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Message: [QUOTE="bags27, post: 2014374, member: 6761"] Great catch! It's great that athletics is self-supporting. this is really helpful. The only point I'd want to look at more closely is the revenue from private fundraising. Sometimes donors will give only for a particular reason, and so, if it's not given to help support Geno's compensation, it might not be given at all. But other donors are "led" to a particular purpose, and might well have given for other purposes. In that case, it would detract from funding other, perhaps academic needs. But I doubt that it would be a substantial amount, and it seems that the coaches' salaries in football, MCBB and WCBB are pretty much self-supporting. I still think they (not just UConn, but all college coaches making 7 figures) get paid way too much. But of course, since top college and pro coaching is somewhat interchangeable, the pro salaries to a large degree set the college salaries of top coaches. [/QUOTE]