Is this valid?

[ZooCougar]

WM was a highly referenced former Assistant AD from a power FB school (Michigan) with good AD experience at a lower level. He fit the exact profile if you correctly assume we weren't pulling a sitting AD from a big time FB program.

Not every draft pick pans out. I had no.problem with his hiring. It's the strange decisions he's made to date. The KO contract is a real head scratcher and shows a lack of imagination, or too much.

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I agree on the profile. But it still feels "regional" to me. Regional isn't automatically bad, but I would think that when the position opened, he was probably one of the first to apply.

He seems passive to me. He seems to delay making big decisions.

It could be that delaying on Ollie was his way of asserting himself. I have to admit, if I were just hired as the Director of and athletic department with 11 NCs, and the HoF coach decided to retire on me AND pick the one of the two positions that I would get judged against FOR ME. I would be pissed off too, and probably would look for a way to indicate that I was in charge.

That's benefit of the doubt territory right there. But really, Pasqualoni's failures next season are on Warde's shoulders now. Whatever hole Pasqualoni puts this program in is Warde's hole. Warde had the chance to remove him. The buyout was not an issue!

 

[Nostical]

I dont know any AD hired when WM was who would have given an unproven assistant the head coaching job (crown jewel) at UConn--and, by extension, grant that much power to Calhoun. History is replete with failing hand-picked successors. This particular criticism of WM has to stop. I wouldn't extend KO's contract until the players' grades are known and it's been determined-- by WM-- that KO is the right coach for UConn going forward. I commend WM for being careful here.

 

[HuskyBandDad]

I dont know any AD hired when WM was who would have given an unproven assistant the head coaching job (crown jewel) at UConn--and, by extension, grant that much power to Calhoun. History is replete with failing hand-picked successors. This particular criticism of WM has to stop. I wouldn't extend KO's contract until the players' grades are known and it's been determined-- by WM-- that KO is the right coach for UConn going forward. I commend WM for being careful here.

I agree with this but there are not too many assistant coaches who have 16 years in the NBA. Who better to go into a top recruits home and be able to tell him how he can get him to the NBA.