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I thought Memorial Stadium was going to be made into a soccer stadium. It doesn't look like in the map.
 
Yea, Mr. Wonderful, I know the quote which you are referring to and you are just "misremembering."

All Calhoun said is that the facility shouldn't be fully reliant on the NBA guys and that he would call them when we are getting closer.
 
CL82 said:
I thought Memorial Stadium was going to be made into a soccer stadium. It doesn't look like in the map.
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memorial has always been the site for the basketball facility. what is surprising to me is the relocation of the softball field.
 
Calhoun said he will not personally ask the players to contribute. He said this in a recent article and it was talked about on the boards. To my knowledge he never said he will not accept money. He will not call them, but if they call him it could be a different story.
 
Sportsman5 said:
Calhoun said he will not personally ask the players to contribute. He said this in a recent article and it was talked about on the boards. To my knowledge he never said he will not accept money. He will not call them, but if they call him it could be a different story.
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in that case, whom does he think would call them? A university president whom they have never met? Fund-raising at that level is all about relationships. The largest contributors to the Melo Center were all former players and/or friends of Jim Boeheim. There was not a single big contributor who is not a friend of JB's. That is how the big gifts are raised by non-profits. It is all about who makes the ask ..... and what the relationship is between the asker and the askee. (I am on several non-profit boards and formerly headed a large foundation, so I speak from some experience in the field).
 
Couldn't find a direct quote from Calhoun, but I have one here from Ray Allen, and it is a sentiment that Calhoun may share:
Of course, raising money for a facility may be difficult in a tough economic climate. Allen leads a list of former Huskies in the NBA earning millions, but he doesn't believe the program's alumni should be targeted for money.
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"I believe there's other ways," Allen said. "Financially, the burden doesn't have to come on the players that are in the NBA. If you look at the football program, I don't know how many guys gave back to the football program and they were able to build the [practice] facilities. You look at it from the women's side, [professional players] don't make a great deal of money, but they still deserve [a facility] and they bring prestige to the university. All those things are worth their weight in dollars. We can find a way to get people to donate to the school so we can build it."
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cto44 said:
in that case, whom does he think would call them? A university president whom they have never met? Fund-raising at that level is all about relationships. The largest contributors to the Melo Center were all former players and/or friends of Jim Boeheim. There was not a single big contributor who is not a friend of JB's. That is how the big gifts are raised by non-profits. It is all about who makes the ask ..... and what the relationship is between the asker and the askee. (I am on several non-profit boards and formerly headed a large foundation, so I speak from some experience in the field).
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UConn recently hired someone who's specialty is fundraising. The link is below. Other than that I'm not sure. Calhoun is pretty stubborn about things like this. Maybe with the two highest paid players in UConn history back on campus a lot this fall it will inspire them to contribute back to the school. Ray Allen has made the most and with Rudy Gay recently signing a 5 year $82 million contract he is number 2 I believe.

http://www.theday.com/article/20110518/NWS12/110519654/1047/rss01
 
Sportsman5 said:
UConn recently hired someone who's specialty is fundraising. The link is below. Other than that I'm not sure. Calhoun is pretty stubborn about things like this. Maybe with the two highest paid players in UConn history back on campus a lot this fall it will inspire them to contribute back to the school. Ray Allen has made the most and with Rudy Gay recently signing a 5 year $82 million contract he is number 2 I believe.

http://www.theday.com/article/20110518/NWS12/110519654/1047/rss01
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According to basketball-reference.com:
Ray has made $168,037,360
RIP has made $85,666,043
Donyell has made $72,417,867
Cliff made $61,579,625
Butler has made $53,125,677
Oak has made $49,059,104
Gordon has made $42,917,019
Charlie has made $24,581,810
Gay has made $24,117,597
Travis made $22,622,500
Ollie made $20,131,418 (amazing he made less than Travis)
Jake made $12,321,407

Total for double digit guys is $636,574,430

Nobody else has cracked double digits in NBA revenue. I'm pretty sure Khalid has made double digits overseas.

You have to figure you can get a few bucks out of that group. I'm in the camp where it's unreasonable to expect them to or think they have an obigation to donate, but considering their character, relationship with the coach and they way they think of UConn as family, I would think most would break out the checkbook when the school comes calling.
 
