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I showed a pre-pandemic graph. The data is anything but cherrypicked. The money should go up with inflation and with state revenues. That graph show two dips. As for 2010 and what happened there, the economic meltdown of 2009 caused that. You can certainly assume that prior to the bank...

All I'm saying is that you don't want to slash academics and preserve athletics, and at the same time -- as a public institution -- you need to make your school accessible to the general public. Someone mentioned the B1G schools but you need to account for the fact that those schools are...

And always a huge problem with B1G institutions. Penn State gets less than 5% of its funding from the state. This is why PSU refused to provide transparent documents of funding to state legislatures. It operates as a private university.

I give the actual numbers of the state subsidy without federal subsidy in some of the posts here. In 2016, UConn was at $240.6m in state subsidy. In 2018, it dropped to $200m. This is pre-pandemic. If we're saying that the money shouldn't have been spent to fund UConn at a level similar to...

?? That's not a budgetary goal. It's a budgetary need. This is why they were cutting every department by 15-20%. The block grant was at $240.6m in 2016. It dipped to $200m in 2018 and it flattened ever since then. During and after the pandemic, it stayed flat but they added federal funds...

I'm not making that last argument. I think some losses are acceptable. I just gave a number of $10-15m. There are schools like West Virginia that are decimating themselves academically while maintaining a huge athletics deficit. This is the position you don't want. But given UConn's...

Yes, it is not. They are well below where they should be. In 2010, UConn received 235.5m from the state. The proposal for 2025 was 219.6m from the state. UConn had requested 300m. If the state subsidy had kept increasing at the rate of inflation from 2010, it would have been at 325m. This...

I think we're losing the plot of the conversation here. I was asked how much of a loss is reasonable. I only mentioned the Ivies because I knew what they lose. You could cite the losses at any number of colleges of all stripes, endowments or not, and argue whether they are sustainable. The...

Let's not talk about UConn, because when your university is cutting $70m in academic courses & departments, you should be looking at everything. $10-$15m is what I imagine Ivy Leagues lose on sports. So, that's what you should be shooting for. If the state wants to explicitly fund a $40m...

It's both. The state is both cutting funding and there is no more Covid relief.

The number I quoted is state funding. That's a cut in funding.

"What do the numbers say? According to the National Science Foundation, per student state support for higher education in Connecticut — when adjusted for inflation —decreased from $16,075 in 2001 to $12,344 by 2021. That is a decline of 23 percent."

From where it was. Yes. https://ctexaminer.com/2024/04/17/uconn-put-onus-on-academics-as-75m-shortfall-leaves-no-easy-answers/

UConn is in a really tough spot here. The state has cut funding and it has forced academic departments to downsize. This will have an adverse impact on education there. The AD is not being asked to cut at the same time that the AD deficit is several times larger than the deficit at any of the...

Even D3 schools lose money on sports, the Ivy leagues lose money. So, to answer this question, there is a difference between losing a LOT of money and losing some money.

You have athletics budget accounting totally reversed. The goal is to hide the amounts sunk into athletics from the parents of non-athlete students. Many people have thought the idea was to hide athletic costs. As for your question about the recruited athlete from Connecticut versus elsewhere...

I don't think the tournament you have in mind makes that money. People would not have the same level of interest, especially as the Big 2 conferences would demand that 3/4 of each conference made the tournament. And it would be right after their conference tournaments? You can see how...

If the P4 think running championships in other sports is worthwhile, they can use football revenues to pay for it. This is all easy to do. CFP makes a certain amount per year, so does the NCAAT. Take whatever % of each that is needed.

If the big football schools do that, they'll be on the hook for the entire amount of the lawsuit. But the ship has sailed, Charlie Baker went with the football schools. There has never been a better moment for leverage for the non-P4 schools in the entire existence of the NCAA, and they...

Remember, there are a ton of non-directional smaller schools like Wayne State, Saginaw State, Grand Valley St, Lake Superior St, Ferris St, UMich Dearborn, Mich Tech, U Mich Flint, Oakland U. They can close all of these and route them into the directionals first. And of course community...

It's clear the football schools are holding the NCAA hostage NOT because football is that much more popular, but because they can. It's the power dynamic. They've not only forced the NCAA into funding itself exclusively with basketball tournament revenue, but they are taking the money from the...

He's from Manasquan. Isn't that where Hurley has a summer home? Andrew Hurley plays on a Semi-Pro Jersey Shore summer league team out of Manasquan.

Yes, we have it at least. They used to also include Showtime with that but Showtime dropped out

1. T-Mobile Wireless and Netflix 2. Spotify for students comes with Hulu Thanks for the Instacart connection...

For soccer fans, Peacock is already a must have. Peacock will rope a lot of people in over the next few years, starting with this summer's Summer Olympics

UConn >>>>>>> Lakers >>>>>>> Kentucky >>>>>>>> URI >>>>>>>>> Syracuse

I am so glad to be wrong

I saw this and I literally clicked on the tweet. But really what happened is I transposed two letters.

Because he wouldve insisted on speaking to players first

?? Well, you do if you go to UConn to talk to the players first.

In a setup like this, how can it be anything other than he's leaving? He's leaving. I'll be very surprised if he stayed. If he had made the decision to stay, news would've leaked this morning that he had turned the Lakers down. Instead we have the news held up to talk to the players.

It will be quite the thing for them to swing this when the AD is subsidized by student fees, so good luck with that. NIL was the perfect end around for UConn since the money to players had nothing to do with the AD budget (other than lost donations).

Even though I'm born in the 1960s I never realized just how popular Billy Joel and Elton John were until I looked at top selling records of the 70s and 80s. When you're talking mega superstars, these two are it. I would've said Michael Jackson and Madonna but Joel and John really sold lots of...

I will forever hate Billy Joel if Hurley goes to the Lakers. Don't blame me, Joel fans. I didn't start the fire.

When have we not had a coach with NBA aspirations? Perno? Certainly Calhoun had them