It's Robert Burton week ....

[Pudge]

http://content.usatoday.com/communi.../01/connecticut-donor-robert-burton-letter-/1

I have thought about this a lot in the last 5 weeks. Addazio is doing a lot right with very meager Temple circumstances: Recruiting is on a higher plane; Facilities are getting built; They are more competitive seemingly every year; the Trend is up.

Pasqualoni, in my view, just doesn't get the UConn Program. I think we are very New at this FBS level. We need MOMENTUM as well as wins. We need to give our Fanbase reason to look forward ... and build. Jeff Hathaway gave us, as a parting gift, a Pasqualoni/DeLeone albatross. There is some transition that was good. But, we shouldn't have any question as to what the direction should be going forward.

 

[Fishy]

It was a bad hire. I thought Burton was a bombastic lunatic at the time - now, I realize he was Paul Revere, only more wild-eyed and without the horse.

I would love to watch a game with that guy these days. It's three hours of him screaming at the TV, "SEE?! I duck*ING TOLD YOU! ETHEL....GET IN HERE! DIDN'T I TELL THEM?!"

Then his whole family goes to the mall to get away from him for a few hours.

Anywho, I don't know if P gets the UConn program or even what that means, but I do know that he's drowning us.

He has to go, he has to go, he has to go.

 

[johnhuskies95]

It was a bad hire. I thought Burton was a bombastic lunatic at the time - now, I realize he was Paul Revere, only more wild-eyed and without the horse.

I would love to watch a game with that guy these days. It's three hours of him screaming at the TV, "SEE?! I duck*ING TOLD YOU! ETHEL....GET IN HERE! DIDN'T I TELL THEM?!"

Then his whole family goes to the mall to get away from him for a few hours.

Anywho, I don't know if P gets the UConn program or even what that means, but I do know that he's drowning us.

He has to go, he has to go, he has to go.

If he's not donating money, I don't know if he even watches the games.

His only tie to UConn is that his son played there 12 years ago. He went to Murray State of all places.

 

[Adios]

Donating a few million dollars and having a building named after yourself is much more ties than just about all of us can claim.

 

[Fishy]

I'm kinda gonna assume he watches the games.

The guy donates about eight million bucks to the schools, his son was a captain on the football team and the freaking practice facility has his name on it....only on the Boneyard would he have the depth of his connection to the program questioned.

We explore new depths daily.

 

[gars44]

He has to go, he has to go, he has to go.

You have to assume if the school's biggest donor doesn't like you, in fact, really, really, really doesn't like you, hates you, and you take the football program to new, unseen lows, and the fans start calling for your head - you have to assume that you are on the way out. If Addazio comes in here next week and gets a W, like I think he just may, P might as well start get that resume ready.

 

[uconndogs]

He may end up being right about the P hire, but he still acted like a horses ass throught the whole thing.

 

[businesslawyer]

It was a bad hire. I thought Burton was a bombastic lunatic at the time - now, I realize he was Paul Revere, only more wild-eyed and without the horse.

I would love to watch a game with that guy these days. It's three hours of him screaming at the TV, "SEE?! I duck*ING TOLD YOU! ETHEL....GET IN HERE! DIDN'T I TELL THEM?!"

Then his whole family goes to the mall to get away from him for a few hours.

Anywho, I don't know if P gets the UConn program or even what that means, but I do know that he's drowning us.

He has to go, he has to go, he has to go.

Apparently, bombastic lunatics -- even egomaniacal ones -- aren't always wrong.

 

[Fishy]

Apparently, bombastic lunatics -- even egomaniacal ones -- aren't always wrong.

Exactly.

Look at us.

 

[gars44]

Exactly.

Look at us.

Beat me to it. And said it nicer.

 

[Chin Diesel]

It was a bad hire. I thought Burton was a bombastic lunatic at the time - now, I realize he was Paul Revere, only more wild-eyed and without the horse.

I would love to watch a game with that guy these days. It's three hours of him screaming at the TV, "SEE?! I duck*ING TOLD YOU! ETHEL....GET IN HERE! DIDN'T I TELL THEM?!"

Then his whole family goes to the mall to get away from him for a few hours.

Anywho, I don't know if P gets the UConn program or even what that means, but I do know that he's drowning us.

He has to go, he has to go, he has to go.

Apparently, bombastic lunatics -- even egomaniacal ones -- aren't always wrong.

Strangely enough, I was thinking about Bobby B and how his head has grown about 10 sizes bigger regarding this issue.

