UConn to open season at Barclays Center

[Rico444]

Dude, why are you such a dick? I'm trying to be optimistic here. I already said I was wrong, why do you have to keep being an *sshole? If you nailed the 9,000 number, I could understand the bravado, but you were off by 3,000 fans.

 

[Rico444]

BTW, UConn/Gonzaga in 2008 was one game in Boston, and it drew 16,000, so I don't see how I'm way off for being optimistic we can get to that number.

 

[upstater]

I think the roll call at the third place NIT game against Utah would have ended at about the 50th person.

I attended the Georgia Tech game as well--not much better.

 

[whaler11]

Dude, why are you such a ? I'm trying to be optimistic here. I already said I was wrong, why do you have to keep being an *sshole? If you nailed the 9,000 number, I could understand the bravado, but you were off by 3,000 fans.

I'm not being an asshol*. Just pointing out your numbers are wrong. I wasn't off by anything. They sold 11k tickets for the double header - you don't think that published attendance is related to people in the seats do you? The second game had about 9k at it. Maybe half were UConn fans if you were feeling generous. Most of the people around me were just drinking and gambling and didn't support any school past their wager.

Many of the people who would travel to the city for Maryland. are going to be tied up with football. For some reasons we have one of the few fanbases where there are basketball fans who don't support football. This thread is about them not being able to admit that the football game will cripple attendance at the Maryland game. Maryland won't draw much and if you saw the A-10 tourney you understand that college basketball in Brooklyn has no inherent draw.

You want to talk out of your *ss and say 16k. That's fine. Don't get pissy when it's pointed out that's a pipedream.

 

[whaler11]

BTW, UConn/Gonzaga in 2008 was one game in Boston, and it drew 16,000, so I don't see how I'm way off for being optimistic we can get to that number.

I offered you 3:1 odds on you setting the over under if you are so confident - doing that even knowing how badly they paper the house and published attendance.

 

[Drame]

So pregame at Hotbird. About 4 blocks from the venue. They've got good BBQ, an outdoor yard and a fire pit if you get chilly.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/hot-bird-brooklyn

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

I'm excited, Barclays is great.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

BTW, UConn/Gonzaga in 2008 was one game in Boston, and it drew 16,000, so I don't see how I'm way off for being optimistic we can get to that number.

Because there wasn't a home football game on the same date?

I really am not trying to rain on your parade but come on. We don't pack 16,000 into the civic center to see #1 Louisville and yet somehow that same core fanbase is traveling to Brooklyn when the majority of those traveling fans will be at the football game?

UConn sends at tops 1,000 fans to this game.

 

[whaler11]

Because there wasn't a home football game on the same date?

I really am not trying to rain on your parade but come on. We don't pack 16,000 into the civic center to see #1 Louisville and yet somehow that same core fanbase is traveling to Brooklyn when the majority of those traveling fans will be at the football game?

UConn sends at tops 1,000 fans to this game.

I don't think they will send many but 1k sounds low. Maryland is no draw and Brooklyn is death from CT but it will be more than 1k. The fact that a good amount of our core traveling base spends a lot on football tickets combined with LV football being a better draw than Maryland plus the ease of travel to EH versus Crooklyn will limit it by like 75% though.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

I get supporting the alma mater but who could possibly be excited by the prospect of a UConn / Louisville football game?

 

[whaler11]

I get supporting the alma mater but who could possibly be excited by the prospect of a UConn / Louisville football game?

Right - we have basketball fans who hate the fact the football program exists. Yet somehow if a conference accepts UConn it will be because they sponsor football. Can't wait to watch you attempt to reconcile someday.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Right - we have basketball fans who hate the fact the football program exists. Yet somehow if a conference accepts UConn it will be because they sponsor football. Can't wait to watch you attempt to reconcile someday.

Sometimes your zeal to be an insufferable blowhard gets the better of you. I don't hate the fact that the football program exists. Not at all. I just recognize that there is nothing appealing, to me, about watching a UConn football game.

 

[whaler11]

Sometimes your zeal to be an insufferable blowhard gets the better of you. I don't hate the fact that the football program exists. Not at all. I just recognize that there is nothing appealing, to me, about watching a UConn football game.

Oh sorry to not understand that nuance. Luckily for you the football program may save the basketball program yet.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Oh sorry to not understand that nuance. Luckily for you the football program may save the basketball program yet.

Well, try harder I guess. And if you didn't understand my last post, there's no chance you'll understand this, but here goes: I don't dispute the importance of having a top flight football program, I just think UConn football games are incredibly un-entertaining. That's all I'm saying. Reflect on that for a minute or two before you post another comment completely misrepresenting what I said. Shouldn't be too tough for someone as smart as you, right?

