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Stairmaster said:
Totally normal school of thought and not dickish at all. Hats off to ya.
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To hell with it blow it up and make a bowling alley for all i care, EO smith is in a convenient space, the University could use it. I hope for a new Parking Lot and FBALL stadium.
 
I'd seriously like to know what the main gripe is from a local. It's not like they are taking over the whole town. The university is in a fairly confined space.
 
I'm saying the University has made a decisive executive change. Locals may not have seen this yet. There are meetings in all fronts in development going forward. Is this due to past history? Yup
 
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HuskyAlum012 said:
I actually say blow it up, we need to make a highway from 84 to UConn so we can build an on campus football stadium.
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I envision a double envelopment maneuver with two columns of panzers, it'll take a day or two tops. Then there will be mop-up operations, fighting in the rubble and sewers....wait, does Mansfield have sewers?
 
There is a reason the town that UConn is surrounded by is known as the "People's Republic of Mansfield" in Hartford.

Sorry stairmaster - you may as well have been born in Tripoli, 3 Mile Island, or Mogadishu.
 
UConn990411 said:
The Storrs-Mansfield locals in this thread are definitely doing a good job in this thread of changing people's perception of them.
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Okay fine. Use neutron bombs and panzers on the town. Cause that's awfully mature and in touch with reality. And spending four drunk years in town entitles you all to decide that.
 
SubbaBub said:
I'd seriously like to know what the main gripe is from a local. It's not like they are taking over the whole town. The university is in a fairly confined space.
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I don't care about the EO Smith site. It's the "blow up the town" numbskulls that piss me off. My family has the deed to our land, not the university. Did you guys all know that other people live in Mansfield on land that is not owned by the state? If campus was located in any of the towns where you live, I'm pretty sure none of you would sacrifice your private property for the sake of some bozos on a message board.
 
Stairmaster said:
I don't care about the EO Smith site. It's the "blow up the town" numbskulls that piss me off. My family has the deed to our land, not the university. Did you guys all know that other people live in Mansfield on land that is not owned by the state? If campus was located in any of the towns where you live, I'm pretty sure none of you would sacrifice your private property for the sake of some bozos on a message board.
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If I had to give up my land, first born child, and left ball and it gave UConn a much greater chance of getting out of the hell hole that is the AAC and into a P5 conference, please tell me where I can sign.
 
Stairmaster said:
Okay fine. Use neutron bombs and panzers on the town. Cause that's awfully mature and in touch with reality. And spending four drunk years in town entitles you all to decide that.
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Stop whining, we just want whats best for the University..
 
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Stairmaster said:
I don't care about the EO Smith site. It's the "blow up the town" numbskulls that piss me off. My family has the deed to our land, not the university. Did you guys all know that other people live in Mansfield on land that is not owned by the state? If campus was located in any of the towns where you live, I'm pretty sure none of you would sacrifice your private property for the sake of some bozos on a message board.
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You have it perfectly backwards.

No one is worried about your dopey half-acre.

Their concern is the land owned by the University and progress that is somehow constantly held up by the residents.
 
Stairmaster said:
I don't care about the EO Smith site. It's the "blow up the town" numbskulls that piss me off. My family has the deed to our land, not the university. Did you guys all know that other people live in Mansfield on land that is not owned by the state? If campus was located in any of the towns where you live, I'm pretty sure none of you would sacrifice your private property for the sake of some bozos on a message board.
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That doesn't explain the local resistance to everything Uconn does.
 
Fishy said:
You have it perfectly backwards.

No one is worried about your dopey half-acre.

Their concern is the land owned by the University and progress that is somehow constantly held up by the residents.
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That's not what I'm reading here, boss.
 
SubbaBub said:
That doesn't explain the local resistance to everything Uconn does.
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I don't speak for every other resident. Despite what you read here, we're not a hivemind of duck*ing insects.
 
HuskyAlum012 said:
If I had to give up my land, first born child, and left ball and it gave UConn a much greater chance of getting out of the hell hole that is the AAC and into a P5 conference, please tell me where I can sign.
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Oh, a guy talking tough on a message board! I love it!

