Herbst Stepping Down

[Bryan Lord]

Stepping down with cause? Confirmed?

 

[Chief00]

This doesn't make me feel very sanguine that our conference situation will be changing anytime soon.

Regardless of what Malloy, McHugh and posters here think of her, Herbst wasn’t well liked or respected in the President’s club. I would make that a critical qualification this time around. It’s essential to getting in a major conference.

 

[dennismenace]

Find me a public university in the USA and I can find you many useless administrators. Every public High School too. And just as many useless professors teaching useless subjects. UConn isn't unusual in that regard.

Add to that the rating systems which consider those pluses (ratios etc.) and you can understand why the costs are a runaway freight train

I think you have a tough time with concepts of macro economics

It appears that companies and individuals with wealth who are leaving the state have a pretty good view that their are better
macro views in other states. I don't think Uconn is the problem per se at all. It really is a great investment and though I did not attend here I talk it up to anyone I meet. Every bureaucracy needs to be looked at regularly to reign in costs just like a household. It is the cities that are killing this state and they had best find a way to get private investment here or we will continue to deteriorate.

 

[8893]

Regardless of what Malloy, McHugh and posters here think of her, Herbst wasn’t well liked or respected in the President’s club. I would make that a critical qualification this time around. It’s essential to getting to a major conference.

Do they like Bunkey?

 

[TRest]

Do they like Bunkey?

Chief rolls with all the elite.

 

[outlaw]

so, does this mean Spring Weekend is back?

 

[Robertelamin]

so, does this mean Spring Weekend is back?

Gone forever

 

[CL82]

If a doctor could recommend a prostate exam based on message board posts - this pathetic trickle would suffice.

After predicting UConn to the Big Ten for years... now you are absolving people who condemned UConn to the American?

Ah, so you have no basis for how she "ran UConn athletics into the ground." Why am I not particularly surprised?

 

[huskymedic]

Should be good for another page or so...

Cournant Editorial: Susan Herbst's Great UConn Leadership

 

[upstater]

Regardless of what Malloy, McHugh and posters here think of her, Herbst wasn’t well liked or respected in the President’s club. I would make that a critical qualification this time around. It’s essential to getting to a major conference.

Up north, they hire faculty to be presidents.
Down south, they hire ex-Senators and businessmen. Two different type of people.

 

[upstater]

Add to that the rating systems which consider those pluses (ratios etc.) and you can understand why the costs are a runaway freight train

Except costs aren't up.
People confuse exponential increases in tuition with a rise in costs. Expenditures are not rising faster than the cost of living.
Tuition is rising exponentially faster.
I posted an article on costs/tuitions on the realignment board a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Waquoit]

Regardless of what Malloy, McHugh and posters here think of her, Herbst wasn’t well liked or respected in the President’s club.

Is it because of the vagina thing?

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Ah, so you have no basis for how she "ran UConn athletics into the ground." Why am I not particularly surprised?

-She was ill prepared to manage conference realignment.
-Her hire for AD was ill prepared to hire conference realignment.
-Her hire for AD hired Bob Diaco.
-Her hire for AD was responsible for Ollie's ridiculous contract stipulations/buy out.
-She's been completely tone deaf regarding athletics and its impact to the state/alumni.

UConn football can't seem to win more than 3 games a season and basketball just had back to back losing seasons.

Athletics are in the tank, in a horrible league and the AD is bleeding money.

Are you going to argue we're in better shape now than when she took over?

 

[JMick]

-She was ill prepared to manage conference realignment.
-Her hire for AD was ill prepared to hire conference realignment.
-Her hire for AD hired Bob Diaco.
-Her hire for AD was responsible for Ollie's ridiculous contract stipulations/buy out.
-She's been completely tone deaf regarding athletics and its impact to the state/alumni.

UConn football can't seem to win more than 3 games a season and basketball just had back to back losing seasons.

Athletics are in the tank, in a horrible league and the AD is bleeding money.

