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Where is Gov. Malloy when UConn needs help in realignment?

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huskymedic said:
Letter dated July 12th? Was it embargoed till today (break glass if needed) or did they just find it. Strange timing IMO
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Probably just did it quietly without the need to blast it in public or all over twitter like the desperate folks (Houston, ECU). Perhaps Malloy did the same thing.
 
LoyalFanCT said:
Before discounting the importance of Obama et. al., just remember where most grants come from -- the federal government. No university -- especially the ones that do a lot of research -- wants to disregard a friendly call from a current, former or future president or their high-placed representative.
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Presidential candidates, and congress may sometimes push for more research in a particular field or a big project like the human genome or the precision medicine initiative or the cancer moonshot. Sometimes politicians will put out a press release about a particular study in social science, say, something about teen pregnancy rates and sex ed and prophylactics, and then use that as a sound byte for social conservatives. They might do earmarks for their home district (I think they got rid of earmarks though obviously there are other huge issues). But politicians do not get involved in the awarding of grants to this university or that.
 
junglehusky said:
Presidential candidates, and congress may sometimes push for more research in a particular field or a big project like the human genome or the precision medicine initiative or the cancer moonshot. Sometimes politicians will put out a press release about a particular study in social science, say, something about teen pregnancy rates and sex ed and prophylactics, and then use that as a sound byte for social conservatives. They might do earmarks for their home district (I think they got rid of earmarks though obviously there are other huge issues). But politicians do not get involved in the awarding of grants to this university or that.
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Oh really. Here is one example from The Courant last year: Saying Connecticut has shouldered "more of the cuts than other states," U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy has urged the head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to restore funding for cancer and other disease research at Yale University and other institutions.

Murphy Pushes NIH To Increase Research Funding To State
 
I'm a Green/Democrat... and I will say that we do not want Malloy in the middle of this for reasons of perception, reminding them that we are 'blue' or because he will f-it up. Let's keep this about economics because there is no political play here for us; we just need to point out the value we bring relative to the other candidates and subtley remind the non-TX schools how to much more power UT gets if they take UH as part of a +2.
 
LoyalFanCT said:
Oh really. Here is one example from The Courant last year: Saying Connecticut has shouldered "more of the cuts than other states," U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy has urged the head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to restore funding for cancer and other disease research at Yale University and other institutions.

Murphy Pushes NIH To Increase Research Funding To State
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Which is not the same thing as urging the NIH to remove funding for, say, UT-Austin.
 
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WestHartHusk said:
I'm a Green/Democrat... and I will say that we do not want Malloy in the middle of this for reasons of perception, reminding them that we are 'blue' or because he will f-it up. Let's keep this about economics because there is no political play here for us; we just need to point out the value we bring relative to the other candidates and subtley remind the non-TX schools how to much more power UT gets if they take UH as part of a +2.
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The political play is you make it clear to ESPN they put UConn in a P5 or there will be a new revenue enhancement on sports network ad revenue to help maintain UConn athletics which will be about the 2x the cost to ESPN as UConn moving to the Big12. It's time we started playing hard ball with folks that have undermined this state's flagship school. I would make it clear that there are plenty of creative ways to not make it worth their while. If Connecticut is good for anything it's that it has mastered the game of bleeding people dry through taxes, courtesy of 25 years of blue state mismanagement.
 
Butch said:
I am noticing pitchforks...

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Except he's not running for re-election and may not make it through this term. He's angling to be Hillary's transportation secretary.
 
MattMang23 said:
Except he's not running for re-election and may not make it through this term. He's angling to be Hillary's transportation secretary.
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What is his woefully unqualified budget director/bitch boy Ben Barnes gonna do then?
 
FDNY99 said:
What is his woefully unqualified budget director/bitch boy Ben Barnes gonna do then?
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Be the woefully unqualified budget director for the next governor, duh!
 
I would sooner ask my representative to the Pyithu Hluttaw (Myanmar House of Representatives) in Nay Pyi Taw to help than the sad sack governor of Connecticut. (Note that this is not a political comment, just a personal one concerning my opinion of His Excellency.) I trust that things are working out as well as can be given the UConn administration's quiet dedication to the task (I hope.)
 
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ESPN doesn't have a strong incentive to support us (or any AAC team) to the B12 because it already owns the content. Why pay more for the same thing?

Threatening punitive special taxes against ESPN isn't going to help anything.

Instead, get ESPN to question their assumption that UConn would stick around and earn money for them in the AAC. Any excuse is fine - state budget, whatever. If ESPN thinks we might do something rash like bolt to FOX and the Big East if the B12 train leaves without us, that changes the $ calculus for them.

We are worth more to them in the B12 than on FOX. Sell them on that being the choice. Also mention that the climate for business incentives is better with UConn in a P5 conference. If UConn is left behind, future state support for ESPN could become politically problematic.
 
huskymedic said:
Letter dated July 12th? Was it embargoed till today (break glass if needed) or did they just find it. Strange timing IMO
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If it was in the past couple days, it would certainly not be consistent with the reports of Cincy being invited already. The fact that it's 3 weeks ago leads to conclude otherwise. It's interesting as Kasich and Gee are very tight from his days at Osu where Kasich is from. It might be a cya move from Kasich for his southern ohio support.
 
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