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UCFBfan said:
Same thing went through my mind as well for some reason....
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I was thinking Lobo, myself but I think that you are probably right.
 
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formerlurker said:
It's possible to make UCONN FB at The Rent a "must have" ticket. I think it all starts with W's and an exciting offense. We could wear one of Oregon's 50 possible uniform combos and it won't make a difference if we don't have an average offense, at minimum.

Winning breeds culture, which breeds excitement, which breeds UCFB at The Rent being an event for all. Think JC or Tark and what they both accomplished. JC in a cow town and Tark in a city with a million other venues competing for entertainment dollars.

It's possible. But not easy.
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Connecticut not having it's own NFL team is similar to Iowa. Iowa fans root for a combination of the Bears, Vikings and Packers, much like UCONN fans root for the Giants, Pats and Jet's. Diaco sees the similarity and the potential for drawing a larger fan base. By developing a winning program, hopes to establish UCONN football in the same vein as Iowa as the de facto NFL team.

I realize that the Demographics are different, however population wise the two states are similar. Obviously Iowa has a much larger land mass. So this serves as a kind of model regarding potential.

The Iowa Hawkeyes draw around 67,000 fans per home game, ranked 23rd among major colleges:

http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/020714aaa.html

POPULATION

IOWA - 3,107,000

5 largest cities:

DesMoines - 207,510
Cedar Rapids 128.429
Davenport 102,429
Siox City 83,459
Iowa City 71,591

CONN -3,597,000

5 largest cities:

Bridgeport - 147,216
New Haven 130,660
Stamford 126,456
Hartford 125,017
Waterbury 109.696

UCONN has the potential to reach 60-70 K fans per game. All we have to do is win!
 
Confident Carl said:
Connecticut not having it's own NFL team is similar to Iowa. Iowa fans root for a combination of the Bears, Vikings and Packers, much like UCONN fans root for the Giants, Pats and Jet's. Diaco sees the similarity and the potential for drawing a larger fan base. By developing a winning program, hopes to establish UCONN football in the same vein as Iowa as the de facto NFL team.

I realize that the Demographics are different, however population wise the two states are similar. Obviously Iowa has a much larger land mass. So this serves as a kind of model regarding potential.

The Iowa Hawkeyes draw around 67,000 fans per home game, ranked 23rd among major colleges:

http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/020714aaa.html

POPULATION

IOWA - 3,107,000

5 largest cities:

DesMoines - 207,510
Cedar Rapids 128.429
Davenport 102,429
Siox City 83,459
Iowa City 71,591

CONN -3,597,000

5 largest cities:

Bridgeport - 147,216
New Haven 130,660
Stamford 126,456
Hartford 125,017
Waterbury 109.696

UCONN has the potential to reach 60-70 K fans per game. All we have to do is win!
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Sound theory. The only critique is travel distance. Iowa City (U Iowa) is 220 and 300 miles from Chicago and Minneapolis respectively. East Hartford is 90 and 120 miles from Boston and New York City respectively. Thus, there is more competition for people's time, dollar, and attention in CT than IA. The solution of course if a high quality product. Win games and make the entire game day experience enjoyable without pricing it beyond the average fan's ability (see the NFL) and UConn football shoudl (and has) sold well.
 
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Confident Carl said:
Connecticut not having it's own NFL team is similar to Iowa. Iowa fans root for a combination of the Bears, Vikings and Packers, much like UCONN fans root for the Giants, Pats and Jet's. Diaco sees the similarity and the potential for drawing a larger fan base. By developing a winning program, hopes to establish UCONN football in the same vein as Iowa as the de facto NFL team.

I realize that the Demographics are different, however population wise the two states are similar. Obviously Iowa has a much larger land mass. So this serves as a kind of model regarding potential.

The Iowa Hawkeyes draw around 67,000 fans per home game, ranked 23rd among major colleges:

http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/020714aaa.html

POPULATION

IOWA - 3,107,000

5 largest cities:

DesMoines - 207,510
Cedar Rapids 128.429
Davenport 102,429
Siox City 83,459
Iowa City 71,591

CONN -3,597,000

5 largest cities:

Bridgeport - 147,216
New Haven 130,660
Stamford 126,456
Hartford 125,017
Waterbury 109.696

UCONN has the potential to reach 60-70 K fans per game. All we have to do is win!
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Iowa has been in the B1G competing at a higher level for over a generation. They have built up a larger football fanbase in a totally different culture, among people that are far more willing to identify with State U than Connecticut. Two of the 3 largest markets in CT are closer to NYC than East Hartford.

We can get to 45-50s over the next 10-20 years with sustained excellence. But a lot of programs are seeing attendance trend downward with this younger generation. Using the demographics you used to argue we can get the same attendance is superficial at best.
 
