Open practice on Sept 21 at Sacred Heart, Fairfield

[HuskyNan]

 

[HuskyNan]

Women's Basketball Single Games | University of Connecticut

uconnhuskies.evenue.net

 

[Skeets]

Does this, $30, strike you as just a little bit pricey for a practice? Or am I cheap? (Both can be true.)

I know that UConn needs to find $18+ million to pay the players but the recent money grabs are unsightly.

 

[Blakeon18]

I am SO naive. When I first saw Nan's post I thought this will be just great for families who don't
get to see our team in person due to ticket prices. Now...on a Sunday afternoon...take the whole family...kids
included.... psych up for the season...watch them play...hear Coach...maybe an autograph or picture?

I assumed it would be free. $30...yikes!

 

[gymrat100]

I am SO naive. When I first saw Nan's post I thought this will be just great for families who don't
get to see our team in person due to ticket prices. Now...on a Sunday afternoon...take the whole family...kids
included.... psych up for the season...watch them play...hear Coach...maybe an autograph or picture?

I assumed it would be free. $30...yikes!

If you want an autograph or picture there is a meet and greet additional ticket add on of $50 bringing the total of 80 dollars for the open practice.

 

[HuskyNan]

Selling tickets for events that other schools offer for free is nothing new. Decades ago, UConn was charging $22 a ticket for exhibition games - and they sold out.

 

[BIGMAC]

If you want an autograph or picture there is a meet and greet additional ticket add on of $50 bringing the total of 80 dollars for the open practice.

I believe that the men's open practice was $200

 

[angelo]

nice jerseys

 

[Skeets]

Selling tickets for events that other schools offer for free is nothing new. Decades ago, UConn was charging $22 a ticket for exhibition games - and they sold out.

I'm going out on a limb here and say it was mostly season ticket holders who had to buy the game(s) as part of the season ticket package.

 

[HuskyNan]

I'm going out on a limb here and say it was mostly season ticket holders who had to buy the game(s) as part of the season ticket package.

No, they were offered to the public after season ticket holders got theirs. I went to the exhibition games in Hartford

 

[Skeets]

No, they were offered to the public after season ticket holders got theirs. I went to the exhibition games in Hartford

Yep, pretty much why I said "mostly". Again, going out on a limb year here, I think there were years when Gampel was completely sold out with season ticket holders. So, any exhibition game at Gampel was part of the season ticket package. That's certainly true for men's exhibition games at Gampel.

I don't know why Lamont doesn't just cough up another $18+M. I read somewhere that UConn is the second most heavily subsidized (per student) state university in the U.S. Hey, my tax dollars at work. They'll get it out of me one way or another. Maybe tack it on to my electric bill like everything else.

 

[LIUCHusky]

Yep, pretty much why I said "mostly". Again, going out on a limb year here, I think there were years when Gampel was completely sold out with season ticket holders. So, any exhibition game at Gampel was part of the season ticket package. That's certainly true for men's exhibition games at Gampel.

I don't know why Lamont doesn't just cough up another $18+M. I read somewhere that UConn is the second most heavily subsidized (per student) state university in the U.S. Hey, my tax dollars at work. They'll get it out of me one way or another. Maybe tack it on to my electric bill like everything else.

I would love to see where you got that info. The state support for UConn has been on the lower end of the scale for years.

 

[Skeets]

I would love to see where you got that info. The state support for UConn has been on the lower end of the scale for years.

Try Inside Investigator:

"The University of Connecticut (UConn) received the second-highest state appropriations as a percentage of revenue for fiscal year 2023 across flagship universities in all 50 states."

Do you have a source for your "lower end of the scale"?

 

[LIUCHusky]

Try Inside Investigator:

"The University of Connecticut (UConn) received the second-highest state appropriations as a percentage of revenue for fiscal year 2023 across flagship universities in all 50 states."

Do you have a source for your "lower end of the scale"?

I googled fiscal year 2025 revenue sources-for The University of Connecticut. It indicated total revenue of 1.671 billion with the state providing 318 million of that. That is a long way from the 37% indicated in the CT insider article.