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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 4420512, member: 1023"]
I mean, you do know that UConn’s annual budget is over $3 billion  right?  $1.7 billion for Storrs and regional campuses and $1.6 for the medical campus.  The athletic department budget is under $100 million.  people sometimes lose sight of the big picture.  And it is fun to write about how the AD loses money.  But the idea that athletics is a moneymaker is relatively new.  And we have some “structural” problems too.  For example, we don’t own two major facilities.  Rentschler Field and the XL.  So we pay rent to use those for football, basketball and hockey.  Essentially UConn athletics subsidizes the XL Center/Downtown Hartford to the tune of $1.2 millionper year roughly ($40,500 per basketball game x 10 each mens and womens plus 20,500/hockey game x 20 games). Plus 20,000/game in expenses.  To some extent it is an accounting thing.  It isn’t like Gampel is free but it isn’t a direct cost or if you do pay it is to yourself.  Kind of like paying tuition for scholarship players.  But it makes the numbers look worse without crediting the benefit to Hartford of having 40 events downtown.  Gonna take lots of monster truck rallies to replace that.
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