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hardcorehusky said:
If the game happens, I wonder if the ACC considers us a P5 game?
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Ironically, BC needs UConn right now more than UConn needs BC. I' like to think it'd be a term in the contract.

Warde: "Before we go any further, Braddy Boy, Give a call to Mr. Sworford. I'm not saying to give him an overt threat. A gently reminder of what the Big Ten thinks of us should suffice. Call me in the morning."
 
CTMike said:
The fact that there's dialogue is a good thing. Do the thing that helps us most get out of this hellhole. Everything UConn does should be with that in mind, even if it involves kissing BCs ass and a one sided deal. Don't know if that's the case in this situation... But IF their support would help down the road with the ACC... Survival will always justify the means.
That said I'd enjoy the game/s wherever they may be.
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From what I've seen, even against the likes of the best of the ACC (FSU/Clemson), correct me but Alumni Stadium, is not selling out.
I would tend to think it wouldn't hurt if we brought 15 to 20K fans and sold out Alumni...the ACC and B1G , I would think, MIGHT take notice. Just a thought knowing that most on this board eventually wants to be relocated and anything positive circulating amongst the decision makers in CR would be a good thing..
 
Husky25 said:
Ironically, BC needs UConn right now more than UConn needs BC. I' like to think it'd be a term in the contract.

Warde: "Before we go any further, Braddy Boy, Give a call to Mr. Sworford. I'm not saying to give him an overt threat. A gently reminder of what the Big Ten thinks of us should suffice. Call me in the morning."
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I liked your thought....but we really need each other and it is times like these that see shrinking attendance and needs by both schools to assist each other, regardless of each school's need or agenda would not hurt. Would like to see a home and home......
 
Colt house75 said:
From what I've seen, even against the likes of the best of the ACC (FSU/Clemson), correct me but Alumni Stadium, is not selling out.
I would tend to think it wouldn't hurt if we brought 15 to 20K fans and sold out Alumni...the ACC and B1G , I would think, MIGHT take notice. Just a thought knowing that most on this board eventually wants to be relocated and anything positive circulating amongst the decision makers in CR would be a good thing..
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It was 10 years ago and I was about 12 beers deep, but I seem to remember the last UConn-BC meeting in Chestnut Hill was a sellout with a sizable UConn contingent in the house.

I am searching for the box score to find the attendance but I can't find it right now.
 
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Common rivalry distances:

Oregon-Oregon State: 50 miles
Pitt-WVU: 76 miles
UConn-BC: 79 miles
Clemson-USC: 114 miles
UVa-Virginia Tech: 149 miles
Ohio State-Michigan: 210 miles
Texas-Oklahoma: 371 miles

This works.
 
To me its simple, Dear BC, thank you for reaching out. Yes, UConn would be delighted to restart what should be a popular rivalry with your school. Our only request is that we make this a series with at least an even number of visits to each home stadium. We would also be open to playing at neutral sites with a 50/50 gate share. Hope to hear back, looking forward to the potential this series would ahve for all partie
huskymedic said:
42,564
http://www.uconnhuskies.com/datadump/MFootball/2005/boxscores/bc03.htm
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I remember it. It was on in the background at a raging rooftop party I attended in NYC. Those were the days.
 
NYUConn said:
It was 10 years ago and I was about 12 beers deep, but I seem to remember the last UConn-BC meeting in Chestnut Hill was a sellout with a sizable UConn contingent in the house.

I am searching for the box score to find the attendance but I can't find it right now.
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Took a bus from Manchester Community Parking Lot?? up to Chesnut for that game.
Believe there was backup on the way up due to accident or something...after that its a bit foggy.
 
Bonehead said:
Took a bus from Manchester Community Parking Lot?? up to Chesnut for that game.
Believe there was backup on the way up due to accident or something...after that its a bit foggy.
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There was a very large uconn contingent. Our usual tailgate crew of 5 increased to 40.
 
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I might have been more fired up for that 2004 game than any UConn game to date. We had just come off a very strong 2003 season, Orlovsky was a senior, Brockington was back and we opened with wins over Bob Burton's alma mater and Duke.

Then we fumbled the opening kick, fell behind and never came back.

In the era of national conference realignment, this game makes far too much sense, logistically and economically. There's bad blood, at least on our side, and it's a drivable game for not only fans but also the players and coaches (no flights).

Let's make this happen. It'll be like a 7th game on our home schedule.
 
Salzano is good people.
 
