I think they have a significant student and player population from Hawaii and the South Pacific. Also, recruiting those areas.
Hawaii? No. Polynesian Dozens and dozens of polys on the team and their best players in program history have been polys (Mariota and Ngata)
Also Hartford has great unis but I’ve driven through that cowtown they didn’t need a team, especially sandwiched between NYC/Boston
Should have moved the Islanders there instead of their whole arena clusterfuck, put up a new arena next to UConn's football stadium.
Eh, should've just demolished the Civic Center and built a new arena downtown. Rentschler Field is like 4 miles from downtown but why not use it as a revitalization project instead of putting it in a giant parking lot? There was a rumor back in the day that Steinbrenner was going to buy the Devils and move them to southern CT. I don't think it ever had any real legs but it was amusing.
These are great. Would be even better if Nike would quit fucking around and give everyone the shiny material on their pants.
I’d like to see some team sign a deal with touchstone pictures or whoever to take on the moniker of eastern state and do a theme/throwback game as them. Probably South Carolina. They could do a charity auction or something. cc: Pelican