Pasqualoni & timing are huge factors

[Dann]

They realized it was not as easy as you make everything out to be?

I also believe that managing the XL was never in question - it was only the Rent and last I read, discussions were on-going as allowed per the lease agreement (albeit unlikely now that Global Spectrums has been selected - although the contract doesn't go into effect till end of August?).

If things were easy Rutgers would have a trophy case. Tuff times you sack up and do tuff things. Or you can be a rockstar.....go getters and aggressive minds earn and lazy ppl make excuses.

 

[huskymedic]

If things were easy Rutgers would have a trophy case. Tuff times you sack up and do tuff things. Or you can be a rockstar.....go getters and aggressive minds earn and lazy ppl make excuses.

You just can't admit that you are not always right on every point... You raise some that indeed have merit but then the voices in your head start talking in multiple archaic languages, synapses start misfiring, you start to get carried away and things go in the crapper.

 

[freescooter]

So, wait a minute. The assistant coach at BC was not otherwise qualified? Really?

And, the fact that a player with no coaching becomes an assistant is no surprise. The current head coach at Boston U. got his start exactly that way. There are former players who immediately become college hockey assistants at the top places all over the country.

Heck, there are former players who become HEAD hockey coaches in the NHL without any prior experience.

No idea whether he was otherwise qualified. We'll find out. But here's what makes me suspect. According to folks at BC he is not going to get that job when York retires, despite 20 years as an assistant to Jerry York and 18 at BC. He didn't get the PC job, nor the Ohio State job nor the Vermont job nor the UMass job and the latter was turned down by 3 others including the coach at Holy Cross! So all these programs that are way ahead of UConn found him wanting. He was an assistant to the best coach in the game. Not so hard to recruit kids to play for a legend at a school with lots of traditon. We'll see how that translates to recruiting to play for Cavanaugh at a school with none. As for his assistants, it isn't so much that he took on one guy with zero years experience, it is that he took on 2 guys with 2 years total between them.

Finally, we had a candidate for this job who apparently was seriously interested, who had a pretty impressive resume. He rebuilt a Denver program that had been to the NCAAs once in the previous 15 years and brought them to 12 in 19 years including 2 Championships. So it was kind of like Tulane looking for a basketball coach, Calhoun applying for the job but they hire Craig Esherick. As a final note, I recently met the head coach of a mid-level hockey east team and we were chatting about UConn and recruiting. His comment was that to be successful you need to recruit Canada and forget New England. He said that the top New England kids are locked up by BC, BU, UNH, and to a lesser extent Harvard, Yale and Maine. Aside from the odd borderline kid who blossoms or some kid who grew up following your program or is the son of an alumnus or something, you can't out-recruit those guys. This idea that Connecticut kids will be flocking to UConn because of Mike Cavanaugh and Peirera is just looney.

 

[upstater]

No idea whether he was otherwise qualified. We'll find out. But here's what makes me suspect. According to folks at BC he is not going to get that job when York retires, despite 20 years as an assistant to Jerry York and 18 at BC. He didn't get the PC job, nor the Ohio State job nor the Vermont job nor the UMass job and the latter was turned down by 3 others including the coach at Holy Cross! So all these programs that are way ahead of UConn found him wanting. He was an assistant to the best coach in the game. Not so hard to recruit kids to play for a legend at a school with lots of traditon. We'll see how that translates to recruiting to play for Cavanaugh at a school with none. As for his assistants, it isn't so much that he took on one guy with zero years experience, it is that he took on 2 guys with 2 years total between them.

