Where are all the students?

[firstnline]

CMON WARDE, lets schedule some Saturday games at Gampel. What did we have 1 lousy home game on a Saturday this year. No excuses, never mind the Sunday crap, bring on some Saturday games. We should have at least 4-5 on a Saturday every year.

 

[Bonehead]

That is part of the problem - conference realignment. Students want to see good basketball games and, even more so, see games in which their school beats the schools that their friends go to. How many UConn students have HS friends who went to Tulsa, Houston, SMU, etc. College sports were built on rivalries and that is where the money came from. Money cannot make rivalries nor can it make students want to go to games.

Thank god that Yale game was on campus and not in Hartford - students would have missed a good game.

I don't buy this argument. How many Arizona students have friends that went to Oregon??

How many Kentucky students have friends that went to Alabama??

If that is really what you want - to beat schools your friends go to - the conf would be UConn, CCSU, WCSU, ECSU, University Bridgeport, Springfield, Bryant and a couple others.

 

[David 76]

This wasn't an ECU game. It was the leader of the conference.

Complaining about lost seats and not filling what is there, is sort of a strange argument.
But as I said, I support (and most people here) support more and better seats for students. But now I question the demand. Maybe students would like to wait until we are in a P-5 conference then give them more seats but not on nickle night.
I know the students on this board probably aren't the weak links. I find it funny that some 40-something fan from Fairfield County catches grief about preferring XL games because Gampel is a 2 hour (plus) drive for him but the crowd is soft on a 20 year old hating his 30 minute bus ride or missing happy hour. Sneak a flask on the bus and go to the game! This is the easiest it will ever be in your life to see a game.
I wish I caught even more and we were playing UMass and Maine at the time.

 

[MuchoDogYears]

It's a thursday, shltty weather, below freezing, 30 min bus ride/car ride against tulsa... they're home or at the bar

That's funny, all the same excuses that the students throw against the alumni when there's a game at Storrs and there are some empty seats for the suits.

Fact is that the "suits" show up in more numbers at Storrs than the students show up in Hartford,. The students are a complete no-show most game nights in Hartford and that's a shame, because they admittedly more loud and bring more energy than the suits.. Like someone once said, "half of life is just showing up", and the students don't.

 

[Bonehead]

That is part of the problem - conference realignment. Students want to see good basketball games and, even more so, see games in which their school beats the schools that their friends go to. How many UConn students have HS friends who went to Tulsa, Houston, SMU, etc. College sports were built on rivalries and that is where the money came from. Money cannot make rivalries nor can it make students want to go to games.

So you are opposed to UConn to Big10?
How many of your friends ended up going to school at Nebraska, Minnesota and Pudue??

 

[zls44]

CMON WARDE, lets schedule some Saturday games at Gampel. What did we have 1 lousy home game on a Saturday this year. No excuses, never mind the Sunday crap, bring on some Saturday games. We should have at least 4-5 on a Saturday every year.

That's a TV thing. Get used to it.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

So you are opposed to UConn to Big10?
How many of your friends ended up going to school at Nebraska, Minnesota and Pudue??

Almost none; but, UConn's academic profile is a lot different today than it was in the 90's. Today UConn students are still applying to BC, Notheastern and Syracuse; but, many are also applying today to the other top 50 national universities in the region, like Rutgers, Penn St, Maryland, etc. Those are UConn's peers and rivals today.

 

[UConnSwag11]

That's funny, all the same excuses that the students throw against the alumni when there's a game at Storrs and there are some empty seats for the suits.

Fact is that the "suits" show up in more numbers at Storrs than the students show up in Hartford,. The students are a complete no-show most game nights in Hartford and that's a shame, because they admittedly more loud and bring more energy than the suits.. Like someone once said, "half of life is just showing up", and the students don't.

The student seats in hartford are gone. Except for two dozen does or so there are no student seats at the xl. The top are not students because I tried sitting there. The bottom has a lot of rows taken away for the bar. So the dozen- two dozen rows on the bottom that's all there is for students.

 

[Bonehead]

Almost none; but, UConn's academic profile is a lot different today than it was in the 90's. Today UConn students are still applying to BC, Notheastern and Syracuse; but, many are also applying today to the other top 50 national universities in the region, like Rutgers, Penn St, Maryland, etc. Those are UConn's peers and rivals today.

Fair enough - but I know more people that are at Navy and south Florida than BC - my friends would never go to BC. I think UConn could get in conference with Northeastern though.

 

[David 76]

My friends went to UCONN. Became and still are my best friends.