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Message: [QUOTE="dbmill, post: 2391118, member: 2504"] My thoughts on these coaches. To me Ray Reid and Kevin Ollie are most on the hot seat. Even with being in the AAC, both men's soccer and men's basketball programs should be able to do better than they have. With both Reid and Ollie, it seems like the same sort of things year after year seem to crop up that in the end to make fans disappointed in those programs. With Reid this stuff has been going on year after year. While Ollie has only been around a few years, a disturbing pattern seems to be setting in that makes everyone nervous. Men's hockey has a lot more problems than the guy behind the bench. It is still pretty much a brand new spanking program that is clearly having growing pains with the top flight hockey played in Hockey East. I doubt this team is ever going to get into the top half of Hockey East without the obviously glaring need of quality hockey facilities in Storrs. If you want to improve men's ice hockey, build a new on campus ice rink. Women's soccer is a different animal. To me it is the one UConn program that has been most hurt by the lack of a modern athletic facility and by conference realignment. I feel the decline of the women's soccer program is clearly in relation to P5 teams getting involved in the sport during the 1990's and 2000's, schools that clearly had brand new modern facilities to show off, while UConn continued to make due with Morrone Stadium, a facility that is simply lacking in any of the creature comforts that many recruits look for. Things might have been different for women's soccer if the new soccer facility had come on line about 15 years ago, but now it might be the most stuck of any of UConn's sports programs. [/QUOTE]

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