new stadium-8 to 12 $mil needed

i will say this: you don't put $$ into a new stadium at uconn unless you can seat 5k and have lights for regionals. otherwise u invest in a nice bus for the team to ride to nwich. doesn't make any sense. and you should have another 2kish in temp bleachers for the outfield for when you do host a regional one day on campus. kids will flock to a winnig team and big names if its across the quad. uconn baseball on the rise!

It's too bad regionals take place about a month after school ends so no students will be on campus. That probably sounds sarcastic but it's not meant to be. It really is a shame that the baseball post season is after school ends. With a good team hosting regionals though I'm sure plenty of kids would go to campus to see games.

thats what i ment, just didn't think it thru correctly.

whats the most misquoted baseball quote ever?

"if you build it, they will come"

If you build it, he will come

Pretty sure we want more than one guy to come to a 10 million dollar stadium though. Maybe if Kevin Costner made a few appearances we could draw more than one guy.

i realize were not a southern sunny weather baseball team and fanbase
http://www.collegebaseballdaily.com/2011/01/06/2010-ncaa-baseball-attendance-leaders/
http://www.collegebaseballdaily.com/2011/06/14/2011-division-1-college-baseball-attendance-report/


lights are a must, its not even a question. wneu didn't do the lights and its hurt them ever since and thats d3. they have to travel to eastern for the new england regional every year which stinks not to be able to host. we beat the crap outa everyone in the region(cept eastern who were even with the past 7 years) but always have to travel and can't have night games etc...a night game on campus for a tuesday night with nothing else going on will draw a crowd, kids look for things to do and enjoy. anyway im ok if its 3k behind home plate. but come regionals there better be 1-2k+bleachers showing up. didn't norwhich have 3k+ 2 years ago? so that crowd doesn't care if its on campus or down the street, but add the campus in and it will give a good amount of students to head up there for a day or weekend and party and route the team on. not to mention even though spring semester is over i bet alot of ppl on campus will be looking for something to do. i bet you can get a nice crowd come that time.
build it once for the future, not build it and then look to expand again. its not football. either we want to be a player in the cb world or not. any conf change from the BE we make or if we are in a league with a lville/tcu/ecu/ucf/usf etc our program will continue to rise.

A brand new stadium would probably go a long way towards drawing more than the few dozen students we currently get to go to games. Draw some more students and the atmosphere gets better. The atmosphere gets better and more students will go. A better atmosphere will grow the general buzz of the program and help to draw more of the general CT population.

Bottom line, with continued success and relative dominance of the Northeast, there's no reason we can't significantly boost our attendance with a new stadium. If it's all through private donations, I don't particularly care if they make it bigger rather than smaller. If a 3000 seat stadium makes it more likely that we host a regional with a fringe top 16 record/ranking compared to having a 2500 seat stadium, then I say go for it. If room for temporary seats to expand it to 6000 instead of 5000 helps, then do that too. If you can find people that want to pay for it and it stands a decent chance to help the program, I don't see any reason not to.

Edit: Although I do get the reasoning that we don't need a 5,000 seat stadium that expands to 10,000. Just a generalization that if we get the funds to make something better than what is necessary, we might as well spend on the luxury of a bigger stadium. It can help draw regionals and recruits, so why not.

a hs teammate of mine played at ccu. another 1 played at ncst for a year before coming back up north. bueatiful baseball country down there, its what i hope uconn can one day do. jusr create a small buzz that builds over the years.

ccu has a pretty cool looking plan there.

one thing we should all agree on and i hope some1 has the brains to make sure it happens is lights. must have lights! and also they need to pump there fitted hats more. alot of kids will rock those if they put some effort into it. i was playing softball last summer in stamford and i saw a 15yr old kid walk by the bench with a uconn fitted, i was suprised. the C needs to be a bit bigger on them so its doesn't look weird. anyway

i think the fball facility with the turf indoor field is a big time recruiting add for us up here. no excuse of cold weather for throwing and infield...just about everything accept deep fly balls and a actual scrimage are fair game for that place. its def keeping kids hme instead of going south.

I remember seeing something about building a new softball field where the turf is behind the field house and then building the new baseball field where the softball field used to be. Or maybe even putting in a new soccer field there and putting the baseball field where the soccer field currently is. Something along those lines. Not sure if that was a real plan or just a random fan/alum's idea.