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Message: [QUOTE="gsmooth, post: 5072229, member: 9355"] I drop my fair share of money into the collectives and my father had been a donor since the 80s and he was a part time medical consultant for the Men's basketball team. Is it T. Boone Pickens money? No. I think this is besides the point, though. I understand there budget constraints, which is why they tried the horribly desperate hire of Edsall 2.0. Mora is starting to look like that, but let's give him the year and see if he can turn things around. UConn has to do 1 of these 2 things: 1) UConn has to push for more funding, maybe from the state legislature, to get more positional coaches and staff needed to improve recruiting and the roster. Make the investment in football and it will payoff. 2) But if the budget constraints are rigid and they cannot get more funding (#1 above), then they need to hire better coaches, perhaps from the FCS level that have shown they are program builders and have a history producing good offenses. Proven offensive innovative FCS coaches would be cheaper and are better than older retreads anyways. There are teams with less money, paying their coaches less, and don't have nearly the branding of UConn that are doing far more with less such as North Dakota St, Appalachian State, lots of Sun Belt teams, and I am sure there are more G5 teams I am sure I am leaving out. [/QUOTE]