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Dear AD Benedict/UConn BOT: Spend Some Goddam Money On Football

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I completely understand folks for the "Cancel Football" posts and opinions. We are the unquestioned worst team in the country. Nobody - not even UMass - is lower than us. We'll be #1 Bottom 10 on every sports site on Monday morning for the rest of the season.

But I want to do the exact opposite...

UConn boasts about having a G5 leading ~$70M AD budget. We pay Geno and Hurley very aggressively and rightfully so. We're a basketball school and always will be. But when it comes to the one and only sport that could lift our school and state economy out of the doldrums of college athletic's minor leagues, we go cheap. Incredibly cheap. Edsall is paid peanuts. We just let SMU (S.M.U.!) poach an assistant coach from us. Our assistant coaches could leave UConn and make more money bagging groceries at Big Y.

Why bother? You get what you pay for.

Either spend some goddam money and employ an actual FBS level coaching staff - assistants included - or the "Cancel/Drop Football" crowd will only get bigger, louder and, worst of all, 1000% right. What is the point of student subsidies - already astronomically high - if that money isn't being put the one and only use to get UConn into "The Money Club"?? The one and only college sport that could give the state economy a HUGE boost.

Put some goddam money into our football coaching pool. Call it Benedict's Last Stand. Call it our Doug Flutie moment. Call it whatever you want. Increase our football coaching pay pool today and put everything we have into it. Commit fully to it. Slash ticket prices, give students free tickets, and eat more money. Endure the frustrated complaints from the fans and alumni during yet another transition period. And in 3-5 years, when CR will firmly be closed, if we're no better than we are today, drop it and do what you have to do. But please please try. Partial commitment and half arsing is making this program worse, not better.
 
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ASweet3781 said:
LOL

Benedict's last stand. Guy couldn't even last a year on twitter.
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He might be in over his head. I thought he understood that football is paramount to positioning our AD but he's done absolutely nothing to show it.
 
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Skiblets said:
Is he off Twitter really? Have not heard a thing from AD Dave
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Haven’t heard a peep from him apart from the interview with press after allegations against Ollie, and when we hired Hurley. Might be time for a missing persons report.
 
AD Dave is probably interviewing around and trying to jump off the USS UConn Titanic before it's too late. Warde somehow convinced Michigan to hire him so there's hope for him. Sure am rooting for him to save his skin (and reputation)!
 
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Dooley said:
I completely understand folks for the "Cancel Football" posts and opinions. We are the unquestioned worst team in the country. Nobody - not even UMass - is lower than us. We'll be #1 Bottom 10 on every sports site on Monday morning for the rest of the season.

But I want to do the exact opposite...

UConn boasts about having a G5 leading ~$70M AD budget. We pay Geno and Hurley very aggressively and rightfully so. We're a basketball school and always will be. But when it comes to the one and only sport that could lift our school and state economy out of the doldrums of college athletic's minor leagues, we go cheap. Incredibly cheap. Edsall is paid peanuts. We just let SMU (S.M.U.!) poach an assistant coach from us. Our assistant coaches could leave UConn and make more money bagging groceries at Big Y.

Why bother? You get what you pay for.

Either spend some goddam money and employ an actual FBS level coaching staff - assistants included - or the "Cancel/Drop Football" crowd will only get bigger, louder and, worst of all, 1000% right. What is the point of student subsidies - already astronomically high - if that money isn't being put the one and only use to get UConn into "The Money Club"?? The one and only college sport that could give the state economy a HUGE boost.

Put some goddam money into our football coaching pool. Call it Benedict's Last Stand. Call it our Doug Flutie moment. Call it whatever you want. Increase our football coaching pay pool today and put everything we have into it. Commit fully to it. Slash ticket prices, give students free tickets, and eat more money. Endure the frustrated complaints from the fans and alumni during yet another transition period. And in 3-5 years, when CR will firmly be closed, if we're no better than we are today, drop it and do what you have to do. But please please try. Partial commitment and half arsing is making this program worse, not better.
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Dear BOT fire Benedict post haste

#fify
 
Dooley said:
AD Dave is probably interviewing around and trying to jump off the USS UConn Titanic before it's too late. Warde somehow convinced Michigan to hire him so there's hope for him. Sure am rooting for him to save his skin (and reputation)!
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C____rm_d
 
Have patience ( sarcasm). We are building a program. Whatever that means. Let me see. What other lame excuses I can recycle .....the cupboard is empty......need a recruit that fits the program ...... we are a northeastern team it’s harder..... last coach recruited the wrong player ....... we need to tear it down to rebuild it ....,,did I miss any ??????
 
Ohhh ya my favorite from the CT sports media. The fans need to support the team to build the program!!!!
As if
You fans are too stupid to know how to build a program or support one
 
LBird33 said:
Ohhh ya my favorite from the CT sports media. The fans need to support the team to build the program!!!!
As if
You fans are too stupid to know how to build a program or support one
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The sports media doesn't know any more about the game than you. They need to be more critical of the coach and program. They also need to grow a set of grapefruits too.
 
There are three options, continue to be terrible, have boosters foot the bill to be mediocre or drop football. The AD isn’t going to spend more money on football... where is that money going to come from?
 
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We need to let in more questionable kids and cut some non-revenue sports to better fund football. However, all kinds of schools win with less resources, so let’s not ignore that fact and demand more from our coaches.
 
Hoophound said:
We need to let in more questionable kids and cut some non-revenue sports to better fund football. However, all kinds of schools win with less resources, so let’s not ignore that fact and demand more from our coaches.
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Win with less resources in recruiting hotbeds... our coaching sucks, our recruiting sucks and we aren’t passionate about football that’s a recipe to horrible.
 
