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Message: [QUOTE="Hoophound, post: 3162577, member: 271"] PC is paying Cooley 3.5 mill and built a great practice facility. We are seeing SEC schools offering guys 5-6 mill per year. When we need to step up to the plate to pay Hurley 5 mill, will we have it? I don’t think PC should be in our stratosphere on these things, yet they are. Meanwhile, all we heard was money might be an issue when competing with Pitt for Hurley’s services. PC got the money together overnight. We’ve got real problems with schools like UCF, Houston and Memphis killing us on the court and field and yet it seems, there is an awful lot of waste and bloat in the budget. Too many sports, too many AD employees and dumb marketing services to sell tickets. Meanwhile, UCF has a lazy river, Penny takes a private jet on recruiting trips and our assistant football coaches get paid like middle school teachers. Much like the state government, this AD needs to have a come to Jesus meeting for the ages. Does PC paying Cooley big money have anything to do with UConn? Technically, not yet, but when we need to pay a coach to keep him, a mediocre coach like Cooley 60 miles away making that kind of coin isn’t going to help us negotiate much. It’s rather obvious there is an arms race going on and we need to prepare for it in ways other than overcharging for tickets by 300%. [/QUOTE]