Question re: UCONN Game -- Michigan Sections?
September 19th, 2013 at 11:55 AM ^
Someone above mentioned that they had heard the scoreboard may block viewing lines for some bleacher seats, so I'm guessing they're going in to the left and right of the scoreboard on the concourse
September 19th, 2013 at 12:50 PM ^
The Michigan Ticket Office sent out this picture of the obstructed view. Can be pretty bad for some seats.
September 19th, 2013 at 11:59 AM ^
I can only guess as to the number of Michigan fans that make it to the game, but UCONN's crappy three year nightmare under Pasqualoni has soured a very young and fragile fanbase.
I'm taking a guess that there will be 6-8k fans. Your school allotment (obviously) was used up with no returns, but I think above 10k is overestimating it. You are Michigan after all, so even abused UCONN fans want to see the specatacle.
Every year since the upgrade was getting better until our Chairman of the Bd of Trustees hired his personal friend Paul Pasqualoni who is from Chesire, Conn. In turn Pasqualoni hired the universally disliked offensive coordinator George Deleone. Deleone was relieved of OC duties and booted upstairs to an assoc. head coach position. Sadly for UCONN, this is the EXACT same scenario that unfolded at Syracuse in Pasqualoni's final years before he the duo were eventually fired.
On playing Michigan right now at the inevitable end of the three year nightmare? It's like winning a drawing for a date with Kate Upton, and right before you leave to pick her up she texts you that she's on her period.
But it is what it is.
A word of warning about saturday night fan games. There are a lot of UCONN fans that aren't alums or students who are very blue collar. Think Jersey Shore without the orange glow or whacked accent. It makes for a raucous environment, and for the most part the behavior doesn't veer too far from civilized norms, but it does happen. The tailigating is legitmate. I've been to ACC venues, Big Ten, SEC, Pac, the big bowls, and UCONN tailgating hangs in there.
It should be a great environment. Hopefully it provides fans a competitive and entertaining game.
September 19th, 2013 at 12:06 PM ^
Kate Upton is going on a date with you, and the way she's acted lately she might put out, but you can't get it up.
September 19th, 2013 at 12:10 PM ^
That is a better analogy.
I've been over to the boneyard and there is a mix of excitement, resentment and despair on their boards. I really hope we're not going to put out for UCONN.
September 19th, 2013 at 3:50 PM ^
We looked kinda easy against Akron, but cock blocked at the last second.
September 19th, 2013 at 5:04 PM ^
September 19th, 2013 at 12:11 PM ^
So the "no longer than 90mm" rule for camera lenses means that I can bring a DSLR that can get up to 89mm with no worries of someone going "sorry not allowed"?
September 19th, 2013 at 12:57 PM ^
September 19th, 2013 at 4:44 PM ^
Disagree. I can't say I'm happy about driving back to NYC after the game and getting home at 2am but that isn't disuading me or any of my friends. Maybe a few peope who were bringing their young kids dropped but saying they are dropping in droves is quite an exaggeration.
September 19th, 2013 at 4:56 PM ^
In case the drive back is dissuading anyone, there are lots of inexpensive hotel rooms available on hotels.com for Hartford. I got one in a sheraton 10 miles south of the stadium for $90.
September 19th, 2013 at 9:46 PM ^
Its the 2 kids under 3 at home, not the lack of hotel rooms or cost, that is causing me to drive home after the game
September 20th, 2013 at 9:37 AM ^
I totally feel you. It's the two six year olds that are going to the game that have us getting the hotel room.
September 19th, 2013 at 1:09 PM ^
The new seats are around the scoreboard and enclosed the end of the stadium's second level seen on the right hadn side of the picture.
September 19th, 2013 at 1:18 PM ^
Why was the stadium built in East Hartford and not on campus? Seems like a strange decision to me.
September 19th, 2013 at 1:30 PM ^
It seems that Pratt & Whitney donated a bunch of land (an old airfield) to the state so the land acquisition was free (minus a bunch of tax write offs, I'm sure).
The stadium seems to have been built (by the state not the university) to be a kind of multi-use venue to attract events to central CT with UConn as a core tenant. I know there have been a number of USMNT soccer games there.
September 19th, 2013 at 8:35 PM ^
Correct, but also access...can you imagine bringing this kind of crowd into Storrs?
September 19th, 2013 at 8:59 PM ^
Is Storrs really that tiny that it could never accommodate a 40,000-seat stadium?
September 20th, 2013 at 10:40 AM ^
There's plenty of room for a stadium but the access roads in couldn't reasonably support it. The area is fairly rural with a couple of long two-lane roads leading in. East Hartford by contrast has excellent access by both air and car.
If you look at Rentschler it is built for the option of expansion - plenty of room around it - they could start by filling in the end zones and easily get to 60,000 or more someday if the program took off.
September 20th, 2013 at 11:22 AM ^
duplicate
September 19th, 2013 at 4:35 PM ^
My group is making the trip from Boston and Providence so I don't think a late evening drive is going to detur any of us since it is only 1.5 hours back.
We are sitting in Section 102.....
September 19th, 2013 at 4:41 PM ^
The buses are parking at the brown lot? The parking map shows the brown lot as a non-alcohol area.
September 19th, 2013 at 7:39 PM ^
what map are you looking at?