Sounds like Michigan wants to move their games @UConn

[BlackKnight76]

to Metlife.

@Mark__Snyder
Dave Brandon said moving the UConn game next year, possibly to MetLife Stadium, remains under discussion

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Obviously Michigan continues to broker any deal that can get it out of playing in UConn's 40k stadium​

I'm sure they love us for setting the precedent.

 

[ImperialOrange]

Didn't see that coming as soon as that contract was signed

 

[Orangello]

Copycats. Further, don't they have to get The Girls OK on this first ? Don't they OWN this area ?

 

[KaiserUEO]

michigan, not usc, is the type of team who should be playing Giants Stadium.

top 4 in no particular order:

notre dame
michigan
ohio st
penn st

then

texas
tennessee
wisconsin

and thats probably it.

 

[Orangello]

I would throw VT in that list as well. Those peeps would travel to Pluto to see their Jokies. Even Jethro could find his way to MetLife.

 

[Chip]

michigan, not usc, is the type of team who should be playing Giants Stadium.

top 4 in no particular order:

notre dame
michigan
ohio st
penn st

then

texas
tennessee
wisconsin

and thats probably it.

I'd add Nebraska. Those people would travel to the moon by the tens of thousands to see their team play. Their takeover of South Bend that one year was one of the more impressive displays of traveling fandom that I've ever seen.

 

[Chip]

I would throw VT in that list as well. Those peeps would travel to Pluto to see their Jokies. Even Jethro could find his way to MetLife.

Pluto is just nuts, that's not happening. But my moon theory, that has legs.

 

[Orangello]

Pluto is just nuts, that's not happening. But my moon theory, that has legs.

Blacksburg, the Moon, no big difference there

 

[KaiserUEO]

Blacksburg, the Moon, no big difference there

moon or moonshine...or more likely moon AND moonshine.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

moon or moonshine...or more likely moon AND moonshine.

Tim and Tickle approve.

 

[Chip]

moon or moonshine...or more likely moon AND moonshine.

I had some moonshine down in Lexington, KY a couple weeks back. Quite pungent. Burns the nostrils. Thankfully I was one and done. Others kept going back to the jar, I think a couple of them are still missing, I know I haven't heard from them.

 

[ImperialOrange]

Why doesn't UConn try and line up some games in Foxboro?

 

[orangefog]

I had some moonshine down in Lexington, KY a couple weeks back. Quite pungent. Burns the nostrils. Thankfully I was one and done. Others kept going back to the jar, I think a couple of them are still missing, I know I haven't heard from them.

Chip, that wasn't a couple weeks, that was a couple years ago. We have all been wondering where you have been.

 

[MadNY3]

michigan, not usc, is the type of team who should be playing Giants Stadium.

top 4 in no particular order:

notre dame
michigan
ohio st
penn st

then

texas
tennessee
wisconsin

and thats probably it.

Tennessee? USC is MUCH greater an opponent than Tennessee...

 

[Eric15]

michigan, not usc, is the type of team who should be playing Giants Stadium.

top 4 in no particular order:

notre dame
michigan
ohio st
penn st

then

texas
tennessee
wisconsin

and thats probably it.

That's probably it? How about the entire rest of the SEC minus Vandy...

 

[TexanMark]

Tennessee? USC is MUCH greater an opponent than Tennessee...

Think he is referring to teams who could help fill the stadium.

Camel toe agrees.

 

[KaiserUEO]

Tennessee? USC is MUCH greater an opponent than Tennessee...

Tennessee would bring 60k easily.

 

[Eric15]

Tennessee would bring 60k easily.

30-35K is a more realistic number. "60K easily" is completely over-the-top.

For example, in their season opener this year against NC State in Atlanta, the game didn't sell out. The total attendance was 55K.

 

[KaiserUEO]

30-35K is a more realistic number. "60K easily" is completely over-the-top.

For example, in their season opener this year against NC State in Atlanta, the game didn't sell out. The total attendance was 55K.

I'd say in between.

Atlanta likely has 'a been, done that', feeling to it.

NCState probably brought 5k.

 

[otisco]

Think he is referring to teams who could help fill the stadium.

Camel toe agrees.

Right. No game at Metlife would or ever has come close to filling the stadium unless it involves ND, Michigan, or Penn State, teams with huge alumni presence in NYC area and travel extremely well. (So yes, as has been noted here, our games against Ped St and ND, assuming they go forward, won't be fun - it will be a 70-80/30-20 opponent/SU fan ratio.) Just look at the attendance history of the Kickoff Classic. The only games in which attendance exceeded 70,000 involved ND or Ped State.

SEC - nah. Florida probably has the biggest alumni presence in NYC and would draw the most. Tenny, Bama, etc - fans travel well but draw from the local area is nil, thus attendance decent but the stadium won't be near full. 60K traveling? No way. Tennessee-Iowa in the 1984 KO Classic brought lame 54,000 fans. Only one other team ever played in the Kickoff Classic - Auburn vs. Miami in 1984 which drew 51,000. SU like.

Wisconsin - no. Ranked team with soon to be all-time leading rusher at Kickoff Classoc against ranked SU brought 51,000 fans. Wiscy travels Ok but little NYC alumni presence.

Nebraska - travel well, but limited NYC alumni presence (despite there being at least 3 NYC alum bars I know of). The Corn has played in the KO Classic three times: the first ever KO Classic in 1983 versus Penn State (71,000 attendance), 1988: Corn-Texas A&M (51,000 attendance), and 1994: Corn with Tommy Frazier - West Virginia (54,000 attendance). Penn State was defending national champs in 1983 and Nebraska was preseason #1. Other Corn games were lame in attendance.

Anyway, UEO is right. Michigan should play in Metlife as it would draw attendance similar to ND and Penn State.

 

[zls44]

Why doesn't UConn try and line up some games in Foxboro?

Bob Kraft is on the BC BOT. He also gave UMass a sweetheart deal to play there.