Just an aside, I'm pretty sure child sacrifice isn't the kind of publicity that would impress conference officials. Nor is running tanks through an entire town. But go ahead, you guys can live in your fantasy world and sacrifice your kids and send pictures to Jim Delany. It'll work if you believe hard enough!
 
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I honestly wouldn't put it past the people here.
 
I'm telling you, it's only a matter of time before these cutters put together a team and look to challenge us in our annual cycling race. . .
 
On a slightly more serious note, I think it's great that UConn is looking to acquire the high school. It's just goofy to expand the campus on its fringes and have to walk through a high school to get there. It's also silly to create a patchwork of a campus plan when the campus sits in such a rural location. It actual may ultimately benefit the town. Although I can't be certain of it, there's at least a chance the deal can get done without panzers. . .
 
C'mon. The State took a person' house just so it could sit vacant for a decade and fought the right to that all the way to the Supreme Court.

Certainly Connecticut isn't going to be gun shy about a l'il eminent domain in some hick town.
 
I love how the sentiment here is that the town is so piss poor at planning anything. Yet you guys want the university to to acquire land so they can replace a football stadium that is just over ten years old.

Seems like the university doesnt always get the plans right either.

There is a huge contigency of townies who believe that mansfield officials roll over for anything the university wants to do. And i have seen projects go forward on campus that would not meet town requirements (encroaching on wetlands setbacks for example) that the university has done anyway.

What i havent seen is any townies(including me) on this forum who really care if EO smith gets moved or not. As far as laying waste to the town, maybe you have to actually live in mansfield to be smart enough to realize that it would not be in the university's best interest.
 
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tdrink said:
I love how the sentiment here is that the town is so piss poor at planning anything. Yet you guys want the university to to acquire land so they can replace a football stadium that is just over ten years old.

Seems like the university doesnt always get the plans right either.

There is a huge contigency of townies who believe that mansfield officials roll over for anything the university wants to do. And i have seen projects go forward on campus that would not meet town requirements (encroaching on wetlands setbacks for example) that the university has done anyway.

What i havent seen is any townies(including me) on this forum who really care if EO smith gets moved or not. As far as laying waste to the town, maybe you have to actually live in mansfield to be smart enough to realize that it would not be in the university's best interest.
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Agree 100%. As a EO alumnus, my only attraction to the current site was being able to walk across the street and get burritos during my free periods. Now that I'm gone (and living walking distance from dozens of Chipotles) they can put the school wherever they want.
 
I graduated in the late 70s. I didn't realize EO Smith was an actual high school. We viewed it as simply a soccer camp for Morrone.
 
HuskyAlum012 said:
If I had to give up my land, first born child, and left ball and it gave UConn a much greater chance of getting out of the hell hole that is the AAC and into a P5 conference, please tell me where I can sign.
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How does this thread and its 'ideas' get us in a P5?

Building an on Campus FB stadium doesn't get UConn in a P5 nor does it fill the seats. Sure 500 more students will attend the game mid way thru the 1st quarter and be back tailgating after the 3rd quarter - and most likely lose 1000 season tix holders (2-4 seats per holder) with travel - with an on campus stadium.

Filling the Rent this year - which used to happen - gives UConn a better chance of getting into a P5.
 
Stairmaster said:
That's not what I'm reading here, boss.
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Probably not fair for me to jump to this conclusion, but here I go:

I think you know exactly what people are saying here ( that the vocal townspeople are lunatics.... Not that we are literally advocating mass murder ). But still you are compelled to be a drama queen.

Nobody wants to bulldoze your family home. They want to negate their silly votes. They should not have moved to a college town if the were looking to live in a briar patch.
 
The characterization of Mansfield residents being some sort of barrier to progress is based on mythology.

The university pretty much does what it wants.

A lot of what UConn has done, especially lately, would not be tolerated by anyone in this thread if it happened to their town (like lobbying the state for the de-funding of several local day care centers because Herbst has a friend who wants to open one in Storrs Center).
 
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