Source: The Hartford CourantBy PAUL DOYLE pdoyle@courant.com;
and KATHY MEGAN kmegan@courant.com
Greenwich businessman Robert G. Burton, one of the biggest donors to the UConn football program, is demanding a refund.
Burton sent a six-page letter to athletic director Jeff Hathaway asking for a return of his $3 million donation while instructing the school to remove his family name from the football program's on-campus facility. Burton is upset he was not part of the hiring process for a new coach, after asking Hathaway to keep him involved in the search during a Jan. 3 conversation.
...snip..."To be crystal clear, I was not looking for veto power over the next hire; I just wanted to be kept in the loop and add value and comments on any prospective candidates," Burton wrote. "This is the same process that Lew Perkins had with me when Randy Edsall was hired in December of 1998. You did not call me and ask for information on Pasqualoni or talk to my son Joe, who started as an offensive lineman at Syracuse from 1997-2001. Instead you listened to others."
...snip...He also wrote that he will take "eight actions" effective immediately, including the cancellation of his $50,000-a-year suite at Rentschler Field. Burton also said he will not pay $8,000 for the inside cover of the program and will transfer all of the football scholarship dollars to the Business School — a donation that has been as high as $1.5 million, he wrote.
He also wrote that he is pulling his $20,000 a year donation to the summer head coaching clinic. And after the school returns his $3 million, Burton wrote that UConn "can take our name off the Complex."
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And here's a link to the complete letter that this dude wrote:
http://blogs.rep-am.com/time_out/files/2011/01/burton-letter.pdf
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