Jim Calhoun in spat with political activist / reporter after game

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I just watched the video and I think it was cool he was wearing the autism puzzle piece on his suit coat, I think its awesome when coaches so support for causes in little ways like that.  Ozzie wears some of that stuff too during post game chats every so often.

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For what it's worth, Pat Forde came up with some numbers in today's column:

Here are the facts as the U.S. Department of Education sees them, per an annual financial report submitted by UConn assistant athletic director Maureen O'Connor: The men's basketball program generated $7.3 million in revenues in 2007-08. It spent $6.1 million.

One UConn source said those numbers don't tell the whole story. The source said men's basketball is conservatively responsible for an additional $4 million in corporate marketing revenue and $4.5 million in donations to the school's booster organization, the UConn Club. That gets closer to a net profit of $12 million, but not all the way there.

(and then goes on to alternately praise and damn Calhoun)

I think Czabe also speculated on Bob & Brian this morning that the $12 mil was the combined direct revenue of the UConn men's & women's basketball teams.