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What is the Point?

The donors need to step up as well. The school can't fix this in a vacuum.

Nice that donations for athletics went from $14.4M in 2019 to $26.4M in 2020, but places like Wisconsin have annual contributions to their overall foundation that are larger than our entire foundation. ($373M in 2020 and our entire foundation is $476M).

That being said - we don't need a fortune - just need to be able to spend $5-7M a year on coaches and that will fix a lot. We are already spending the rest of the money and have the facilities.

UCONN only has 18K donors, and there are more than 18K students. That's why we are behind. We know we aren't ever going to get the TV money that some other schools are going to get. If we don't fund the program ourselves, then who will?
 
The two biggest reasons that outweigh everything else is that as a “major” public institution we have to play football. Not doing so would basically move us to small time. Just look to what has grown Uconn to the point it is today. Largely It was basketball success. That fueled a lot of what happened for the school. That “intangible” asset can not be measured in dollars. The current world and its emphasis on football driving the bus makes football critical.

Second is there is the possibility of actually making money on football if we start winning again. We will never generate the revenues that Alabama does but there is enough to make it a moneymaker on an annual basis.

I pray we get the right coach and can get moving in correct direction. I love this school and our sports teams but this program is slowly draining the life out of me.
 
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Fairfield 1st said:
Honest question…. Why should we remain committed to FBS football? We are uncompetitive, under resourced, and poorly led. What’s the point? I was a season ticket holder until the kids got in the way and I wish we could succeed… but it’s not working. Why continue when there is nothing institutionally to suggest this could ever be turned around.
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I feel your pain roomie, but we have to stay the path. There's a lot going on with being FBS football. Being part of it, and hopefully successful with the next hire, adds to the prestige of the university. You are who you associate with and we want to associate with the large land grant research schools.
I believe in AD David Benedict and that he will make the right hire for us. Keeping the BOT, CT coaches, and large influential donors out of the process is step 1.
I think we could sort of be New England's team. Bring in teams folks want to see and play an exciting and competitive brand of football and let's see where it goes. Competitive with the occasional upset would be great. I'm disappointed in the level of play Saturday, but I'm willing to give them a bit of a pass based on the coaching upheaval due to Covid, though I won't give them a pass for the apparent lack of effort at times. I have seen signs with this team (Jackson Mitchell, Tyler P, Nate Carter, and Keelan Marion to name a few) and am super excited to see who the new coach and staff is, much like my anticipation for the Hurley hire.
Let's go get some Pepe's!
 
As bad as the publicity has been around the program (and bad being bad not bad meaning scandal) - there is an intrinsic value of having a program v. not having a program or having an FCS program. And the marketing value is worth something. Ultimately the school is getting paid for what constitutes advertising for the university.

If you want to scrap football completely? I could understand that. But moving to FCS just gives you most of the expenses without any of the upside.
 
Fairfield 1st said:
Honest question…. Why should we remain committed to FBS football? We are uncompetitive, under resourced, and poorly led. What’s the point? I was a season ticket holder until the kids got in the way and I wish we could succeed… but it’s not working. Why continue when there is nothing institutionally to suggest this could ever be turned around.
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Sorry, but I am going to disagree. When I heard UConn was going to upgrade, I thought we couldn't be competitive and I was AGAINST IT! When The Rent opened and we played Indiana, I was there. I went to a few games and saw that they were competitive. We beat ND, Baylor and other P5 teams. We had a coach who got players in the NFL.

After, we played in a New Year's Bowl game - the Fiesta Bowl against OKLAHOMA - the coach left and the moronic AD hired a coach Connecticut High School coaches wanted, instead of a coach who would keep UConn competitive, we failed. We can be competitive again and I'm sure AD DB will hit a Home Run in his hire.
 
History Geek said:
Do you want to know what rock bottom is? When your star point guard gets expelled for bringing a gun into Ted's during his senior season, that's rock bottom. Calhoun raised basketball from THAT floor.
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Kelly wasn’t actually kicked off the team until the year after this incident…for failing a class, according to this article. No gun involved as far as I can tell.
www.upi.com

Earl Kelley, kicked off the University of Connecticut basketball... - UPI Archives

Earl Kelley, kicked off the University of Connecticut basketball team last week for failing a class, is receiving passing grades from the NBA, according to...
www.upi.com www.upi.com
 
Rugger36 said:
Kelly wasn’t actually kicked off the team until the year after this incident…for failing a class, according to this article. No gun involved as far as I can tell.
www.upi.com

Earl Kelley, kicked off the University of Connecticut basketball... - UPI Archives

Earl Kelley, kicked off the University of Connecticut basketball team last week for failing a class, is receiving passing grades from the NBA, according to...
www.upi.com www.upi.com
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Fair enough. The idea of the gun probably was part of the rumors that swirled around campus at the time. Still obviously really bad.
 
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