Jeff Hathaway

[FDNY99]

Reality is Hathaway should of hired Garrick McGee or Tom Bradey(my either/or choices).....BUT as a AD at a school with a BCS level football prigram he was in WAY OVER HIS HEAD!!! I was about as big a JH basher as there was on this board...he set back UConn athletics a LONG way when he finally made a big decision! He also thought he would kiss Herbst's a*s and she wouldn't bother him..boy was he wrong!!! Manuel has a lot of cleaning up to do from that idiot! He is where he belongs...at a school with no football program! I have trust in Manuel and Herbst that the right decisions will be made to correct this HUGE mistake!
Here is Hathaway's Hofstra email address in case you want to send him a thankyou
jeffrey.hathaway@hofstra.edu

 

[Calhoun's Court]

Yup JH left us a nice going away present.

Kinda like your cousin leaving your crazy old uncle with you and saying "Gotta Go !!"

 

[Skiblets]

Gotta love this coaching staff. I was about to shed a tear when I saw our first play of the game was a pass.

This thread title deserves to be on full display for the world to see. Should be bumped to the top.

We were joking after the first play that we expect Coach P to turn around and flip us all the bird. Remember he defied us to predict what they would run on first down....Defied us

 

[HuskyNan]

That he was leaving,he knew it and said to himself " here take that Uconn and have fun with it"That is laughing out loud were ever he is.

The "wherever" turns out to be in the AD's office at Hofstra.

Reality is JH did nit make or approve the decision. The board did. Larry McHugh has ultimate power.

McHugh and the board approved Hathaway's recommendation. Hathaway conducted the search and performed the interviews. article

"You know, I don’t know what ‘the safe hire’ means," UConn athletic director Jeff Hathaway said when I asked if he had made one. "What I know is we got a guy who’s spent more years in the Big East Conference as a head coach than anybody else. He’s won more championships than anybody else (tied with Rich Rodriguez). He has had 14 teams, 10 of them recognized by the AFCA for academic success. He’s put quality people into the NFL at the highest level. He’s deeply respected in every recruiting area that we recruit in and as we continue to enhance our recruiting areas, he has notoriety and respect in those areas also.

"I know that I evaluated the facts, I did due diligence, and we got the best person."

Everyone who knows Hathaway would call him a by-the-book guy. He said he interviewed six candidates (but can’t say who they are) and that Pasqualoni was in it from the beginning. Pasqualoni was on Hathaway’s "short list," the list that every big-time college AD must have just in case your football coach texts you an hour or so after you compete in the Fiesta Bowl to let you know he is interviewing for his "dream" job.

 

[Skiblets]

The "wherever" turns out to be in the AD's office at Hofstra.

McHugh and the board approved Hathaway's recommendation. Hathaway conducted the search and performed the interviews. article

"You know, I don’t know what ‘the safe hire’ means," UConn athletic director Jeff Hathaway said when I asked if he had made one. "What I know is we got a guy who’s spent more years in the Big East Conference as a head coach than anybody else. He’s won more championships than anybody else (tied with Rich Rodriguez). He has had 14 teams, 10 of them recognized by the AFCA for academic success. He’s put quality people into the NFL at the highest level. He’s deeply respected in every recruiting area that we recruit in and as we continue to enhance our recruiting areas, he has notoriety and respect in those areas also.

"I know that I evaluated the facts, I did due diligence, and we got the best person."

Everyone who knows Hathaway would call him a by-the-book guy. He said he interviewed six candidates (but can’t say who they are) and that Pasqualoni was in it from the beginning. Pasqualoni was on Hathaway’s "short list," the list that every big-time college AD must have just in case your football coach texts you an hour or so after you compete in the Fiesta Bowl to let you know he is interviewing for his "dream" job.

Chardis nailed it in that article.

Love this coach from PP "We’re here to have a program that everybody can be excited about," Pasqualoni said. "We want to bring a program to the fans that can be fun to watch. I want to be fun to watch. You can have fun watching the defense, have fun watching the offense and have fun watching the special teams."

The new coach is well aware that he’s being labeled the comfortable pick, not the most exciting.

"I know I’m not the sexiest hire," Pasqualoni said, "but I can be a little more sexy than people think I can be."

A friend may have come up with the best observation of the hiring.

"All we have to do is wait," he told me. "If he wins, he was the best man for the job. If he doesn’t, he wasn’t."

This program is not fun to watch.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Chardis nailed it in that article.

He left out one majornitem however.

When JH flew to Dallas to interview McGhee (who worked for Arkansas at that time) it was basically as subterfuge so that he could also interview PP without anyone (primarily Burton) knowing. I'm pretty confident that JH had decided to hire PP before the interview. It was a very unimaginative move.