Just for comparison, Carmello has earned $75,489,227
 
If all else fails, maybe Drummond will donate money. 10 years from now he may have made more than any of them. If he pans out, his endorsements + salary should be $200 million or more by the time he's 30. Maybe he can name it after Mike Bradley as pay back :)
 
WOW! That is a very discouraging statement by Ray Allen. Pretty sad really when you look at the sum of those salaries. No wonder nothing is happening there with that indifferent mindset.
Kind of disturbing to me, I can't imagine how that makes the average UConn fan feel.
 
Sportsman5 said:
If all else fails, maybe Drummond will donate money. 10 years from now he may have made more than any of them. If he pans out, his endorsements + salary should be $200 million or more by the time he's 30. Maybe he can name it after Mike Bradley as pay back :)
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Now that would be cool! The Bradley Sacrifice Facility
 
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jleves said:
Just for comparison, Carmello has earned $75,489,227
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Carmelo made his gift five years ago... after only a few years in the NBA. He had made a lot less money by then.
 
cto44 said:
Carmelo made his gift five years ago... after only a few years in the NBA. He had made a lot less money by then.
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True that he made less NBA money, but he probably had much higher endorsements than any UConn player ever. He was worth a lot more even in his first few years.
 
jleves said:
True that he made less NBA money, but he probably had much higher endorsements than any UConn player ever. He was worth a lot more even in his first few years.
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The fact -- and my only point -- was that his gift (made after he was asked by JB) of $3 million got the ball rolling for the practice facility. Once he made it, other folks (including some other former players) then followed.
 
Exactly. One of that astoundingly large list of multi-multi-millionaires steps up, and back up the truck.
 
Not to be a cynic or anything, but Carmelo also had a reputation to repair, where to my knowledge, Ray does not. Didn't all of Carmelo's benevolence come after that idiotic "snitch" fiasco?
 
k9fanatic said:
Not to be a cynic or anything, but Carmelo also had a reputation to repair, where to my knowledge, Ray does not. Didn't all of Carmelo's benevolence come after that idiotic "snitch" fiasco?
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Carmelo's gift, pure and simple, was to show his appreciation for what Syracuse and Jim Boeheim had meant to him. (I don't want to get into an endless back-and-forth here. I am somewhat of an insider at Syracuse basketball -- and a friend of Carmelo's -- so you will have to trust me as to his motivation).
 
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cto44 said:
Carmelo's gift, pure and simple, was to show his appreciation for what Syracuse and Jim Boeheim had meant to him. (I don't want to get into an endless back-and-forth here. I am somewhat of an insider at Syracuse basketball -- and a friend of Carmelo's -- so you will have to trust me as to his motivation).
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Agree Joyce. End of the day Camelo made the choice to give back to Syracuse. Whether or not anyone else decides to give back to their universities is their choice.
 
Bottom line: whatever the reason Syracuse alums got it done -UConn's have not!
 
I pulled this from the uMess site. They are getting a basketball only facility. Their facilities are not that great to begin with as the Mullins Center is used by hockey too. But still, they have an 11 million dollar gift which will be matched and ground breaking in the spring:

"UMass" magazine reports that an anonymous alum has made a gift of $11 million for a hoops-only training facility for men and women basketball players. This is half of the cost. Construction will begin near the Mullins Center in the spring.

The donor, identified only as having earned a masters from Isenberg, says "If UMass is going to compete on the national level, it has to have national caliber facilities." We are the only A-14 campus without a dedicated basketball facility.

The building will include practice courts, strength and conditioning facilities, locker rooms, and offices for coaches, team meetings and sports medicine.
 
Come UCONN Basketball Alums. Step up and give back to the community which gave you your chance at greatness.
 
