You Can't Outdrink UConn Players

[UCSouth]

This goes both ways. I have several nieces and nephews who were high school All Americans in several sports who choose not to attend UConn since they felt the drinking was excessive. All enjoyed social drinking but felt the pressure to join in heavy drinking distracted from their commitment to their sport.

WHATEVER.......

 

[Argonaut]

This goes both ways. I have several nieces and nephews who were high school All Americans in several sports who choose not to attend UConn since they felt the drinking was excessive. All enjoyed social drinking but felt the pressure to join in heavy drinking distracted from their commitment to their sport.

I went to UConn (relatively recently — graduated in 2011) and had friends I’d visit at other large, state schools, and I don’t think the drinking was any more excessive there than it was at other schools. There are outliers at every institution, but UConn itself isn’t an outlier.

 

[FairView]

Maybe it's growing up in the '60 and '70s, maybe it's my parents' compassion or maybe it's just my nature, but puritanical, judgmental people make me uncomfortable. It's not what they think, necessarily. After all, this is America – you can think and say whatever you want. It's that they tend to be overly vocal and employ scare tactics and massaged messages to influence societal regulations that favor their restrictive, minority opinion. And this hangover is making it even worse.