Champions Center donation on the horizon?

[Big Calihouns]

Rizza pointed out in his speech the need for more former student athletes to step up and help. I believe Jake Voskul said the same thing & Jim Calhoun was supposed to bring that connection to the alumni base in his new "ambassador" role. If it doesn't happen to be a former basketball player, would you be disappointed? Don't get me wrong, the fact that we have received the donation from whomever is great news.

I just read that Steve Kerr gave $1M to AZ and obviously we all know about the Melo center...I just think that with all the success on the court and financially a lot of former UConn men's players have achieved it would be a shame if none of them stepped up for the naming rights or at least some other donation. I believe a recruit walking into the Ray Allen champions center as opposed to the "well off family no one has heard of" uconn champions center means more...What do you guys think?

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Rizza pointed out in his speech the need for more former student athletes to step up and help. I believe Jake Voskul said the same thing & Jim Calhoun was supposed to bring that connection to the alumni base in his new "ambassador" role. If it doesn't happen to be a former basketball player, would you be disappointed? Don't get me wrong, the fact that we have received the donation from whomever is great news.

I just read that Steve Kerr gave $1M to AZ and obviously we all know about the Melo center...I just think that with all the success on the court and financially a lot of former UConn men's players have achieved it would be a shame if none of them stepped up for the naming rights or at least some other donation. I believe a recruit walking into the Ray Allen champions center as opposed to the "well off family no one has heard of" uconn champions center means more...What do you guys think?

UConn has made a hell of a lot more money on the backs of the former players than it could've ever imagined.

It would be an extremely generous gesture, but if anything, the school owes the players.

 

[Dove]

Give me an M!

THE UCONN CLUB‏@UConnClub
It's already been a historic week for @UConnHuskies athletics, but we still have one more major announcement coming!

The lower guy looks like UConnPaneet.

 

[FluxTZ]

Zooming in on the image it definitely says "FAMILY" under there. You can clearly see the "M" and then just to the left if you compare the shape of the letter to the "A" in "BASKETBALL" below it, they match up. I think the "Werth Family" is likely the correct guess.

 

[Palatine]

As long as it's not the "MANSON FAMILY CHAMPIONS CENTER" I'm good.

 

[Palatine]

UConn has made a hell of a lot more money on the backs of the former players than it could've ever imagined.

It would be an extremely generous gesture, but if anything, the school owes the players.

And vice versa.

 

[uchuskies2009]

Zooming in on the image it definitely says "FAMILY" under there. You can clearly see the "M" and then just to the left if you compare the shape of the letter to the "A" in "BASKETBALL" below it, they match up. I think the "Werth Family" is likely the correct guess.

I think the letter before the M is actually an "H". If you look at the letters in Championship, the height of the horizontal line in H is closer to scale than the A is. Purely all speculation, though, and your guess is as good as mine.

 

[grenz]

Spoiler Alert - Werth Family Basketball Champions Center it is.

http://boardoftrustees.uconn.edu/wp...ard-Inst-Advancement-Special-Mtg-Agenda-2.pdf

 

[junglehusky]

Spoiler Alert - Werth Family Basketball Champions Center it is.

http://boardoftrustees.uconn.edu/wp...ard-Inst-Advancement-Special-Mtg-Agenda-2.pdf

Well done!

 

[uconndennis]

Awesome job by the Werth family. It'll be interesting to see if they ended up giving the desired $10million or if their donation of $4.5million a couple years ago was the largest coming in and they got naming rights by default.

still slightly bummed that its not a former player, group of players, etc....

 

[OkaForPrez]

Werth every penny.