UConn fans were on Ray Reid's case long before Benedict became athletic director at UConn. Reid did win a men's soccer national championship at UConn many years ago, but UConn fans have been critical of Reid for a number of reasons, including what many thought were a bunch of early exits from the NCAA tourney when it was thought that UConn had superior talent to the the opponents they were facing in the tourney. Ray Reid did have a long consecutive run of making the NCAA tournament, making the tourney every year from 1998 up to and including 2013. Those days seem to be long gone, as UConn has only made the NCAA tourney twice since then, in 2015 and 2018. UConn used to be considered one of the big powers in NCAA men's soccer, and as stated before, has long been one of the consistent attendance leaders in men's soccer for many, many years. Only making the NCAA tourney twice from 2014 onward pretty much shows the recent decline in UConn men's soccer in recent years under Ray Reid. Winning a national championship will buy any coach some good will, but Reid seems to have used his up some time ago. I suspect having had a big part in getting the new soccer facility built will also buy Reid some time (as in allowing him perhaps a year or two to coach UConn in the new facility). Still, at this point it is looking like Ray Reid's best years and teams are well in the past, sorry to say.
