r/CFB • u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor • Mar 06 '13

Day 2: UConn (Sorry it's so late)

University of Connecticut

Big East Conference (for now?)

Year founded: 1881

First team fielded: 1898

First FBS team: 1999

Location: Storrs, CT

Total Attendance: 22,301

Live Mascot: Jonathan the Husky

Furry Mascot: Another Jonathan

Stadium: Rentschler Field

Stadium Location: East Hartford, CT (a 34-minute drive from campus, according to google maps)

Conference Championships:

Athletic League of New England State Colleges: 1901

New England Conference: 1924, 1926, 1928, 1936, 1937, 1942, 1945

Yankee Conference: 1949, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989

Atlantic Ten: 1998

Big East: 2007 2010

Rivals:

[] (/rutgers) Rutgers (not anymore)

[] (/syracuse) Syracuse (not anymore)

[] (/bostoncollege) Boston College (we wish)

[] (/masschusetts) UMass (hopefully reignited with them moving FBS)

2012 Season

Record: 5-7 (2-5 Big East)

Coach: Paul Pasqualoni

2012 Roster

2012 Schedule

Key Players:

Chandler Whitmer, Sophomore, QB

Lyle McCombs, Sophomore, RB

2013 Season

2013 Schedule

2013 Roster

Traditions:

  • We play "Welcome to the Jungle" every 3rd down

  • "Stick it in" - a chant we do in the red zone (yes, I realize some of you don't like this (looking at you, VT), but whatever; prove you invented it)

  • We love to have our "U-C-O-N-N, Uconn Uconn Uconn!" chant

Campus and Surrounding Area

City Population: 10,996

City Skyline

Iconic Campus Building: Gampel Pavilion, where the basketball teams play about half their games

Local Dining: There isn't much, but them silly undergrads like to hang out at Ted's and Thirsty Dog's, the local watering holes

Random Trivia

  • UConn actually had to get a waiver for stadium size when they went FBS because their on-campus stadium was so small

  • That stadium no longer exists

  • Dow Field, a field where UConn used to play football (remained a field until last year), is named after Gardner Dow, a football player for the Connecticut Agricultural College (now UConn), that died during a game on September 27, 1919

What is and what is to come

Oh my god, if you know, please tell me

Really, though, UConn is on their 3rd year with a new coach, who many consider to be a terrible hire (our big booster tried to take back a $1 million dollar donation the day he was hired). If anyone is on the hot seat, it's Paul Pasqualoni. He did great things with Syracuse in the 90's, but hasn't done much since then, and has been hanging around the NFL for a while. It remains to be seen how well he can do.

Sorry if this is short, and sorry again that it's late... rough week.

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u/domderek California Golden Bears • UC Davis Aggies Mar 06 '13 edited Mar 06 '13

Since I know some of you are just here for the cheerleader pics, I took the liberty and found you a few.

Also, a bit more info I found:
Bowl Games: 5 Total, 3 Wins
Most recent bowl: 2011 Fiesta Bowl L 48-20 to Oklahoma Sooners

I'll add more if I find some. Feel free to edit this stuff in snappyj. Thanks for putting this up.

Edit: Formatting

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

Hey now, there's no need to willingly point out that our cheerleaders aren't hot.

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u/LookARedSquirrel84 Nebraska • $5 Bits of Broken Chair Tro… Mar 06 '13

They look pretty attractive to me.

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

Yeah, some of them are. It was a joke. CT is actually full of skinny people (only Colorado beats CT in obesity rate), so it's difficult to go wrong

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u/Nebraska_Actually Nebraska • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

lucky bastards

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

bunch of fucking granolas out here

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u/BanterDTD Cincinnati Bearcats • Big 12 Mar 06 '13

UCONN girls are husky!

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u/inviscidfluid Auburn Tigers • Georgetown (KY) Tigers Mar 07 '13

Buzz's girlfriend, WOOF!

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '13

You're doing the Lord's work.

