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Not what I said. She was never a president of a football school. She was on the academic side.
According to your logic, unless a university hires a president who has (or had) been president of a football school, there is no chance that said person can comprehend the benefits of a successful, major football program. Brilliant!
Believe it or not with very few exceptions, school presidents are on the academic side and for the entirety of their careers, building to becoming president of an academic institution, held jobs that were entirely academic.
Yes, there is the need for a monumental change in culture if we are to become something substantial in major college football. That change however is not needed in the the persons of President Herbst who has worked at Georgia, Georgia Tech and Northwestern where she was able to see first hand the benefits an academic institution can receive from a competitive, high profile football program, or AD Manuel, whose alma mater broke the ground on a large state school becoming a major national institute due to football prowess.
The change in culture is needed within the state of Connecticut, its politicians and residents along with much of our alumni base and fan base. We have fans on both the men's and women's boards who have continually griped (even when we were pretty good) about the football program and we now have a thread on the men's board (I seldom visit the women's board) claiming that we've never should have attempted to field a major football program as we are a basketball and soccer school.
I have very little doubt that SH & WM are more than willing to make sweeping changes, beyond what most of us can comprehend, to set the football program in the right direction. The question is, will they receive sufficient support, from state politicians, citizens and those within the university to put these changes in place.
