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[QUOTE="CL82, post: 3702375, member: 44"]
The XL Center is a rundown out of the facility that still loses millions of dollars after charging UConn exorbitant rates to lease the facility.   Throwing more money down that hole really won’t change that.

The market has defined the need, and smaller more modern facilities make more sense.   We should use it for a few big-name appointments scheduled when school is out of session, but it is at the end of its useful life. UConn  should not make facilities decisions based upon the XL Center. It’s not gonna be around much longer. That’s why going small on the on-campus hockey arena is a bad decision, in my opinion. It does look like it can be expanded fairly easily though.

For what it’s worth, like most of us, I have a lot of great memories from the Civic Center and then the XL Center. Recently I really enjoyed watching UConn play hockey there.   It just makes zero sense for the state to keep dropping money into it, and it absolutely is not a benefit to Connecticut to play half its games a half hour from campus. I doubt that we would’ve built Rentschler Field if we weren’t already used to play in the Hartford.
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