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I know it's an old article, but Berry Tramel is clueless when it comes to UConn. How can a legitimate reporter be so uninformed?
1) "If the Big 12 expands with Power Five programs, like the Four Corner schools or any Pac-12 school, then the television contract is prorated and every school is still going to get paid the same amount. That is not the truth for anyone from outside of the Power Five. "
FACT: The Baylor AD, who is the spokesperson for Yormark, said that a G5 school (we all know it's UConn) could get pro-rata.
2) "Connecticut football is nothing like Cincinnati, Houston, BYU, or UCF. Nothing like it. Those four schools, without Power Five resources, have built themselves up, have found a way to generate money to mostly keep up in facilitates, to be very competitive, and to make a national brand for themselves. Connecticut has not. The facilities are waning, the support is non-existent, and the brand is nothing. There is nothing to get excited about for Connecticut football".
FACT: We have a P5 Football Facility, hired a known coach, and went to a bowl game last year.
3) "Connecticut gets about a $50 million dollar subsidy from the university at-large and the AD said all it takes is for one president to not want to do that anymore and then they're $50 million in the hole and you're stuck with them. What do you do?"
FACT: We have a deficit because we don't get P5 money and ARE investing in our facilities and athletic programs.
Berry Tramel is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts.
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