“Return” should never be solely measured in dollars. And what’s worthless to us has value to others. $4M in the university/state budget (I consider them semi-interchangeable) is nothing.
Totally agree…..I first thought the crowd was not up to standards but it was the nature of going up early and staying up early which resulted in a steady cheer throughout the game….the Villanova game was closer and every bucket was big down the stretch and then it was louder on every hoop and defensive stop. And with Xavier, the second half was as loud as ever but that was because they were down 17 and cut lead to one….every hoop and stop in second half was so electric!
Just wondering what you're referring to. We had $10m of cuts at my school for the entire college and the cuts were extremely painful. There's very little that's fungible in these budgets especially with huge chunks of money going to benefits like medical insurance. It's like $25k per employee now.
$4M cut is not nothing. Entire departments exist on less than that.
LOL. Public statements are great, but she has no leverage. Is she daring Ned to say pull out of Hartford and we'll cut your budget another $160 large?
I guess my point is that we/UConn should just not cut and spend the $4M. State budget just got unveiled today. Over $50B. Just pony up $4M Ned.
Exactly. UConns main campus is located in Storrs Connecticut. Why wouldn’t UConn be more concerned about the well being of their campus and college town? Unless the only reason the AD can run a massive deficit is an agreement to stimulate business in the state capital, but if that’s true, why is the school even pretending they have leverage?
Lol, were he to do that who would win the battle for public opinion?
I agree, the Hartford deal needs to be reworked and the CRDA needs to be sent packing.
Probably like 30-40% of the entire Liberal Arts department. Serves no useful purpose.
Liar. You don’t have better offerings where you live. I don’t live in Hartford. Something tells me the same person protesting income taxes is also scared of cities. For whatever reason. Did you crawl out of Andover or Killingly to go to Hartford to protest the presidential election results too?
I did think about it and concluded there’s not a shred of evidence that supports myriad of assertions in your statement. And now that I did think about it, let me say that the XL was an interesting concept that didn’t really pan out and long outlived its useful life to the point that pretty much the only glimmer of life there is holding UConn as a captive tenant, and an occasional Barney on Ice Spectacular.
Please tell me you were part of the mob that chased little white car through the capital and out the emergency tunnel into Bushnell Park. I have never been more proud of my home state.
Civic center served a purpose from it’s opening to around 2010ish. Not anymore. Either fix it or knock it down.
Did u really just write that a college asking to play most of its college basketball games on its college campus would be alienating to fans? Not sure if people actually are aware that many schools surprisingly pull this off.
Our situation is different from most.
Urban problems don't stop at urban borders.
Have the women play all games at Gampel and keep the mens as is in hartford. That should save some money. 6 womens games saves the school $400k
Well, when 15,000 people are going to sit in the arena to watch people putt then maybe will be able to find funding for the sport.
It absolutely would. We live in CT. People aren't driving 1.5 hours to go to a game. The current distribution of games is fair: half at Gampel, half at XL. Plenty of other Big East schools do this as well.
If the state wants UConn to act as an economic driver for Hartford, it should lease the XL at rate that makes it economically desirable for the University to play there. What you’ve left out of your comment above is that it is prohibitively expensive to play at the XL center because the CDRA has no incentive to price it at market lease rates.
