Hey kgrace,
not sure who you talked to.....but I did my undergrad at uconn, and there is ALOT to do there. The campus is like its own city, and the student union is effin awesome. I mean if your lookin to get into trouble on the weekends, I promise youll find it. I did lol. With like 25 thousand students living on or within 1 mile from campus, its hard not to find something to do. Always dorm parties. As for sports and recreation, the rec center is massive...volleyball, 4 or 5 basketball courts, badmitton court set up on 2 of the basketball courts, a huge indoor rock climbing thing, lets see 4 pristine raquetball courts, a ridiculous amount of intramural sports, yea...theres alot to do lol