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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 4222237, member: 55"] Sometimes, something just happens historically and patterns get locked in for no one reason. That might have been the case here. But if you want nothing more than a WAG, UConn, for a number of historical reasons peculiar to the northeast, had less state support for the flagship university then many other states did. And the University was happy to play the Hartford game in the late 70s and early 80s to play games in front of legislators and get more support from downstate. And the University rode this arrangement to a much improved level of statewide support than it traditionally had. I’m not going to keep going on this. I’ve said my piece and folks can believe it or not and accept it or not. But one last time — the Governor appoints and removes the trustees at UConn and the Governor is the starting point for all state budget funding decisions. The thought that UConn is going to tell him “no” when he wants something is fantasy [/QUOTE]