Finally, we had a candidate for this job who apparently was seriously interested, who had a pretty impressive resume. He rebuilt a Denver program that had been to the NCAAs once in the previous 15 years and brought them to 12 in 19 years including 2 Championships. So it was kind of like Tulane looking for a basketball coach, Calhoun applying for the job but they hire Craig Esherick. As a final note, I recently met the head coach of a mid-level hockey east team and we were chatting about UConn and recruiting. His comment was that to be successful you need to recruit Canada and forget New England. He said that the top New England kids are locked up by BC, BU, UNH, and to a lesser extent Harvard, Yale and Maine. Aside from the odd borderline kid who blossoms or some kid who grew up following your program or is the son of an alumnus or something, you can't out-recruit those guys. This idea that Connecticut kids will be flocking to UConn because of Mike Cavanaugh and Peirera is just looney.

David Quinn is now the HC at Boston U. McCarthy is like a Quinn.

 

[freescooter]

Dan doesn't know how bad things were under Hathaway. I can point to things Warde did that Hathaway would have failed at (or did fail) - keeping the Michigan game at the Rent, getting fundraising for the practice facility and getting the actual construction started, signing KO to a multi year deal (OH NO IT TOOK A MONTH LONGER WE MIGHT HAVE LOST ONE OR TWO RECRUITS LETS ALL DRINK BLEACH), telling PP to take GDL out of the OC duties, hiring Cavanaugh, scheduling Boise and BYU in football, Maryland, Florida possibly Stanford for MBB... all of this evidence doesn't count because it doesn't support the conclusion. So - ignore the data. It's like trying to convince a Fox News watcher that Obama actually is anything other than a muslim socialist - they already have it ingrained in their head as an article of faith and no mountain of facts or reality will change that.

Now, I am not saying Warde is on the same level as Tom Jurich. He's not rockstar level, that was a pithy quote that maybe Herbst shouldn't have said. But he's not a bumbling dunce either. He's not the type to make public rah-rah "we're awesome every other school can usck it" statements, or to say "waaaah our conference situation sucks" either, so all the boneyarders who feel the need to have the AD mirror their every emotion will always be disappointed.

I think he's got some okay accomplishments, but since we're stuck in the AAC (thanks mostly to DeFillippo, FSU, and Tom Jurich), conference affiliation takes precedence and everything else is ignored. Perhaps if the football team only goes 5-6 wins then we'll see Warde make a tougher decision and then we'll have a something meatier to evaluate him on. I hope we manage to get 8 wins somehow though just because it would start the program finally coming out of the doldrums.

I hate to come to Dan's defense here, but I actually think he is more right than wrong on this. He got badly out maneuvered by Jurich (and I've heard we WERE penned into that slot) on the ACC so in some ways everything else is like saying the London Whale kept his desk neat. He lost $6 billion in 15 seconds but what the hey? Has he done some things well? Sure. But I'd say on the whole he has been no more than adequate, and he's been downright awful on some. How do you schedule a big basketball game on the same day as a potentially big football game two years in a row? Scheduling for football was fine as far as it goes, but as Dan points out, getting Boise and BYU isn't exactly a coup. Hockey, the decison to upgrade was a good one. The selection of a head coach is no better than a guess at this point. Remember this guy has been turned down for a bunch of jobs, and by most reports he was not scheduled to succeed York when he decides to step aside. And what gives me pause is the fact that he didn't get the UMass job, and Umass struggled to find someone to even take it. That he doesn't seem to get that Pasqualoni is sucking the life and the interest out of the football program is also troubling. While having a good basketball program is important to UConn's self identity, having a good football program is critical to its athletic future.

 

[junglehusky]

I'd love for freescooter go up to Cavanaugh, tell him he should forget about recruiting Connecticut because we're not going to get those kids (as was heard from another HE coach) and then hear Cavanaugh's response.

 

[freescooter]

David Quinn is now the HC at Boston U. McCarthy is like a Quinn.