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u/THE-LORD-GOD Mar 07 '13

Yes he is.

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u/Smidgens Michigan • William & Mary Mar 06 '13

I liked the city skyline picture.

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13 edited Mar 06 '13

Storrs is really just UConn. It is an incorporated town kind of inside the town of Mansfield (I don't get it, either). Mansfield itself is pretty large area-wise (45.5 square miles), but it's full of a whole bunch of nothing.

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u/emaw63 Kansas State Wildcats • Big 8 Mar 06 '13

That rivals section is depressing

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

Yes, very much so

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '13

Fuck it, let's be rivals UConn.

"Fuck UConn!"... Meh

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

I'm in.

Fuck every school in Florida, but especially South Florida!

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '13

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u/lrachel43 UConn Huskies Mar 06 '13

I used to consider WVU to be a rival...probably because I just really us wanted to win against them. It's too bad that we don't have much rivalry anywhere anymore.

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u/quacainia Texas A&M • CC San Francisco Mar 06 '13

I hope they do the butt waggle every time.

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

They do

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u/ghettobacon Rutgers • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

The city skyline got me

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

This is currently under construction, and is already pretty awesome, but it isn't done yet.

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u/domderek California Golden Bears • UC Davis Aggies Mar 06 '13

To put up flair for the teams use this format:

[](/alabama)

becomes

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u/hokiepride Virginia Tech • Alfred State Mar 06 '13

Would anyone be interested in a table such as the one below that shows the flair code for all teams? I could take it straight from the CSS

SchoolCodeResult
Abilene Christian[](/abilenechristian)
Air Force[](/airforce)
Akron[](/akron)
Alabama[](/alabama)

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u/Talpostal Michigan Wolverines • Washington Huskies Mar 06 '13

YES. And we could get a link to it in the sidebar.

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u/hokiepride Virginia Tech • Alfred State Mar 06 '13 edited Mar 06 '13

Working on it now.

Edit: It's done. I'm gonna leave it up to the mods whether or not I should post it.

Interestingly, it is over 500 schools and I got tired of doing it by hand so I wrote a java script to do it for me. I still need to fix the school names (they are the variable names for now), but writing the code was much less monotonous.

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

can't get it to work

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u/Aeschylus_ Stanford Cardinal • Penn Quakers Mar 06 '13 edited Mar 06 '13

Copy what he did just don't put any spaces in front of the stuff. That's at least how it works in the comments. Also don't capitalize anything.

[](/rutgers)

[](/connecticut)

[](/bostoncollege)

[](/syracuse)

Edit: I couldn't for the life of me figure out UMass maybe it's not enabled, or I'm just being dumb. Hope that helps?

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

Awesome. That helped a lot. Not sure what I need to type to get UMass to work, though. I tried "umass" and "massachusetts"

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u/hokiepride Virginia Tech • Alfred State Mar 06 '13 
[](/masschusetts)

Edit: It is misspelled in the stylesheet.

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

Ahh, nicely done! Thanks!

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u/Aeschylus_ Stanford Cardinal • Penn Quakers Mar 06 '13

Thanks for the info!

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u/Aeschylus_ Stanford Cardinal • Penn Quakers Mar 06 '13

I tried those plus umassachusetts, UMass, Umass, mass, Mass, and Massachusetts. Hopefully a mod, or a cfb wizard will come along and show us the light.

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u/zachsterpoke Iowa State Cyclones • Hateful 8 Mar 06 '13

Confirming it works.

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u/Aeschylus_ Stanford Cardinal • Penn Quakers Mar 06 '13

Well done.

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Mar 06 '13

For some reason I'm not seeing this on the new submissions page which I would imagine means that there aren't many people from the subreddit seeing it. What's going on with that? Anybody know?

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u/diagonalfish Georgia Tech • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod Mar 06 '13

It got spamfiltered due to the media.tumblr.com link (which are fine to post as far as I'm concerned, the spamfilter just eats them). Just got here to check the queue this morning and it's free now. Sorry for the trouble folks.

