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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 2369523, member: 250"] CT budgetary issues have Jacobs eyeing the XL Center's future. [URL='http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-huskies/hc-jacobs-column-uconn-xl-1008-20171007-column.html']Jeff Jacobs: XL Center Questions Dog Huskies, State[/URL] "The Republicans' adopted budget — one Gov. [URL='http://www.courant.com/topic/politics-government/government/dannel-malloy-PEPLT00007625-topic.html']Dannel P. Malloy[/URL] vetoed — cuts $1.2 million from the CRDA operating budget. This move would slash deeply into money used to close the gap of $1 million to $2 million in annual XL Center losses. CRDA officials have said the cuts could threaten the XL Center's ability to keep its doors open. The $115 million for the XL Center bonding over the next two years in the Democrats' proposed budget also was wiped to zero in the adopted budget. Malloy had asked for $125 million as part of a major $250 million renovation that the CRDA believes would make the building profitable. Those UConn games you figured on taking your kids to in 2022? Maybe they're all in Storrs." ******** "We certainly hope the CRDA is successful with XL and we play in both locations," Benedict said. "We're both in difficult situations. We also have a perfectly good facility on campus that we could move our basketball teams to if something happened. We understand lots of fans enjoy coming to [URL='http://www.courant.com/topic/connecticut/hartford-CNT0011-topic.html']Hartford[/URL]. But we'll have to see how things work out." Me? I'm with David Jorgensen of the CRDA who said a city without an arena, frankly, is a joke. Yet I wonder if folks have forgotten how much UConn's athletic success meant to the state, to Hartford, to the university. I wonder how much folks are willing to give to keep our sons and daughters in state. Drop the puck, bounce the ball, yeah, I wonder where this ends. [/QUOTE]

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