Dooley said:
I completely understand folks for the "Cancel Football" posts and opinions. We are the unquestioned worst team in the country. Nobody - not even UMass - is lower than us. We'll be #1 Bottom 10 on every sports site on Monday morning for the rest of the season.

But I want to do the exact opposite...

UConn boasts about having a G5 leading ~$70M AD budget. We pay Geno and Hurley very aggressively and rightfully so. We're a basketball school and always will be. But when it comes to the one and only sport that could lift our school and state economy out of the doldrums of college athletic's minor leagues, we go cheap. Incredibly cheap. Edsall is paid peanuts. We just let SMU (S.M.U.!) poach an assistant coach from us. Our assistant coaches could leave UConn and make more money bagging groceries at Big Y.

Why bother? You get what you pay for.

Either spend some goddam money and employ an actual FBS level coaching staff - assistants included - or the "Cancel/Drop Football" crowd will only get bigger, louder and, worst of all, 1000% right. What is the point of student subsidies - already astronomically high - if that money isn't being put the one and only use to get UConn into "The Money Club"?? The one and only college sport that could give the state economy a HUGE boost.

Put some goddam money into our football coaching pool. Call it Benedict's Last Stand. Call it our Doug Flutie moment. Call it whatever you want. Increase our football coaching pay pool today and put everything we have into it. Commit fully to it. Slash ticket prices, give students free tickets, and eat more money. Endure the frustrated complaints from the fans and alumni during yet another transition period. And in 3-5 years, when CR will firmly be closed, if we're no better than we are today, drop it and do what you have to do. But please please try. Partial commitment and half arsing is making this program worse, not better.
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love,love this post. Send to AD,please.
 
Offering free tickets to the students, who currently finance just under 40% of our athletic budget, is definitely this missing piece. The last published numbers for revenue and expenses pertaining to the football program showed that for every dollar in revenue the program generated, the university spent two.

UConn has tried everything. The experienced, respected coach with Pasqualoni. The hot, fast-rising assistant at a major program with Diaco. Hiring back the one man who was able to get UConn to perform at a medicore level in Edsall.

The high-point of the program is being the worst BCS representative of all time. Since joining the AAC we are 13-51 against FBS opponents. We are Kansas with 1/10 of the television revenue. Unfortunately, women's basketball and field hockey don't move the needle when it comes to conference realignment (both of which are more of a net positive for CR hopes than the football team). Cut the program. Join the Big East. Let's at least enjoy watching basketball again.
 
Throw more money at the problem? The damage is damn near irrevocable.

And even if its not. What's the end game? Winning 8 games a year in a mid major league in front of 25,000?

Even if a P5 league expands we're behind Houston, Cincinnati, BYU, UCF, USF, and Memphis in any pecking order.

Give this experiment a few more years until the P5 dream is officially dead after the next round of TV deals and if we're still on the outside looking in, see if we can just get into the Big East or be the ACC's 16th hoop team.
 
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ConnHuskBask said:
Throw more money at the problem? The damage is damn near irrevocable.

And even if its not. What's the end game? Winning 8 games a year in a mid major league in front of 25,000?

Even if a P5 league expands we're behind Houston, Cincinnati, BYU, UCF, USF, and Memphis in any pecking order.

Give this experiment a few more years until the P5 dream is officially dead after the next round of TV deals and if we're still on the outside looking in, see if we can just get into the Big East or be the ACC's 16th hoop team.
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If we win 8 games a year, I will guarantee that we will average more than 25k people in the stands.

The problem is apparently the "8 wins" part of the equation...
 
UConnDan97 said:
If we win 8 games a year, I will guarantee that we will average more than 25k people in the stands.

The problem is apparently the "8 wins" part of the equation...
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I'd like to believe that, but if we're 6-4 and playing SMU in late Novemeber there is no way I'm taking the over on that number.

I went from 12+ season tickets and now people don't even watch the games on TV besides me and my Dad in NJ.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
I'd like to believe that, but if we're 6-4 and playing SMU in late Novemeber there is no way I'm taking the over on that number.

I went from 12+ season tickets and now people don't even watch the games on TV besides me and my Dad in NJ.
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8 wins per year used to be our benchmark for a really good season, and we had more season ticket holders than 25k, never mind overall attendance. If we were getting those types of numbers, fans would come back.

The northeast loves a winner, and hates a loser. It's been true for decades and decades...
 
UConnDan97 said:
8 wins per year used to be our benchmark for a really good season, and we had more season ticket holders than 25k, never mind overall attendance. If we were getting those types of numbers, fans would come back.

The northeast loves a winner, and hates a loser. It's been true for decades and decades...
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Right, but against Rutgers, Pitt, West Virginia, and company in a BCS league.

Maybe for me and you it still matters, but for a lot of people it just doesn't register anymore.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
Right, but against Rutgers, Pitt, West Virginia, and company in a BCS league.

Maybe for me and you it still matters, but for a lot of people it just doesn't register anymore.
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Rutgers used to be a laughing stock, and we played a bunch of unattractive games every year as well.

This year, we played a top 25 ranked UCF, ranked USF, and ranked Cincy. Plus, our OOC has featured teams like Boise, BYU, and Michigan during our AAC years. I'm confident the people will come back, but we need to start friggin winning...
 
How have we gone cheap on football? If that were the case, we wouldn't have paid Diaco's buyout in attempt to stabilize the program.

Honestly, I don't get the reaction to today's loss. They were a 5 point underdog or so and they lost by 5. Everyone knew this was going to be a titanic of a rebuild. That's one of the reasons we can afford to go cheap right now. We have nothing if not patience, and investing more in a low ceiling sport when we have no money is the opposite of that.
 
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