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Message: [QUOTE="UConnJim, post: 4934392, member: 1559"] I agree that they didn't spend enough on football, but I disagree with your analysis. UConn's media revenues declined when they went to the AAC and so did revenues for tickets from football, basketball, and women's basketball. Thus, the AD deficit went up. And, the AD was flailing in the AAC even though football spending was still higher than basketball spending due to the poor football coaching hires. Ollie ended up not working out and there was the large financial settlement with him and they hied Hurley. When it became apparent that Hurley was successful, they dramatically boosted his salary. Between the Ollie payment and the payment for success, the basketball spending ballooned at the same time that men's basketball revenues increased. When UConn moved to the Big East, virtually all media revenues and NCAA money came from men's basketball so it made sense to invest in basketball. Football revenues have been static and so has investment. The only way for football investment to go up would be for sponsors and donors to increase investment and the AD has to get moving on that. Many people seem to forget that in the late 2000s, more people attended UConn football games than either men's or women's basketball games. And, the tension that was felt between basketball supporters and football supporters centered around the facility upgrades for the 2 programs. Basketball supporters felt that UConn needed a state of the art practice facility, but the focus of the AD had been on building the football facilities. That changed after the football practice facility was completed and then the basketball practice facility was built. [/QUOTE]

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