Nelson, I love ya, but you're getting hard to follow. Just this morning you were telling me that it would be tough decision to accept an ACC invite. Now your saying its over because we haven't been invited yet???
Manuel is an idiot! This whole thing going on and he's at a useless women's bball tourney! Guy is a clown.
Do you have a position on anything or do you just attack other posters?
the AD is more interested in winning a pissing match with the legend that built the program than he is in addressing the head coach situation in a logical manner.
You have no idea whether or not anybody has blown it. Uconn has been very quiet and any judgement right now is premature and foolish.Louisville just wanted it more. They have a stronger President/AD combo, and better coaches. They probably promised Swofford they would pay Strong whatever it takes, and Pitino is not going anywhere.
We have a mummy coaching our football team and the AD is more interested in winning a pissing match with the legend that built the program than he is in addressing the head coach situation in a logical manner.
Game. Set. Match.
Our best hope is that the ACC collapses. Our team got beaten by the team from a Kentucky commuter school. Nice work Susie and Warde.
Yeah, I don't know why the OP got attacked so much. Until they show me otherwise, Herbst and Manuel did indeed blow it.
There's no excuse for losing this race to Louisville when we had all the clear advantages.
Hence the "until they show me otherwise".Don't you think it is logical that we wait until we find out what our future is before we say the school president and AD "blew it"?
http://www.accsports.com/blogs/davi...-will-vote-on-expansion-wednesday-morning.php
This is a catastrophic failure by Herbst and to a lesser extent Manuel. UConn went from a lock to replace Maryland to the situation being Louisville or no one.
Louisville is the #2 program in one of the poorest states in the country, with SEVEN major conference programs within a 3 hour drive, and has 3 less national titles than UConn in Louisville's top sport over the last 15 years. UConn has a bigger market, a richer market, and a very strong athletic department. Or at least it did. Hell, the "football school" just lost at home to UConn.
THIS SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED!!!!! Why am I the only one furious about what appears to be the outcome here?
We are now relegated to rooting for the ACC's destruction, because either the ACC dies or UConn's athletic program dies.
Why am I the only one furious about what appears to be the outcome here?
I was explaining why the OP got attacked.Hence the "until they show me otherwise".
Okay all knowing and powerful academic/business person - how would you as President and Huskyniner as you capable AD prevented this from happening (if something does indeed happen)... I'm all ears for a factual answer.
As I said earlier this week, I thought we ran into the perfect storm in every way possible.
But, results matter. They just do.
If we're in the Big East one second longer than Louisville, we've suffered a major, major setback that will diminish our athletic programs almost immediately.
Results matter.
I'm not an Athletic Director nor do I have any experience in the field, so I couldn't give you a good answer. Manuel is one and gets paid to do that job. But he certainly hasn't earned that pay in my opinion.Okay all knowing and powerful academic/business person - how would you as President and Huskyniner as you capable AD prevented this from happening (if something does indeed happen)... I'm all ears for a factual answer.
http://www.accsports.com/blogs/davi...-will-vote-on-expansion-wednesday-morning.php
This is a catastrophic failure by Herbst and to a lesser extent Manuel. UConn went from a lock to replace Maryland to the situation being Louisville or no one.
Louisville is the #2 program in one of the poorest states in the country, with SEVEN major conference programs within a 3 hour drive, and has 3 less national titles than UConn in Louisville's top sport over the last 15 years. UConn has a bigger market, a richer market, and a very strong athletic department. Or at least it did. Hell, the "football school" just lost at home to UConn.
THIS SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED!!!!! Why am I the only one furious about what appears to be the outcome here?
We are now relegated to rooting for the ACC's destruction, because either the ACC dies or UConn's athletic program dies.
i can't buy this at all. the acc needs to get 1 or several teams asap to keep its league at 14 for tv contract reasons and perception reasons. if uconn is not the pick that is a lot of fuel to fire that the b10 is in fact in uconns future and thats why uconn and the acc didn't happen. no matter lville, cincy or uconn the fball is not tosu or texas so the whole rumor of fsu wants a fball school is bogus. it comes down to markets and fanbase size. we crush them in each and then we talk bball etc. this is all silly. espn and the acc pumped uconn for a bit right away and then they realized we might have better **** going on and started to pump elsewhere. uconn will be fine.
If they don't want the responsibility for getting this done right, they shouldn't take the job.
Leaks coming from the ACC side are that they are locking arms and singing kumbaya. This is a developing Armageddon for UConn athletics.
Not suprisingly - you didn't answer the question... How would you have done it differently?
Not suprisingly - you didn't answer the question... How would you have done it differently?