CTEagle said:
WOW! That is a very discouraging statement by Ray Allen. Pretty sad really when you look at the sum of those salaries. No wonder nothing is happening there with that indifferent mindset.
Kind of disturbing to me, I can't imagine how that makes the average UConn fan feel.
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Well, first of all The average UConn fan feels quite good after it's 3rd NC in the past 12 years. And those feelings of a BC fan???
Seriously, nobody knows why no UConn hoops alum hasn't made any contributions. It's very possible that Calhoun discouraged them to do so, simply because Jeff Hathaway didn't make fundraising a priority.The project was going nowhere. It's one of the reasons Hathaway was fired. When a permanent AD is choosen, fundraising will be one of his strengths. We'll then see how the NBA players rise to the occassion.
 
Yonick said:
Well, first of all The average UConn fan feels quite good after it's 3rd NC in the past 12 years. And those feelings of a BC fan???
Seriously, nobody knows why no UConn hoops alum hasn't made any contributions. It's very possible that Calhoun discouraged them to do so, simply because Jeff Hathaway didn't make fundraising a priority.The project was going nowhere. It's one of the reasons Hathaway was fired. When a permanent AD is choosen, fundraising will be one of his strengths. We'll then see how the NBA players rise to the occassion.
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When you're school's program (BC) has been totally obliterated by a school down the road, I guess a good way to spend your time is taking potshots at the other school's message board. BC has never been relevant in basketball. And they sure as heck don't need anything other than a barn for their basketball games. Just make sure there are enough haybales for their 250 fans to sit on, and they're OK.
 
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Hopefully UConn gets between 1-2 million from the exit fees of Pitt, 'Cuse and WVU. we know that Cuse and Pitt will be 5 million each and if WVU wants out before 2014 they will probably negotiate well over twice that figure. If I were UConn that would be seed money for the hoops facility.
 
Mr. Wonderful said:
Jim Calhoun has publicly stated he refuses to accept any donations for the practice facility from his former players. It's his position that the fans should have to foot the bill.
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Maybe JC didn't actually want the facility built while Hathaway was AD. He may not have wanted to put a feather in Hathaway's cap.
 
I believe JC said he did not think the UCONN NBA players had a responsibility to contribute. I also believe he mentioned to a member of my family at one point in the past that he was "not a fan of asking them for money". I do believe any money offered would be excepted.
 
jleves said:
According to basketball-reference.com:
Ray has made $168,037,360
RIP has made $85,666,043
Donyell has made $72,417,867
Cliff made $61,579,625
Butler has made $53,125,677
Oak has made $49,059,104
Gordon has made $42,917,019
Charlie has made $24,581,810
Gay has made $24,117,597
Travis made $22,622,500
Ollie made $20,131,418 (amazing he made less than Travis)
Jake made $12,321,407

Total for double digit guys is $636,574,430

Nobody else has cracked double digits in NBA revenue. I'm pretty sure Khalid has made double digits overseas.

You have to figure you can get a few bucks out of that group. I'm in the camp where it's unreasonable to expect them to or think they have an obigation to donate, but considering their character, relationship with the coach and they way they think of UConn as family, I would think most would break out the checkbook when the school comes calling.
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How much do they need for the facility? It would seem they should be able to get 4 million out of that group without Calhoun having to pick up a phone.
 
Ray's comments and some others I've read give me a distinct impression that this is about football envy. Who gives a damn if football players gave back? Though for the record, Burton is the father of a former football captain, so I think you could argue that they did their part. And Harry Gampel didn't play basketball yet he made a major contribution, I think which Ray and everybody else benefitted from, no? Nobody is saying Allen or anyone else has to do what Anthony did at Syracuse. That would be nice, sure, but just be leaders of the effort and make reasonable contributions. Sheesh.
 
CTEagle said:
WOW! That is a very discouraging statement by Ray Allen. Pretty sad really when you look at the sum of those salaries. No wonder nothing is happening there with that indifferent mindset.
Kind of disturbing to me, I can't imagine how that makes the average UConn fan feel.
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Why is it discouraging or disturbing? Ray doesn't feel obligated to give. Even if he wants to give back to UConn, why should it be for a basketball facility? All those NBA salaries and NCAA championships have come without a practice facility.

I would be great if Allen wanted to donate $2MM for a facility. I don't expect him to or feel he is obligated to. He has already contributed more to UConn than UConn has contributed to him, and both parties are better off for his time at UConn regardless of whether he chooses to make an additional donation.
 
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