Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.
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saw the Police and Springsteen there, great shows. The neighbors put a stop to that.
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Something. Is. Up.
We're not doing the monitoring. Someone Big is monitoring us. Pack the rent.
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The ACC has two teams in the top 25.
Put that together with the fact that we turned down the PAC 12 for a football invite when football really needs to be in a conference.
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Big 12 would be great but extra travel would suck and I say that watching several of the pac 12 teams struggling in the big10 and acc, as well as b12.
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I don’t know about the travel. Yeah not great we can’t go to road games easily, but I know that back in the 1960-70s there were some pretty good college baseball teams in the Northeast. UConn, Maine (had 3 pitchers who pitched in the majors on one team in the early 1970s including Bobby Witt, father of the current star) and BC all played in the college World Series at one time or another. St John’s and Seton Hall were very good and both produced top major leaguers. Over time as the academic year ended earlier and earlier, and the college season started earlier and earlier, northern clubs began to struggle. Then they figured out how to change the model and instead of 1 spring break Florida trip to start the season they began making multiple warm weather trips. They adapted and now the ones who did are competitive again. That, I think will happen to teams that need to travel long distances in basketball and football. They will figure out a strategy, be it leave Tuesday to acclimate or something else. Once they do the current disadvantages will shrink.
Travel for what?
Football has 6 at most travel games. As an independent, we’ll go to whomever will take us.
Basketball travels to Midwest slot already. Is Kansas, Texas, az or Colorado that much worse than Wisconsin, Nebraska, Chicago?
Baseball spends first month playing in Florida and/or California.
The status quo is not sustainable. Some of Our marquee sports (wbb/baseball) actually suffer being in a conf with “less travel” but no sig competition ( and MBB may fall in same trap if someone in BE doesn’t get it together soon).
I understand Olympic sports suffering, but field hockey never left BE and hockey is covered. Really what we’re down to is the cross country team earning their name!
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Are we big-time or not? If we're big-time, then being big-time means there's travel.
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Its been an audition here for a year now....sometimes officially, sometimes unofficially.
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Anyone who wants to improve our possibility of landing in a P level conference should invest a few hours Saturday to take in the game at the Rent. If you need tickets, they should be very reasonable through the athletic department's ticket office. If that's beyond what you want to spend, send me a DM. I may have two spare tickets.
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The athletic department needs to do what they do for Bowl games, let people who don't live in Connecticut but want to support the football team purchase tickets that can then be given to different groups. Let's say 50 dollars for 2 tickets.
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I have six season tickets and give them away to people on the boneyard easily, but I can't for the life of me give them away for FREE to any friends and family -- and I have a big group of friends (many who went to UConn). Maybe I need new friends lol
I have not been able to get more than 3-4 friends together for a game since early 2010's. Maybe it's because we sucked so bad for so long, maybe it's because I'm based in Fairfield County, or maybe it's because we're at the age where we have young kids and a lot going on the weekends (I miss half the games too because of this), but damn it's depressing. The team clearly needs our support -- we gotta market ourselves to a power conference and I feel like it's a do or die point in time.
Realistically for Track/Cross Country, Swimming etc it's not a dual meet scenario where you're flying them out to win, they'll compete locally and in invitationals, then fly out for a conference championship meet.
The non-revenue sports with travel concerns are your team sports, where Wins/Losses are measured in the standings.
How's the sell-out or near sell-out looking so far?
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When we were bad at basketball it was the same issue with giving away basketball tickets. Winning fixes everything.
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I saw someone post on twitter that it was looking like only around 28k so far based on most tickets in lower bowl taken but 8-10k in upper bowl avail. Disappointing
Not sure how accurate (can’t link since username has profanity)
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Let’s not fixate too much on tickets. Crowds at places like wake, Vandy, cincy, duke are in the 30k area. Part of the challenge we have is playing teams that don’t take their allotment or draw fans. Not a lot of rice, fau, temple fans/alums in the area to show up. Keep winning, get in a P conference and the stadium will fill up. Let’s just hope the 28k get in, are loud, and stay. Go huskies, big test this weekend - wake, like temple, has a misleading record. Ole Miss is really good. Beat ncstate and lost to uva in nail biter.
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My current situation is that family obligations don't allow me to make any games this year.
I was thinking of an interesting metric, one which the state of Connecticut would like be #1. Just our reality.
Take the population of the state and calculate number of professional teams and distance to those teams. So for each resident, we have a high number of pro teams within a very short distance. Taking the big 4 sports plus soccer, there are at least 16 professional major league sports teams within a short drive. That doesn't even include Philly and other nearby locations. If people are fans of those teams, the pro team is going to take priority over UConn football. I don't think any other state has a population as concentrated to so many pro sports teams.
Then add in all of the other entertainment options between NYC and Boston and we are just loaded. Compare to the SEC which is the complete opposite.
My current situation is that family obligations don't allow me to make any games this year.
I was thinking of an interesting metric, one which the state of Connecticut would like be #1. Just our reality.
Take the population of the state and calculate number of professional teams and distance to those teams. So for each resident, we have a high number of pro teams within a very short distance. Taking the big 4 sports plus soccer, there are at least 16 professional major league sports teams within a short drive. That doesn't even include Philly and other nearby locations. If people are fans of those teams, the pro team is going to take priority over UConn football. I don't think any other state has a population as concentrated to so many pro sports teams.
Then add in all of the other entertainment options between NYC and Boston and we are just loaded. Compare to the SEC which is the complete opposite.
Too bad. Two different people invited us but we are volunteering at the marathon. Maybe next week
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