Are you going to argue we're in better shape now than when she took over?

Yeah but what about all the sports nobody cares about?! They're doing great.

 

[UConnNick]

What do you base this belief on?

I'm also not sure how sure how others can say she ran athletics into the ground. Did she secretly make lead the raid on the Big East?

She and Manuel appeared to sit idly by watching Tom Jurich run the end around play to get the ACC bid. Maybe Loserville gets it anyway, but the lack of effort from our administration was negligent and clueless. You can also argue it's hindsight, but she hired Manuel without the recogniton and awareness that he already had one foot out the door toward Ann Arbor from day one at UCONN. He also made a disasterous hire when Bobby Fiasco landed in Storrs. Sorry, but she gets to own those two hires and the resulting disaster that football has become, hindsight or not.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Yeah but what about all the sports nobody cares about?! They're doing great.

I should add the move to Hockey East was crazy as well.

Just adding more scholarships and costs to run a program that we have no means to pay for and the vast majority of people don't care about. Hell, we don't even have a building for them to play in with a requirement for an on-campus area supposedly due by 2019.

 

[whaler11]

I should add the move to Hockey East was crazy as well.

Just adding more scholarships and costs to run a program that we have no means to pay for and the vast majority of people don't care about. Hell, we don't even have a building for them to play in with a requirement for an on-campus area supposedly due by 2019.

They are going to be like that team in the Atlantic League that only plays road games.

 

[Waquoit]

Hockey's not a success all of a sudden?

 

[ConnHuskBask]

They are going to be like that team in the Atlantic League that only plays road games.

The Pennsylvania Road Warriors!

Hockey's not a success all of a sudden?

Is it sustainable? Just like gaming the US News Rankings, it's fine when you can afford to do it, but what happens when the chickens come home to roost? Where is the money coming from the run the program, let alone build a new arena?

 

[UConnNick]

-She was ill prepared to manage conference realignment.
-Her hire for AD was ill prepared to hire conference realignment.
-Her hire for AD hired Bob Diaco.
-Her hire for AD was responsible for Ollie's ridiculous contract stipulations/buy out.
-She's been completely tone deaf regarding athletics and its impact to the state/alumni.

UConn football can't seem to win more than 3 games a season and basketball just had back to back losing seasons.

Athletics are in the tank, in a horrible league and the AD is bleeding money.

Are you going to argue we're in better shape now than when she took over?

The affect of the Herbst Era on UCONN athletics cannot be summarized any better than this.

 

[CTBballfan243]

I should add the move to Hockey East was crazy as well.

Just adding more scholarships and costs to run a program that we have no means to pay for and the vast majority of people don't care about. Hell, we don't even have a building for them to play in with a requirement for an on-campus area supposedly due by 2019.

One of the many positives with UConn joining Hockey East is that at least our hockey program is in a major conference.

 

[UConnNick]

I think the decision to upgrade the hockey programs was all about conference realignment and looking more viable as an overall athletics program to the Big 10. For those reasons I'm not going to second guess the decision or motivation for it, regardless of the costs and necessary infrastructure upgrades. It was probably the right move to make at the time it was made.

 

[JMick]

I should add the move to Hockey East was crazy as well.

Just adding more scholarships and costs to run a program that we have no means to pay for and the vast majority of people don't care about. Hell, we don't even have a building for them to play in with a requirement for an on-campus area supposedly due by 2019.

Yeah don't get me wrong, im glad baseball is doing well, being in hockey east is neat and women's basketball keeps us somewhat relevant but those sports really don't matter.

 

[Guapo]

Since this thread has become just throwing out total nonsense #hottakes here's mine:

I'd get rid of football before I got rid of hockey or baseball.

I'm so smart, you are so dumb. My opinion is the only one that matters!!! BOOOM.

(Isn't this it works?)

Get a grip, people.

 

[uconnbill]

What kind of president do we want running the university after she is gone? That is the big question.