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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 3704236, member: 44"] [LIST] [*]No full-time department employees have been laid off. Any staff reductions of union members would have to be negotiated between the university and its various unions. Athletic director David Benedict has no say in such decisions, though he admits if athletics employees weren’t unionized, UConn would likely be on that same list along with Memphis, Vanderbilt and others. [*]Some full-time employees have taken pay reductions in the form of furloughs. It has already been announced that Benedict would take a voluntary, 15-percent pay cut and will not take any cash bonuses, and he will take additional reductions, as well. (High-paid coaches like Dan Hurley, Geno Auriemma and Randy Edsall are members of the American Association of University Professors union and are covered by their collective bargaining agreement). [*]It’s not abundantly clear how much UConn was helped or hurt, financially, by not having a football season. “There was some loss in revenues, and some loss in expenses,” Benedict said. “In this case, I don’t think that’s going to significantly impact things. There are offsets there, on both sides. There’s not a significant impact.” [*]Any type of Big East bubble would more likely occur around mid-January, when residential students begin returning to campuses for spring semester. UConn’s spring semester begins on Jan. 19. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]