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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 4731779, member: 1609"] I once read that Alabama football added a billion in tax revenue to the state . So that’s possibly AC huge aspect of being in as conference where a significant number of fans travel who have . disposable income .Plus more alumni throughout the country return for games and the state reaps the benefits.? The state gets in a substantial increase in tax revenue Increased air traffic at BDL . Car Rental, Hotels , Meals or zany most purchases ,, even game tickets are taxed by the stztec. Connecticut is a nice long weekend destination for a midwesterner particularly in the fall but a person coming. Later from a plains state could hit the slopes .. As someone who entertained a number of visitors from the Heartland taking them to the sound for a seafood dinner was almost mandatory. The thing with the northeast is you could come for a game iin Hartford , stay instate , go to Vermont , Boston , or Even NYC for a Broadway play in a long weekend . Doing something at a destination besides football never dawned on me until I was in Nashville when the Packer cheeseheads were in town spending money from the Opryland hotel and and shopping mall . to the lower Broadway Honkey Tonks . That’s a benefit no one talks about It also should have been part of a sales pitch . I wonder if the folks at Storrs even thought of it .? [/QUOTE]