Warde on the Spring Game

[uconnric]

How do you blame him for the APR ? He was not here for those years and it would not have made any difference what the school did the NCAA was looking to hang us. How can anyone comment on Geno's contract - are you his agent or lawyer ? Hockey - who would be your coach ?

Not to mention that hiring Kevin Ollie was not a fail, nor is the rebranding effort. I think he's batting 1,000.

 

[IMind]

He means people here are resistant to change, which they are. Half of people in Connecticut see any new activity as something they can parasitize / exploit for their own personal gains, and half oppose anything new out of satisfaction with the way things are. There's a notable lack of energy devoting to building anything great. Calhoun and Auriemma brought it on a small scale; but you need more than one person to do it on a large scale, eg football or a great university.

It's not just CT. Here in PA we have the same problem. Anytime they try to update a field here at the high school or do some work on local infrastructure the grump old guy contingency comes out of the wood work and starts screaming about how back in their day they had to walk to school in the snow, up hill, with no shoes on, and did you know that they pay taxes. We actually lost a $250k grant because of it.

 

[freescooter]

How do you blame him for the APR ? He was not here for those years and it would not have made any difference what the school did the NCAA was looking to hang us. How can anyone comment on Geno's contract - are you his agent or lawyer ? Hockey - who would be your coach ?

The NCAA didn't give a whether we were there or not. We totally bunged up our appeals by ticking off the appeals committees and making stupid arguments. As far as Hockey is concerned, I'd give the job to Barard.

 

[ASweet3781]

You know what creates buzz? Winning games.

What loses buzz? (its not boring spring games or ties) Going 5-7 two years in a row.

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This this 1000X this.

Have to read the same crap about marketing and buzz and the athletic dept needs to do this. Bull. Ignores the real issue.

You cannot market 5-7 and throwing away bowls 2 years in a row because you can't beat Western Michigan and Temple at home. That's 3 weeks early the season has ended 2 years in a row. That creates lack of interest. You cannot create "buzz" when a team plays an unappealing brand of football. No amount of marketing can create "buzz" with that hand to play.

Winning games brings people to the spring game and creates buzz. No amount of marketing can sell the last 2 seasons. They can try harder but winning on the field is the only sure fire way to help right now.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

You know what creates buzz? Winning games.

What loses buzz? (its not boring spring games or ties) Going 5-7 two years in a row.

If we win, I don't care about any of this buzz and branding.

This ^^^^^^

Back to back 10-2 seasons ending in bowl wins and top 25 rankings creates buzz. High scoring Spring Games do not.

 

[Alum86]

This this 1000X this.

Have to read the same crap about marketing and buzz and the athletic dept needs to do this. Bull. Ignores the real issue.

You cannot market 5-7 and throwing away bowls 2 years in a row because you can't beat Western Michigan and Temple at home. That's 3 weeks early the season has ended 2 years in a row. That creates lack of interest. You cannot create "buzz" when a team plays an unappealing brand of football. No amount of marketing can create "buzz" with that hand to play.

Winning games brings people to the spring game and creates buzz. No amount of marketing can sell the last 2 seasons. They can try harder but winning on the field is the only sure fire way to help right now.

Absolutely correct. The last 2 seasons are on The HC for turning 8-4 into 5-7.
Blue has led a charmed life here, with his supposed great recruiting classes and his relationship with the crybaby coaches in CT. Someone as old as him should spend more time in FL, cozying up to FL HS coaches. I will not honor my commit for year 3 of the ticket agt for '14 if he runs us into the ground again this year and rockstar does not fire him.

 

[RS9999X]

Did Warde utter the magic words?
"Better than Buffalo!"

 

[Srqhusky]

Here is how you create buzz for the spring game

Have Kirk herbstreet and lee corso at the game as well as the whole espn crew

Erin Andrews will be on the field in a dunk tank in a bikini.

Dollar beers of guiness

The Victoria secret models do a halftime show and post game is a concert by green day


If we do all this we may get 5000 people to the game.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

Oh good...HFD is back to tell us how he was right about everything and how we are all idiots.

Good times.

 

[uconnfan68]

Having a dackery pool side with warde on a island while lville was on its knees didn't help geno get a contract?!?!?!?
While i'm on this lets be real rant. lets talk susan. i think shes great president and very on point academics wise but something is becomig very clear. shes rushing big things. the bran is wrong

Dackerys and bran. Great combo. At least you make me laugh. +1

 

[freescooter]

Good will with the NCAA? You have to be kidding right? We need good will with the organization who week after week is revealed to be a bunch of morons and frauds, promoting amateurism while they make billions off of student-athletes, who pay lawyers of ex-cons to find information they can't get legally, but are happy to get on their high horse and smack down a program for a few extra phone calls or text messages. I mean you have to be kidding me right?

Yeah, I think we all knew that the appeals on APR weren't going to work, but we are going to blame him for at least trying? Rant and rave about conference realignment all you want but this makes absolutely no sense.

Now get off my lawn!

Oh I forgot...the NCAA was in league with ESPN to screw UConn. Isn't that it? I think the Tri-lateral Commission was involved there too somewhere, weren't they? And it was all orchestrated by Jeff Hathaway because he had to give back his rental car, and Mark Emmert because he heard someone say "Mark is an a" while he was stopped in a rest area on I-95 one day. It might not have been a reference to him, but since the guy had a UConn shirt on he decided not to take any chances...

