Adding insult to injury

SPORTING GOODS

Not only did the Huskies get crushed, but

The University of Connecticut lost $1,663,560 in its Bowl Championship Series game loss to Oklahoma on Jan.1, according to Mike Enright, associate athletic director for communications. The Huskies, like other Division I-A schools, had to file a report to the NCAA by March 1. The document shows that UConn was required to purchase $3,349,835 worth of tickets but realized only $676,248 from ticket sales. So the school was out $2,673,587 on ticket sales alone.

I said months ago that I hoped the Huskies would go to Miami for its BCS game. It doesn't surprise me a whit that UConn "sold [only] 4,600 tickets, including 2,771 to the general public and the rest for the university's obligations."

Miami in January would obviously have been a much better venue for any of a number of reasons.