OT: With fans like these, who needs backside injections?

[DobbsRover2]

Okay, I'm not pinning this one on the UConn football board, which generally has a fair amount of rationality and varying degrees of optimism (okay pessimism) concerning all the conference realignment issues in relation to the football team and where the school's priorities should be. Plus they had a nice shout out for the UConn men's BEast track championship, which means they are very good people over there.

But there is another socalled Husky fan on another board here concerned with the CR stuff who has certain very public biases and who seems to have become a little bit unhinged over the news posted on another thread here that a women's basketball coach is the highest paid state employee. The guy's quips have ranged from a) any money that is spent on any sport other than football is a waste, b) it is stupid to be wasting money on a women's basketball coach and the team no matter what the credentials, c) most of America has never heard of Geno Auriemma, d) the money should go to football because that's all that the American sports magnates and their money-paying masses care about.

Granted, this deeply concussed pileofpoop does not represent UConn football fans, but he is emitting the gases that fuel the fire fart rages that are the focus of many of the CR discussions and UConn football stories. When women's basketball is not referred to as a nice little minor-sport bit of publicity to have in the Husky fold, there are the totally dismissive nobody-cares-about-women's-basketball freaks who can quickly turn into plow'em-under road-raged bus drivers.

Submitted are a few points for the most desperately deranged basket cases of the CR world to ponder.

• Why pour all your resources into a mediocre to poor product without a plan that anyone seriously gives a near-term chance to succeed in some cranial-blown hope that UConn will instantly achieve some august position among the traditional football powers of the land? So if you're an electronics company with the some promising and well-reputed "spin-off" products and a lumbering iPad clone that is used mainly by Mongolian cricket players, you should ditch all your hot items and push your Yurt Stumps x20 brand?
• At a time when dozens of universities around the nation have been badly damaged or are facing punishing charges about misconduct in the football programs, why be in a rush to starve all the other sports that generally have much higher ratings by the public about ethics and conduct? When a PSU is slammed for having a football admin and assorted tag-along AD staffers who could form a cast of Hannibal impersonators, it's nice to have a few thriving sports like that no-money women's volleyball team to help carry the college brand a bit.
• So having Connecticut's image sullied as the sole "women's b-ball coach state" is a big burden for certain basket-case fans? I remember an election back in 1972 where MA residents were proud to flaunt their uniqueness among all the other states. Again, it's good to flaunt a well-respected brand that even a few sports fans down in Louisiana might recognize instead of being just another in the "football coach state" crowd and having a snotty Tiger fan ask, "so y'all do have a football coach?" I mean, does anyone have the figure on how many UConn football players have been featured on sports magazines in comparison to women's and men's players?
• I have seen five or more ways of portraying UConn's WCBB revenue over the years, and you can slice up the contributions from the student allocations, media revenue, and memorabilia sales to show vastly different numbers even after you get ticket sales sorted out. But the the most rabid pigskin heads always assume that the WCBB team pulls in a half basket of three dollar bills while only a football team can make the money the manly old-fashioned way. The fact is of course that both of the UConn basketball teams spend a lot less than the football team and clear a much greater "profit," however you determine that. They are the engines that have been fueling that lipsticked-up pigskin that has been pimped up for the football CR gods to review so unfavorably, so the basket-cases should really be showing the hoopsters a whole lot of loving in the attempt to build a football program.
• Despite the fact that the directions for the bus driver come mainly from the football powers, the numbers of football players on any campus is a small portion of the student body. If football at UConn is to drive toward higher popularity, it is likely best for the pigskin fans to try to involve all of the school's sports fans in their quest for higher visibility and popularity ratings and not try to be divisive by saying that money spent on women's basketball is a waste. There are certain accounting geekheads in this world who think that $200G spent on say a hockey coach is a waste since it can be spent on an offensive line coach and that naturally ensures that the coach will have better ideas and that the team will then be an unstoppable wall of chain movers. Sorry, but life doesn't normally work that way. Geno and and HHC Cavanaugh have both earned big rewards for their works, and my guess is that more students at UConn think they should get the love, while the verdict may still be very much out on the offensive line coach's prowess.

 

[Ozzie Nelson]

Fine cognition, fine writing, Dobbs

 

[ChicagoGG]

Excellent piece, Dobbs! Sadly, the cro-magnons of CR mania cannot read anything longer than 140 characters, nor do they have the attention span to comprehend your explication. You are on a roll these days....and that avatar makes me soooo happy when I look at it !

 

[Zorro]

But Dobbs, how do you REALLY feel?

 

[HuskyNan]

It's one guy. He's one of the people that watches a couple women's games a year hoping players will get into a fight and someone's shirt will be ripped off. Take his posts on women's hoops FWIW.

 

[DobbsRover2]

But Dobbs, how do you REALLY feel?

Well, I'm not really sure about spending on the offensive line staff, but the defensive back field is a really sexy place to be strutting your gridiron power, and I'm thinking if Geno could just fork over maybe $2M of his earnings to beefing up the coaching for the cornerbacks and safeties and maybe an occasional nickelback, all would be peachy keen and beautiful in this world. I mean, what's a 9th , 10th, 11th, etc. national title really mean these days?