Some Guy: UConn close to signing Hurley

[fatlucy]

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I fairly certain you have not donated more than state taxpayers have paid - and the UConn Senate University Budget Committee (SUBC) says as much.
https://senate.uconn.edu/wp-content...Senate-UBC-Report-on-AD-Subsidy-to-Senate.pdf

On the whole the UConn athletic department is now heavily subsidized. If your aren't familiar with public budgeting terminology, in this case "subsidy" means State appropriations to UConn. ANd for the record, this doesn't even account for capital expenditure (like the Gample roof).

- Between 2005 and 2017, expenditures for the AD grew 70% from $47 million to $80 million.
- During this same period, despite numerous high-profile achievements in women’s and men’s basketball, earned revenues increased by less than 10%.
- Fairly stagnant revenues meant that most (83%) of the $33 million increase in the Athletics budget has been subsidized by UConn; an additional $8.3 million comes from mandatory student fees.
- The subsidy has increased by a factor of almost nine from $3.5 million in 2005 to an estimated $31 million in 2017.
- The extent to which the AD budget is subsidized grew from 7.3% in 2005 to 38.6% in 2017.

- Only one of UConn’s sports teams—men’s basketball—receives sufficient direct revenues to cover its costs.
- Despite the outstanding achievements made by the women’s basketball team during the period of analysis, the low revenues for women’s sports compared to men’s, resulted in the team being subsidized.
- UConn’s football team was the team with the largest deficit in absolute dollar terms, requiring a subsidy of $7.5 million for 2014.​

So UCONN men’s basketball pays for itself. Again, S T F U and go away. We couldn’t care less about your rantings or your opinion.

 

[BaZZnBOAT]

See? Even this guy doesn’t know.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Seriously. What actual new information has actually come out? We knew roughly what we offered, we knew roughly what Pitt would offer, and we were the leaders. Now, suddenly, just because time has passed, we're doomed?

Nothing. This was probably the best possible day for me to be unable to check the boneyard. I missed nothing but you people watching a pot boil...slowly.

 

[Kemba15]

lol thanks Chris...very useful tweet

 

[MattMang23]

My gut feeling is, like any good businessman, Hurley heard our pitch earlier yesterday. He took the offer to Pitt last night and told them give him something today. They did. He's taking their offer back to us and giving us last right to match. URI is already out of it. That's how I'm reading this.

 

[BaZZnBOAT]

Frank Martin can't recruit to save his life. It'll only get worse in the AAC. Hurley recruits well to the A-10 and has nowhere to go but up

Am I missing something on PJ Dozier and Thornwell? Let’s be real, South Carolina and KState are not easy places to recruit to regardless of conference.

 

[AntG168]

My gut feeling is, like any good businessman, Hurley heard our pitch earlier yesterday. He took the offer to Pitt last night and told them give him something today. They did. He's taking their offer back to us and giving us last right to match. URI is already out of it. That's how I'm reading this.

I hope not. We can’t match 3.5 million. Can we?

 

[Robertelamin]

Someone start the Oats thread.

 

[metsfan2323]

Does it?

13 NCAA tournament victories vs 1.

 

[ZenConn]

This thread can't die. We haven't had an obligatory "Are you Hurleys mom?" response yet with all of these insider takes.

 

[JMick]

I don't buy this narrative. It has been reported multiple places that UConn made their pitch and offer on Monday and have felt good about it the whole way. They aren't idiots; they knew Pitt would come swinging with ACC money. They knew that going in. Maybe we lose him but i don't think we got "blindsided" here

I don't care if we lose him because Pitt offers $4mm. I do care if we thought he was a sure thing at $2.5

 

[the Q]

The only thing sillier than this that I can remember was the 3-4 days it took for the Red Sox to trade for Adrian Gonzalez. Twitter/Red Sox internet land was a mess.

TheMark Texeira sweepstakes was something else too.

This one is up there.

If twitter existed the arod trade stuff in 03-04 would’ve been a blast

 

[MattMang23]

I hope not. We can’t match 3.5 million. Can we?

Doesn't have to be a "match" per se. I used the wrong word. But close enough where it meets his expectations of fair compensation for a job he's been eyeing.

 

[Robertelamin]

If twitter existed the arod trade stuff in 03-04 would’ve been a blast

That would have been amazing.

 

[AntG168]

Did Pitt make this offer yesterday before all of the done deal to UConn talk. Or did they up it after the UConn talk?(I know no one can answer this question. Just thinking out loud)

 

[CL82]

Who knows? The people who responded to his poll, that's who:
Chris Mueller (@ChrisMuellerPGH) | Twitter
This time tomorrow evening, Dan Hurley will be the coach of:

18%Rhode Island
26%Pitt
56%UConn

 

[Dibbie]

To quote another boneyarder....booooo

 

[uchusky32]

Did Pitt make this offer yesterday before all of the done deal to UConn talk. Or did they up it after the UConn talk?

They made it 20 minutes ago?

 

[mauconnfan]

Don't give the guy 3.5 million he's done nothing to warrant that number. I'm not even cool with 3M find another coach of impact who will be happy going from 650K to 2.2M and let him work some magic. Kevin Ollie won a NC and deserved that number at that time, well not the extension. Nonetheless 3.5 too much for Danny Hurley not a good move even though it's not my money.

 

[UConnNick]

We definitely have the best pizza thread...and the best pizza.

Yes, our pizza blows Rhode Island's out of the water, and I don't think they even know what pizza is in Pittsburgh. They're still wolfing down Roethlis-burgers.

 

[buddy]

Quite frankly, UConn does not lose to Pitt. Don't get sucked into the click bait. Let it play out.

UConn lost to Pitt in conference realignment. Have you forgotten?

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

There is literally no indication which school he will pick, but BY gonna BY.

Eh, kick rocks.

 

[JMick]

Did Pitt make this offer yesterday before all of the done deal to UConn talk. Or did they up it after the UConn talk?(I know no one can answer this question. Just thinking out loud)

We offered, Pitt offered, we countered, looked good, Pitt countered with big bucks. That's the story I'm getting

 

[intlzncster]

I don't care if we lose him because Pitt offers $4mm. I do care if we thought he was a sure thing at $2.5

Yup. 4m UCONN can't do. Just the way it is. But if we sat back satisfied we had it, then we are the complete fools we've shown ourselves to be.

 

[uconnphil2016]

god that was LOL

Picturing Chief writing a brief from prison does make me LOL. I imagine it would look something like this...