I'm starting to think they're waiting until after the National Championship game to unveil the uniforms. They did the same thing in 2013, I believe. Hopefully they're not another "meh" disappointment.
 
WingU-Conn said:
Iowa has been in the B1G competing at a higher level for over a generation. They have built up a larger football fanbase in a totally different culture, among people that are far more willing to identify with State U than Connecticut. Two of the 3 largest markets in CT are closer to NYC than East Hartford.

We can get to 45-50s over the next 10-20 years with sustained excellence. But a lot of programs are seeing attendance trend downward with this younger generation. Using the demographics you used to argue we can get the same attendance is superficial at best.
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it's gonna take some time and all the stars are going to have to line up.
I found this interesting piece on the Yale Bowl.

http://www.yalebulldogs.com/information/facilities/yale_bowl/index

There have been crowds of over 70,000 on 20 occasions, the most recent on Nov. 19, 1983, for the 100th playing of The Game. The largest crowd to attend a Yale game at the Bowl was 80,000 for Army on Nov. 3, 1923. The 75,300 at the 1981 Yale-Harvard contest was the largest at a sporting event in New England in more than 50 years.

We saw what happened at the Rent for the Michigan game. We start winning and move up and UCONN football could be a hot ticket.
 
So do we actually know what this is about? Is it definitely uniform changes, or is that just speculation?
 
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I can't believe that in this modern era with all the advances in communications, social media, a 24-hour news cycle, etc... that no one has anymore information on these potential new uni's? Like not The Courant, Des, Jeff Jacobs, the bloggers, no one... really? Someone inside The Burton has to know what's up and has told someone, right?? Let's hope after tonight's game where our women take home another national title, we can focus our attention towards football and get these things out.
 
Confident Carl said:
it's gonna take some time and all the stars are going to have to line up.
I found this interesting piece on the Yale Bowl.

http://www.yalebulldogs.com/information/facilities/yale_bowl/index

There have been crowds of over 70,000 on 20 occasions, the most recent on Nov. 19, 1983, for the 100th playing of The Game. The largest crowd to attend a Yale game at the Bowl was 80,000 for Army on Nov. 3, 1923. The 75,300 at the 1981 Yale-Harvard contest was the largest at a sporting event in New England in more than 50 years.

We saw what happened at the Rent for the Michigan game. We start winning and move up and UCONN football could be a hot ticket.
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1) the Yale bowl is far closer to the 3 largest cities (and located in the 2nd largest city).
2) The Game has been established over generations. Which reinforces my point about not using Iowa or B1G programs.
3) There were at least 10-15,000 Michigan fans at that game. I have friends who are Michigan fans who drove 3 hours to that game who would never go to another game at the Rent unless it involved Michigan.
4) Totally pointless data. It is data for ONE game, played every other year. What's Yale's attendance the rest of the season?
5) That data is 30+ years old and ignores the more relevant data which shows declining attendance across multiple programs that are closer to being our peer than Yale.

You're right about the winning. No matter what we need to win games. I want the rent to be expanded to 55,000 as much as anyone else. But let's make a rational argument for doing it. Let's point out that the investment made into the program may be a waste if we don't go that extra mile to do everything needed to get an invite into the B1G or ACC. We can be penny wise and pound foolish, or we can upgrade it. It would help if the governor weren't busy giving hundreds of millions of dollars away to corporations while closing community colleges and cutting funding to UConn. Hopefully the team is turned around. A few 9-10 win seasons would do wonders, and even with the competition (if UConn doesn't get greedy and keeps prices static) we'd see a huge increase in attendance.


How about those new uniforms? I'm expecting some sort of hint after the game tonight. Maybe tomorrow or Thursday.
 
Mr. Conehead said:
After what Kraft & co. did to Connecticut, there should be at least 2 games a year folks from CT root for the Jets :mad:
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Kraft is a snake, but without his snub The Rent doesn't get approved and built practically overnight.
 
Waquoit said:
Kraft is a snake, but without his snub The Rent doesn't get approved and built practically overnight.
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Kraft is a nice guy who does a lot for charity. Anybody who ever thought that the Patriots were coming to Harford was delusional. They did want to go to South Boston however.
 
WingU-Conn said:
1) the Yale bowl is far closer to the 3 largest cities (and located in the 2nd largest city).
2) The Game has been established over generations. Which reinforces my point about not using Iowa or B1G programs.
3) There were at least 10-15,000 Michigan fans at that game. I have friends who are Michigan fans who drove 3 hours to that game who would never go to another game at the Rent unless it involved Michigan.
4) Totally pointless data. It is data for ONE game, played every other year. What's Yale's attendance the rest of the season?
5) That data is 30+ years old and ignores the more relevant data which shows declining attendance across multiple programs that are closer to being our peer than Yale.

