect a sizable police presence for the Mich game by the temp seats. The red line drunks are not gonna be happy if we are getting blown out and those seats are full of loud Mich fans.
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I don't care about what the drunks like and don't like. It will be nice not having them standing behind us, blocking our view of the scoreboard. I hope they leave the temp seats up.
 
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thatguyed said:
They are an improvement but I'm not impressed with the ribbons. They're almost too this to notice. Maybe for a night game they'll something but that's about it.
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They can only be so tall before they start to interfere with the view above and hang to low....I imagine they are the exact same height of the old ad boards that used to ring the lower bowl. Those were fine

I had an expectation that they would at least be the length of the field, if not all the way around. but, hell...its way better than it was
 
Pretty impressed by the temporary seating, though I wonder how the back seats are with the scoreboard right there. Ribbon boards look decent, probably stand out more in action. You really need the motion to appreciate them, I suspect.
 
Those bleachers in the end zone are so damn long overdue. Got to figure a way to make them stay.
 
How the EF do the ribbon boards not wrap the entire stadium, obviously excluding the scoreboard endzone. The state saved 100k by not having to bring in the temporary scoreboard for the Towson game.
 
minidarren said:
How the EF do the ribbon boards not wrap the entire stadium, obviously excluding the scoreboard endzone. The state saved 100k by not having to bring in the temporary scoreboard for the Towson game.
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... and that would mean they need to come up w/ a minimum of another $half a million for more pretty flashing lights.

Non-issue IMO
 
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minidarren said:
How the EF do the ribbon boards not wrap the entire stadium, obviously excluding the scoreboard endzone. The state saved 100k by not having to bring in the temporary scoreboard for the Towson game.
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Really? How about we win a frigging football game and get people back to the stadium before you start byatching.
 
So are they going to sell these seats for MD or what? Seems like a waste to get them in for this game if they aren't going to be selling them, eh?
 
It just boggles my mind how some people are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever friggin happy. I can't even find the words....I mean, how is it possible to be such a downer on every single thing that is ever posted on this board?

It's never good enough.

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Those Temp Seats are perfect for the awarding of tickets to honor students from schools around the state that I keep writing about. Keep em up. Distribute them to high schools, and have them plan field trips around trips to the RENT. Throw in a university sponsored tailgate for them. Hook em in early. All corners of the state. Danbury, Waterbury, New London, Bridgeport etc. Let's build this thing.
 
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noeynox said:
Those Temp Seats are perfect for the awarding of tickets to honor students from schools around the state that I keep writing about. Keep em up. Distribute them to high schools, and have them plan field trips around trips to the RENT. Throw in a university sponsored tailgate for them. Hook em in early. All corners of the state. Danbury, Waterbury, New London, Bridgeport etc. Let's build this thing.
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Seriously, one of the board's more eloquent writers should drop Warde an email suggesting this. That would not be me BTW. I suck at writing.
 
John said:
Order of the Day:
No Non-football fun allowed.
Report to your seats.
Eyes front on football field only.
Eyes right to scoreboard during stoppage of play.
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Who are these "Red Liners," of whom you speak? I do not notice them. My attention is squarely on the 50 yard line for roughly 3 1/2 hours. Even when the Line of Scrimmage is the 32. That is the real way...nay...the only true way to watch football.

I should know, I've been to every home game since 1987. I've been to Ford Field in Detroit, I've been to Ames, Iowa and Notre Dame. I've been to Rogers Centre. Did you know they use something called the met..metr...meterik system up there? Crazy Canadians are a bunch of weirdos... Obviously not real fans. They took OUR game and added 10 yards and took away a down. For your information, a down represents one chance of a maximum series of four for the offensive team to try and advance the oblong, brown "ball" (everyone knows that balls are truly spherical in nature. A true, real football is a prolate spheroid. Definitely not a true sphere.) 10 yards, or 30 feet.

Lastly, I've been to Alabama. They weren't even playing football. I just felt the need to be around other real fans. :D

Full disclosure: I routinely miss a game per year and, while I've been on a few football road trips, I have not been to any of those places...for a football game. I have been to Dyersville Iowa (Field of Dreams) and the Rogers Centre for a Sox game...
 
noeynox said:
Those Temp Seats are perfect for the awarding of tickets to honor students from schools around the state that I keep writing about. Keep em up. Distribute them to high schools, and have them plan field trips around trips to the RENT. Throw in a university sponsored tailgate for them. Hook em in early. All corners of the state. Danbury, Waterbury, New London, Bridgeport etc. Let's build this thing.
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This...wish I could hit the "like" botton 1000 times. Outstanding Vision.
 
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