UConn9604 said:
I might have been more fired up for that 2004 game than any UConn game to date. We had just come off a very strong 2003 season, Orlovsky was a senior, Brockington was back and we opened with wins over Bob Burton's alma mater and Duke.

Then we fumbled the opening kick, fell behind and never came back.

In the era of national conference realignment, this game makes far too much sense, logistically and economically. There's bad blood, at least on our side, and it's a drivable game for not only fans but also the players and coaches (no flights).

Let's make this happen. It'll be like a 7th game on our home schedule.
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Opening kickoff fumbles and missing chip shot FGs spell doom. BC had a pretty good team in 2004 too. I was up in the second deck behind the end zone and there were quite a few UConn fans.
 
Husky25 said:
If neither UConn (<40,000), nor BC (~44,500), can sell out their own stadiums, I don't foresee Gillette making all 68,756 seats available for a neutral site game. I posted about it yesterday.
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Gillette makes the stadium available for UMass, why not UConn-BC?

UConn9604 said:
You really think our traveling fan base is 67,000 strong?
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Heh. C'mon, divide the stadium in half, UConn only has to sell out 34,378. BC would sell at least 2,000.
 
pj said:
Gillette makes the stadium available for UMass, why not UConn-BC?
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Those grey areas are not general admission. Gillette makes about a 1/4 of the seats available to UMass for a typical game and UMass-BC drew only 30,500 last year. Gillette seats almost 69,000.


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Husky25 said:
Those grey areas are not general admission. Gillette makes about a 1/4 of the seats available to UMass for a typical game and UMass-BC drew only 30,500 last year. Gillette seats almost 69,000.
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The BC-UMass crowd total was more a product of UMass football not being popular, the game being a rather blah matchup, and increased apathy towards the BC program at the time. I don't know that BC-UConn would sell 68K to Gillette, but 45-50 would be very achievable I think. The other problem is Gillette is VERY annoying to get to for everyone involved. It was built in a terrible location.
 
huskysupporter said:
There was a very large uconn contingent. Our usual tailgate crew of 5 increased to 40.
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I was there. Bunch of friends went with me, some UConn, some BC, some other schools. Had dinner at Coolidge Corner Pub and then hit several bars along Beacon St on the way up. It was a long walk from Cleveland Circle around the reservoir to Alumni after a dozen or so drinks. Fun nevertheless.
 
Husky25 said:
Those grey areas are not general admission. Gillette makes about a 1/4 of the seats available to UMass for a typical game and UMass-BC drew only 30,500 last year. Gillette seats almost 69,000.


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And yet the powers that be complain that only a few thousand UConn fans made it to the Fiesta bow in Arizona...
 
Mr. Conehead said:
I was there. Bunch of friends went with me, some UConn, some BC, some other schools. Had dinner at Coolidge Corner Pub and then hit several bars along Beacon St on the way up. It was a long walk from Cleveland Circle around the reservoir to Alumni after a dozen or so drinks. Fun nevertheless.
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It was a great UConn crowd there, at the very infancy of the program. I remember walking out of there talking with my dad, both agreeing that while we had some really good players on the squad, the program itself just wasn't ready to succeed in that national spotlight yet. That was our first real, I would suspect a game next fall with the hopeful continued growth of the squad this year, the built up angst of our fan base directed towards BC, and the rekindling of a Big East rivalry would make for an even better crowd. That plus BC tickets are ridiculously easy to come by at excellent prices. It could be sold out and you'd be able to scalp a ticket outside for <$20.
 
To be fair, this was the gametime BC-UMass crowd. And this was with HEAVY promotion in the greater Boston area. There were signs on every MBTA bus, signs on garbage cans around downtown, billboards on the highway, on TV, etc. They promoted the living hell out of that game here and got 30,000.
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brasssbonanzaa said:
To be fair, this was the gametime BC-UMass crowd. And this was with HEAVY promotion in the greater Boston area. There were signs on every MBTA bus, signs on garbage cans around downtown, billboards on the highway, on TV, etc. They promoted the living hell out of that game here and got 30,000.
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To be fair, the overwhelming majority of unoccupied blue and red spaces equaled empty bcu-umess game time seats. For the 2 schools' administrations and athletic departments alike, the low, in-state attendance must have been extremely disappointing to devastating.
 
Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
To be fair, the overwhelming majority of unoccupied blue and red spaces equaled empty bcu-umess game time seats. For the 2 schools' administrations and athletic departments alike, the low, in-state attendance must have been extremely disappointing to devastating.
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Agree wholeheartedly, for everything they put into it, and for two in-state "rivals" the attendance numbers were woeful. Just wanted to point out that the game wasn't as empty as the picture above it may have insinuated. Attendance for UMass home games at Gillette has been brutal.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
The BC-UMass crowd total was more a product of UMass football not being popular, the game being a rather blah matchup, and increased apathy towards the BC program at the time. I don't know that BC-UConn would sell 68K to Gillette, but 45-50 would be very achievable I think. The other problem is Gillette is VERY annoying to get to for everyone involved. It was built in a terrible location.
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At the time? The game was just played last year. They were capitalizing on Williams' Heisman run and were marketing the heck out of Tyler Murphy, let alone the Battle for the Commonwealth (that they knew they would win). I think an important metric is tickets made available vs. purchased and used. I can't find that info. Remember, UConn-Army at Yankee Stadium was only only sold 27-something thousand total, so precedent does not currently support opening more sections.

I concluded a similar number to your 45-50k. I wrote that earlier in this thread, followed up with a question on why BC would agree to it. Why would they pay rent for Gillette (where they would barely recoup their costs? Gillette sells beer, but it's doubtful they would get a cut of the concession), while their home stadium (which they can't sell it out in their own right) supports about the same number of estimated attendees.

Re: Location, I'd prefer Gillette. Compared to Alumni Stadium and all that goes along with it, Gillette is a football game day experience field of dreams. First, they widened Route 1 and if you get to Gillette early, you can at least tailgate. It is virtually impossible for home fans, let alone visitors, to do anything in Newton that we have become remotely accustomed to. The T stops every 46 feet on Comm. Ave. and good luck finding parking if you drive it. According to the article I posted yesterday, The idea of tailgating for a single game ticket holder involved a Hefty garbage bag, an ice machine, a 30 pack of swill, and a nearby street corner. All that said, Gillette doesn't make sense monetarily. BC owns Alumni and would be able to control ticket allocation. Even if & when UConn fans force a sell out, they would have to get tickets in some way, shape, or form through the BC ticket office.

The only solution really is a home and home series with a buyout so big it would choke an elephant, and based on those games, discuss a neutral-site.
brasssbonanzaa said:
Agree wholeheartedly, for everything they put into it, and for two in-state "rivals" the attendance numbers were woeful. Just wanted to point out that the game wasn't as empty as the picture above it may have insinuated. Attendance for UMass home games at Gillette has been brutal.
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I never meant to insinuate that the photo I posted was from BC-UMass. My point is that Gillette typically makes available only about a 1/4 of the stadium for UMass. The fact that BC-UMass only sold 30-something-000 is more proof they wouldn't makes more than 45-50k available and even that seems high right now. In a round-about way, I think we are saying similar things.
 
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Mr. Conehead said:
And yet the powers that be complain that only a few thousand UConn fans made it to the Fiesta bow in Arizona...
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That was the perception because only a few thousand purchased through UConn. If memory serves, they encouraged (if not required) purchasers to buy an inflated travel package...during a recession...
 
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UConn9604 said:
In the era of national conference realignment, this game makes far too much sense, logistically and economically. There's bad blood, at least on our side, and it's a drivable game for not only fans but also the players and coaches (no flights).
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There's bad blood on both sides. There's a reason BC fans blow up our comment sections whenever we post UConn articles. We post them all the time for the free clicks *thumbs up*

Half the fans are ready for it to happen and half claim they don't care about UConn. And yet they come out of the woodwork to make a comment to make sure people know they don't care.

People are starting to come around. Part of it is that people are realizing Bates and Daz don't want to make the OOC schedule particularly difficult, and they are getting bored with games against teams like New Mexico State. People say it's NMSU's fault that we had to play Howard at the last minute this year, but the bigger problem is that we had NMSU scheduled in the first place. I am the biggest Daz/Bates fan you'll find anywhere but they've really dropped the ball on scheduling. The USC home & home was DeFilippo and the Ohio State home & home we have in 5 years or so is the only P5 team we have scheduled right now.

It wasn't 3 years ago that I was completely against playing UConn, because UConn and I hate you. But then we played UMass last year, another team where a sizable chunk of BC fans pretend not to care, and it was the most fun I've had at a football game in years.

When I think of the years off my life I'm going to lose getting worked up about playing UConn... that's what makes it exciting.

God I hate you guys.

zls44 said:
Salzano is good people.
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Whoa whoa whoa let's not go saying things we can't take back lol
 
YES. I hate you too! Hate is SO MUCH more fun than apathy! The sooner both sides realize, the better. Rutgers, Syracuse too.

 
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