Agree, it needs to be on campus. The logical choices are Horsebarn Hill or between Stadium Road and South Eagleville. As I've posted in other threads, you don't need a huge highway into campus. Intelligent lot placement with shuttles and coupled with making existing roads one at the close of games would go a long way toward alleviating the post game congestion. Plus people will take advantage of the campus and new Storrs Center, and of course tailgating to stagger their entrance and exit times.
They should be institutionalized if they ever build another 40k stadium. They need 60k with infrastructure to expand another 15k if needed. That said, there is no way it will be built in the Storrs area. Not in our lifetimes. The demographics would have to change so dramatically that a highway became necessary. The stadium will not drive the highway construction. The people out there don't want a stadium. East Hartford did. Big difference. So here's the only possible scenario:With all due respect, shuttling the student section to Rentschler is a vastly different animal than shuttling the other 35k from off-campus lots back onto campus. If the idea is to build a 40k (or larger) stadium on campus, that idea should be dead on arrival. "Moving day" on campus was brutal enough, but to quadruple the population flow??? No chance...
They should be institutionalized if they ever build another 40k stadium. They need 60k with infrastructure to expand another 15k if needed. That said, there is no way it will be built in the Storrs area. Not in our lifetimes. The demographics would have to change so dramatically that a highway became necessary. The stadium will not drive the highway construction. The people out there don't want a stadium. East Hartford did. Big difference. So here's the only possible scenario:
1) Population in the Coventry, Tolland, Mansfield, Willington area triples (don't hold your breath).
2) Roads are jammed
3) Highway is built
4) Possible stadium is constructed if it can be forced upon all the people in those areas who do not want it and are very vocal about it.
It is a long, long shot.
Your respect is duly noted.With all due respect, shuttling the student section to Rentschler is a vastly different animal than shuttling the other 35k from off-campus lots back onto campus. If the idea is to build a 40k (or larger) stadium on campus, that idea should be dead on arrival. "Moving day" on campus was brutal enough, but to quadruple the population flow??? No chance...
Army's traffic situation after games sucks. Please don't use that as a standard for us.Your respect is duly noted.I think we'll end up disagreeing on this one. Fan bases across the country somehow manage to be able to drive far greater distances to their campuses. I think that we can manage it as well. As has been stated above, an on campus stadium is an investment in the future. Kids will be invested in attending games while on campus and many will continue to so as alums.
I think it can be done without a huge investment of road expansion. As I posted frequently on this board, Rutgers uses existing back roads effectively to move cars at the end of games by designating roads as dedicated exit routes and using both lanes. Army is an inconvenient drive along small winging road, yet they manage to get people in and out of their stadium. We could as well. That said it seems to me that technology park might well merit an investment in the supporting infra-structure. That would benefit the campus as well.
Keep in mind that we are all in agreement that the Rent is our home for the foreseeable future. It is a great place to see a game, comfortable with good site lines. But it does make sense, in my opinion, to identify an on campus stadium in our long term plans.
There is never going to be a 50k+ stadium in Storrs. Not in 10 years, not in 20 years, not in 50 years. That decision was made by the small town, small minds of the residents of the greater Storrs metropolitan area. The minute the NIMBY stuff popped up in the 80's should have also been the moment the state decided not another nickel would go into the Storrs campus. I think UConn should have been moved to Hartford before UConn 2000. Now that the state has spent close to $3 billion on campus over the last 20 years, everyone is all in on that place and forced to deal with the morons who live out there.
There will never be a highway or even a widening of 195. Too expensive and the bumpkins can tie it up in court for decades. No highway access, no football stadium.
I've never had trouble getting out of Michie. I have gotten caught on the way in but other commitments kept me from leaving early enough. In the end, that's the key isn't it? Give yourself enough time, get in early and enjoy the tailgate. Problem solved.Army's traffic situation after games sucks. Please don't use that as a standard for us.
Not happening. They are, however, looking to have each of the state u campuses become flagships in their own right: CCSU-Bus/Tech, WCSU-Arts, SCSU-Health, and ECSU-Education. They said they won't dramatically reduce the number of majors offered at each school, but that it could happen on a limited basis.The move is to combine the UConn and State university systems, convert Storrs to ECSU (renamed to UConn - Mansfield focused back to agro and libral arts) and build a new main campus in East Hartford. Close UC-hartford, combine CCSU and SCSU, expand WCSU.
Quite the contrary, as in polar opposite. The factual plan is to further enable UCONN to distance itself as the state's flagship STEM research institution, and to align itself closer with Michigan, UVA, CAL, etc.SubbaBub said:The move is to combine the UConn and State university systems...
Hmm, maybe I just picked a bad game. The UConn-Army game (yes, we sold out our allotment) back in 2005 was a lot of fun. It took our bus over an hour to get from the parking lot to the "highway" - it was a long ride home.I've never had trouble getting out of Michie. I have gotten caught on the way in but other commitments kept me from leaving early enough. In the end, that's the key isn't it? Give yourself enough time, get in early and enjoy the tailgate. Problem solved.
Has CCSU improved a lot in recent years? I know a few people with bachelors degrees from very good schools that then got a masters at CCSU. They have CCSU as their alma mater on social media and Linkedin. I found it odd that they'd put CCSU on there in place of NYU etc. unless it's rep has really improved.
Central may have improved some, but social media sites often select or highlight the last education versus the more prominent or ranked university.Hoophound said:Has CCSU improved a lot in recent years? I know a few people with bachelors degrees from very good schools that then got a masters at CCSU. They have CCSU as their alma mater on social media and Linkedin. I found it odd that they'd put CCSU on there in place of NYU etc. unless it's rep has really improved.
Central may have improved some, but social media sites often select or highlight the last education versus the more prominent or ranked university.
The move is to combine the UConn and State university systems, convert Storrs to ECSU (renamed to UConn - Mansfield focused back to agro and libral arts) and build a new main campus in East Hartford. Close UC-hartford, combine CCSU and SCSU, expand WCSU.
Any move like that had to have been made by the late 80's. Too late now.
I do think a move should have been made to either make Hartford the main branch or make them co-branches of the same university in the late 80's. $3 billion poured into UConn Hartford the last 20 years would have gone a long way, and shut up the morons that live in the greater Mansfield area. I think UConn would be more appealing to out of state students in a city and would attract more business involvement.
We are where we are. If we want a FBS football program, it has to play in East Hartford. There is no way to get 50k people in and out of Storrs on gameday. The traffic before and after the game would bring 5 towns into gridlock.
On top of LIUCHusky's factual statement UCONN has no trouble attracting out-of-state students, they are high caliber, pay more so they indirectly subsidize in-state students, and the university caps the percentage from outside CT at 25%. You are correct, no one's moving from The Rent.nelsonmuntz said:I think UConn would be more appealing to out of state students in a city and would attract more business involvement. We are where we are. If we want a FBS football program, it has to play in East Hartford.
Fishy said:As someone who went to UConn as an out-of-stater, I would have to agree - I was high-caliber and I did pay more.
You all benefitted from my presence at your state university.
You are welcome.