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UConn bracing for ‘deep cuts’ to sports and academics

freescooter said:
Baseball and softball are priorities? Seriously? They play for the first 2 months in Florida and Arizona then in miserable conditions until the last 2 weeks of the year. Yeah we’ve had a little success in baseball but not that much in all seriousness. Softball has been dreadful forever. Baseball hasn't been to Omaha since the 1970s.

Plus we really shouldnt take the Big East as our model. Those are all modest sized regional private mostly Catholic schools. The only thing we have in common is basketball.

if it were up to me though I’d drop the whole department to D3 and sponsor more sports not fewer. Turn The basketball center into the student gym. Build statues to Geno and Calhoun and name some award after them.
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Yes, baseball has a long and storied amateur history in the northeast from Little League, American Legion, Cape Cod league and Sox and Yanks for pros. Baseball has plenty of relevance for a northeast university.
 
Oh I think baseball has had some successes:

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Stlh8L8ner said:
Charles Nagy was my guy.
Didn't UConn just build a new baseball stadium? Yeah...I don't think baseball is being cut.
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Poor planning is going to lead to things ever more dreadful. These administrators like to shell out the dough in good times on the principle of "Don't just stand there, do something," but they aren't planning for the long-term. And when leadership can't acknowledge its mistakes, it sends the bill down the road and begins to slash at the university's core.

It mazes me that we have epidemiologists, business schools, med centers, catastrophe planning experts at these universities, and yet we run them like there's never been an epidemic before, or a financial crisis.

If the decision is to not acknowledge the poor decisions, and instead hack away at the core mission, then they are leaving behind a much poorer place.
 
Cut some of the man’s and women’s basketball coaches salary and allocate it to football coaching pool.
 
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I said a long time ago we should have gone down to the minimum to save money. Here are the sports we should keep:

Men's: Baseball, basketball, football, golf, hockey, soccer, swimming and diving
Women's: Basketball, field hockey, hockey, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, volleyball
 
upstater said:
Poor planning is going to lead to things ever more dreadful. These administrators like to shell out the dough in good times on the principle of "Don't just stand there, do something," but they aren't planning for the long-term. And when leadership can't acknowledge its mistakes, it sends the bill down the road and begins to slash at the university's core.

It mazes me that we have epidemiologists, business schools, med centers, catastrophe planning experts at these universities, and yet we run them like there's never been an epidemic before, or a financial crisis.

If the decision is to not acknowledge the poor decisions, and instead hack away at the core mission, then they are leaving behind a much poorer place.
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Agreed and I feel like this is the state of Connecticut in general. I stopped watching the local news because it's too depressing but I'm waiting for the day when tolls in CT are absolutely necessary because of the financial impact of Covid when our braintrust has been trying to jam it through for years. We're told from a very young age to keep 2-3 months worth of bills saved up in case of emergency yet something like this happens and we hear "well we never saw this coming so we need to make some tough decisions".
 
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Did anyone see this article from Pat Forde today? Kind of harsh. I hope they're not cutting any sports. But as a mostly men's basketball fan I'm most concerned with that team.

Whatever the number of cut sports turns out to be, here’s what Benedict needs to say to the athletes he is kneecapping at an already traumatic time in their lives: “As a university, and an athletic department, we utterly failed. As the athletic director, I utterly failed. And so did the ADs who preceded me. And you young people are going to take the fall for it.”

Benedict and his predecessors, and everyone in a decison-making capacity at UConn, has perpetrated breathtaking administrative malpractice when it comes to football. They have screwed up in every way imaginable for damn near a decade. They have made terrible hires, agreed to preposterous contracts and frittered away what little cachet UConn football ever had.

www.si.com

UConn Has Only Itself to Blame for Sports Cuts

A series of mistakes around its football program over the last decade cost the Huskies four sports.
www.si.com www.si.com
 
HooperScooper said:
Did anyone see this article from Pat Forde today? Kind of harsh. I hope they're not cutting any sports. But as a mostly men's basketball fan I'm most concerned with that team.

Whatever the number of cut sports turns out to be, here’s what Benedict needs to say to the athletes he is kneecapping at an already traumatic time in their lives: “As a university, and an athletic department, we utterly failed. As the athletic director, I utterly failed. And so did the ADs who preceded me. And you young people are going to take the fall for it.”

