"Our athletic standing is not where it was when we were in school," said Solomon, from New Jersey, who graduated in 2014 earned his master's in Digital Media and Design in 2015 and works in advertising for Verizon. "A lot of things you see on the internet is people complaining about attendance, 'the reason nobody is there is the teams we're playing.' So we wanted to not only have youth experience games they might not experience otherwise, but the way we're getting donations, the money is going into the athletic department funding. [UConn] is not just donating tickets, we're sourcing the donations. So it's a win, win, win. There are bodies in the seats, there is money going into the athletic department and we're helping out the local community, too.