Future of the athletic department.

[uconntailgater]

Having our football team achieve 8-9 wins a season and the Men's basketball team return to the top 25 will help our athletic department's profile when the next conference realignment happens. If we get left out of the next realignment, then we would have to decide what to do with the football program.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

I think Ollie has at least got his hands back on the steering wheel and is going to avoid the iceberg.

OT vs. 1-4 Columbia. The iceberg has been struck.

 

[mikedog10]

I've said it before and I'll say it again; we are one successful football season away from changing the entire perspective. And by successful, I'm talking 8-4 or 9-3.

8-4 or 9-3? I feel like I don't even know who you are anymore.

Can't wait to see your pre-season prediction for next year...

 

[UConnDan97]

8-4 or 9-3? I feel like I don't even know who you are anymore.

Can't wait to see your pre-season prediction for next year...

Oh, I'm not saying that record is my prediction. No way. I have standards to uphold!

But in the event that something as catastrophic as 8-4 were to happen to this team, I would still say that the fans would return...

 

[uconntailgater]

I think this year is going to be a make or break year for Kevin Ollie. If the Men don't qualify for the NCAA tournament then AD David Benedict has a big decision to make.

 

[noeynox]

The conference situation has not affected our performance or at least been the cause of it. Our performance in the 2 major sports when combined with our conference situation has absolutely tanked attendance.

 

[kemba]

How does anything actually change if we have a winning season? What are we one good season away from? What did Temple get when they had their good season?

We have shown that if you put an above average product out here people will support it. Temple has not shown that kind of support.

 

[HawkHusky]

Shut down all the Men's Athletic Programs.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

Better option:

Drop Football, Men's and Women's Basketball, hell any sport that involves scoring or timing.

Immediately file lawsuits against Misters Edsall, Auriemma, Ollie, and Calhoun. Have so-called President Herbst arrested and tried for war crimes. Sell the campus in Storrs on e-bay, of course we keep the Dairy Bar and Gampel. Turn each extension campus into sites for BC, Rutgers, and Syracuse......no scratch that. Not Syracuse beccause F Syracuse. Give one to PC because they are so scrappy. They can have Avery Point.

We keep Gampel and turn it into the Center for the Advancement of Sexual Harassment Techniques and Theories. Chancellor Dr. Cosby will have his pick of the creme de la creme of recently unemployed, but highly experienced, instructors.

Can this be added as a 5th option on the poll.

Option 6 could be dropping sports and turning the University into a ranch specializing in animal husbandry for wayward unicorns and pixie fairies.....not with each other....that would be weird.

 

[Exit 4]

Staying in the AAC through at least 2025 when the B12's fate will be decided.