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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2163340, member: 1414"] Such strong emotions on this. I'll be more dispassionate, because I think we have to be. [LIST] [*]He coached to a NC. That means something. [*]He signed a $17.9M deal last year. He's under contract until 2021. We can't afford to fire him if we wanted to. [*]He had no head coaching experience when he was hired, and only a brief stint as an assistant. In my view, he wasn't ready for a job of this magnitude and it shows. [*]His staff was essentially Calhoun holdovers and former players. He seems to have recognized that he needs his own guys. [*]This season involved both lousy coaching and preparation and horrible luck and injuries. [*]The program is on a downward trend that continued into this offseason. [*]Time is of the essence. We need an NCAA bid and top 25 ranking next year. Full stop. It is what UConn needs to remain in the conversation of major programs and to recruit going forward. [/LIST] Net it out. We can't fire him until 2020 at soonest. Three years. If we even want to fire him then, we must be in poop so deep that it would take a miracle hire to get us out of it. It is vital that basketball is hitting on all cylinders and football is respectable in the early 2020's as realignment kicks off again. So if I'm AD Dave I give him every thing he needs to win. If that means dropping academic standards here or there, we do it. I also convey to him that we can't play the long game here. This is a win now situation. So far I see this. A new assistant with a strong recruiting rep. A focus on bringing in experienced players for 2017-18, so far a JUCO and a defense minded SG. But there are others on the radar, more so than freshmen. I think the reason is obvious. Adams, Gilbert, Larrier are very good players, and we can win now if they are surrounded by complimentary guys who know how to play D, rebound and do the little things that make you win games. Work for a strong class in 2018 and we are back. It's the only recipe we have. [/QUOTE]

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