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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jun 25, 2019 12:41:38 GMT -5
How did UConn’s football attendance compare to Pitt and the Ville ? TV market potential ? Pitt- 24th ranked TV market Lville - 48 Hart/New Haven 33 Both Pitt and Lville outdraw horrendous UConn FB by tens of thousands per game.
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Post by gks on Jun 25, 2019 14:02:00 GMT -5
How did UConn’s football attendance compare to Pitt and the Ville ? TV market potential ? Bored at work....from NCAA web site. Time period when all this shuffling was happening. Not including Pitt, they are in another league. 2005 UConn 40,000 (capacity 42,704) Louisville. 41,000ish (capacity 61,000) 2006 UConn 38.939 Louisville. 41,482 2007 UConn 38,205 Louisville 39,881 2008 UConn 39,331 Louisville 39,680 2009 UConn 38,229 Louisville 32,450 2010 UConn 38,248 Louisville 50,648
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Post by rf1 on Jun 25, 2019 14:17:49 GMT -5
UConn football set up to fail by people who need to support it the mostwww.theday.com/article/20190624/SPORT01/190629719UConn football is over. University leadership has signed the death certificate, now that headlines have emerged about State U's foray back into the Big East.
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Post by rf1 on Jun 25, 2019 14:31:46 GMT -5
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Post by timholycross on Jun 25, 2019 14:59:30 GMT -5
Good work Ray.... When BC got and accepted the ACC invite, UConn unleashed a very public nastiness at BC as a traitor. AIR, the Gov and State Attorney even got envolved with threats of litigation against both BC and the ACC . Then Calhoun went public ( and briefly Boehiem ) ranting saying he would never again play BC. All this went on for weeks. The ACC folks in Greensboro took notice....as did the Big 10. UConn became an outlier via their own actions and here they are today. ...The Governor was a crook (Rowland, Republican; convicted, not my opinion) and the AG was none other than Democrat DaNang Dick Blumenthal. BC given the choice wasn't going to have another big time football program 80 miles away especially in an area where big time football players are scarce (yes, they exist, but not that many of them). I don't know if I can blame them for that.
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Post by timholycross on Jun 25, 2019 15:06:18 GMT -5
You know if the Patriots had chosen to stick with Hartford for their stadium none of this would have happened. UConn would not have tried to go big time with a pro team playing in the same stadium (or the one they would have built if Kraft went there; it was going to be at or near the Rent and twice as big).
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Post by rickii on Jun 25, 2019 15:50:44 GMT -5
How did UConn’s football attendance compare to Pitt and the Ville ? TV market potential ? Bored at work....from NCAA web site. Time period when all this shuffling was happening. Not including Pitt, they are in another league. 2005 UConn 40,000 (capacity 42,704) Louisville. 41,000ish (capacity 61,000)2006 UConn 38.939 Louisville. 41,482 2007 UConn 38,205 Louisville 39,881 2008 UConn 39,331 Louisville 39,680 2009 UConn 38,229 Louisville 32,450 2010 UConn 38,248 Louisville 50,648 One small correction - Louisville's stadium was built in 1998 seating 42,000. Stayed at that capacity thru 2008. Seating was increased to 52,000 in 2010. After another expansion capacity now at 61,000.
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Post by purplehaze on Jun 25, 2019 16:45:51 GMT -5
UConn's 'actual' home attendance for the 2018 season was approx 10,000 - even though they always announced in the 18-22000 range. This was established as fact by a Hartford Courant reporter.
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Post by gks on Jun 25, 2019 17:01:14 GMT -5
UConn's attendance might actually have been worse than their record the last couple of years.
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Post by rf1 on Jun 25, 2019 18:37:14 GMT -5
UConn's 'actual' home attendance for the 2018 season was approx 10,000 - even though they always announced in the 18-22000 range. This was established as fact by a Hartford Courant reporter.
UConn Football - Catch the fever
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 25, 2019 18:40:04 GMT -5
UConn football set up to fail by people who need to support it the mostwww.theday.com/article/20190624/SPORT01/190629719UConn football is over. University leadership has signed the death certificate, now that headlines have emerged about State U's foray back into the Big East. I hope this columnist is on BP meds. UConn football was the worst in the country IN the AAC, they can't decline further (a measure of degree not distance right?) OUT of the league. It wasn't helping UConn Football to stink and have weakened BB teams. Stronger BB teams can only help the Athletic Dept. They'll figure something out.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 25, 2019 18:52:14 GMT -5
You know if the Patriots had chosen to stick with Hartford for their stadium none of this would have happened. UConn would not have tried to go big time with a pro team playing in the same stadium (or the one they would have built if Kraft went there; it was going to be at or near the Rent and twice as big). Brings back memories of secret meetings between Gov. Rowland and Jonathan Kraft in an abandoned warehouse or some such obscure location to plot the stadium deal in confidence before the press could rip the plans apart. Shank Shaughnessy '75 had it right from the beginning. He steadfastly maintained Robert Kraft would never move the Pats to Yahooville, even as it looked like a sure thing, and he was right.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 25, 2019 19:11:37 GMT -5
I still see the new/Zombie Big East as a good move for UConn.
