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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield_1st, post: 2488316, member: 3005"] I like AD Dave but will reserve my opinion of him until there's a little more data. But you are blaming him for things he did not do. Attendance in football and basketball is bad because of years of losing. For football that goes back to Warde & Co. And all the fan outreach won't do anything until the team starts winning. To expect RE to turn it around in year 1 would be unrealistic. As for MBB, the contract extension Ollie got was a done deal prior to AD David Benedict arriving, he just had to put his John Hancock on it. Once again the blame goes on Warde & Susan and whoever else approved that deal. What AD David Benedict has done as others have mentioned is to get the new stadiums moving. He hired a safe FB coach which is what we needed after years of BD & PP. He swayed Lashlee to come to UConn and that influence was evident in year 1. He'll need to replace the women's soccer coach at some point soon. It would be nice to see them return to some level of dominance. I've put out some of the positives. I think it's on you now to say what he has done wrong. Most of what you noted earlier were either opinions (like uninspiring hire of RE), existed before he got here (Attendance declining, supplemental tuition being high, contract extension for Ollie (WM) ) or had nothing to do with him (Losing CT money & XL Center). The only thing he's been involved in from your list is RE's son's hiring, which I believe they followed the proper procedure on. To call it an embarrassing battle is a stretch since nobody outside of CT cares and to this point there's been very little battling. [/QUOTE]

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