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Message: [QUOTE="Pudge, post: 2725285, member: 364"] Unhinged ... She took a University that was reeling after a particularly ineffective administration of Hogan and a positive (*yet flawed) tenure of Austin ... and completely put the University on a good track. It is not just about Athletics folks. Even though some want to make that their case study. Athletics is still a great department in the global world of 350 peers. WE still have the dominant Women's Program in any sport (and as much as you whine about this ... it is important). We have made the correct moves lately on Football (imho) with Edsall; it is a uniquely New England Northeast thing - and that means recruiting has to be very strategic, opportunistic, evaluative (and neither PP or BD proved adept at this core element). We will return to Bowls and maybe better. MBB was a mess because Ollie was not a full Program builder. We can all knock 2016-2018 ... he did lead a team to a National Championship. Meaning: he can coach and bring 8 guys to play roles to win at this level. Unfortunately, there are major flaws in his makeup to take what Calhoun built and bring it forward year after year. I think Hurley is the right fix. Kudos to DB on both these sports. Baseball and Hockey are on the upswing. Olympic Sports are good. Revenue? WTF don't you get. We did not get the lucky straw. Rutgers? With NJ demo is a better fit ... and they will never have Programs of Excellence as we do. Louisville? Sure. With a Jurich, we could bankrupt City & State with a YUM type deal to get into the ACC. That's corrupt ... but it worked. The Citizens of the Nutmeg State are far more educated and attuned to politics to let Jurich & Pitino types run them over with BS. Syracuse? Loser demo and Loser former Manufacturing city with little State appeal ... and the NYC bid is just more laughable than ours. WE kept drawing a bad card. And nothing Herbst or Manuel or any other insider could do Post 2010. The State of the Campus? Excellent as I walk around. New building for residence; Storrs Center took 8 years of Planning ... and arrived and now thrives; Tech park infrastructure going; great Masterplans (I am sure you've reviewed these); and on & on. The State of Academics? Who are you quoting? I talked to the head of the UConn Foundation on graduation Sunday and I am duly impressed over the last 5 years progress. Unethical snake? Here we go. If you say so. It's like that Tweeting anything that comes to mind. [/QUOTE]

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