Today's Crowd...

[whaler11]

BS

We are either passionate about this sport ... or NOT. I think about this 10 year Rentschler history & KNOW that we have grown this fall event in terms of entertainment. We still have a ways to go. I am sorry for the PP era; but, I think I can see our way through to a better day. My other alma mater (*UCLA) had a down period recently. One coach and a style of play brought a full Rose Bowl (over 75,000 regularly). I say stop bitching; learn that CFB is a full day commitment (not a tailgate and a few hours/then leave); and enjoy the joy of seeing boys develop. I go to the game and see promise; but, I am disappointed in the expectations I read here & the lack of full commitment I see.

For the quality of teams involved the crowd was good.

Good luck finding another game in this country this season played between two teams that bad with a crowd that big.

You are disappointed that people expect something better than yesterday?

 

[Sean]

I honestly was shocked the crowd was as big and as passionate as it was. Give me something to cheer, and I will...and I'm not a hard judge of "something to cheer". But this was tough.

Two side notes:

1.) Why does the DJ take so long to play welcome to the jungle returning from timeouts? We should have that thing blaring 40 seconds before hike.

2.) Was it just me (haven't parked in red in a year), or was yesterday the all time record for most trash left on the ground after the game? It was pathetic. We might have left a bottle cap or two by accident, but how hard is it to just throw your empties in the box they came in?

 

[uconnric]

For the quality of teams involved the crowd was good.

Good luck finding another game in this country this season played between two teams that bad with a crowd that big.

You are disappointed that people expect something better than yesterday?

If all you seem interested in is your sanctimonious dumping on the program and it's fans, give us all a break and post on the Cuse board.

 

[whaler11]

If all you seem interested in is your sanctimonious dumping on the program and it's fans, give us all a break and post on the Cuse board.

Jesus I've defended the fans all through this post... Are you seriously that dim?

 

[noeynox]

BS

We are either passionate about this sport ... or NOT. I think about this 10 year Rentschler history & KNOW that we have grown this fall event in terms of entertainment. We still have a ways to go. I am sorry for the PP era; but, I think I can see our way through to a better day. My other alma mater (*UCLA) had a down period recently. One coach and a style of play brought a full Rose Bowl (over 75,000 regularly). I say stop bitching; learn that CFB is a full day commitment (not a tailgate and a few hours/then leave); and enjoy the joy of seeing boys develop. I go to the game and see promise; but, I am disappointed in the expectations I read here & the lack of full commitment I see.

This point of view is unrealistic IMO. We've got a bad team, playing games in a conference of teams we have no history with and very little in terms of geographical rivalry. A brief FBS history and we are seriously complaining that that 37k, that did show up aren't passionate enough, because they "don't make it an all day event"? SMH. 37k, showed up to support an 0-4, team vs a 1-4, team. That is enough passion for me. Do people arriving late and leaving early bother me? Yes, but whatever I rather they show up late and leave early than not show up at all. I think slowly we are seeing more people in the stadium earlier btw.

 

[whaler11]

This point of view is unrealistic IMO. We've got a bad team, playing games in a conference of teams we have no history with and very little in terms of geographical rivalry. A brief FBS history and we are seriously complaining that that 37k, that did show up aren't passionate enough, because they "don't make it an all day event"? SMH. 37k, showed up to support an 0-4, team vs a 1-4, team. That is enough passion for me. Do people arriving late and leaving early bother me? Yes, but whatever I rather they show up late and leave early than not show up at all. I think slowly we are seeing more people in the stadium earlier btw.

Bingo. And coming late and leaving early bothers me more when I can actually craft a coherent argument why they shouldn't.

 

[UC990411]

With fans like you, who needs the casual fan. You make freescooter fun to be around. Have fun in Brooklyn on Nov 8th.

Have fun at the rent on the 8th with all 17k of your friends watching a 77-0 drubbing.

 

[FDNY99]

Casual fans weren't into two of the worst teams in America going at it in a snore fest?! Damnit I better complain about this on the internet!

