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It's hard to tell, but it looks like:

Fenway leaks to the Globe, reporters go to UConn, UConn chooses to have sources say "yes, talks are happening" instead of "uconn refused to comment".

Is this a way for UConn to appease its fan base, that is, "look at us, we've got all these great ideas" sort of thing?

I guess it depends who the original source was.
 
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VAHuskyFan said:
The article seems written to give the impression that ND is interested, but doesn't actually say that. Sure, Notre Dame "may be" willing to shift a home game from their 80,795 capacity stadium to play at Fenway, which holds 37,000. On the other hand, that would be insane.

This would be awesome for UConn, but I think it's unlikely.
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The official capacity at Fenway is 37,495 for a night baseball game, but average attendnce since 2008 is north of this number. My guess is standing room only tickets. However look at this photo (one of my favorites) from a Patriots game in the 60's (Notice the Pru under construction over the RF Bleachers). The Yawkeys used to place temp bleachers in front of the Monster. Understanding how the current owners like to squeaze every last $0.01 out of the venue, I can imagine a similar thing happening.

Like you however, I find it crazy that ND would give up a home game of 80,000 for a game at Fenway seating 45,000 tops, whilerefusing a game at 40,000 Rentchler? FYI - Alumni Stadium at BC seats only around 44,500 and they go their every other year.
 
Would be cool to sit in the RF roof Seats for a game - or the budweiser venue in the corner!
 
This would be an excellent thing. I have no problem with playing these type of games...really a true neutral site game. Almost doesn't matter who the home team is.
 
SubbaBub said:
This is a terrific point, which questions the reality of this rumor. If the 40k Rent is too small for ND, then a 35k Fenway is as well. It would have to be Gillette.

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Dont see Gillette hapening. If we go along with that option, it would basically call into question why we cancelled the original ND series all together. The reason being that they tried to force our hand in the home and home issue, thus Uconn walked! A game in Boston, although may not provide the # of seats ND is accustom to, would stick the Irish in another major market for another game. Good exposure in an Irish market??? Not sure what else the Irish would gain other than that...
 
Ticket prices for a game like this will be very high (First football game at Fenway in years), that's how ND makes up the difference. This could also help our local recruiting.
 
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Husky25 said:
Like you however, I find it crazy that ND would give up a home game of 80,000 for a game at Fenway seating 45,000 tops, whilerefusing a game at 40,000 Rentchler? FYI - Alumni Stadium at BC seats only around 44,500 and they go their every other year.
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Because it has nothing to do with stadium size. They've played at BC for years, it's a "rivalry" against a catholic school. Stadium size doesn't matter. Besides, they only get a visitors alotment. If they play a home game at Fenway they get the majority of the tickets.

They just travelled to play Navy in Ireland. What are the travel expenses for bringing an entire team and staff overseas??

ND has plenty of money. From NBC, to boosters, they can afford to move one home game a year to play games where they have a ton of fans who will buy the tickets, be thrilled with the game close to them, and keep those athletic department donations rolling in.
 
It isn't the number of seats that matter, it is that its a game in Fenway Park. First football game there since 1968. First college game there since I don't know when, the 40s maybe. And doggie, this is very different from the original ND seires. this is a one and done deal presumably, and a true neutral site game. Not a UConn Home game.
 
ruskin said:
just did a little research on how the previous ND deal fell apart. Read this. Remember it was a vocal minority on this board that swayed legislators to take the steps that led to the killing of that deal. Seems to be a big majority here so far that want this game to happen. Let's make sure we drown out the other side.
And the more I think about this the more I'm enjoying the image of BC officials spitting up their breakfast this morning.
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This is a good article, I dont remember seeing this one. Thanks for putting this up.
 
I also don't believe this will happen now because of ND move to the ACC. They are required to play 5 ACC games starting in 2014. I believe there were talks prior to the ND move. I believe they are now on the back burner. Why Fenway? Because the RED Sox are trying to use Fenway park for more than baseball. Hockey, concerts, college baseball and would like to use it for FB. It's the RED /0x pushing this game. Gillette is not in the picture. Too bad. I would love to see this happen but at least for 2014, I don't see it.
 
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From here it looks like some left field seats are blocked by the temporary bleachers. What sucks is that if this is considered a home game for ND and not a neutral site game, then ND controls the bulk of the tickets. It'd be interesting to see what UConn's allotment would be.
 
freescooter said:
It isn't the number of seats that matter, it is that its a game in Fenway Park. First football game there since 1968. First college game there since I don't know when, the 40s maybe. And doggie, this is very different from the original ND seires. this is a one and done deal presumably, and a true neutral site game. Not a UConn Home game.
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Yes I get that its a ND home game which makes this a no brainer for us. The question is, why ND would be willing to give up so much? Perhaps this is a market test for their future NBC contract negotiations???
 
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Love the idea, but I am skeptical about it happening, especially given ND's full schedule already. But I would pay a significant amount of money to get tickets to such an event, and ND loves the Boston/Irish connection, so there's that, at least.
 
