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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 3446634, member: 44"] What bugs me the most about the XL is how attempts to support it hurt UConn. [LIST] [*]Gampel was built small (8,500) so that it wouldn't complete with the Civic Center (and the New Haven Coliseum). [*]We are under building the hockey arena, in part because of XL. [*]Our Athletic Department subsidizes the XL by paying high leases while giving up parking and concession revenue. This makes the AD's financials look worse and the CDRA's financials look better. Think about that. XL is hemorrhaging money after UConn subsidizes it. [/LIST] Now the CDRA is asking for an additional $100M in improvements even though their own (notoriously optimistic) projections do not predict that it will show a profit after them. At some point you have stop dragging Bernie around because he's never coming back to life. [/QUOTE]