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Message: [QUOTE="Hoophound, post: 2540025, member: 271"] Basketball at UConn isn’t football. It is the franchise. They have to pay a basketball coach and I think they will. They’ll pay and they’ll get their money back by doing it. Again, basketball is the the golden goose. The whole athletic department was built on the shoulders of Jim Calhoun and men’s basketball. The powers that be are well aware that you have to pay to get someone who can carry even a decent fraction of that load. That’s why KO got paid big. He recruited well and won the title. They looked at that and said, “this guy can do it, better lock him up”. I’m pretty sure they will look at saving men’s basketball as a mandatory expense. Of course, I still think they may look at getting a serious basketball mind to join KO on the bench as they evaluate all of this. KO has a lot to offer and between KO and Chill recruiting hard (assuming KO is recruiting hard again) and a solid basketball tactician in the mix, they might be able to figure this out. They really need someone that has done more with less at the college level to get them through times where they lack NBA talent or when they simply have one hole in a lineup and need to compensate for it. That’s when traditional, old fashioned basketball chops count the most. [/QUOTE]