 

[Adios]

I want to be fun to watch. You can have fun watching the defense, have fun watching the offense and have fun watching the special teams."

He only fulfilled 1/3rd of that quote.

 

[metsfan2323]

I don't blame Jeff Hathaway for this, i'm sure he hired what he thought was the best person. I blame P for hiring DeLeone and then doubling down on him by making him OL coach. P needs to rid himself of that mistake or he needs to be shown the door.

Edsall was smart enough to save his ass by firing his coordinators last year, P may be too stubborn to survive his own mistake

 

[FDNY99]

I don't blame Jeff Hathaway for this, i'm sure he hired what he thought was the best person. I blame P for hiring DeLeone and then doubling down on him by making him OL coach. P needs to rid himself of that mistake or he needs to be shown the door.

You need to blame Hathaway...he should have known he was in over his head and relied on Chuck Neinas to help him with the interviews! Jeff Hathaway is directly responsible for this disaster of a hire...just like he is directly responsible for the hoops practice facility still not being a reality...just like he is directly responsible for basically closing the compliance office and allowing The men's hoops fiasco to get to the point it got to...all the while screaming for his bonus!!! He is DIRECTLY to blame for this!!!

 

[metsfan2323]

You need to blame Hathaway...he should have known he was in over his head and relied on Chuck Neinas to help him with the interviews! Jeff Hathaway is directly responsible for this disaster of a hire...just like he is directly responsible for the hoops practice facility still not being a reality...just like he is directly responsible for basically closing the compliance office and allowing The men's hoops fiasco to get to the point it got to...all the while screaming for his bonus!!! He is DIRECTLY to blame for this!!!

Who did you want him to hire?

I keep hearing Garrick McGee's name brought up like he is some sort of genius but what is his record? The Delaware coach's star has fallen, most on this board hated the idea of Whipple, Mangini didn't want the job, nobody wanted Hathaway to promote Hughes.

In hindsight Joe Moorhead may have been a good choice, but there was no push for him at the time.

P might have been a good choice if he didn't bring his soulmate with him.

Right now Don Brown seems like a great candidate. December can't come fast enough.

 

[FDNY99]

McGee was the best choice if all the names you mentioned. Tom Bradley was another name...but it's funny how the guy gets beat out for the Pitt and Temple jobs then turns down an interview at UConn. Why...I don't know maybe because wors was out Hathaway was gonna hire a retread! McGee or Bradley would have been MUCH better hires than Pasqualoni. And it was a given he was gonna call DeLeone and get the band together again.

 

[UconnFamily]

McGee was the best choice if all the names you mentioned. Tom Bradley was another name...but it's funny how the guy gets beat out for the Pitt and Temple jobs then turns down an interview at UConn. Why...I don't know maybe because wors was out Hathaway was gonna hire a retread! McGee or Bradley would have been MUCH better hires than Pasqualoni. And it was a given he was gonna call DeLeone and get the band together again.

I agree!

 

[uconNYC]

The thing is with the likes of McGee and Bradley - at least fans could hope that things might get better and all they need is a bit more experience or recruiting to pick up...With PP there is no hope. We know what we have. End of story.

 

[Mr.Phat]

He is also responsible for the basketball team screwing up its APR.

WRONG. Hathaway is partially responsible. That's JC's fault. The buck - or failing grade - stops with him. He took full responsibility and should have.

 

[ZooCougar]

I don't blame Jeff Hathaway for this, i'm sure he hired what he thought was the best person. I blame P for hiring DeLeone and then doubling down on him by making him OL coach. P needs to rid himself of that mistake or he needs to be shown the door.

Edsall was smart enough to save his ass by firing his coordinators last year, P may be too stubborn to survive his own mistake

I do blame Hathaway. When an AD makes a HC hire he is in effect deciding what offensive and defensive system he is going to get. If he didn't know that he was also hiring George DeLeone at the time, if he didn't know what a miserable failure DeLeone was a OC...

Look if he admits that he knew, then that's bad, because if he did his due diligence then he knows he was horrendous OC.

If says he did not know that it's utter incompetence in not to doing due dilegence.

 

[Adios]

Bump. F Hathaway.

 

[Waquoit]

We were joking after the first play that we expect Coach P to turn around and flip us all the bird. Remember he defied us to predict what they would run on first down....Defied us

Yeah, in OT we make one first down. Now on 1st and 10 on the 14 or so, does he surprise us (or Temple)? No, under stress he reverts to form. Run up the middle, stuffed. Now it's our time to flip him the bird.

 

[ruskin]

a little Carrier Dome bump

 

[Skiblets]

F Hathaway. As much as we love to hate him, Edsall would still be here if not for Hathaway. Assistants coached the entire Fiesta Bowl season without contracts while Hathaway negotiated his own. Randy never told that story on his way out.

