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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 5025497, member: 44"] Well, Connecticut pays 2.7 million a year to lease the Rent, so eliminating that is a starting point for a potential financial benefit. If you add to that lost revenue from not being able to realize profits from parking in concessions I'll make a guest that's another 800,000 a season, roughly. So that would be about 3.5 million a year. Now, I'm not arguing in favor of abandoning the rent and immediately building a new stadium, I'm just responding to your "literally no benefit" comment. Keep in mind that potentially the benefit could be significantly higher if we actually had a competitive football team. Let me restate a point that I frequently make, and made above, right now we are blessed to have Rentschler Field and I'm not advocating that we've abandon it. But 10 years from now the Barnes will be paid off and the building will have reached the end of its useful life and we will be faced with a decision of "massive" reinvestment, or rebuilding. at that point in time it makes sense to weigh the choice of reinvesting in the Rent versus building on campus. [/QUOTE]