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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 2078315, member: 5832"] To me it feels a lot more like UMass. Bruiser Flint was one of Squid's crack assistants and they just let him fester too long and he couldn't maintain in spite of some pretty good recruiting classes. Conferences were already shifting at that time and the stronger the Big East got, the more the A-10 got shuffled off to the side. I live on this side of the border so I watched all of it and their fan base then is almost a carbon-copy of this year's UConn fan base. Complete with the whole 'if you fire him, you're firing your own' kind of stuff, 'well maybe he's not a good x and o guy, BUT HE CAN RECRUIT,' etc. He was more or less forced out, then they managed to reel in Lappas - who was clearly using them as a stepping stone and was never really committed to the program. Then along game Ford and he WAS using it as a stepping stone. So they had enough of outside solutions so went back INSIDE~! and hired Derek Kellog and he's getting what - $1.7 million and he's got one tournament appearance in 8 years. Eventually you start floundering, they'll go through the mud sticking to the wall thing and then probably recoil or something like that... But it feels a lot more like UMass than those other guys. [/QUOTE]