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Old Cage

A game before Labor Day on a Thursday night in East Hartford????

http://www.theday.com/article/20101011/INTERACT010110/101019955

Ouch.
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ShadesOf96and98 · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:42 pm Post subject:

What's wrong with that?

Refuse2Lose83 · Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:07 pm Post subject:

Yes! When do tickets go on sale?? I'll be first in line!! Best part is by 2012 alot of these super talented freshmen and sophomores we have now will be absolute studs!

So BC next year? UConn in 2012? Anything on the books for after that?
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Old Cage · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:17 pm Post subject:

An overreaction by me I guess.

1. The week before Labor Day was always a vacation week for me before I retired. My first thought was that our attendance - as opposed to UConn's season ticket attendance - would not be large.

2. Same thought on time and distance on a work night and a school night for all those families with kids that now start before Labor Day. Home at 11 or 12 or 1 is tough.

3. "Back in the day" UConn was THE opponent. Not BC. Not Temple in hoops, etc. I have gone many times to Gampel, the Hartford Civic Center, and the old campus football and hoops facilities. My memories are not positive, including one of a guy with no headlights and no shoes bashing into my car in a snow storm.

Don't mind me.

(I am 1-for-1 at the new field, watching our lax last minute win over Georgetown in April.)
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Jack · Hall of Fame Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 3033

I am all for it. Last time we played Uconn was in '99 when we blew their doors off 62-20. Its hard to believe it has been 11 years since we have played UConn - that is simply ridiculous (imho). Those rivalry games were always fun for the alums on both sides.

DrG · Hall of Fame Joined: 02 Apr 2003 Posts: 2175 Location: MA

A few things have changed since then . . . like 20 more scholarships, a 40,000-seat stadium and BCS money. But that would make it even sweeter if we beat 'em, wouldn't it?