Uconn spending $70 million on a hockey stadium after cutting Men's cross country for lack of budget

This makes me sick.

Sorry bro. Life isn't fair. Try crying on Reddit or Facebook

The sucks for sure but to be real hockey is probably a good investment where they may be nationally relevant... they really need to drop football and focus on hockey.

A quick google search shows UCONN has a nationally competitive hockey team.

Thant's why they get the money and you got the ax.

Alan

Runningart2004 wrote:

A quick google search shows UCONN has a nationally competitive hockey team.

Thant's why they get the money and you got the ax.

Alan

WRONG. It's only due to Title IX.

The athletic department is currently being sued by women's rowing for Title IX violations.

wackish wrote:

The sucks for sure but to be real hockey is probably a good investment where they may be nationally relevant... they really need to drop football and focus on hockey.

QUICK research but it looks like the overwhelming majority (all but 25) of athletic departments in the NCAA lose money every year.

Most D1 football teams don't even fund themselves. No way Hockey teams do (especially with a $70million arena to build).

But big sports (football, basketball, baseball, hockey) will always have loyal alumni donors.

It would be awesome if a ton of XC alumni (50) could come together and donate enough money to significantly help fund their program every year, while stipulating that the money was conditional to having runners receiving scholarships from the athletic dept.

I read the article. Yes it is $70M, but it is spread from several sources and is a requirement for the league it is in. Hockey can generate revenue for the athletic dept and that has to be a consideration.

$20M from a gift specifically for a hockey arena. Big chunk from bonds. Big chunk from the sale of a hotel that can only be used for capital projects.

Hockey is a sport . jogging is an activity

dumptruxk wrote:

Sorry bro. Life isn't fair. Try crying on Reddit or Facebook

You don’t think Letsrun is the place for a runner to cry on when a running program gets cut?

An outsider take:

Viewing athletics as a business or profit making venture at a university/college is the root of the dissidence here. Educational institutions should focus on developing excellence in all aspects of life including sports but the business management culture that has taken over the 'leadership' positions in all parts of society including higher education do not care about an abstract concept like 'excellence'. So, this is the regrettable situation we are all in and I don't see how to fix it without a revaluating of the role of higher education first and asking what we want from our colleges and universities. Until that happens the status quo is towards ever more business driven decisions that will destroy funding/interest in anything but the most lucrative sports/activities.

Sad but true.

Star wrote:

dumptruxk wrote:

Sorry bro. Life isn't fair. Try crying on Reddit or Facebook

You don’t think Letsrun is the place for a runner to cry on when a running program gets cut?

You must be new

Hockey is dope and running is boring. How many fights were in all of NCAA XC the last decade? There were six in the first five minutes of a nationally televised game tonight.

If runners start chuckin knucks on the reg, maybe they’ll get some funding.

PS - I’m a rich alum of another school and I’ve donated $0 to my team, and wouldn’t give a nickel to save the program if it’s on the block. I attribute zero percent of my success to running.

$70M is pennies in todays world.

In Los Angeles, the World Capitol of Track and Filed, prep, college, and pro sports, the Rams/Chargers stadium is $5B or $5000M, Clippers stadium is $2B or $2000M.

eddie shore wrote:

Hockey is dope and running is boring. How many fights were in all of NCAA XC the last decade? There were six in the first five minutes of a nationally televised game tonight.

If runners start chuckin knucks on the reg, maybe they’ll get some funding.

PS - I’m a rich alum of another school and I’ve donated $0 to my team, and wouldn’t give a nickel to save the program if it’s on the block. I attribute zero percent of my success to running.

You sound more like a douchebag

UConn is stupid enough to pay Randy Edsall over 1 million dollars per year so nothing surprises me.

Uhh hullo mcfly .... the Hockey program at UConn probably has a few rich alums that donate money for projects like this. Men's XC? Not so much.

where is UCONNfrosh? or whatever his name was

SleepyGRun wrote:

An outsider take:

Viewing athletics as a business or profit making venture at a university/college is the root of the dissidence here. Educational institutions should focus on developing excellence in all aspects of life including sports but the business management culture that has taken over the 'leadership' positions in all parts of society including higher education do not care about an abstract concept like 'excellence'. So, this is the regrettable situation we are all in and I don't see how to fix it without a revaluating of the role of higher education first and asking what we want from our colleges and universities. Until that happens the status quo is towards ever more business driven decisions that will destroy funding/interest in anything but the most lucrative sports/activities.

Sad but true.

Bro you just described capitalism.

This place will seat 2,500 and will replace their ancient 20-year-old arena that seats a mere 2,000. But there'll be more seatbacks! That alone is worth $70 mil.

I'm sure they'll now sell out every home game with those fancy seatbacks. Let's assume $20 a ticket, zero freebies, no student discount, 12 games a season... that's $600,000 a year. They'll have that bond paid off in no time.