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[QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2726029, member: 1526"]
My remarks about college presidents were intended as general in nature, not specifically about Herbst. Her problem is she never seemed to grasp the importance of athletics historically and the role athletics played in UConn's rise in academic prominence nationally.

I live in a part of the country a great distance from CT. 25 years ago or more, you could wear a shirt here with "UCONN" on it and few people would have recognized it as even the name of a college. Some thought it referred to the Canadian province. Back in those days I deliberately bought shirts that had "University of Connecticut" all spelled out, for that reason.

Now when you wear a shirt with only "UCONN" on it, most people that see it know what the name represents, even on the left side of the country. I once met a UConn alum originally from Amarillo, TX. She was a huge fan of the women's BB team as a little girl. She attended and graduated from UConn just because of that. Athletics was the springboard that put UConn on the national map, including academically. Herbst never understood that and still doesn't.
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