Who is McCarthy? Quinn has been an assistant at a few places including BU, an AHL head coach, a coach of the national U-17 team and an NHL Assistant. I like the choice at BU. In fact he was a terrific choice. I like guys who have been assistants/lower level head coaches in more than 1 place. They have been exposed to more than one way of doing things. In Quinn's case he has shown that he knows how to be a head coach. To me Cavanaugh has lifetime assistant written all over him. And again, I wouldn't have a problem with hiring an inexperienced 2nd assistant. it is pretty common in college hockey. But he hired 2 inexperienced assistants. to me that raises questions. did he not have an adequate budget to bring in an experienced assistant? If so that is an issue with the Athletic Director. Or did he not have enough confidence that he only wanted young guys who wouldn't ever challenge him? that would be a real issue with him. or was he unable to convince a more experienced assistant to join him? If so you have to wonder about his ability to convince a better recruit to come to Storrs.

 

[upstater]

Who is McCarthy? Quinn has been an assistant at a few places including BU, an AHL head coach, a coach of the national U-17 team and an NHL Assistant. I like the choice at BU. In fact he was a terrific choice. I like guys who have been assistants/lower level head coaches in more than 1 place. They have been exposed to more than one way of doing things. In Quinn's case he has shown that he knows how to be a head coach. To me Cavanaugh has lifetime assistant written all over him. And again, I wouldn't have a problem with hiring an inexperienced 2nd assistant. it is pretty common in college hockey. But he hired 2 inexperienced assistants. to me that raises questions. did he not have an adequate budget to bring in an experienced assistant? If so that is an issue with the Athletic Director. Or did he not have enough confidence that he only wanted young guys who wouldn't ever challenge him? that would be a real issue with him. or was he unable to convince a more experienced assistant to join him? If so you have to wonder about his ability to convince a better recruit to come to Storrs.

You are blasting him for hiring an assistant like David Quinn!! The assistant was David Quinn a few years ago. Bizarre.

 

[freescooter]

I'd love for freescooter go up to Cavanaugh, tell him he should forget about recruiting Connecticut because we're not going to get those kids (as was heard from another HE coach) and then hear Cavanaugh's response.

Not sure if you noticed, but there were 2 Connecticut based teams in the NCAA finals. there was 1 Connecticut player. there are currently 4 D1 hockey teams in Connecticut. National Champ Yale had 0 Connecticut kids. Runner up Quinnipiac had 1. UConn had 3 and th eworst team in the country, Sacred heart, had 3. In terms of New Englanders, BC had 11, BU 9, while mid-level program, Merrimack had 6, all from Massachusetts, and half of those from nearby towns.

 

[freescooter]

You are blasting him for hiring an assistant like David Quinn!! The assistant was David Quinn a few years ago. Bizarre.

Apparently you either don't read or don't comprehend. I said quite clearly i don't have a problem hiring an inexperienced assistant. My problem is hiring 2 inexperienced assistants, especially with an inexerienced head coach. Quinn began his coaching career at Northeastern. I don't know who else was there at the time but I suspect the assistants had more than 2 years coaching experience. But if not, well, I'm not sure we want to model our program after theirs anyway.

 

[pj]

Dan does have a lot of great points. Warde has had many opportunities to do something outstanding and he's generally achieved mediocrity. Of course if we got an invite to a big conference, his job performance would have to be rated satisfactory; that one consideration almost dominates everything else. But that's out of our control. He has to excel at everything that is within our control.

I wish they would hire Dan as a consultant, he has a lot of good ideas. They need more of an entrepreneurial, less of a bureaucratic, mindset.

 

[upstater]

Apparently you either don't read or don't comprehend. I said quite clearly i don't have a problem hiring an inexperienced assistant. My problem is hiring 2 inexperienced assistants, especially with an inexerienced head coach. Quinn began his coaching career at Northeastern. I don't know who else was there at the time but I suspect the assistants had more than 2 years coaching experience. But if not, well, I'm not sure we want to model our program after theirs anyway.

No, Quinn didn't begin his coaching career at Northeastern. He began it at BU, was behind that BU bench under Parker forever. At the time, the other assistants were one of the Bavis brothers (who were younger than Quinn) and the goalie coach, who was a lot older, but the goalie coach was strictly a goalie coach and did no more. One of the guys Quinn coached in his first year out was Mike Sullivan.

