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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 3051346, member: 652"]
Let’s see with the travel costs going from the American to the Big East what happens.
Women’s basketball lost 3.1 million and men’s basketball lost 5 million.
Hurley makes 2.75 million and Auriemma makes 1.5 million.
The UConn women’s program generates revenue.

The comparison in this discussion to Soccer is not close.
The men’s national team for soccer generates x10 the revenue the women’s team generates.

The American TV contract is not that high and 80% of that TV revenue comes from football and not men’s basketball. SNY was paying UConn money to broadcast their women’s games. Thus that program was bringing revenue to pay Auriemma and his staff.

Auriemma salary isn’t the same as Hurley. When the UConn women have been more successful. Under this soccer argument how is that possible.

This call for equal pay ignores the fact the women’s soccer team gets a higher percentage of their pie than the men’s team gets.
The fact is the men’s pie is a heck of a lot bigger.
If the men’s and women’s soccer teams brought in the same revenue the women would get more money from the USSF because the women’s team is more successful.
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