UConn v. URI on September 15th @ Noon on SNY/ESPN3

[huskymedic]

 

[LoyalFanCT]

Can UConn get the ticket prices down to $10 or less for the URI game. It's all very nice the sports networks are covering the game, but the Rent should be packed with CT and RI fans for this rivalry. There is a long history of these two colleges playing football. Moreover, if UConn wants to make it to a P5 conference, Rhode Island fans are going to be part of the mix.

 

[Ldandy]

Can UConn get the ticket prices down to $10 or less for the URI game. It's all very nice the sports networks are covering the game, but the Rent should be packed with CT and RI fans for this rivalry. There is a long history of these two colleges playing football. Moreover, if UConn wants to make it to a P5 conference, Rhode Island fans are going to be part of the mix.

Is price really an obstacle to attendance at a game like this? I'm curious how much of an effect that a deep price cut on tickets would actually have on real attendance in the stadium. It seems like the biggest expense fans are weighing is their personal time, and what the ROI is for committing it. At this point gimmicks aren't bringing fans back. Only winning and doing so in an entertaining fashion will turn things around in the stands IMO.

 

[whaler11]

LOL. Rhode Island fans.

 

[Alum86]

Rhode Island fans? Help us what? Get the old gang back together and fade into oblivion? YanCon scheduling is nauseating. We may lose 1 or both of these games but we do not need them or their fans. We need to win, win now, and exit the AAC to P5.

 

[Exit 4]

Yes, but what would it take to get both of their fans?

 

[LoyalFanCT]

Maybe you guys should check a map and traffic flow. UConn's campus and the Rent are a lot closer to Providence and Worcester than to Stamford or New York City. It's not that UConn cannot draw fans from the metro NYC region but I would be careful about dismissing the other tri-state region: CT, RI and Mass. I would also not dismiss the importance of the price elasticity of demand -- or put more simply the price of tickets impacts how many people will buy them. I am just as happy with fans who are of modest means as those who drive up in BMWs. I want to fill the Rent for every game and add about 20,000 more seats. A large crowd is something the ACC would notice. And from the point of view of history, I believe there was a famous theft of the URI mascot, a ram, by UConn fans many years ago. The rivalry was real. Until we play in the B10 or ACC there is nothing wrong with playing some New England schools each year. Maybe we can even beat them. Let's keep ticket prices for the URI game low!

 

[LoyalFanCT]

Here is some trivia on UConn/URI rivalry.

Editor’s note: In 1961, the URI-UConn matchup was URI’s homecoming game; UConn prevailed. The Rams-Huskies rivalry dates back to the 1890s, and the ramnapping tradition, which grew out of that rivalry, began in the 1930s. A ramnapping trophy was awarded to the winner of each year’s URI-UConn football game. The trophy is now housed at the J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum on the UConn campus in Storrs.

Ramnapped!

 

[huskiepride]

it would be cool if We brought the old rivalry trophy out from the J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum (i think that is where they keep it.) and revive the rivalry.

i also hope they "by coincidence" have Hurley come to the game

 

[whaler11]

If there is one thing UConn football is good for it’s rivalry trophies.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

If there is one thing UConn football is good for it’s rivalry trophies.

Hey Whaler: The URI UConn trophy was a real one, not Diaco's last-ditch effort to save his job. But I do like the reference to Diaco. Even if UConn makes it to P5 the rivalry trophy with URI is part of its football heritage.

 

[whaler11]

Hey Whaler: The URI UConn trophy was a real one, not Diaco's last-ditch effort to save his job. But I do like the reference to Diaco. Even if UConn makes it to P5 the rivalry trophy with URI is part of its football heritage.

Ok Butch. Maybe we can dig up Walter Camp and flip the coin with his remains.

 

[Husky25]

Hey Whaler: The URI UConn trophy was a real one, not Diaco's last-ditch effort to save his job. But I do like the reference to Diaco. Even if UConn makes it to P5 the rivalry trophy with URI is part of its football heritage.

I don't remember the Civil ConFliCT being a "last-ditch effort." He commissioned it before the 2015 season when UConn won 6 games and went to a Bowl. The wheels really didn't start to wobble until Navy '16.

 

[huskiepride]

I don't remember the Civil ConFliCT being a "last-ditch effort." He commissioned it before the 2015 season when UConn won 6 games and went to a Bowl. The wheels really didn't start to wobble until Navy '16.

yeah...that last play was a mess lol

 

[UConnTrumbull]

I don't remember the Civil ConFliCT being a "last-ditch effort." He commissioned it before the 2015 season when UConn won 6 games and went to a Bowl. The wheels really didn't start to wobble until Navy '16.

Interesting to imagine what may have been if Diaco hadn't botched that play. Theoretically would've been 3-0 (assuming we beat UVa Week 3).

 

[Adios]

Ok Butch. Maybe we can dig up Walter Camp and flip the coin with his remains.

Who said anything about reviving this trophy?

Have you seen a proctologist recently? Whether it is something going up or spewing out, I don't know.