My only take on this, you can't be so cavalier about the jobs of thousands of tax paying citizens because of where UConn is in conference realignment. I know people who work there and have worked there in the past who were making comfortable 6 figure livings for their families. Those tax payers could give a rats you know what about what conference UConn sports play in, if it means putting their jobs at risk.
Are those dozens of imagined tax incentives to ongoing businesses? Are they to ongoing businesses who have cost the state of Connecticut taxpayers, literally, hundreds of millions of dollars? Because I can’t think of another one that meets that fact pattern. Perhaps you can?
So @noeynox doesn’t that logic mean that the state of Connecticut should incentivize every employer in the state of Connecticut? Because everyone of employees employees. If not, then, how do you decide which employers are the beneficiaries of statewide largesse? One criteria that would seem to make sense is are they good citizens of the state of Connecticut. If a business is, I don’t know checking out toxins into the Connecticut river, maybe that’s not a business we want to incentivize. Or, perhaps, it makes sense to say hey, cleaning up your operations is so important to us that we would look favorably upon future tax relief applications. If you did it. See how that works?
Yes. In terms of big tax breaks, go and look at what CT did to get Swiss Bank’s trading operations to Stamford. And they didn’t even stay,
Was that to draw the trading ops to Stamford or was it just to subsidize existing business because those are two very different things, right? Look at this way if you’ve got a business, that’s burning capital to maintain operations, that’s a problem and unsustainable over the long haul. But if they are using capital to establish or expand operations, that’s a more reasonable decision.
You are correct in your 2nd statement but that has nothing to do with ESPN and UConn sports.
That was to bring them into the state.
Whatever incentives they got, they got. But the next time they come, hat in hand to the state looking for additional money the state should certainly consider their actions as corporate citizens. Since that is a criteria, it certainly seems reasonable to make them aware of that. There are a lot of ways to do that that are not confrontational, and the vast majority of them would not be done in public. That could happen is simply as expressly, adding “corporate citizenship” to the evaluation criteria in making a public release stating that.
Then that’s reasonable, right? But that’s a different thing, then saying you have to pay existing employers to keep them in state. I don’t think you said this expressly, but that’s been the theme in this thread.
As I recall the ESPN deal, it was to expand the facilities, not just redo them. I know there are other CT companies that get paid to expand and stay, as opposed to build bigger in another state. It's all publicly available information.
Yeah, not really getting your point.
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It’s possible but becoming a member of the prestigious AAU would be a huge boost. I’m sensing big changes coming
Yes, we have a very large metro!!
The Big 12 looked to a 100 mile radius as a means to compare schools. I’ve posted it here before but we are something like 11M to 14M within 100 mile radius.
I too would like UConn in the AAU but membership involves a lot that is beyond UConn's control. Florida State is working to get into the AAU as well, as are many other universities. So far, UConn is not an academic research powerhouse though could become one.
Just curious, do you mean that you’re sensing that UConn will become a member of the AAU? What makes you sense big changes are coming, whether it be AAU or not?
That would be the hope. If Rutgers can go to big 10, anyone can.
UConn has a Carnegie R1 rating ranking it as a top research institution.
Not sensing AAU in the near future. I’m expecting major upheaval because the Big12, Pac12 & BE are all in for new TV contracts and the media dictates conference membership and changes. AD Dave Benedict had been recently quoted as he expects UConn to do what’s best for the school & Coach Mora has been telling recruits we’re moving up in football a conference. Just putting all the little pieces tells me change us coming for us. Most exciting tidbit is that the new Big12 commissioner is big on basketball so we may fit in there somehow as I’ve seen on Twitter. I love the BE but we’re talking huge money for the school. Go Huskies!!
I think we bring the New England market and secure NYC and fit the eastern footprint. Anything is possible with 3 major conferences in tv negotiations.
If Mora is telling recruits that UConn football will be moving into a conference then there must be something in the works. Only negative is paying the Big East for leaving.
And leaving a conference that is a better fit…right now we are selling out both venues… our fan base is excited every big east game… at least 3 schools are a bus ride a way…right now New York City is hopping.. with fans excitement though the roof …Hurley is out recruiting 99% of the schools…money is the only positive of moving out of the big east.. if we do… i hope it’s worth it
UConn doesn't fit in the current Big East institution-wise.
Well, that would be a pleasant surprise.
Yeah, I don’t disagree, but I think you have to define what “materially moving the needle” means. The big 10 gets something like it $75 million per school in media rights and BTN distributions. For a school to “materially move the needle” they would have to bring in enough money to cover their share, $75 million, plus enough money so that every other school is enriched enough to make inviting them, worthwhile. I don’t know what that number is, but it certainly is something north of $100 million a year. That is an extraordinarily difficult row to hoe.
Yes. Because college coaches never lie while recruiting kids.