Fact is our program sucks, our conference sucks and if the casual fan can't get into it, it's tough to really blame them.

Do you remember how bad MBB sucked under Perno his last few years? Program sucks: Warde Manuel took a TOTAL NON-old school UCONN Athletics position by firing a coach mid-season to start a repair job. It will take time to get the ship righted...how much no one can say.

 

[FDNY99]

Have fun at the rent on the 8th with all 17k of your friends watching a 77-0 drubbing.

Don't forget to enjoy your walk east on Atlantic Ave after the basketball game...should only take you a few blocks (4-5) before you realize you aen't in Kansas any more!

 

[zls44]

Have fun at the rent on the 8th with all 17k of your friends watching a 77-0 drubbing.

What's the point of a post like this ? Seriously? Why the animosity to a UConn team?

What's the point of that?

 

[Dooley]

Patience people. Thanks to Jeff Hathaway/Larry McHugh/Paul Pasqualoni/George DeLeone (pick any/all of these guys), our football program is in a bit of a rut. It will take a while to dig out from under the hole that the collection of the afore-mentioned buried our program. Finally closing that chapter after Week 4 was only the first step. We weren't/aren't going bowling this year and that much was obvious after we were blown out by Towson. But I'm excited for the rest of the season to play out with a true, legit D-1 QB under center, addition-by-GDLsubstraction improvement to our OL and running game, and a chance for our underclassmen to see the field and evaluate under game situations. Moving up our young talent will help convince some guys to stay with our program after a new coach is named (especially Boyle), unless of course it's a complete change of style under the new coach. We have some young talent on the 2-deep and it will take time to coach them up properly now that PP and GDL are gone.

This season is all about us fans. If we can continue to go to games and show an attendance increase in a year that we may not win a single game, that will go a LONG way into showing folks around the country that UCONN fans do care about football and will support the team. Remember, UCONN fans are every bit part of the negative perception that follows UCONN in CR talk (read: they play in a small stadium that THEY CAN"T EVEN FILL). Well, if we can fill the stadium (or at least increase our average attendance in this lousy season), that could begin to change. And while I HATE fans showing up late or leaving early, I can't blame them this season. Heck, I was dozing off a bit at my seat yesterday watching the punt contest. The important thing is for us fans to go to games while keeping the casual fans somewhat interested so that when, hopefully, Warde hits an exciting coaching hire HR in the offseason, this area will go bonkers for the team and begin to sell out the Rent regularly.

 

[Dooley]

Have fun at the rent on the 8th with all 17k of your friends watching a 77-0 drubbing.

You know, it's possible to support ALL UCONN athletics. I'm more of a football fan than basketball fan but I get upset when basketball loses games as much as when football loses games. It's about supporting UCONN, not supporting a specific program. If you are going to Brooklyn, be loud and cheer on our Huskies. I will do the same from the Rent. And when the scoreboard at both venues flash UCONN is leading/won scores from the other game, we will all go crazy! Go Dahgs!

 

[Yonick]

Nearly 39,000 fans in a 40K stadium is impressive enough, especially considering UConn was 0-4 going in, playing 1-4 USF.
Crowds like that weren't like that during Syracuse's darkest days.

 

[UConnDan97]

I make posts like that to morons who try to take past posts out of context for a "gotcha" moment when they (i.e. you) have no idea what they are talking about.

Yup. It's me who doesn't know what I'm talking about. Sure. You were just kidding when you said to get rid of the football program....about 10 different ways in the conference realignment board, right? Yup. It's me...

 

[jackl]

Awful. Too drunk. No energy. Got 3 beers dropped on me in 3 minutes in the Young Alumni section. If you're gonna be belligerently wasted keep it on the runway. I know it's hard to stay into it when it's two teams punting to each other for half the game but I'd rather have 25k actual fans than 40k people treating the Rent like happy hour.

For a home coming game there didn't appear to be any real festivities other than drinking. Not that I wanted to sit thru it again but in years past didn't they announce/introduce the King and Queen on field. It seemed to be kind of a half hearted disjointed effort/production. Just an observation as I'm not an alumnus. I sit on an aisle seat and we had more soda and beer spills than I have ever seen before. And another thing was it the wind that kept the PA sound down. Big score board and you have to be a lip reader, can't hear stuff clearly.

