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Message: [QUOTE="Penfield, post: 2557704, member: 231"] Am I crazy? I sent the quote to my brother and his response was: "I mean, what has Benedict done that is really positive?" Me: "IDK he fired Bob Diaco" Him: "Well any AD would have done that" Me: "So he doesn't get credit for it?" Him: "UConn athletics does appear to be in a downward spiral and I can't say the guy in charge has really done anything to stop it" Me: "OK well if they fire him to hire Jim Penders then we are a joke" Him: "Why is that a joke?" Benedict didn't create this mess, and I don't think he has been given the opportunity to really fix it either. The one knock against him is the Ollie extension, which was only bad in that it Ollie all the leverage, but there were constant reports of Ollie being courted by the NBA. Can we blame him for Rhett Lashlee leaving? IDK. I might not be able to list any major accomplishments, but I don't have any serious complaints with anything he has done either. I have no idea what it is like to work with the guy, maybe he is a schmuck. Long story short, he is not the person I would blame for this. There is a long list before I would get to him. That being said, if the school let Benedict go tomorrow I wouldn't shed a tear. However, they better pony up and hire the best freaking AD available. Someone who has some actual experience. Not the freaking baseball coach. Maybe Penders would be fine, but this doesn't seem like the time for more experiments. If the ship continues to sink then maybe its time to start thinking about what role Susan Herbst has played in this mess. [/QUOTE]

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