You're right about the winning. No matter what we need to win games. I want the rent to be expanded to 55,000 as much as anyone else. But let's make a rational argument for doing it. Let's point out that the investment made into the program may be a waste if we don't go that extra mile to do everything needed to get an invite into the B1G or ACC. We can be penny wise and pound foolish, or we can upgrade it. It would help if the governor weren't busy giving hundreds of millions of dollars away to corporations while closing community colleges and cutting funding to UConn. Hopefully the team is turned around. A few 9-10 win seasons would do wonders, and even with the competition (if UConn doesn't get greedy and keeps prices static) we'd see a huge increase in attendance.


How about those new uniforms? I'm expecting some sort of hint after the game tonight. Maybe tomorrow or Thursday.
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At this point, we are all mired in the muck of 4 straight losing seasons. We are scratching our way up from the bottom. Just trying to draw on any possiblility of light at the end of the tunnel.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Kraft is a nice guy who does a lot for charity. Anybody who ever thought that the Patriots were coming to Harford was delusional. They did want to go to South Boston however.
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I believe the rotation went new Foxborough, then the Seaport District, i.e. S. Boston (this was before the Pats got good and thus Boston had no interest, the same piece of land was eyed by the prior owners of the Red Sox, but they could not get it down either, now that land is way to pricy to build a stadium), then Providence, then Hartford (which would have gotten UConn a 65K football stadium) and then back to Foxbrough where Gillette is today. Kraft is a shrewd businessman who was shopping around for the best deal. When Beacon Hill baked, he used the threat of a move to Hartford, including a signed contract, to get a better deal of Massachusetts. Thus, your are right, he had no intent to move the Pats to Hartford. He's playing a very similar game with the MLS Revs who desperately need a soccer only stadium; but, no one has shown him enough money yet.
 
Let's get some distinctive, yet traditional uniforms that can be part of a new chapter of UCONN football.

Diaco has wanted these and I think everyone was disappointed with the childish remake in 2013. Another Paul P masterpiece (I know he probably had nothing to do with them). I consider this another small step in the right towards the Big 10.
 
MASSconn said:
Let's get some distinctive, yet traditional uniforms that can be part of a new chapter of UCONN football.

Diaco has wanted these and I think everyone was disappointed with the childish remake in 2013. Another Paul P masterpiece (I know he probably had nothing to do with them). I consider this another small step in the right towards the Big 10.
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The Uniforms were fine. Who had complaints about the actual uniforms? The helmets were a bold idea, certainly distinctive, but really don't work. My guess is that Diaco is guided by what Hayden Frye did at Iowa, which was to basically steal the Pittsburgh Steelers uniforms (back when the Steelers where king in the late 70's). Don't be surprised if Diaco wants to borrow some from the Patriots.
 
HuskyHawk said:
The Uniforms were fine. Who had complaints about the actual uniforms? The helmets were a bold idea, certainly distinctive, but really don't work. My guess is that Diaco is guided by what Hayden Frye did at Iowa, which was to basically steal the Pittsburgh Steelers uniforms (back when the Steelers where king in the late 70's). Don't be surprised if Diaco wants to borrow some from the Patriots.
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I agree that he uniforms are fine.. the helmet, was incomplete IMO..

I hope we get a looksee at the new designs no later than Friday...
 
HuskyHawk said:
The Uniforms were fine. Who had complaints about the actual uniforms? The helmets were a bold idea, certainly distinctive, but really don't work. My guess is that Diaco is guided by what Hayden Frye did at Iowa, which was to basically steal the Pittsburgh Steelers uniforms (back when the Steelers where king in the late 70's). Don't be surprised if Diaco wants to borrow some from the Patriots.
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Just a reminder, Diaco is a Jersey boy! LOL!

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I would think they would use the new uni's as a way to get people to the spring game. Not that it would inflate the crowd that much, but it might create some buzz if they told people they could see what they looked like at the game Saturday.
 
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sportsart said:
I would think they would use the new uni's as a way to get people to the spring game. Not that it would inflate the crowd that much, but it might create some buzz if they told people they could see what they looked like at the game Saturday.
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Probably already too late for that... I would think most people have their weekend plans mostly in place by now. Might be a nice bonus for those of us who show but I kind of doubt it.
 
Anyone see the CROWD at the Syracuse Spring game? Or ... is this just something TWC customers in New York State got? Whole lot of steel benches seen.

We should have a nice day.
 
Soooo the WBB team won their Natonal title again... Its over, congrats to Geno and company (seriously). Now, its time for some Husky Football, on to the show!!! And when is the annoucement of these new uni's coming! Haha
 
Coach Diaco just announced that they will not release the new uniforms on Saturday on espn radio.
 
Sprague03 said:
Coach Diaco just announced that they will not release the new uniforms on Saturday on espn radio.
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Just heard the same thing. Judging by what he just said, sounds like it won't be until after the spring game and possibly after the women's victory parade. He apparently doesn't want to take any shine away from the women.
 
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