Doggie Style said:
Yes I get that its a ND home game which makes this a no brainer for us. The question is, why ND would be willing to give up so much? Perhaps this is a market test for their future NBC contract negotiations???
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ND loves to sell their "Irish" culture and how many American cities are more Irish than Boston?
 
L Train said:
Ticket prices for a game like this will be very high (First football game at Fenway in years), that's how ND makes up the difference. This could also help our local recruiting.
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I would easily pay $100/seat X 5!!!!
 
Irish Loop said:
ND loves to sell their "Irish" culture and how many American cities are more Irish than Boston?
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Yes I agree. The three major Irish American cities are Boston,NY,Chicago, in no particular order. They already have games set up in NYC and Chi-town, so Boston seems to make sense to feed the ND marketing machine!
 
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BCSUPERFAN22 said, "I cant imagine this ever happens, but the puppies trying to force this thru during an AD transition is actually rather clever. [Dancing Pickle] will make this block his final mark before bowing out in 13 days.

Could GDF actually do something to block this? He is not affiliated with any party involved.
 
If Uconn has a chance for the game you need to take it, the game might just be an audition for joining the ACC, courtesy of Notre Dame. The question to ask is: why would Notre Dame play Uconn after announcing for the ACC? Swarbrick never does anything out of the goodness of his heart.
 
1) Notre Dame would do this, despite the decreased size of the home game, because they are Notre Dame, America's college football team, and they can. This is how they maintain that self-proclaimed distinction. They play games like this, in NYC, in Ireland and show the world their broad appeal. And because of games like this and that attitude, they inexplicably have a seat at the BCS table despite an utter lack of success over the past 25 years on the field. Its special, and that's why they do it.

2) I'm surprised no one has raised this notion yet: what about BC instead of ND? People are right to say ND would be a hard fit given the timing of everything. It seems like Fenway/Henry really want this game to happen. We're already game. What better way to renew a rivalry of the only two real New England football teams than with a spectacle at Fenway and a beatdown of "Boston's team" in Boston's mecca?
 
Considering the way things are going for us with conference realignment, this is an absolute no-brainer. If the offer to make it happen is there - do it! We need all the big names on our schedule we can get.

Interesting that they want to do it at Fenway considering they haven't played a football game there since the '60s. Could make for a fun environment.
 
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BCU played at Fenway at least as late as 1940 but I couldn't find any info. on college FB after that.
 
freescooter said:
This would be an excellent thing. I have no problem with playing these type of games...really a true neutral site game. Almost doesn't matter who the home team is.
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You don't think it matters if ND gets to sell all the tickets to its northeast alumni list versus putting them all on ticketmaster and see whose fanbase does a better job? You really don't think that matters?

It matters to me -- I'd like to go.
 
jrazz12 said:
1) Notre Dame would do this, despite the decreased size of the home game, because they are Notre Dame, America's college football team, and they can. This is how they maintain that self-proclaimed distinction. They play games like this, in NYC, in Ireland and show the world their broad appeal. And because of games like this and that attitude, they inexplicably have a seat at the BCS table despite an utter lack of success over the past 25 years on the field. Its special, and that's why they do it.

2) I'm surprised no one has raised this notion yet: what about BC instead of ND? People are right to say ND would be a hard fit given the timing of everything. It seems like Fenway/Henry really want this game to happen. We're already game. What better way to renew a rivalry of the only two real New England football teams than with a spectacle at Fenway and a beatdown of "Boston's team" in Boston's mecca?
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I agree with what was wrtten above. This has to do with Henry, Lucino, Werner, and the $$ Fenway can provide. But to answer your question...1) BC would not give Fenway the broad exposure that ND would. Boston is a Pro Sports town, where Sunday's are for Church and the Patriots (Some think they are the same). Everything else is done on Saturdays...at least from Labor Day through New Years. 2) BC doesn't have any more pull in Brighton let alone a national following. BC has been down ever since Coach Jags was sent packing for having the nerve of having a Dunks' coffee with Woody Johnson. So much for New England's team...
 
businesslawyer said:
You don't think it matters if ND gets to sell all the tickets to its northeast alumni list versus putting them all on ticketmaster and see whose fanbase does a better job? You really don't think that matters?

It matters to me -- I'd like to go.
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Well, I'd like to go to but I don't much care if I buy my tickets thorugh the UConn ticket office, the Notre Dame ticket office, ticketmaster, stub hub or my guy Buddy who scalps them outside Fenway most days (Buddy is having not so good a year this season...he hopes the Celtics have a good year to bail him out). So no, I really don't care who the home team is for a game like this.
 
Thinking this plus a couple of other games in South Bend (or elsewhere) could be the bone we're being thrown to keep women's hoop series going. Not saying ND will forfeit $$ for women's hoops, to do this, but way for them to keep same $$ and keep us happy
 
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