 

[rich1122]

After all that we have been through. Better than I expected.

 

[gars44]

Bingo. And coming late and leaving early bothers me more when I can actually craft a coherent argument why they shouldn't.

Thank God for the casual fan. Without them, we'd be at 15-20K.

 

[UC990411]

What's the point of a post like this ? Seriously? Why the animosity to a UConn team?

What's the point of that?

I can't stand fans of the football team who constantly bash who they consider basketball only fans. In their minds you can't root for both teams

 

[John]

Patience people. Thanks to Jeff Hathaway/Larry McHugh/Paul Pasqualoni/George DeLeone (pick any/all of these guys), our football program is in a bit of a rut. It will take a while to dig out from under the hole that the collection of the afore-mentioned buried our program. Finally closing that chapter after Week 4 was only the first step. We weren't/aren't going bowling this year and that much was obvious after we were blown out by Towson. But I'm excited for the rest of the season to play out with a true, legit D-1 QB under center, addition-by-GDLsubstraction improvement to our OL and running game, and a chance for our underclassmen to see the field and evaluate under game situations. Moving up our young talent will help convince some guys to stay with our program after a new coach is named (especially Boyle), unless of course it's a complete change of style under the new coach. We have some young talent on the 2-deep and it will take time to coach them up properly now that PP and GDL are gone.

This season is all about us fans. If we can continue to go to games and show an attendance increase in a year that we may not win a single game, that will go a LONG way into showing folks around the country that UCONN fans do care about football and will support the team. Remember, UCONN fans are every bit part of the negative perception that follows UCONN in CR talk (read: they play in a small stadium that THEY CAN"T EVEN FILL). Well, if we can fill the stadium (or at least increase our average attendance in this lousy season), that could begin to change. And while I HATE fans showing up late or leaving early, I can't blame them this season. Heck, I was dozing off a bit at my seat yesterday watching the punt contest. The important thing is for us fans to go to games while keeping the casual fans somewhat interested so that when, hopefully, Warde hits an exciting coaching hire HR in the offseason, this area will go bonkers for the team and begin to sell out the Rent regularly.

Nailed it as usual - I thought the crowd was pretty decent size-wise for the situation. Not the most peppy crowd, but then again not the most peppy game either. I too closed my eyes for a while and just enjoyed the warm sun on my face. No harm done. I do worry about the crowd size for Memphis, I think that game might have tumbleweeds blowing through the stands if it's exceptionally cold out and we're still not that great.

 

[Waquoit]

The diehards on the board care way too much what the casual fan does at games.

The OP isn't a diehard. He just one of those guys that loves to bash the UConn fans that go to games.

 

[Waquoit]

Nailed it as usual - I thought the crowd was pretty decent size-wise for the situation. Not the most peppy crowd, but then again not the most peppy game either. I too closed my eyes for a while and just enjoyed the warm sun on my face. No harm done. I do worry about the crowd size for Memphis, I think that game might have tumbleweeds blowing through the stands if it's exceptionally cold out and we're still not that great.

I agree. We're at the nadir of our D-1 football program and the place was almost full. That's impressive, not bash-worthy.

 

[sportsart]

I can't stand fans of the football team who constantly bash who they consider basketball only fans. In their minds you can't root for both teams

You don't root for the FB team. You're never here except to bit** about someone or something. That's a fact.

 

[zls44]

I can't stand fans of the football team who constantly bash who they consider basketball only fans. In their minds you can't root for both teams

You liked posts on the CR board saying that UConn should downgrade football because the AAC will kill the basketball program.

So, yes, you ARE a basketball only fan. Based on your own statements.

 

[uconnell]

For heavens sake will posters stop predicating our invite to another conference will be based on how many fans are at the games. Remember the ACC took Pitt and the Big took MD who had terrible fan support, why the ACC took the Cuse is also question. It is all about location and TVs.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

You liked posts on the CR board saying that UConn should downgrade football because the AAC will kill the basketball program.