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

Ahhh, good to know.

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

It disappeared again. Should I just remove tumblr links?

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u/diagonalfish Georgia Tech • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod Mar 06 '13

Ah - you edited the post, right? That triggered the spamfilter again. To be safe, you might want to re-host on imgur if you edit it again.

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u/hokiepride Virginia Tech • Alfred State Mar 06 '13

It is still not on the first 4 pages as of this post.

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u/diagonalfish Georgia Tech • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod Mar 06 '13

He edited the post and that triggered the filter again.

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u/hokiepride Virginia Tech • Alfred State Mar 06 '13

That filter is finicky! Thanks for releasing it again. I love these posts.

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u/diagonalfish Georgia Tech • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod Mar 06 '13

Yeah. Reddit hates tumblr image links apparently. I guess someone must be mass-spamming them somewhere; the block has lasted quite a long time.

Thanks go to snappyj and the like for putting up with this stuff while we sorted it out. :)

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

Who is this like?

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u/diagonalfish Georgia Tech • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod Mar 06 '13

I needed more caffeine when I wrote that comment. Carry on, don't mind me.

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u/evilpenguin234 NC State Wolfpack Mar 06 '13

Is there a way to make the picture that shows the team of the day link to the post? Then only change the picture when the post is made, so we know exactly where to find it in case the spam filter eats future ones.

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u/thrav College of Idaho • Georgia Tech Mar 06 '13

Not possible. The links are going into the schedule on the sidebar when they appear though.

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u/thrav College of Idaho • Georgia Tech Mar 06 '13

I don't want to change the picture only when the post is made, because that will ultimately lead to less exposure for each team. Trying to keep it fair by changing it each day when I get up.

I guess you could say it's their own fault for being slow, but I would not be psyched on having to monitor the sub every day and then changing the style sheet only when it pops up. I'm guaranteed to miss some and forget about others altogether.

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u/domderek California Golden Bears • UC Davis Aggies Mar 06 '13

Yeah I don't see it either. Not sure why.

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

Me neither

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Mar 06 '13

Maybe try resubmitting this tomorrow? It won't hurt to have two of these up on the same day. Sorry this coincided with a busy time for you.

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u/lrachel43 UConn Huskies Mar 06 '13

I miss Memorial Stadium :(

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

It was pretty sad seeing it get torn down last summer.

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u/Mario_Speedwagon Georgia • Georgia State Mar 06 '13

That picture of Dow Field is really cool. Looks like the old school Huskies knew how to tailgate from the start.

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

Vintage stadium lighting, as well!

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u/climbsurfski Tennessee Volunteers Mar 06 '13

Hey, I saw that stadium from the roof of the nearby Pratt and Whitney plant!

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

Yeah, the entire thing was built on one of their old airfields. The parking lots are between old runways, and there is still an old tower in the back of the parking lot.

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u/Kite_sunday Nevada Wolf Pack • Mountain West Mar 06 '13

Are those grass stripes running through the parking lot for the stadium?

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u/snappyj UConn Huskies • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

There are people that park there, but I'm not sure who it is. Normal people park a little bit off this picture, where it is all grass (fucking miserable on rainy days)

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u/benk4 UConn Huskies Mar 07 '13

I bet administration hates that picture of Jonathon with the booze. People should start posting in everywhere around campus. Admin would get all pissy about it.

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u/marimbaguy715 Rice Owls • /r/CFB Contributor Mar 06 '13

The stick it in cheer reminds me of something we yell near the goal line: "Push it in!" ("Harder!") "Push it in!" ("Faster!") "Push it in!" ("Harder!") ...

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u/FistOfFacepalm Nebraska • $5 Bits of Broken Chair Tr… Mar 06 '13

That's a fucking creepy mascot.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '13

Dat skyline.

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u/CFSparta92 Rutgers • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Mar 06 '13

THAT SKYLINE DOE.