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Message: [QUOTE="beerfan, post: 3163866, member: 604"] I decided to pony up the $25 to go to the Coach’s show in Hartford today hoping to get cheered up at a pep rally and to make me feel good about the continued money I sink into the program for donation and tickets – I wish I didn’t go - it was far from a pep rally. The attendance was not very good, I am guessing in the 50 to 75 people range. The good thing was access to the coaches. I actually rode in an elevator with Geno. The hockey coach, Danny and Randy were there only surrounded by a few people and you could have a lengthy conversation with any of them. Then the show started. A nice presentation of the new facilities being built, followed by a panel of the women’s soccer coach, the men’s hockey coach, Danny, Randy and Geno. The moderator started off with questions regarding kids coming into the program today being specialized one sport athletes and the first ½ hour plus turned into a bitching session by the coaches about how the kids aren’t as good as the used to be in the “old days” are not well rounded, ect, ect, their job is now harder, they are coaching but the kids don’t listen. Some other highlights, [LIST] [*]Randy at some point shrugged his shoulders and laughed – “I guess we can’t get any worse.” [*]Someone from the audience asked if any of the coaches reads the boneyard. Geno said he didn’t but people tell him what is said on there. He basically said those people are morons and have zero basketball intelligence. [/LIST] It ended with bitch session about the fair weather fan base. Hurley complained that he has a small window of games to invite recruits to. A recruit will go to a game in Syracuse against North Carolina with 30,000 in the Carrier Dome, he can’t then have them come here and see 5,000 in the stands against East Carolina. Geno then complained that he went on 90+ then a 100+ game winning streak, and attendance keeps going down. I left at that point. The few people in that room were the hard core fans buying tickets and donating money. We didn’t need to be lectured about how hard their job is because of today’s kids or the dwindling fan base, we get it the situation sucks. I was expecting a feel good pep rally. It would have been nice to hear how they are righting the ship, to make me feel better about being one of the fans who hasn’t abandoned the ship yet. From this show I got the feeling the coaches are not convinced it is going to get better any time soon. [/QUOTE]

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