UConn going broke a cautionary tale for UCF, USF and other Group of 5 schools (Mike Bianchi Orlando Sentinel Commentary)

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Concessions: Still staffed by local Little League parents, CYO, and other well-intended fails?

 

[Chief00]

Chief’s right IMO — the AD department has to justify expenses and salaries and ward of calls to cut because of the deficit. If you are going to ask the program to make money, then don’t handicap them by not allowing the football team to generate any of that parking revenue at its football games. They are not getting enough revenue out of Games at rentschler or XL IMO.

Warde Manuel used to say —“ I am just a tennant” when issues about Rentschker arose. UConn is very limited in what it can do, sell, allow at the XL and the rent.

I think UConn should take over management of those buildings, especially the rent.

Agree, the first step to financial success is generally clear lines of financial accountability. Without it we have a CT government black hole and we all know how well that works.

 

[Chief00]

Not just parking. Concessions.

But think for a game, 7000 cars when sold out. Maybe more.


I’ll tell you what happened...They didn’t think UConn was qualified to run the arena.

That sounds like CDRA holding on to their bureaucratic fiefdoms. They are the same super managers that produced the NCAA tournament game that was only attended for the second half. So it’s real reassuring to know we kept that quality team.

 

[uconnbill]

Someone is getting a kickback or at the very least making some decent money on all of this and it isn't UConn.

No reason UConn shouldn't be in charge of The Rent parking and more.

The XL center is a different animal, but could use a different group running it.