 

[upstater]

Well, try harder I guess. And if you didn't understand my last post, there's no chance you'll understand this, but here goes: I don't dispute the importance of having a top flight football program, I just think UConn football games are incredibly un-entertaining. That's all I'm saying. Reflect on that for a minute or two before you post another comment completely misrepresenting what I said. Shouldn't be too tough for someone as smart as you, right?

What are you talking about? The lack of offense the last two years? The powerhouse running game before that? The defense? Which is the most hard-hitting and talented D in the conference?

 

[Alum86]

There are a lot of UConn basketball fans who don't care about UConn football. I think that fact is unfortunate, but it is reality. A lot of it will depend on how good the football team is. People will be more likely to travel to Brooklyn to see a fresh and exciting basketball team if we're subjected to more of what we've seen the last two years in football.[/quote

If they think an early hoop game trumps mid to late home football then they are not really Husky fans.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

What are you talking about? The lack of offense the last two years? The powerhouse running game before that? The defense? Which is the most hard-hitting and talented D in the conference?

Some of you guys are too much. I don't find UConn football games all that entertaining. It's a personal preference. Doesn't make you right - as hard as that is for you to fathom - or me wrong. It's an opinion.

Defense looked transcendent against Syracuse, by the way. Cincinnati too. Western Mich too, I guess. Offense carried them against South Florida, Temple and Rutgers, I suppose.

 

[upstater]

Some of you guys are too much. I don't find UConn football games all that entertaining. It's a personal preference. Doesn't make you right - as hard as that is for you to fathom - or me wrong. It's an opinion.

Defense looked transcendent against Syracuse, by the way. Cincinnati too. Western Mich too, I guess. Offense carried them against South Florida, Temple and Rutgers, I suppose.

I'm just asking you what you don't like about their style of play. I enjoyed a few of their games this year. Yes. I enjoyed the Maryland and Louisville games quite a bit. The Ville game was a clinic in hard-hitting D. All I asked you was what you didn't like.

 

[whaler11]

Well, try harder I guess. And if you didn't understand my last post, there's no chance you'll understand this, but here goes: I don't dispute the importance of having a top flight football program, I just think UConn football games are incredibly un-entertaining. That's all I'm saying. Reflect on that for a minute or two before you post another comment completely misrepresenting what I said. Shouldn't be too tough for someone as smart as you, right?

That's fine. You've got your stake in the ground. Thankfully you are in a minority and the Rent will be rocking for Michigan and Maryland.

 

[whaler11]

I'm just asking you what you don't like about their style of play. I enjoyed a few of their games this year. Yes. I enjoyed the Maryland and Louisville games quite a bit. The Ville game was a clinic in hard-hitting D. All I asked you was what you didn't like.

It's nothing about the style. He just doesn't care about UConn football. Hopefully he goes to Brooklyn with a few thousand friends to improve the showing there.

I don't know if he falls in this crowd but if I meet another Notre Dame football/UConn baskeball fan I'll lose my mind.

 

[CAHUSKY]

It's nothing about the style. He just doesn't care about UConn football. Hopefully he goes to Brooklyn with a few thousand friends to improve the showing there.

I don't know if he falls in this crowd but if I meet another Notre Dame football/UConn baskeball fan I'll lose my mind.

Maybe he just doesn't like football. I find that odd but plenty of folks don't. Doesn't make him a bad guy.

 

[whaler11]

Maybe he just doesn't like football. I find that odd but plenty of folks don't. Doesn't make him a bad guy.

You'll have to link to my post where I claim he's a bad guy.

 

[CAHUSKY]

You'll have to link to my post where I claim he's a bad guy.

whaler11 said: ↑
Right - we have basketball fans who hate the fact the football program exists. Yet somehow if a conference accepts UConn it will be because they sponsor football. Can't wait to watch you attempt to reconcile someday.

While you dont call him a bad guy you do suggest he hates the fact that UCONN Ahasva football program and, to a huge UCONN football fan like you, that's probably worse insult.

 

[aceboon]

*shrugs* I like football, my 2nd favorite sport after basketball and I played varsity all through HS, UConn football is just a very unappealing product. Even when they were moderately successful under Edsall and were going to bowl games there just wasn't much appealing about the style of play on offense to draw me in. I root for them to do well, hope they have success because its good for the school/program and will only help with conf realignment but they hold the same stature as the UConn women with me. I'm kind of surprised you guys are acting like this, there's quite a few who feel this way.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

It's nothing about the style. He just doesn't care about UConn football. Hopefully he goes to Brooklyn with a few thousand friends to improve the showing there.

I don't know if he falls in this crowd but if I meet another Notre Dame football/UConn baskeball fan I'll lose my mind.

