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Message: [QUOTE="Guapo, post: 3044509, member: 8179"] Imagine thinking that UConn playing games in Hartford actively helps the athletic department, and the school, accomplish the mission of college sports; which is a) to win b) show off your school to potential students and c) to create a tangible bond to the school for alumni to drive future donations (and ticket sales). UConn is NOT Connecticut’s pro sports franchise. It’s mission is NOT to provide entertainment to the folks of greater Hartford or Fairfield County. If you ever wonder how schools that are clearly inferior to UConn get much larger donations and have much larger endowments; it’s because those schools understand how to cultivate those relationships with students and alumni. The way UConn runs it’s athletic department is simply a major symptom of a much larger disease which is, as an institution, UConn is literally decades (if not centuries) behind its peers in this regard. UConn approaches this stuff like its New Hampshire or Bridgewater State while viewing itself as though it’s Michigan. Meanwhile, we are forced to watch our beloved program play in a dump inside a bigger dump. UConn sports in Hartford is a Russian nesting doll of garbage. Below is a visual representation: [ATTACH=full]39801[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]