Benedict and his predecessors, and everyone in a decison-making capacity at UConn, has perpetrated breathtaking administrative malpractice when it comes to football. They have screwed up in every way imaginable for damn near a decade. They have made terrible hires, agreed to preposterous contracts and frittered away what little cachet UConn football ever had.

www.si.com

UConn Has Only Itself to Blame for Sports Cuts

A series of mistakes around its football program over the last decade cost the Huskies four sports.
www.si.com www.si.com
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Pat Forde needs to take his head out of his butt and realize that this is going to happen all across the country (though I agree with the premise about bad leadership--but that is the case everywhere). The Presidents, BOTs, ADs, etc., have spent a lot of money and they haven't put any of it away just in case. It is malpractice. UConn is far from the only school where this is happening. U Michigan and several other schools are talking about losses of half a billion. Just wait.
 
HooperScooper said:
Did anyone see this article from Pat Forde today? Kind of harsh.
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ouch. the BE can't be happy that we're cutting sports they actually sponsor in order to try and save one of the worst football programs in history. i'd be pissed if i were Val.
 
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bendm said:
ouch. the BE can't be happy that we're cutting sports they actually sponsor in order to try and save one of the worst football programs in history. i'd be pissed if i were Val.
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Lol does anyone in the Big East sponsor 24 sports.
 
CL82 said:
Lol does anyone in the Big East sponsor 24 sports.
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that's not the point. if we have to cut sports the BE would obviously rather we cut sports they dont sponsor i.e. football and hockey, which dont contribute anything to the conference. but to answer your question i think georgetown and nova both sponsor 24
 
bendm said:
that's not the point. if we have to cut sports the BE would obviously rather we cut sports they dont sponsor i.e. football and hockey, which dont contribute anything to the conference. but to answer your question i think georgetown and nova both sponsor 24
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I haven’t checked but that would surprise me. UConn moving closer to the national average is a sensible position.
 
CL82 said:
UConn moving closer to the national average is a sensible position.
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i'm not arguing against that. but for the third time, I am arguing that from the conference's perspective, cutting sports they sponsor in favor of sports they don't, is not sensible.
 
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bendm said:
ouch. the BE can't be happy that we're cutting sports they actually sponsor in order to try and save one of the worst football programs in history. i'd be pissed if i were Val.
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The Big East schools will be lucky to stay open after this.

No conference will be complaining about the actions schools will soon be taking.

I'm afraid we joined a conference with some schools that won't even exist in 15 years.
 
bendm said:
i'm not arguing against that. but for the third time, I am arguing that from the conference's perspective, cutting sports they sponsor in favor of sports they don't, is not sensible.
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The biggest understands that we played Division I football. They have placed no obligation to terminate that. Let’s see what UConn decides to cut before we imagined the biggest taking offense to it.
 
upstater said:
The Big East schools will be lucky to stay open after this.

No conference will be complaining about the actions schools will soon be taking.

I'm afraid we joined a conference with some schools that won't even exist in 15 years.
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Back fill St John’s and Seton Hall with Cincy and Temple.
 
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Dooooooomed said:
Brown Bear football is 5-25 over the last 3 seasons. Absolutley incomprehensible that they're sacrificing track for that dumpster fire.

Waiting on their SI article.
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Cripes... they’ll still have 29!
 
Dooooooomed said:
Brown Bear football is 5-25 over the last 3 seasons. Absolutley incomprehensible that they're sacrificing track for that dumpster fire.

Waiting on their SI article.
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perhaps if their football team wasnt associated with their conference in any way, shape, or form, they would just cut it rather than compounding its problems and sacrificing other sports for it
 
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bendm said:
perhaps if their football team wasnt associated with their conference in any way, shape, or form, they would just cut it rather than compounding its problems and sacrificing other sports for it
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last I saw their budget was $8m for sports. They’re fine
 
Our problem is the budget of some sports more than the number of sports. We gambled and lost in the idea of a big commitment to football would result in a P-5 birth. And that concept went way beyond football and beyond athletics.
i think it would be gone deaf to not realize it is time for some serious belt tightening.
 
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