Recent content by ruskin

Since Martin was responsible for all sports, not just football, this seems like a Warde Manuel decision. Diaco might have had a say since strength & conditioning is football-centric, but it seems like if Auriemma, etc. had wanted Martin to stay that badly they would have created a separate S&C...

Except Burton was right. Charlie Strong has had very recent success and is a coach on the rise. Pretty much the antithesis of PP.

Wow. Guess ol' Red was pissed they couldn't get Saban. When you have a crapload of money like that I guess you don't have to worry about sounding racist. I think that card gets played too often, but this is one case where people might have a point if they call Red on it. Red sounds like the CT...

Here we go. . . . .why bother responding if that's the way you feel. This program just had a horrendous experience with over-the-hill coaches. I get that not everyone over 60 is the reincarnation of P/GDL (speaking of vampires) but Bill Snyder, Nick Saban, Don Brown etc. are the exception not...

Hope coach D knows what he's doing. Hope this isn't the OC hire. On the back nine of his career 63 years old (eyebrows raised). buffalo 83rd in total offense this year, 77nd last year. I do like the West Point background.

I don't underestimate the power of a vindictive corporation, but the chances of them pulling up stakes in Connecticut because the state leaned on them to help in CR, especially in the next five years, are pretty much zero.

Respectfully disagree. Noeyo. Think this is VERY related to CR discussion. 260 million reasons why ESPN should have been/needs to make sure UConn is taken care of in CR. I expect the "we can't be mean to them or they'll move" and the "we have no right to expect them to help UConn in CR" crowd...

28-17. Next.

Hope Warde is smart enough to tell Julie Hermann that if she doesn't do a football deal with UConn she and C. Vivian can forget about playing the 8-time national champions. Should be how Warde is playing this game.

depends on how you define begging. To me begging is a one-off one-away. If it's a 1-1-1 (Gillette plus a home-and-home) i don't think that's begging. I take it in two seconds.

Had to laugh when I saw the thread title. Similar comments after last year's draft when 5 guys got drafted from a 5-7 team that lost to Western Michigan & Temple. But, you know, cupboard bare, train wreck, etc etc.

Not going to get into the weeds on this but there are several very recent football schedule arrangements (Cincy-Michigan, for example) that were most definitely tied to hoop scheduling. We'll see if it applies here. You know Muffett wants to keep playing the women's hoop series. I hope Geno...

Will give WM benefit of the doubt on this one. Sunday they announced the ND-UConn hoop series is continuing. Between that and Diaco MAYBE there's a football tie-in. I hope so.

If RA takes RE's job would love to Diaco vs. Ambrose in some sort of bowl game.

It's Town-son, BTW