XL improvements?

[Waquoit]

You forgot about the biggest plus. The casino can afford to overpay the musical acts I enjoy the intimacy at Mohegan, but the arena itself is nothing special

It has the worst sound of any arena I've been to.

 

[dvegas]

As they say, anything would be an improvement, because it couldn't be any worse!

 

[pierogiscri]

either move the main campus to Hartford, or build better infrastructure in the Mansfield area. the Storrs campus is clearly outpacing whatever infrastructure is in the town of Mansfield and it is hindering it from growing anymore.

 

[AreBee1969]

It has the worst sound of any arena I've been to.

Horrible. I saw a concert there last month and we were on he floor about 40 feet from the stage and the sound was muffled and somewhat distorted. It wasn't due to loudness, just acoustics. We moved to the back of the floor section and it was better but not great.

 

[Waquoit]

Guys, I know I complain a lot etc but...it's really bad. It is insane how thin the concourse is around that end of the building now. It's 6 feet wide. The building is essentially now a horshoe like the one in Bridgeport.

With a full house it's gonna be a goddam disaster.

Well, guess what? Even with a full house it was never a "goddam disaster." I never heard one person at any game grouse about the concourse, only here. And from people that don't go to games, no less. Anyway, I just saw the finished product at the hockey game. The concourse is now wider and the rebar has been replaced by 30 beer taps. A hand stamp allows you to go from the game to the Sportsbook and back. My hockey fan but not gambler buddy thought it looked cool. I can't wait to hear why it sucks.

 

[WrenchFan69]

Well, guess what? Even with a full house it was never a "goddam disaster." I never heard one person at any game grouse about the concourse, only here. And from people that don't go to games, no less. Anyway, I just saw the finished product at the hockey game. The concourse is now wider and the rebar has been replaced by 30 beer taps. A hand stamp allows you to go from the game to the Sportsbook and back. My hockey fan but not gambler buddy thought it looked cool. I can't wait to hear why it sucks.

Find me at the next XL Game to hear me complain about how it sucks

 

[zls44]

Well, guess what? Even with a full house it was never a "goddam disaster." I never heard one person at any game grouse about the concourse, only here. And from people that don't go to games, no less. Anyway, I just saw the finished product at the hockey game. The concourse is now wider and the rebar has been replaced by 30 beer taps. A hand stamp allows you to go from the game to the Sportsbook and back. My hockey fan but not gambler buddy thought it looked cool. I can't wait to hear why it sucks.

if you never heard anyone grousing about that concourse you were deliberately not listening. I go to 40 events there a year. Everyone was worried about it at the games against Nova and Marquette. It was extremely unsettling.

But now that they finished the new sportsbook, its nice. I went there on an NFL Sunday when the Wolf Pack where holding practice.

They were charging arena prices for food and beer in the sportsbook. On a random NFL Sunday. When I asked, they said it was because their system doesn't allow them to charge more traditional prices for beer when there isn't an event.

So on every NFL Sunday, head on over and pay $8 a Coors Light, $12 and up for good stuff. OR...go to any bar and pay much less and just gamble on your phone.

Its dumb. Its a dumb idea that already isn't working (look at the very low handle they're reporting themselves to HBJ).

 

[HuskyAlum012]

Obviously not enough but hoping this at the minimum attracts more acts so OVG decides to do a larger scale renovation down the road.

 

[Dogdeacon]

either move the main campus to Hartford, or build better infrastructure in the Mansfield area. the Storrs campus is clearly outpacing whatever infrastructure is in the town of Mansfield and it is hindering it from growing anymore.

To be clear, you assert that UConn should move the 4000 acre campus to Hartford b/c the town of Mansfield has road widening or water/sewer problems and once UConn is in Harford the Civic Center ceases to suck?!