Open practice on Sept 21 at Sacred Heart, Fairfield
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Women's Basketball Single Games | University of Connecticut
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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!
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.
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I believe that the men's open practice was $200
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.
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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.
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"?
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.
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Gentle correction. The article is not from CT Insider, which is part of the Hearst family of publications. It is from a website called Inside Investigator. The website describes itself as a " nonprofit newsroom created to inform the people of Connecticut through investigative journalism". It is also a self-described "project of [the] Yankee Institute" which is a Republican Party think tank. Not exactly a model of independent journalism.
Umm...yeah, many of their "articles" are just flat out trashy.
You are right, don’t know why I referenced CT Insider.
OK, but you cherry picked 1 factoid from that website. In addition to the $318M there's a whole bunch of other funding that UConn receives. The article leads off with 54% of the revenue that you quoted is from student tuition and fees. That means about $750 million come from other sources, some of which are listed, and some are not specifically identified. If $750M is the "low end of the scale" other universities must be tremendous money pits. UConn is big, but not huge. On a per student basis these numbers are staggering.
I have to believe the state of CT is capable of several sneaky and inventive ways of making a $318M appropriation into a larger number such as "buying" services, contracts, etc.
Finally, before you jump on it, some of the $750M is from housing, dining and the UConn foundation.
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Where is the option to purchase the Meet & Greet? I didn’t see it on the link when I got my tix this weekend. Thanks.
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Almost my entire professional career was working as a public employee - a variety of county government positions in WI & MI as well at the Universities of Maine and Wisconsin. Part of my job at the county level was preparing and managing budgets and as I am sure almost everyone on this board knows, governmental budgets are so incredibly complex that you can make something clearly red look like its black and vice versa if you are adept enough.
My love of sports has been diminishing over the past decade, driven in large part by the increasing greed and spiraling costs. My non-immediate family is fortunate to have season tickets for the Packers and even though Lambeau is an incredible venue to attend games, I am passing on my opportunity to go to a game this year.
My last bastion of sports enjoyment is UConn, particularly the women's teams, but I am now bothered by the rising cost to attend their games. (I admit it's a double edged sword specifically pertaining to WCBB and the WNBA - I am pleased that both are experiencing increasing public acceptance and popularity. It's unrealistic, I know, but I wish it could happen without the money side of things.)
I am fortunate that in retirement we are quite comfortable and can afford tickets and we do so now and then - took the entire family to see UConn at Minnesota and South Carolina the past couple of years. So even though I'm bothered by the cost, it's worth it for the family bonding and the delight of the granddaughters, especially knowing that my youngest kid can't afford this at her stage in life.
And that's my general concern - when I was growing up, sports and the ability to see events live were affordable to the great majority of the population. Working as a cab driver and substitute teacher in Boston I could still afford bleacher seats at Fenway when they were $1.50. Maybe I'm wrong but I think now going to live sporting events is increasingly only available to those who are reasonably well of financially. I think as a society we lose something because of this.
My love of sports has been diminishing over the past decade, driven in large part by the increasing greed and spiraling costs. My non-immediate family is fortunate to have season tickets for the Packers and even though Lambeau is an incredible venue to attend games, I am passing on my opportunity to go to a game this year.
My last bastion of sports enjoyment is UConn, particularly the women's teams, but I am now bothered by the rising cost to attend their games. (I admit it's a double edged sword specifically pertaining to WCBB and the WNBA - I am pleased that both are experiencing increasing public acceptance and popularity. It's unrealistic, I know, but I wish it could happen without the money side of things.)
I am fortunate that in retirement we are quite comfortable and can afford tickets and we do so now and then - took the entire family to see UConn at Minnesota and South Carolina the past couple of years. So even though I'm bothered by the cost, it's worth it for the family bonding and the delight of the granddaughters, especially knowing that my youngest kid can't afford this at her stage in life.
And that's my general concern - when I was growing up, sports and the ability to see events live were affordable to the great majority of the population. Working as a cab driver and substitute teacher in Boston I could still afford bleacher seats at Fenway when they were $1.50. Maybe I'm wrong but I think now going to live sporting events is increasingly only available to those who are reasonably well of financially. I think as a society we lose something because of this.
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When I purchased my open practice tickets a couple of days ago a message appeared on the screen saying that the meet and greet tickets were sold out.
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Can you show proof that the Yankee Institute is a Republican Party think tank. Is that simply your opinion, or is there some record of the Republican Party supporting it financially?
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You got me beat. Bleacher seats were already $2 when I moved to Boston in 1982!
The unaffordability of sporting events for the average family is definitely sad.
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A quick Google search for Yankee Institute funding shows the following: The Yankee Institute is also a member of the State Policy Network, which is connected to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). Some reports indicate that the Yankee Institute has received a substantial amount, over $3 million, in anonymous donations from Donor Capital Fund and DonorsTrust, which are entities partly funded by the Koch family. These donor funds have also reportedly supported other conservative organizations.
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Take a look at its board of directors, staff, fellows, and distinguished fellows.