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Message: [QUOTE="fatlucy, post: 2624106, member: 6189"] Yes, its taxpayer money but paying market rate isn't overpaying. Your cap of $1.5m is well under market rate and dooms us to mediocrity forever, at best. Just b/c we're a state school doesn't mean we don't may market rate. We have to make it attractive. The money we pay for elite level basketball pays for itself by giving CT as sense of unity and one hell of a lot of positive publicity which is something we sorely need. Otherwise we're just a small suburban state no one cares about where people live who work in NY. Oh, and we're also known as the state that's perpetually broke b/c the unions (who are trying to bleed us for Ollie's unearned buyout Ollie) bleed us for every penny we can hope to make. [/QUOTE]