 

[johnhuskies95]

I don't blame Jeff Hathaway for this, i'm sure he hired what he thought was the best person. I blame P for hiring DeLeone and then doubling down on him by making him OL coach. P needs to rid himself of that mistake or he needs to be shown the door.

Edsall was smart enough to save his ass by firing his coordinators last year, P may be too stubborn to survive his own mistake

Hathaway hired this clown. Out of all the things he could've done, out of all the choices, he hired Paul ducking Pasqualoni. He was on NOBODY'S radar in college football. NOBODY.

 

[Adios]

Bump.

 

[willie99]

I think Jeff's one and only significant failure sealed his fate has a horrible AD and he'll probably never fill that roll again

that is if having a bad relationship with an iconic hoops coach, horrific fund raising efforts, lack of institutional controls and totally being dissed by your head football coach and largest booster didn't already do that

 

[FDNY99]

F Hathaway. As much as we love to hate him, Edsall would still be here if not for Hathaway. Assistants coached the entire Fiesta Bowl season without contracts while Hathaway negotiated his own. Randy never told that story on his way out.

I know a guy who was on Edsall's staff...they had contracts...the ink was just drying on them. He was actually told by Hathaway that he would have a job for 1 year, but after that if Pasqualoni wanted to make a change he could make a change. Either way it doesn't matter...this idiot made an awful hire and then miraculously got himself fired! Let's hope that Warde being a football guy was furious last night watching the team quit on Pasqualoni!

 

[FDNY99]

I think Jeff's one and only significant failure sealed his fate has a horrible AD and he'll probably never fill that roll again

that is if having a bad relationship with an iconic hoops coach, horrific fund raising efforts, lack of institutional controls and totally being dissed by your head football coach and largest booster didn't already do that

Willie he presently fills that roll at Hofstra University on LI.

 

[auggie22]

The equivalent of an upper decker on his way out the door.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I thought that there were some really serious problems with hiring a 60+ year old coach with a mediocre track record whose past success depended on having an NFL All-Star caliber quarterback. That said, I certainly did not expect this train wreck. I do remember Hathaway's quote that Pasqualoni won him over in the interview. Almost any serious company or consulting firm that has studied interview processes has proven that ranking candidates based on the quality of their interview later proves to have almost no correlation to their future job performance. I remember Bain Consulting in particular doing a lot of research on this topic.

I have a theory that Calhoun saw how silly Hathaway's hiring process was for Pasqualoni, decided Hathaway was not going to pick his successor, so Calhoun got Hathaway fired. Just a theory.

 

[FDNY99]

Nelson I think it was more like Calhoun hated Hathaway's guts SO MUCH that when Herbst was hired it was the perfect storm with McHugh being chairman of BOT..he was finally able to have his say. Hathaway then buried himself with Herbst...rest is history!

I thought that there were some really serious problems with hiring a 60+ year old coach with a mediocre track record whose past success depended on having an NFL All-Star caliber quarterback. That said, I certainly did not expect this train wreck. I do remember Hathaway's quote that Pasqualoni won him over in the interview. Almost any serious company or consulting firm that has studied interview processes has proven that ranking candidates based on the quality of their interview later proves to have almost no correlation to their future job performance. I remember Bain Consulting in particular doing a lot of research on this topic.

I have a theory that Calhoun saw how silly Hathaway's hiring process was for Pasqualoni, decided Hathaway was not going to pick his successor, so Calhoun got Hathaway fired. Just a theory.

 

[ruskin]

I hear the "Hathaway lied to Herbst" stuff a lot. Reading that to mean he told her hoop facility fundraising was further along than it really was or she spoke with Edsall about the reasons he left, went back to JH to get his version, and then found JH version didn't square with the truth.

 

[FDNY99]

I hear the "Hathaway lied to Herbst" stuff a lot. Reading that to mean he told her hoop facility fundraising was further along than it really was or she spoke with Edsall about the reasons he left, went back to JH to get his version, and then found JH version didn't square with the truth.

More than likely it had to do with donors...guys like Burton and Schenkman. Also fundraising for hoops facility. I also wouldn't be surprised if she had a conversation with Pendergast as well. Don't forget her XO is Rachel Rubin who also left the athletic department because of Hathaway! She was able to connect the dots; then had the study done. No matter what all I know is that ass bag is gone!

 

[willie99]

Willie he presently fills that roll at Hofstra University on LI.

too bad for them, at least Jeff doesn't have to worry about high standards

and maybe I should have qualified my statement that he'll never hold a relevant AD position again. I guess I can't speak for every small college, JC or CC