Sullivan played 10 years of NHL hockey before being named coach of the Providence Bruins. With one year of coaching experience, he was then named coach of the Boston Bruins. He lead them to a 104 point record and coached them for 5 seasons.

There is no way to say how much experience these guys need. No one had less coaching experience than Mike Sullivan. And yet he lead the Bruins to a 104 point season in his first year.

 

[huskymedic]

Not sure if you noticed, but there were 2 Connecticut based teams in the NCAA finals. there was 1 Connecticut player. there are currently 4 D1 hockey teams in Connecticut. National Champ Yale had 0 Connecticut kids. Runner up Quinnipiac had 1. UConn had 3 and th eworst team in the country, Sacred heart, had 3. In terms of New Englanders, BC had 11, BU 9, while mid-level program, Merrimack had 6, all from Massachusetts, and half of those from nearby towns.

... and if you truly believe that they are putting all their recruiting eggs in the CT basket you are delusional. It was a classic new coach sound bite line... You know it, I know it, Warde knows it and sure as hell Cavanaugh knows it. If Gwoz was ready to commit to more than two years to three years - he probably would have the job.

 

[Dann]

Dan does have a lot of great points. Warde has had many opportunities to do something outstanding and he's generally achieved mediocrity. Of course if we got an invite to a big conference, his job performance would have to be rated satisfactory; that one consideration almost dominates everything else. But that's out of our control. He has to excel at everything that is within our control.

I wish they would hire Dan as a consultant, he has a lot of good ideas. They need more of an entrepreneurial, less of a bureaucratic, mindset.

Send me lawyers, guns and money. I'll figure it out from there.

My root issue is that at such a critical time for uconn we are making blah average decisions and not doing everything possible to improve. We're not making horrible decisions and shooting ourselves in the foot either. But we're keeping the stereo type perception of we're around but nothing special. We need to be special.

We need to show some life. Schools come up here and kickoff is ghost town. That leaves a bad impression on the high level heads that we just don't have the fanbase or drama class teachers to put on a show. I always dreamed of a countdown clock on a scoreboard and when It gets to 20 seconds left the student section yells uconn. Then the rest of the stadium yells huskies. Do the chant as we all know and when the chant ends everyone starts stomping feet and yelling getting real hyped up. Then the smoke comes and some good rock song starts playing. 3 husky dogs come ripping out and dash got he 50 down the line of cheerleaders to 3 guys with leashes. Following them are 3 players with a USA, uconn and ct flags. The USA flag gets assigned by some player reward each week, same with the uconn flag. Make it a big deal to get that privilege. The ct flag only ct kids can earn the right to carry. The first game of each year the captains carry for official recognition pics and w/e. so they then follow the dogs running out of the tunnel and then the rest of the team.

What is so hard about drawing that up and doing it? I honestly don't get what's so hard about that. It would be great. It gives ppl a reason to get in early. U want to be there for the dogs hauling ass up the field. U want to be there stomping the concrete and yelling. U want to be chanting uconn. It's gives the fanbase a sense of pride and a reason to be in there early.

Then here's the tricky part we stink at. Some one up in the press box takes his cell phone out and records the whole thing. Then that person takes it and puts in all over twitter and you tubes of the world. Now we're getting somewhere. You call it the most exciting minute in New England. Or entrance or something. Basically burry bc and umass before they even sniff it.

Stuff like this should be happening. It's not. And because its not I'm pissed.

 

[freescooter]

No, Quinn didn't begin his coaching career at Northeastern. He began it at BU, was behind that BU bench under Parker forever. At the time, the other assistants were one of the Bavis brothers (who were younger than Quinn) and the goalie coach, who was a lot older, but the goalie coach was strictly a goalie coach and did no more. One of the guys Quinn coached in his first year out was Mike Sullivan.

