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[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by AremRed

Sure Calhoun brought in a lot of money to UCONN but did the taxpayers get any of that money back? Did UCONN take $12 million less taxpayer money because the basketball program covered that? Yeah, didn't think so.

I think his point was that the basketball program generated a lot more than what he was being paid and that extra revenue was turned back to the school...meaning the taxpayers weren't really paying his salary even though he was technically a state employee. In answer to your question...yes. UConn was probably taking less from the state (at least for the athletics dept.) due to the revenue generated by the mens basketball team.

Regarding MTD's original post...yeah, all those coaches are paid a lot more than other state employees...but from my observation, they are the hardest working state employees there are, regardless of what state we're talking about. Have you been to a DMV lately?