Get over yourself, guy. You're absurd. If UConn football put an enjoyable product on the field I'd be more compelled to watch. I think Pasqualoni is a dead-ender and I find their games intensely boring. I'd say I'm sorry that you don't approve of that but frankly I don't give a ****. I hope they do well but I'm not compelled to watch. Would I rather watch Oregon or Alabama play? Sure, but that doesn't mean I root for those teams. It means I've got a busy life and when I tune into a college football game I want to be entertained. The horror, right? And yup, I will be at Barclays. Does that make you mad?

Also, in my experience, I've never met a UConn basketball / Notre Dame football fan. I think the more likely pairing is Duke / ND. But hey, you're the czar of sports fandom. No idea why you're so insecure.

 

[businesslawyer]

No

Get over yourself, guy. You're absurd. If UConn football put an enjoyable product on the field I'd be more compelled to watch. I think Pasqualoni is a dead-ender and I find their games intensely boring. I'd say I'm sorry that you don't approve of that but frankly I don't give a ****. I hope they do well but I'm not compelled to watch. Would I rather watch Oregon or Alabama play? Sure, but that doesn't mean I root for those teams. It means I've got a busy life and when I tune into a college football game I want to be entertained. The horror, right? And yup, I will be at Barclays. Does that make you mad?

Also, in my experience, I've never met a UConn basketball / Notre Dame football fan. I think the more likely pairing is Duke / ND. But hey, you're the czar of sports fandom. No idea why you're so insecure.

Nope. If you are a fan of a school, you don't abandon them because you don't like the style of product or because they are not successful enough. Consumers get to do that. Fans don't.

 

[CAHUSKY]

No


Nope. If you are a fan of a school, you don't abandon them because you don't like the style of product or because they are not successful enough. Consumers get to do that. Fans don't.

Fans who are casual football fans do. I find it odd and don't understand it but lots of folks are casual fans and only watch when they win.

 

[noeynox]

He is a fan of UConn basketball, not UConn football. We don't root for the kids in chemistry classes, we root for sports teams.

Style of play matters to casual fans. It doesn't to the die hards on the football board. We're the schmucks that sit in freezing rain against USF, in a Monsoon against Louisville, and in near frostbite conditions last year against Cincinnati.

So yeah, Edsall/P, the product they put on the field is not gonna lure you a lot of new fans. You either have to be wildly successful or wildly entertaining i.e pass happy offense with lots of offense. This is something I could never really explain when describing why I wasn't an Edsall fan, but here some UConn basketball fans are doing a great job.

 

[whaler11]

Get over yourself, guy. You're absurd. If UConn football put an enjoyable product on the field I'd be more compelled to watch. I think Pasqualoni is a dead-ender and I find their games intensely boring. I'd say I'm sorry that you don't approve of that but frankly I don't give a ****. I hope they do well but I'm not compelled to watch. Would I rather watch Oregon or Alabama play? Sure, but that doesn't mean I root for those teams. It means I've got a busy life and when I tune into a college football game I want to be entertained. The horror, right? And yup, I will be at Barclays. Does that make you mad?

Also, in my experience, I've never met a UConn basketball / Notre Dame football fan. I think the more likely pairing is Duke / ND. But hey, you're the czar of sports fandom. No idea why you're so insecure.

Like I said you don't care about UConn football. Not sure what you are arguing. That's fine if you don't care you don't care.

I hope all the UConn basketball fans who don't like UConn football head to Brooklyn. Most of our fanbase would prefer to stay home and watch on TV so I applaud everyone who makes the effort to attend in person.

How am I the czar of sports fandom because I'm sick of UConn basketball fans who are fans of Notre Dame football? I guess I can only hope they are entertaining enough someday to attract more fans, hopefully it happens soon enough that the program stays above water long enough to get to a suitable conference.

 

[whaler11]

*shrugs* I like football, my 2nd favorite sport after basketball and I played varsity all through HS, UConn football is just a very unappealing product. Even when they were moderately successful under Edsall and were going to bowl games there just wasn't much appealing about the style of play on offense to draw me in. I root for them to do well, hope they have success because its good for the school/program and will only help with conf realignment but they hold the same stature as the UConn women with me. I'm kind of surprised you guys are acting like this, there's quite a few who feel this way.

Well since we are having the conversation it does annoy me that there are UConn basketball fans who look down their noses at the football program and act as if it's not worth their time.

Many of them make your argument that the style of play is unappealing. 10 years ago when the style of play wasn't appealing the argument was that it took resources from basketball.

Connecticut is a strange place. I know of no other place where people would wear their disdain of other local teams on their sleeves. There were plenty of UConn fans who treated the Whalers with disgust and plenty of Whalers fans who felt the same way about UConn.

Can anyone name another school where so many fans of one program treat another program like some UConn basketball fans treat the football program?