I won't fault Hathaway for not giving Burton carte blanche in approving/disapproving the head coaching decision. BUT, and this is true for many areas of business, human resources, management, etc., IF you are going to ignore the demands of your biggest money donor, your better be right and be right in a huge way.

Because now Burton can double down on being an assssshhhoolle on the next coaching search. For fuccckss sake, he might actually think he needs to be more bombastic than the first time since he didn't get his way.

Good, bad or otherwise people like Burton don't like it when they don't get their way. And they really, really, really don't like not getting their way twice in a row over the same matter- especially when they were right the first time.

 

[gars44]

Chin, didn't the administration throw a grovel party for him last year? Of course he is going to be consulted. You'd have to be brain dead not to consult this guy. I think Susan calls him when she needs to leave her desk to go to the ladies room.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

SH started repairing the relationship with Burton before she officially came on board as president.

What he did was a bit ridiculous (and it sucks that he evidently was right) but we are not in a position where we can allow a donor of that level to cut all ties to the school without trying to keep him in the family.

 

[NutmegState]

Remember the leaked story about UConn/Hathaway not hiring Whipple because Whipple wanted a whole new staff? A little birdie told me Burton would have paid the buyouts so that UConn could have started fresh.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Chin, didn't the administration throw a grovel party for him last year? Of course he is going to be consulted. You'd have to be brain dead not to consult this guy. I think Susan calls him when she needs to leave her desk to go to the ladies room.

It's not just that he's going to be consulted. He can also be a gigantic assssmunch and Uconn's personnel are still going to have to place a decent amount of weight on his opinions.

Most of us have been in Uconn's position. Neither Herbst or Manuel were around when Bobby B blue his gasket over the PP hire. But they get to deal with him next round. I will concede that anyone who becomes president or an AD at a major institution has probably dealt with and mastered these scenarios.

 

[Jimdish255]

Strangely enough, I was thinking about Bobby B and how his head has grown about 10 sizes bigger regarding this issue.

I won't fault Hathaway for not giving Burton carte blanche in approving/disapproving the head coaching decision. BUT, and this is true for many areas of business, human resources, management, etc., IF you are going to ignore the demands of your biggest money donor, your better be right and be right in a huge way.

Because now Burton can double down on being an assssshhhoolle on the next coaching search. For fuccckss sake, he might actually think he needs to be more bombastic than the first time since he didn't get his way.

Good, bad or otherwise people like Burton don't like it when they don't get their way. And they really, really, really don't like not getting their way twice in a row over the same matter- especially when they were right the first time.

If I could frame this post I would. Along with a quote from Platoon - "I am reality"

 

[johnhuskies95]

I'm kinda gonna assume he watches the games.

The guy donates about eight million bucks to the schools, his son was a captain on the football team and the freaking practice facility has his name on it....only on the Boneyard would he have the depth of his connection to the program questioned.

We explore new depths daily.

I know someone who is an acquaintance of Burton. He liked donating to the football program because it gave him a chance to basically fund part of the development of an up and coming program. As Dan Gilbert proved, when incredibly rich people give away their money and don't feel like they've been rewarded, they get really angry.

 

[TRest]

If I could frame this post I would. Along with a quote from Platoon - "I am reality"

I will give Burton a break on this just a little bit: Didn't he have a kid play for PP at cuse and therefore had some firsthand knowledge of what a mistake we were making? Otherwise, he does have a bit of a Montgomery Burns in him.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I will give Burton a break on this just a little bit: Didn't he have a kid play for PP at cuse and therefore had some firsthand knowledge of what a mistake we were making? Otherwise, he does have a bit of a Montgomery Burns in him.

Yes, Bobby B's kids played for PP at 'Cuse. Supposedly, rumor has it, that the players wanted Lil B to be a captain and PP nixed it.

 

[Dann]

rumor also has it that up to 48 hours after a uconn football game if you have any timeouts left you can exchange them at the local dicks sporting goods for clip boards and whistles.

 

[Adios]

Bump.

 

[ZooCougar]

We might need to hire Addazio before BC does.

 

[Adios]

We explore new depths daily.

I finally understand what spectator sports are about.

scary. Who's going to be our first hooligan? HFD?? Or Robert Burton??

 

[UCFBfan]

We might need to hire Addazio before BC does.

Why would he choose UConn over Temple or even *gulp* BC? He already has a decent thing going st Temple and BC is in a stable conference. UConn is a total lateral move right now for him.

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[pj]

UConn is better than Temple -- more fans, better funded athletic department, better facilities. Plus it would be going home for him.

BC might be more attractive.