Of course football is a money maker but the football team left the AAC after 2019 to go independent. I dont know offhand what their original schedule was for 2020 but i'm SURE they were looking forward to the big paydays to have their teeth kicked in this season.
Regarding the kids on scholarship, i'm sure they redshirt this season. As for the ones who have used up their redshirt, i'm sure the NCAA will grant them an extra year. I guess those students should take advantage of another year of free room and board although according to Shabazz, they cant find any free food past 10pm.
I'm 99.9999% sure that Willie can fill in the details better than myself
Was the team making money or losing money? That should be the determining factor. The football team brought in $32 million in revenue (according to Wall Street Journal), but the school spent $44 million from its budget on the athletic program (money spent above revenue, according to USA Today).
Now lets see all the socialists at therxforum who believe in throwing as much money as possible at public education come ignore the wastefulness that is UConn athletics. They think the only things that should matter are the chances that the players will live or die. I bet they'll just say "What about the kids? What happens to them?".
Now lets see all the socialists at therxforum who believe in throwing as much money as possible at public education come ignore the wastefulness that is UConn athletics. They think the only things that should matter are the chances that the players will live or die. I bet they'll just say "What about the kids? What happens to them?".
UConn football is NOT Notre Dame football, nobody is recruiting us
Do I really need to say that?
and the basketball money drying up, until now that is, hoops money beginning to reverse itself
they don't even have me, haven't gone to a game in maybe 7 or 8 years (I am hoping to someday, they have to compete before I return)
I'm a Bama fan now
UConn football is hemorrhaging financially . Because of horrific performance on the field, season ticket sales were cut nearly in half, from like 35,000 to like 17,500. Even worse, donations disappeared
Then with men's basketball sucking for three consecutive years and zero interest in AAC rivalries, men's basketball donations and ticket sales plunged. I've been riding the wave on this one, and I have awesome seats for life now. (4th row, top of the key)
When old Big East rivals like Georgetown or Nova came to town, the games were good old fashion sellouts.
FWIW, Hurley started to reenergize the fan base with the way the team was playing down the stretch last year, and moving back into the Big East is a huge draw with ticket sales, donations & recruiting.
Just not enough to save football with this pandemic looming large over everything
FWIW Enfuego, I'm disappointed with their decision and I feel bad for everyone who committed to our program
Nobody wants us for football only, nobody
A lot of non P-5 conferences would love our basketball and baseball and soccer and field hockey
)), but nobody wants football onlySee...I'll make it easy and simple for you. Some scientists say if you wear a mask, it's a safe thing to do. Some scientists thinks the mask does nothing. So you make that decision yourself. UConn have made the decision to not play this season. Enfuego want to know why they are not playing. Uconn to Enfuego, go fvck yourself and run your own fvcking house while we run ours. Drive around!
The real reason they aren't playing is because they'll lose money. They aren't Notre Dame. The "safety of athletes" line is a cover and bullshit and we all know it.
BTW-My decisions in my house impact me and my family. UCONN's decisions impact thousands of people to include staff, athletes, alumni, students etc.
Comparing what I do in my house and what UCONN decides to do at their university is just, well, dumb. I don't expect different from you though. Your ability to critically think is lacking.
football revenue was 3.3M last year, expenses were nearly 17M ... even with "saving" this 14M loss the athletic dept is expecting a 25M loss. easier to blame covid than the failings of the AD, school, and lack of success of their programs. and they know the media will run with "uconn cancels football due to virus" and overlook the financials behind this
