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Message: [QUOTE="Dooley, post: 2897946, member: 2920"] This news is beyond embarrassing. UConn continues to display a very special level of ineptitude in all venue design/construction projects. Here's the recap of UConn sports venues in my lifetime: 1. built Gampel waaaaaaaaaay too small and way too cheap for two elite powerhouse hoops programs. Inevitable expansion limited based on design. Zero luxury box seating; 2. continues to enter into non-profitable lease agreements with the state and/or city of Hartford to play games at the dinosaur XL Center; 3. cut corners and capacity at Rentschler Field that is often cited as a reason for not being accepted into a P5 conference...when attendance was 40K, failed to expand/renovate off campus stadium to meet P5 preferences; 4. on-campus football facility donor asked to have name removed from complex after Pasqualoni hire; 5. took 3 decades of national championships to convince leadership to construct on-campus basketball facility, which (of course) had to be private funded. Lost several top prospects until built; 6. announces private fund raising campaign to renovate/expand soccer, baseball, and hockey facilities - 3 sports that won't get us any closer to getting out of AAC and becoming a self-sustaining AD; 7. will spend $45M to build the smallest facility in Hockey East and will only play there a handful of times a year against the worst opponents on the schedule in front of a couple dozen students; 8. city of Hartford/state of CT continues to fumble through yet another XL Center "renovate or build new" study while putting $0 into bringing the building into the 21st century...hurts recruiting. Just horrendous leadership and vision. [/QUOTE]

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