UConn Riles Football Donor, Lines Up Basketball Boosters

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Robert Burton, the University of Connecticut booster whose $2.5 million donation kick-started construction of the school's $50 million football complex in 2004, wants his money back and his family's name removed from the building. The Burton Family Football Complex opened in 2006.

In a letter sent to UConn athletic director Jeff Hathaway, as well as the school's incoming president and its board of trustees chair, Burton questioned Hathaway's job qualifications and expressed his frustration over the search to fill the Huskies' latest football coaching vacancy. Burton had asked Hathaway in January to keep him in the loop during the search and offered his insight regarding who might make a good fit for UConn. "For someone who has given over $7,000,000 to the football program/university, I do not feel as though these requests were asking for too much," Burton stated in the letter. "Your lack of response on either of these requests tells me you do not respect my point of view or value my opinion."

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