So, yes, you ARE a basketball only fan. Based on your own statements.

Some cases can be extreme, but labeling fans as either football only, mens or womens only is just as frustrating as the in fighting between the fans of the programs to me.

Even though I make a 1 way 4 hour trek each.way.from Brooklyn to the Rent to support this football team for every home game, I found out I was a basketball only fan and shouldn't bother showing up anymore because we don't need fans like me!

 

[Dooley]

For heavens sake will posters stop predicating our invite to another conference will be based on how many fans are at the games. Remember the ACC took Pitt and the Big took MD who had terrible fan support, why the ACC took the Cuse is also question. It is all about location and TVs.

It won't be solely based on our attendance at games but it absolutely is part of the equation. If CR was solely about location and TVs, we would already be in the B1G or ACC now. We're in a MUCH better location than Pitt and UL. In fact, if you want to roll up NYC, Boston and CT demographics as having UCONN presence, we are probably one of the top located schools in the country!

Sadly, one of the many negative perceptions about UCONN in CR is the fanbase. Justified or not, everyone in the country seems to think that we only brought 2,000 fans (including the band and players' families) to the Fiesta Bowl a few years ago. We also don't sell out our small off-campus stadium regularly which are two more negatives. When you throw in an attendance decline in basketball too, then guess what? "UCONN fans don't care."

While game attendance won't get us an invite, it certainly wouldn't hurt. I'm sure more than a couple of B1G people scouted our Michigan game and saw a great atmosphere. If we can sell out UL and/or RU and then announce a decent crowd for Memphis in a lost season, then it would definitely help the cause to change that negative perception that UCONN fans don't care. Perception is everything in CR.

 

[sportsart]

Some cases can be extreme, but labeling fans as either football only, mens or womens only is just as frustrating as the in fighting between the fans of the programs to me.

Even though I make a 1 way 4 hour trek each.way.from Brooklyn to the Rent to support this football team for every home game, I found out I was a basketball only fan and shouldn't bother showing up anymore because we don't need fans like me!

I know people who travel a fair distance to the FB games and moan ALL the time. My advice would be to them...stop going. Negative b8tching and moaning only draws other people to do the same.

There are many people on this board who share their displeasure, including me, with the situation we are in. The key is how you do it. Some never learn how because it is their nature to be a Debbie downer. Never be happy and see the bad without ever seeing the good.

The worst thing is they don't know it, or if called on it, will fight to the death to deny it.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

I know people who travel a fair distance to the FB games and moan ALL the time. My advice would be to them...stop going. Negative b8tching and moaning only draws other people to do the same.

There are many people on this board who share their displeasure, including me, with the situation we are in. The key is how you do it. Some never learn how because it is their nature to be a Debbie downer. Never be happy and see the bad without ever seeing the good.

The worst thing is they don't know it, or if called on it, will fight to the death to deny it.

I'll be honest with you, you'll never confuse me with UConnDan97 on the optimism scale on the Boneyard, but I think you are severely misjudging my general disposition towards UConn football based on our exchange last night.

I have over 2k posts on this site and most are pretty well reasoned and lean towards the bright side of things more so than not. I stand by what I said last night about Boyle and the staff. The kid looks likes he has the skills to be good and that's going to be what I try to focus on the rest of the season, but he wasn't good yesterday. I went over the top with my eternal damnation or temple bus trip comments, but overall I think my points were reasonable.

Going forward I want to move on to Cinci and would like to extend a Boneyard olive branch towards you as you're obviously a good fan and poster on here. How about it?

 

[UConnDan97]

I'll be honest with you, you'll never confuse me with UConnDan97 on the optimism scale on the Boneyard

Some would consider that a "positive"...

 

[huskymedic]

Going forward I want to move on to Cinci and would like to extend a Boneyard olive branch towards you as you're obviously a good fan and poster on here. How about it?

Awww... Husky Hugs after a tough loss.