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UConn could announce plans to cut some sports at Wednesday's Board of Trustees meeting...

That’s just bookkeeping, you say? Well, then it also means UConn’s subsidy is closer to $20 million, not the $40 million figure some national sportswriters are all-too eager to write about.
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Borges just doesn't understand this. It's not in-state tuition. It's not out-of-state tuition. The real money is the expenditure per student. The reimbursement would only even out if the AD reimbursed the school for the actual expenditure, not the in-state or out-of-state tuition. But it's a common mistake that people make.
 
buddy said:
And this is a concern? I don't care if he wore coveralls, carried a rifle to the meetings and was chewing on a toothpick if he could save UConn athletics.
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Nah, not a concern. I just hate the look. It's part of my schtick.
 
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>>Despite a relatively quick turnaround of a few weeks, alumni have managed to collect substantial pledge sums so far. Track and field alumni corralled nearly $1.6 million in pledges. Men’s golf has around $270,000 committed for the upcoming year and nearly $900,000 across the next five years, while tennis is up to $300,000.<<
 
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>>Despite a relatively quick turnaround of a few weeks, alumni have managed to collect substantial pledge sums so far. Track and field alumni corralled nearly $1.6 million in pledges. Men’s golf has around $270,000 committed for the upcoming year and nearly $900,000 across the next five years, while tennis is up to $300,000.<<
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Been seeing a lot of Track commits up on Instagram. Seems like full steam ahead and that makes me happy.
 
Jimdish255 said:
Been seeing a lot of Track commits up on Instagram. Seems like full steam ahead and that makes me happy.
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Yea... swimming was conspicuously absent from that story this morning.
 
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Interesting to see what happens to the Golf team. I know a few of the former players personally who are involved with the fundraising efforts, which was run on the local news in CT recently. I know those alums were working very hard to infuse some funds into the program to hopefully keep it afloat.
 
Mens Swiming. Gone
Mens Tennis. Gone
Mens Cross Country. Gone
Womens Rowing. Gone.

UConn athletics will never see another dime from me. Luckily, the move to the Big East makes basketball road games very accessible. Its not like you have to pay for football tickets. And I've got friends with hockey tickets.
 
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dvegas said:
Mens Swiming. Gone
Mens Tennis. Gone
Mens Cross Country. Gone
Womens Rowing. Gone.

UConn athletics will never see another dime from me. Luckily, the move to the Big East makes basketball road games very accessible. Its not like you have to pay for football tickets. And I've got friends with hockey tickets.
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You plan on attending hockey, football and basketball games whilst making your line in the sand about not giving $? Maybe support the sports you are upset about losing versus trying to punish the school yet still getting every benefit that interests you?
It sucks that sports are getting cut and real student athletes are losing out.
 
uchuskies2009 said:
Interesting to see what happens to the Golf team. I know a few of the former players personally who are involved with the fundraising efforts, which was run on the local news in CT recently. I know those alums were working very hard to infuse some funds into the program to hopefully keep it afloat.
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I am one of those alums. Would be very sad indeed if that program goes under. We weren't that good when I was there, but they have made tremendous strides since. Would be a shame to see that progress stymied.
 
Dogdeacon said:
You plan on attending hockey, football and basketball games whilst making your line in the sand about not giving $? Maybe support the sports you are upset about losing versus trying to punish the school yet still getting every benefit that interests you?
It sucks that sports are getting cut and real student athletes are losing out.
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I am still a huge UConn fan. I will support the Huskies in every way except financially. I swam at UConn from 1981-1985 (no aid, the men's team had a total of 1.5 scholarships back then). Enough $$ was raised to save the program. Since Women's swimming was spared, its even more for a big F* U, because they share a coach, pool and most travel. The men had 5.87 scholarships to +/-10 for the women. And with the move to the Big East, they would have competed for that championship immediately. I think this is more about optics than anything else. And you never hear about swimmers being arrested for stealing computers or running from the po-po on scooters. Good luck Coach Maiello and women’s swimming.

PS I mentioned UConn athletics being cut off. The UConn Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies will be the financial beneficiary of this terrible terrible move by Benedict and the Board of Trustees.
 
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I think the cuts are reasonable, all things considered.

The Cross Country guys on scholarship shouldn’t be terribly affected because they’re part of T&F anyway. Losing out on the competition/travel in Fall is a bummer but overall this is about as good of an outcome as you could get for Track given the circumstances
 
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dvegas said:
I am still a huge UConn fan. I will support the Huskies in every way except financially. I swam at UConn from 1981-1985 (no aid, the men's team had a total of 1.5 scholarships back then). Enough $$ was raised to save the program. Since Women's swimming was spared, its even more for a big F* U, because they share a coach, pool and most travel. The men had 5.87 scholarships to +/-10 for the women. And with the move to the Big East, they would have competed for that championship immediately. I think this is more about optics than anything else. And you never hear about swimmers being arrested for stealing computers or running from the po-po on scooters. Good luck Coach Maiello and women’s swimming.

PS I mentioned UConn athletics being cut off. The UConn Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies will be the financial beneficiary of this terrible terrible move by Benedict and the Board of Trustees.
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That's awesome that you swam for UConn - still a swimmer? I just swam this AM for 2nd time in 6 months, very slow but no better way to get back in shape. Ugly low 26 strokes/minute in open water that I need to double. I was at UConn 83-87 so maybe crossed paths.

Not sure why they picked on men's swimming, maybe as you say an easier target without that many athletes or supporters but then of course that's like swatting a knat amidst a murder hornet swarm. Can the swim team morph into a 'club'? I recall that's all that either rugby or lacross or both were back in the 80's.

The biggest costs sports are still too much of a controversy & reboot MO to go after right now and cutting those would result in massive corresponding cuts to even out # of athletes.

This happens to a lot of alumni though, I have a friend that wrestled at BC and he's forever been disgusted at the way they run their programs and treat their alumnus.

No need for the 10+yr old potshot or even recent ones. We had plenty of fun back at UConn in the day and if the campus police were as active as nowadays there'd have been 100 arrests per week on the roads back to campus from Hooligans, Rapp's and 'Talk of the Town' .
 
Given the size of the AD deficit, I have to think that this is only round 1.
 
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