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Message: [QUOTE="SonsOfNutmeg, post: 2978230, member: 3876"] Houston has one thing UConn doesn’t - not facilities, not market-size, not talent pool. A big-time donor in Tillman Freitta (owns 600+ Landry’s Restaurants, Golden Nugget casinos, and the Houston Rockets. The guy paid to have their on-campus arena rebuilt and named after him. He’s got huge influence in Houston and on that campus and has the fat checkbook to boot! We simply don’t have the kind of passionate big money donors that it takes to pull in a hire like this. We have corporate money, sponsorships - yes. But what we lack is a prominate figure in CT standing up and saying enough is enough with UConn Football mediocrity and putting up dollars to buy our way out of this mess we’re in. [/QUOTE]