 

[Srqhusky]

I remember going nuts about KO and Geno. Most here sat on there hands. Then some started to see my side with KO stuff and eventually enough inside pressure got things done. I remembe Warde at one point admiting certain emails and family member being all over him. My favorite tho is the Geno contact. I was bitc*ing about it but not as much as other things because the list was so long(wonder why...). People here thought that I was offically a tard. Even Nan tried to get in on it calling me a idot. And that was the first time she swear since she was 11 when she said "shut up" to another girl on the lay ground. Then what do you know, Nan is upset about he way Geno's contract was handled. Blah blah tosu offer and this and that. LMFAO. Whats a matter? Having a dackery pool side with warde on a island while lville was on its knees didn't help geno get a contract?!?!?!? The Wake Forrest assistant AD didn't elp either???? OH BOO WHOOOO Nan and crew...This whole board needs to wake up an realize what going on. You all think I bit*h and moan for fun???? Do u all think freescotter comes here to complain for fun? NO WE FUC*IN DONT. I wt to win and be a HAVE not a HAVENOT. I want to post about the cheerleders and recruiting and road trips to bowl games. Not the i pst about now. This is all given intern type stuff in other ahletic depts. Its above our AD's head hre in CT. We are passionate fans who want UConn to be Michigan and Florida types. Whats currently goin on is not getting to that goal so we have no chice but to be real. By being real, most here with blue glasses think were trolls and idiots. The truth hurts. Get your heads outof your asses and do something. I did't go to UConn like a lot of you. The way show my fanhood is by tickets, gear and internet chat(recruiting)... Look at who posts here. The casuals are gone. When was the last time you saw guys like bnich post? UConn is failing because they are te wrong leaders fo the job.

While i'm on this lets be real rant. lets talk susan. i think shes great president and very on point academics wise but something is becomig very clear. shes rushing big things. the bran is wrong an so is the way to aau path with jackson labs etc...why is she rushing it? this job for here is not end game. end game is ivy, look at her brother that wierd nerd to be nice. he culdn't even stand in front of a halftime tv camera. susan is rushing tese things to fill her personal agend which is boost the resume for a ivy job. she is not the asnwer either.

This is absurd


What man drinks a dachery

 

[Palatine]

You know what creates buzz? Winning games.

What loses buzz? (its not boring spring games or ties) Going 5-7 two years in a row.

If we win, I don't care about any of this buzz and branding.

If that's all it took all our basketball games would be sold out.

Winning ain't enough. More has to be done.

 

[Dann]

This is absurd


What man drinks a dachery

Are you calling nan a man?

 

[Nostical]

Winning ain't enough. More has to be done.

Absolutely.

 

[ASweet3781]

If that's all it took all our basketball games would be sold out.

Winning ain't enough. More has to be done.

More marketing hysteria. Every big time game for both the UConn men and women were sold out this year or were near sell outs.

College basketball season is never ending. Attendance is light at most places in December especially for cupcakes. College Basketball as a whole has been completely delegitmized by conference expansion and football. A 2nd tied bowl game got higher ratings than last seasons UNC vs Kentucky 1 vs 2 college hoops show down. The fact a school with 11 basketball NCAA titles is left on the sidelines after realignment shows in the grand scheme it means little to nothing.

More can be done but none of it will mean a damn thing if we repeat the last 2 seasons.

 

[uchusky]

Winning is the most important factor in generating buzz, excitement, and increasing attendance. But the uconn pr, ticket sales, and marketing are frequently embarrassing. Take the Louisville game...3 hours prior to the game, I'm told its a sellout and will have to try buy tix at the XL box office. Then 30 min before tipoff, there's a tweet about 3000 tix being available. Don't even get me started about how long it actually took to get into the XL that night.

 

[pepband99]

More marketing hysteria. Every big time game for both the UConn men and women were sold out this year or were near sell outs.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. The point is that we used to have near-sell-outs for pretty much every non-cupcake game, and now we don't. Now, it's an exception to be near a sellout.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. The point is that we used to have near-sell-outs for pretty much every non-cupcake game, and now we don't. Now, it's an exception to be near a sellout.

When I was in school, in the 90's.......Marathon Oil was a tough ticket.

 

[ASweet3781]

When I was in school, in the 90's.......Marathon Oil was a tough ticket.

The 1996 economy says hi. $1. 40 gas says hi. HD TV says hi.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

The 1996 economy says hi. $1. 40 gas says hi. HD TV says hi.

If that's what you want to believe.....all the power to you.

 

[rich1122]

The decline in all sports attendance has been steadily decreasing since the mid 2000's - i.more empty seats. The correlation, while it has some bearing, does not seem to be tied to wins and losses.

 

[ZooCougar]

If that's what you want to believe.....all the power to you.

I don't know Jimmy. The NFL announced that there will be locker room cams on the jumbotrons that would be exclusive to the fans in the stadium. They are looking for more incentives to get people into the stadiums. HDTV is changing spectator sports. More people would rather stay home and eat their own food.

 

[jbdphi]

I don't know Jimmy. The NFL announced that there will be locker room cams on the jumbotrons that would be exclusive to the fans in the stadium. They are looking for more incentives to get people into the stadiums. HDTV is changing spectator sports. More people would rather stay home and eat their own food.

Yep. And not get into fights at the stadium. Or pay $10 for a watered down beer. Or spend two hours trying to get to the game and then another two hours trying to get home.

I bought someone else's season tickets for the Giants a few years ago. It was absolutely miserable. Every time we lost, it felt like there was a fight right near me, either caused by fans of the opposing team being stupid in someone else's home field or between Giant's fans who couldn't agree on why our own team stank so much that day. Oh, and I had to pay something like $200 a ticket / game for that wonderful experience.

My couch became a lot more attractive after that. Even a local bar was a lot better.