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A $3 Million Donation to UConn Hoops Center That Challenges Ex-Huskies to Step Up

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How about matching for former head coaches... There might be one hanging around with a few bucks in his pocket
 
Nice!
Who will be the first of our numerous NBA alums to step up?
 
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I just sold $5m worth of Nevada pineapples to the Federal Ministry of Rural Procurement Commission in Abuja, Ghana so if I am feeling generous I could kick in a couple grand.
 
I think the former NBA players haven't been asked yet because I have a hard time believing they wouldn't donate some money if they were asked. This might have been in the works for a while and they weren't going to ask the NBA players until it was in place. Time to pony up.
 
Wise2 said:
How about matching for former head coaches... There might be one hanging around with a few bucks in his pocket
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Not a dime back.


In all seriousness, he's given so much to the University he alone should be an ongoing reason to give something back from ourselves.
 
tcf15 said:
I thought more players would donate once Kevin Ollie got the job and donated 100K. Hopefully this will bring in some money.
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I thought so too. Maybe I'm naive, but I thought a lot of them would come forward and donate. Not necessarily millions and millions, but certainly a bunch of them doing something. Maybe even 5 or 10 of them getting together and pooling and making a big announcement that they are donating "X millions" of dollars...
 
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They better donate while they can take the charitable duduct. Next year, it could all go down the Obama rathole.
 
WestHartHusk said:
Excellent! Glad to see they have leveraged their donation to feret out some more. Well played.
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Not that it matters who thought of it, but I'm wondering if the new head of the UConn Foundation played a part "suggesting" to structure the gift that way. Either way - extremely smart approach.
 
beakumhawks said:
I just sold $5m worth of Nevada pineapples to the Federal Ministry of Rural Procurement Commission in Abuja, Ghana so if I am feeling generous I could kick in a couple grand.
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If you need help repatriating the money, I've been helping out a few royals from Nigeria under similar circumstances. Just let me know what information you need about my bank accounts. A couple more of these deals and I'll never have to work again. Suckers!
 
Denis Nayden is a great guy. Preceded me when I was at GE ... (and others associated with this site know him from there). Audit Staff. CEO of GE Capital. Been a UConn supporter at games as long as I remember the Calhoun era goes. Time for all of us to re-up our enthusiasm for these Programs.
 
WestHartHusk said:
Excellent! Glad to see they have leveraged their donation to feret out some more. Well played.
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Is one of JC's $300k annual contract's responsibilities dedicated to fundraising for the BB center? Will he actively be part of this effort?
 
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Pudge said:
Denis Nayden is a great guy. Preceded me when I was at GE ... (and others associated with this site know him from there). Audit Staff. CEO of GE Capital. Been a UConn supporter at games as long as I remember the Calhoun era goes. Time for all of us to re-up our enthusiasm for these Programs.
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I remember him very well from GE Cap. His departure was a number of years after I lost touch with most people there but I had heard he was a victim of the Wendt fallout (Corporate didn't trust anyone who was closely associated with GW so Denis had no real future within the company at that point).

This was a fantastic gesture on his part (and not the first by he & his wife to our alma mater).
 
Danzz said:
You can deposit your donation into my Paypal account and I'll take care of it for you.:)
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Im serious though. I'd donate to get my name on a brick or some shiz
 
husky8273 said:
Is one of JC's $300k annual contract's responsibilities dedicated to fundraising for the BB center? Will he actively be part of this effort?
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JC has always said that the players have already done enough for the university.

I don't agree but he deserves his opinion.
 
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Palatine said:
JC has always said that the players have already done enough for the university.

I don't agree but he deserves his opinion.
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I always felt that was part of the rift between Calhoun and Hathaway. Hathaway seemed lazy when it came to fundraising, and I don't think JC was in any mood to make it easy for him. Just a feeling I got from JC's comments.
 
its should be of some concern that the University of Connecticut receives such a large share of its donations targeted to athletics. I think the University has to do a better job to keep a balance between academic and athletics donations. I'm saying this because I donated a couple of bucks early this year to the academic arm and I recently received a magazine stating that a significant amount of the donations are to athletics since 2009 ($65 Million) but I saw only like $7 million for academic scholarships for 2012 (assuming it was about the same per year since 2009 then it would be less than athletics donations) ... If the University wants to increase its academic status it needs many millions donated towards research and endowed professorships
 
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That was an impressive mix of ignorance and the obvious.

The UConn Foundation raised $63,000,000 last year. About $12,000,000 was designated for athletics.

The fact that someone pledged $3,000,000 for athletics today should not be "of some concern"...

It's good news.
 
Fishy said:
That was an impressive mix of ignorance and the obvious.

The UConn Foundation raised $63,000,000 last year. About $12,000,000 was designated for athletics.

The fact that someone pledged $3,000,000 for athletics today should not be "of some concern"...

It's good news.
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That sounds far more appealing. Thanks for the correction. I think that donation tree they had in the latest Magazine confused me a bit...

Also, its not the $3 million donation that concerned me. I was referring to the balance between athletics/academic donations. Must make sure both are campaigned just as aggressively. But you cleared that up for me, so nevermind
 
Oh, son....if you wrote them a check this year, fear not.

You will see just how aggressively they pursue you for that second check.

We've come to fear the incoming 860 phone call.
 
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