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Post by sader1970 on Jun 25, 2019 19:21:10 GMT -5
UConn's 'actual' home attendance for the 2018 season was approx 10,000 - even though they always announced in the 18-22000 range. This was established as fact by a Hartford Courant reporter.
UConn Football - Catch the fever
All I know is, from personal experience, that there were a heck of a lot more people there for the game against Holy Cross! Not a sellout but a large crowd, many wearing purple.
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Post by alum on Jun 26, 2019 7:08:44 GMT -5
The press conference to announce the return of UConn to the Big East is not being held at Gampel or in Hartford. It is tomorrow at noon at "The World's Most Famous Arena." As we say here, that tells us all we need to know.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 26, 2019 7:47:25 GMT -5
The DCU?
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 26, 2019 8:21:38 GMT -5
UNH fan, Now that two former Yankee Conference mates, UMass and UConn may be FBS independents in 2020, is there any discussion of UNH joining them in a minimum size FBS conference? Or is sustained success in FCS the agreed upon goal?
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Post by unhfan on Jun 26, 2019 8:35:53 GMT -5
UNH fan, Now that two former Yankee Conference mates, UMass and UConn may be FBS independents in 2020, is there any discussion of UNH joining them in a minimum size FBS conference? Or is sustained success in FCS the agreed upon goal? The goal at UNH is sustained success in FCS. The cost of playing FBS is not feasible for us. The wonderful state of New Hampshire is ranked 49/50 in state aide to their universities.
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Post by unhfan on Jun 26, 2019 8:36:56 GMT -5
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Post by timholycross on Jun 26, 2019 9:02:52 GMT -5
I still see the new/Zombie Big East as a good move for UConn. The author's constant trashing of that league ruins the good points that he makes otherwise. Yes, the AAC is, or at least was this year, an underrated conference. But that's irrelevant if the UConn supporters don't want to see those teams. And even with the down year NCAA tourney-wise, the Big East still had a better conference RPI than the AAC. What I agree with in several of these articles is that it's insane to take your potentially biggest money maker, football; and cast it into a place where it's a certainty that it has absolutely no chance of a financial recovery. Going independent in football puts you on the same level as the "others' in Casablanca, only in this case the wait is for an invite to a good conference: " Here the fortunate ones through money or influence or luck might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon, and from Lisbon to the New World. But the others wait in Casablanca, and wait...and wait...and wait." They might as well drop the sport, I'm sorry to say.
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Post by longsuffering on Jun 26, 2019 11:25:11 GMT -5
Good points but interestingly the opportunity for a Julian Edelman type moment (on the sidelines when the Patriots were down 28-3 in the SB: "What a story this is going to be.") exists now for UConn FB. I was not a fan of Husky FB and smugly ridiculed their and UMass' efforts to go big time from FCS, but if either school can turn things around from outcast independent status, what a story that will be and I would be on board rooting for the underdog.
Randy Edsall's hiring of his entry level son for $100K was a turn-off and not a good look. If either school can latch on to a Coach Cal type young gun on the way up anything is possible because all FBS schools get the same number of scholarships and the games are decided on the field.
If both or either school wanted to go back to FCS I wouldn't criticize them and it would be an opportunity for HC to upgrade it's OOC schedule, and a plus for New England FCS football in general, but if they stay in FBS they both are now underdogs and easy to root for to shock the world.
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Post by purplehaze on Jun 26, 2019 12:50:42 GMT -5
UConn president and BOT just signed the paperwork and now it's off to MSG for a noon press conference tmro. The entry fee into the BE is 3.5 Million
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Post by bfoley82 on Jun 26, 2019 19:52:20 GMT -5
UNH fan, Now that two former Yankee Conference mates, UMass and UConn may be FBS independents in 2020, is there any discussion of UNH joining them in a minimum size FBS conference? Or is sustained success in FCS the agreed upon goal? The goal at UNH is sustained success in FCS. The cost of playing FBS is not feasible for us. The wonderful state of New Hampshire is ranked 49/50 in state aide to their universities. UNH is NEVER going FBS with the current athletic administration.
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Post by unhfan on Jun 26, 2019 20:57:01 GMT -5
The goal at UNH is sustained success in FCS. The cost of playing FBS is not feasible for us. The wonderful state of New Hampshire is ranked 49/50 in state aide to their universities. UNH is NEVER going FBS with the current athletic administration. [b UNH is never going FBS. The cost alone will keep them from making the move. I honestly don’t see the benefit of moving to FBS. It’s not like the big time schools would be playing in Durham 😂
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Post by Tom on Jun 27, 2019 8:09:16 GMT -5
UNH fan, Now that two former Yankee Conference mates, UMass and UConn may be FBS independents in 2020, is there any discussion of UNH joining them in a minimum size FBS conference? Or is sustained success in FCS the agreed upon goal? The goal at UNH is sustained success in FCS. The cost of playing FBS is not feasible for us. The wonderful state of New Hampshire is ranked 49/50 in state aide to their universities. For those from outside of New England, and not trying to be political: New Hampshire is set up with most money in the towns, not the state. Relatively high real estate taxes, but no state income tax and no state sales tax. Very different from MA, where more money goes to the state and towns are very dependent on local aid from the state
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