UConn's Renchler Field will be renamed Pratt & Whitney Stadium
- Thread starter Scarlet Jerry
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Tupperware stadium home of the leftovers.
Well the airfield for decades (also named Rentschler) was owned by Pratt & Whitney who used it for all of their test flights. (Believe Rentschler was the name of one of the Pratt & Whitney inventors that operated their airplane engine division).
Like many other stadiums today that use one name for the field and one name for the stadium, wouldn't be surprised if the official name becomes: Rentschler Field at Pratt & Whitney Stadium
How about that is what their fan base deserves. They were the worst fans at any of the away games I have attended.
fan bases are fan bases. I had a bad experience that one Halloween night but it was mostly drunk undergrads. Seem fine otherwise.
Has nothing to do with the fanbase. I maintain (and have maintained) that building that crappy thing way off campus hinders ability to recruit, hinders their college atmosphere, and hinders their attractiveness to other conferences. I said this when they joined the BE football side too, and I still think I'm right :smiley:
I know they probably didn't have much choice at the time, but still think it's a major factor.
It should be named Brown & Savage Stadium.
I drive through Connecticut all of the time (my wife is a UConn alum and still has family there). The stadium is incredibly convenient for highway driving but not at all convenient to students on campus. My wife tells me that she remembers when she went to school there, they had a small field on campus. So, having Rentchler is definitely a step up. But, it is nowhere close to the on-campus experience so many of us are used to. But, hey - doesn't Pitt play off campus at someone else's stadium? And, USF, too? And, Temple? They all deprive their fans of the on-campus experience.
Probably true...but remember, at the time, UCONN was a Div I-AA football program with very little money available and when CT didn't win the battle for the Patriots new stadium, the State just built a smaller stadium on the same site for UCONN...so UCONN got a free 40,000 seat stadium.
Having that free stadium has allowed UCONN to build some nice on-campus training facilities...but even if UCONN had the $$$ to build a 40,000 seat on-campus stadium...I think it still would have been hard to bring in top talent to Storrs.
Why are we still taking about Uconn?
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They play in their own towns, not in another part of their states.
The stadium belongs to the state of CT and UConn pays rent to play there, but keeps ticket proceeds. Apparently the renaming is in exchange for several more acres of land being made available for parking, but I don't think there's money changing hands.
Remember walking into that thing looked like one solid piece of concrete. What an eyesore that place is. Inside just looks dark and gloomy and it was a sunny day.
Maybe my subconscious just has something against blue and white color schemes. LOL. Red and White just look so much more appealing to the eye.UCONN stadium looks like a lot of other college football stadiums.
This is what a Football Stadium should look like before the big game
and like this after the game:
and like this after the game:
And, look at those wonderful away uniforms!
(Sorry, don't mean to revive the uniform debate)
Has to be a reason a school with the best Women's basketball program in the country and one of the top 20 best Men's basketball programs in the country didn't get a sniff from the big boy conferences,lol.
Think more had to do to their location and how they were a Div II/Div I-AA program for 100 plus years and didn't even join Div I-A ranks till 2000 (joined Big East in 2004).
Believe all P5 programs have been playing "Major" College football for 60 - 100 plus years.
I think Florida State is one of the younger (maybe even youngest) P5 program in the country. (Think they are the only program started after WWII that has won a National Championship).