Sullivan played 10 years of NHL hockey before being named coach of the Providence Bruins. With one year of coaching experience, he was then named coach of the Boston Bruins. He lead them to a 104 point record and coached them for 5 seasons.

There is no way to say how much experience these guys need. No one had less coaching experience than Mike Sullivan. And yet he lead the Bruins to a 104 point season in his first year.

I don't know where you get this stuff on Quinn, but he coached at Northeastern and Nebraska-Omaha in the college ranks before he coached at BU. Or at least that's what the BU website says.
From the BU press release announcing Quinn's selection as head Coach to replace Jack Parker:

"However, his hopes for an Olympic Team berth and a career in the NHL came to an end prior to his senior year at BU when he was diagnosed with a blood disorder called Christmas Disease that ultimately ended his hockey-playing career. After trying to play two seasons of professional hockey, he took the assistant position at Northeastern, where he was responsible for recruiting, off-ice conditioning, scouting and video coordination."

After Northeastern he went to Nebraska Omaha for six years. Then for a few years with Hockey USA coaching U-17 and U-18 national teams. He didn't return to BU as an assistant until 2004, by which time he had experience as an assistant at NU, an Assistant at UNO and coach of the US U-17 and U-18 teams. It is possible I guess that he was some kind of student assistant his Senior season which he missed due to his medical condition. Maybe some kind of volunteer after that until he got clearance to play again, maybe its possible. But none of that is listed on his biography from BU. But his first real coaching job was at Northeastern.

 

[upstater]

I don't know where you get this stuff on Quinn, but he coached at Northeastern and Nebraska-Omaha in the college ranks before he coached at BU. Or at least that's what the BU website says.
From the BU press release announcing Quinn's selection as head Coach to replace Jack Parker:

"However, his hopes for an Olympic Team berth and a career in the NHL came to an end prior to his senior year at BU when he was diagnosed with a blood disorder called Christmas Disease that ultimately ended his hockey-playing career. After trying to play two seasons of professional hockey, he took the assistant position at Northeastern, where he was responsible for recruiting, off-ice conditioning, scouting and video coordination."

After Northeastern he went to Nebraska Omaha for six years. Then for a few years with Hockey USA coaching U-17 and U-18 national teams. He didn't return to BU as an assistant until 2004, by which time he had experience as an assistant at NU, an Assistant at UNO and coach of the US U-17 and U-18 teams. It is possible I guess that he was some kind of student assistant his Senior season which he missed due to his medical condition. Maybe some kind of volunteer after that until he got clearance to play again, maybe its possible. But none of that is listed on his biography from BU. But his first real coaching job was at Northeastern.

I know for a fact that he coached at BU first. He was an assistant the same way Ricky Moore is occupying that seat now. Director of Operations. He was right there on the bench for every game in 1988-1990. He had already graduated. This was before his professional career. look at that block of time between the end of his college playing days and his professional career. 1988-1992. 4 years. His biography doesn't show what he was doing then. He was coaching as the lowest rung assistant. He was already graduated, so not a student.

 

[huskymedic]

Send me lawyers, guns and money. I'll figure it out from there.

My root issue is that at such a critical time for uconn we are making blah average decisions and not doing everything possible to improve. We're not making horrible decisions and shooting ourselves in the foot either. But we're keeping the stereo type perception of we're around but nothing special. We need to be special.

We need to show some life. Schools come up here and kickoff is ghost town. That leaves a bad impression on the high level heads that we just don't have the fanbase or drama class teachers to put on a show. I always dreamed of a countdown clock on a scoreboard and when It gets to 20 seconds left the student section yells uconn. Then the rest of the stadium yells huskies. Do the chant as we all know and when the chant ends everyone starts stomping feet and yelling getting real hyped up. Then the smoke comes and some good rock song starts playing. 3 husky dogs come ripping out and dash got he 50 down the line of cheerleaders to 3 guys with leashes. Following them are 3 players with a USA, uconn and ct flags. The USA flag gets assigned by some player reward each week, same with the uconn flag. Make it a big deal to get that privilege. The ct flag only ct kids can earn the right to carry. The first game of each year the captains carry for official recognition pics and w/e. so they then follow the dogs running out of the tunnel and then the rest of the team.

