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"Allen Family Uconn Basketball Champions Center" has a nice ring to it and seems to fit. Make it a double announcement that he's signed on as shooting coach and I would call this a pretty good week.
 
can someone please identify those two men and hunt them down? other option is to ask Vana White for her help...
 
tcf15 said:
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!
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Give me another "M"
Ooops wrong letter?
 
Werth Family

I think that they did a follow up 10M to go with their initial 4M. That's my guess. Well either that or Patoni.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Give the school and UConn Club credit for keeping interest high.
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I wonder if it's also out of respect to Rizza. Biggest donation in history shouldn't get overshadowed the next day.
 
CL82 said:
Werth Family

I think that they did a follow up 10M to go with their initial 4M. That's my guess. Well either that or Patoni.
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Werth Family it is!!!
 
zls44 said:
I wonder if it's also out of respect to Rizza. Biggest donation in history shouldn't get overshadowed the next day.
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FluxTZ said:
This
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I absolutely agree that they did a very good job of giving Rizza the well-deserved limelight for a few days.

They hit the right mixture of saying two there will be two announcements spread out over a week, gave the first family their due and keeping interest in the second announcement. Added bonus by showing just enough of the signage without giving anything away.
 
Chin Diesel said:
I absolutely agree that they did a very good job of giving Rizza the well-deserved limelight for a few days.

They hit the right mixture of saying two there will be two announcements spread out over a week, gave the first family their due and keeping interest in the second announcement. Added bonus by showing just enough of the signage without giving anything away.
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If Warde were smart, he would've had the naming ceremony overlap with this weekend's football game, so as to prevent the football team from receiving the top headlines.

Fire Warde!
 
UConn990411 said:
If Warde were smart, he would've had the naming ceremony overlap with this weekend's football game, so as to prevent the football team from receiving the top headlines.

Fire Warde!
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I know you're kidding but there is no football game this weekend. Probably the best moments of their season are the bye weeks. IMO this is the best time for the unveiling because the air doesn't get sucked out of the positive.
 
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I have to say that UConn's marketing, donor outreach and communication of vision has improved greatly. A lot of people have a hand in that but I credit Herbst for targeting these areas for improvement.
 
fleudslipcon said:
I know you're kidding but there is no football game this weekend. Probably the best moments of their season are the bye weeks. IMO this is the best time for the unveiling because the air doesn't get sucked out of the positive.
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I know that FB ruined everything for me!!! It sucks all the positives out of me and left me in critical condition.
 
warbler13 said:
I know that FB ruined everything for me!!! It sucks all the positives out of me and left me in critical condition.
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Just stay on life support until Diaco turns it around.
 
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?
 
Big Calihouns said:
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?
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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.
 
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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.
 
As long as it's not the "MANSON FAMILY CHAMPIONS CENTER" I'm good.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
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.
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And vice versa.
 
FluxTZ said:
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.
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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.
 
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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....
 
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