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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3958813, member: 833"]
UConn would be a Top 50 school academically, maybe higher, if the main campus was in Hartford.  It would not have been that hard to do.  Start with moving the business program to Hartford.  Kids would do first two years in Storrs, then go to school in Hartford with dorms.  We would have attracted better professors and better students, and corporate recruiting would have been much, much better.  Then move education, followed by the sciences, and the school of liberal arts.  Leave Storrs open as a regional campus, ultimately combining it with Eastern.

They could have closed dorms in Storrs, and not build another structure out there.  Spend a little money to return some of the dorms that existed to their more natural state by tearing them down and carting them off.  Wipe out South Campus and Alumni, and probably Frats.  Then the -heads that call the Mansfield police every time a kid turns his stereo volume above 4 would be happy in their peace and quiet, in their 2500 sq. ft ranch worth $75,000.

Do you think Hartford residents would give a  if a bunch of kids were partying?  Heck, kids could be burning coaches on Albany Avenue after every basketball win for all the residents care.  The locals call that "a Tuesday".

The state could have done the whole thing in 10 years, and saved Hartford.
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