You can't lay the Pasqualoni hire on her. Yes she had been "hired" by then BUT she didn't start in her title until June. At the end of the day there is 1 person who has signed off on these 2 hires, was involved in hiring her as president...and he ALSO had a hand in putting Phil Austin in the position as interim President when Hogan left for Illinois: Larry McHugh! Now it is well known that Hathaway was under SERIOUS heat from McHugh who wanted him fired...so to get himself in good graces he hired Pasqualoni and let him bring in DeLeone as OC..again to appease Larry. Let's all look back and ask this one simple question: What if Hathaway offered the job to Pasqualoni with the condition that he couldn't bring Deleone here as OC. What if he convinced him to keep Joe Moorehead as OC? We truly would have seen Joe's offense here because what he ran under Edsall wasn't even a shell of what he did at Akron or has done at Fordham and PSU. The search for Pasqualoni was a sham from the beginning. As soon as the CT HS Coaches wrote that letter, you know they also got in McHugh's ear. The minute that was done..it was P's job to turn down and everyone else's time to be wasted interviewing. I'd like to know this now...if Larry McHugh was so helpful passing info along from his old cronies why can't he set them straight on their failure?
I agree with you 100 % .
Larry McHugh is the one constant aside from Rachel Rubin that has been in her inner circle since she arrived on campus. He has also been the one who was directly involved in the hires of both AD's and both football coaches having been in on interviews with her when Manuel replaced Pasqualoni. To me he has over played his hand on the athletic side of things at UConn and instead of focusing on helping the school raise $$ for the endowment/athletics through his contacts has instead exerted his influence in athletic operations.
His term is almost up...I was talking to @Jarhead_1775 about this the other day....IMHO it's time to start a grass roots campaign to replace him on the BOT.
It's just sports that s&cks. LOL
I'm not quite as confident as you are that she'll fix the athletics situation, actually nothing I've seen on that front so far brings confidence in that area.
Oh then maybe you should clue him in to let all his cronies in the CT HS coaches Assoc know that their boy P and GDL got fired because they SUCKED! The fact that you like McHugh tells us all that we need to know about you. Thanks for playing now go back to the hoops board and spew your bulls**t.
Susan should call the state prison, they have a guy in their system that did more for UCONN than anyone, it's unfortunate that he got himself in so much trouble in other endeavors. His name is John Rowland.
Considering how you rate performances of UConn's upper echelon administrators this is no surprise.
Yet top notch professionals are what you complain about within our administration.
He's a moron who suddenly has insider info on the football program after his Boys Calhoun and Drummond left. He likes Larry McHugh..says it all right there!
Agree. Cronyism is not a good recipe for bold effective change in the thinking of an organization. Bringing outside directors onto a board can result in fresher, more innovative perspectives.
