Report: Big 12 eyeing UConn for possible expansion

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Can’t make this stuff up. 1766 athletics!

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Let me start with my perspective is from a 16+ year season ticket holder. I've parked in nearly every lot and experienced game day from many different approaches.

For the Howard game, met some friends on college ave and thought we'd take the bus over. We've done this before, but its been a few years. It shed a lot of light on things.

1. Taking the bus from College Ave to the student entrance was a 49 minute ride inside the bus. 7 minute wait to get onto the bus.
Listen, I get it, it was a Thursday and rush hour. BUT COME ON NOW! No wonder why students don't want to come to the games. Almost an hour to just get to the gate! It was an absolute buzz kill and frustrating to say the least. Rutgers and its partners in NB/Piscataway need to come up with a bus only lane to transport on game day. We need to make this experience fast and easy. Not an absolute nightmare for students experience. These are your customers for the next 50+ years!! Figure it out and make it a great experience! Not one that they avoid at all costs.

2. Bag lines are an absolute joke. OVERHAUL THE ENTIRE APPROACH TOWARDS BAGS!!!
We approached the student entrance side gate. One woman in our group had the R issued clear bag. She is stopped and pointed in the direction of a massive line that goes up a hill and you couldn't even see the end of it. Had to be 45-60+ min wait in that line to have your bag checked. Thankfully she pointed to her pregant stomach and we had a reasonable understanding person who just checked the clear bag and let us go. But think about it. If a female student left college ave at 5pm, she wouldn't have made it into the game until 7pm or later. How on gods earth is that a reasonable experience ?!? Checking bags at the stadium went from a quick thing to now a day ruining experience.

3. Positives
- food lines and service was pretty good. Food quality remains eh.
- Having beer in the stadium is still amazing. Especially a night like that.
- I love the change to utilizing the full big screen during timeouts . The quality is so much better when its using the full wide view. Really pops. Good game day update there.
- Way too much piped in music on the PA. Let's use the band a much higher percent of the time !!!! Make it a college atmosphere. We've all heard the same corny stadium songs 100's of times already.
- Thank you for not using the train horn for every single 3rd down.


#1 and #2 above must be fixed dramatically and with absolute urgency. Totally unacceptable to be losing fans like that

Some of the prices these towns charge are insane. A few over $100, but most seem pretty reasonable in the $20-$30 range. I recall Belmar back in the 80's was around $30 they have gone up to $80. Looking back $30 in the 80's was pretty high.
Island Beach State Park continues to be the best bargain and IMO nicest beach in NJ

@knightfan7 $95 in Manasquan!

to me he reminds me of clyde edwards helaire. a bowling ball. great vision. really excellent player.

NON-CONFERENCE DUALS 2 0 2 4 - 2 0 2 5 S E A S O N
Home:
Lock Haven
Penn
NC State / Long Island at Poland Springs Arena in Toms River, NJ

Away:
Campbell / Franklin &Marshall at a Neutral site
Virginia Tech
Princeton
Clarion
Kent State
Midlands Championships(Whole team)

Regrettably, I have DIRECTV. As most of you are aware a carriage dispute exists between DIRECTV and Disney. I have ESPN+. Will I be able to watch The J-E-T-S against the 49ers on Monday/ Thanks in advance.

Before I start, this is fun messageboard chatter, so please we don't need the "we are never getting into the playoff so why talk about it" posts.

So I have mentioned this before, there is a very thin line we have to walk on for any chance of our pie in the sky season in which we get into the playoffs as the darkhorse people predicted. First, I think the only chance is a 10-2 season, there will be too many 9-3 teams that will be taken over us, and 11-1 or 12-0 is asking for too much. Second, we will not be any better than 4th in this league, to ask OSU+Michigan+PSU+Oregon+Iowa to all falter is also asking for too much. One, maybe two can falter ok but not like 5. In my "thin line" prediction I am predicting a 5th place, even a 6th place if everything falls right could happen.

So two scenarios have to happen: 1)the ACC MUST be a 1 bid league, and 2)The SEC needs to eat their own, have two undefeated or 11-1 teams in their championship game, and the rest are 8-4 type teams. This will also allow the choice of either the B12 being a 1 bid league (which most are predicting) or Notre Dame falters, you would not need both, especially if we end up the 5th place B1G team instead of the 6th place team.

So a bunch of things happened that are good for us this week:

-FSU is now 0-2 and is more than likely already out
-VT lost, which means we can take them out of playoff contention ourselves
-ND beat Texas A&M, now A&M can be that 5-3 team in conference that beats everybody up in league and still has no chance to get in
-LSU losing is huge as well, we now have a second team that can do that
-Also ND has a bunch of ACC games on their schedule most notably GT and Louisville, so having them look good also benefits us
-Clemson losing to Georgia, that was predicted, but Georgia can be that one undefeated team in the SEC knocking off a bunch of highly ranked teams while having another ACC team lose

To me only two things happened that hurt us a little:

-Minnesota lost to UNC on a last second field goal, we can't have the Tar Heels go on a run and be that second team in the ACC
-USC looked real good, if they go on a run that would mean we would have to beat USC in a game we will be a huge underdog in

All in all, not a bad first week for the ones holding on that glimmer of hope that we could truly be that darkhorse playoff team.