Just stop with the character assassination. The upper decks were nowhere near full. Dom is trying to real here, isn't that what you want from a reporter? No way there was over 30K in the building. I've been to more events in the Rent than anyone here and I have a good eye for this stuff.
I was halfway up Section 200 and had a clear unobstructed view of every seat in the sun. Seat 9 with my wife in Seat 8. We straddled the expansion joint in the middle of the section. Perhaps 18,000 if a gate count was ever disclosed. To get a higher count the concourses would have had to have held many thousands.
Are you claiming that there were only 18,000 spectators inside the stadium?
Sorry, that’s an absurd estimate. My estimate of how many bodies were actually in the building (not counting players and workers who don’t sit in seats, but counting the band) would be about 30k. And whatever your rules for counting are, that is as many people as I’ve seen in the stadium in at least 10 years.
That's just not accurate. The parking lots were more full than I've seen in a very long time. The lots on the other side of the road from the blue lots were filled. If everyone was in their seats at once, we'd have around 28-30,000.
Were you a good engineer?
No way there was only 25,000. I had it around 30,000. When you add in the others that everyone counts in capacity, maybe 32ish. And not liking Dom Amore is hardly character assassination. I don’t think he is a great writer. His priority is not UConnFootball and I think he regularly tries to take shots at UConn football. He did it in 2022 when Mora shocked everyone and got them to a bowl. And beat a ranked team at the time and a P4 team along the way. (1 was using a backup quarterback. We were using our 3rd qb but ok. The other had a first year coach. We did too, but again, ok). Last year we won 8 regular season games and had a winning record for the first time in 15 years but per Dom they weren’t good teams. Despite the fact that we weren’t a good team for many years and we are now beating them. We have a crowd that exceeded anything we’ve had in a long while. Parking lots full, people enjoying things. But Old Dom says we only drew 25,000. He isn’t an outright opponent but he does not miss a chance to down play any accomplishments. Heck, if we go unbeaten, go to the CFB playoffs and win the national championship Dom would write that it was a good accomplishment but Ohio State had much nicer uniforms and Danny Hurley was at the game wearing a blue shirt and grey pants. And the Yankees would have won if they were a college football team and they, not UConn, were playing Ohio State. That is just what he is.
I was there and the numbers were definitely more then 30K so your wrong. My eyes are better then your eyes.
Let me just join the crowd in pointing out that you are way wrong.
I was looking perpendicular to the entire sun side sideline stands. There was never a time during the entire game that they were close to half full.
You're wrong.
Your spelling is wrong. 😉
Fixed it and you're still wrong.
You should have spent more time looking to your left and right. There were few empty seats on the press box side (I sit in 241 so I saw what you did).
It’s actually unreal10 pages debating about attendance against an FCS opponent?
We are SO back
That would be less than 1/2 full. Certainly looked like more in the first half
I did. Sparsely filled. Student section end only place it was well filled although not in the upper level. southwest corner well filled too. All other sections not so much.
Nope. Practically nobody was sitting in the chairbacks and like i said the upper deck was maybe half full. I've been there with all the seats full and the attendance was announced 37K. At least 10K empty seats Saturday.
And of course those empty seats also parked their cars in the parking lots, which were more filled than they had been in a long time.
WOW. so happy to see that.
I attended the Stony Brook game a few years ago. I was one of probably 500 Stony Brook fans at the Rent.
