The gist of the article is fine -- never should have hired PP and need to get rid of him. But there are just several factual problems for me to take the writer seriously... this guy sometimes has some good tweets, but this is garbage.
When head coach Randy Edsall announced after the game his intention to flee UConn for Maryland, it was shocking, but not wholly upsetting.
I'm pretty sure most fans were not only irate about the way he left, but also thought that at the time (prior to conference realignment and with just going to the BCS) that a move to Maryland was lateral at best. It would be one thing to take the job at ND, Alabama, etc, but Maryland, WTF... yes, it was upsetting.
The football program’s chief donor, Robert Burton, was so upset by the hiring (and his input being ignored) that he threatened to pull support for UConn’s new football practice facility. That facility bears his name today.
I'm pretty sure that the building bore his name back then too, which lead's to this:
Think about that for a moment. Paul Pasqualoni’s arrival at UConn cost an Athletic Director his job, and almost sabotaged the creation of a university building. All before he coached a game.
The building (the Burton/Shenkman) had already been built and in-use long prior to PP's arrival.
As we enter the final year of Paul Pasqualoni’s three-year contract, it is amazing how far UConn has fallen.
Three year contract? This was actually the 2nd reference to PP's contract only being three years. I'm pretty sure last I checked PP has a 5 year deal.
Sorry guys, A Dime Back is probably getting some misplaced anger from me, but he needs to "get some facts." There's some irony there, right?
