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Message: [QUOTE="CCSU97, post: 2666880, member: 7844"] Why do you and others attack the messenger, instead of trying to argue with the message? Probably because you don't understand the argument. FUNGIBILITY [URL='http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-huskies/hc-uconn-sports-subsidies-1117-20151116-story.html']UConn Subsidies For Sports Teams, Programs Rank Third In Nation[/URL] In FY 2015, UConn spent a total of $71.5 million on athletics (operational costs only - does not include capital expenditures like Gample roof replacement, etc.). That same year, $27.2 million of "revenue" that was in the form direct State appropriations (the remaining $44.3M came from student fees, private donations, and ticket/media/merchandise/NCAA revenues) Therefore, approximately 38% of the athletic budget was in the form of a taxpayer subsidy. There is no "lock box" - $0.38 of every dollar spent by the athletics department is from the State of Connecticut. Many UConn poster have also raised the very real question about how UConn expects to maintain increasing expenditures with shrinking non-State forms of revenue. It is a reality many of you choose to ignore. The State isn't going to keep dumping millions of dollars into the UConn, while the AThletic Department keeps buying out huge contracts. Suggesting that private donors are fully covering the costs of these multi-million dollar coaching contracts ignores the fact that on the whole the State is sinking more direct appropriations into the Athletic Department each year while facing massive fiscal issues. [/QUOTE]

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