What is so hard about drawing that up and doing it? I honestly don't get what's so hard about that. It would be great. It gives ppl a reason to get in early. U want to be there for the dogs hauling ass up the field. U want to be there stomping the concrete and yelling. U want to be chanting uconn. It's gives the fanbase a sense of pride and a reason to be in there early.

Then here's the tricky part we stink at. Some one up in the press box takes his cell phone out and records the whole thing. Then that person takes it and puts in all over twitter and you tubes of the world. Now we're getting somewhere. You call it the most exciting minute in New England. Or entrance or something. Basically burry bc and umass before they even sniff it.

Stuff like this should be happening. It's not. And because its not I'm pissed.

Now that should be sent to SH in a professional letter w/ spellcheck. This is one of those valid/sane ideas!

p.s. - please incorporate the Husky howls over the PA @ pre-set intervals so folks in parking lots are reminded of approaching kick-off.

 

[Dann]

Now that should be sent to SH in a professional letter w/ spellcheck. This is one of those valid/sane ideas!

p.s. - please incorporate the Husky howls over the PA @ pre-set intervals so folks in parking lots are reminded of approaching kick-off.

I have a thousand of these. They don't listen. They don't care. That's the feeling I get back and it why I'm waging holy war. And for the record when I email or say something thats not on a message board from my crapy laptop or my phone, I speak real English so that's not the issue.

 

[huskymedic]

I have a thousand of these. They don't listen. They don't care. That's the feeling I get back and it why I'm waging holy war. And for the record when I email or say something thats not on a message board from my crapy laptop or my phone, I speak real English so that's not the issue.

Again, they are not going to agree to everything and because they don't act on all things, it doesn't mean "they don't care"...

Maybe it needs to come from within, like the Student Government, Letter to Editor @ Daily Campus or http://www.spirit.uconn.edu/

I was being lazy/flippant with the send to SH comment but it needs to get to the right person and while we can agree/argue that it should get the drop everything immediate attention of SH/WM it's realistically not on their plate right now.

 

[freescooter]

I know for a fact that he coached at BU first. He was an assistant the same way Ricky Moore is occupying that seat now. Director of Operations. He was right there on the bench for every game in 1988-1990. He had already graduated. This was before his professional career. look at that block of time between the end of his college playing days and his professional career. 1988-1992. 4 years. His biography doesn't show what he was doing then. He was coaching as the lowest rung assistant. He was already graduated, so not a student.

Must have been a volunteer or something, because I can't imagine why BU wouldn't include it on the experience of a former BU player and assistant. And I looked up his resume on another site and they don't mention it either. While I don't doubt you that he was there, I suspect he was there in some volunteer/unofficial capacity.

 

[upstater]

Must have been a volunteer or something, because I can't imagine why BU wouldn't include it on the experience of a former BU player and assistant. And I looked up his resume on another site and they don't mention it either. While I don't doubt you that he was there, I suspect he was there in some volunteer/unofficial capacity.

What does anyone say he was doing between 1988 and 1992?

Maybe they wanted to emphasize that he began in 1994 after his career ended.

 

[junglehusky]

Again, they are not going to agree to everything and because they don't act on all things, it doesn't mean "they don't care"...

Maybe it needs to come from within, like the Student Government, Letter to Editor @ Daily Campus or http://www.spirit.uconn.edu/

I was being lazy/flippant with the send to SH comment but it needs to get to the right person and while we can agree/argue that it should get the drop everything immediate attention of SH/WM it's realistically not on their plate right now.

Some of Dan's ideas are fine, but it's not quite as simple as the AD saying "here's what we're going to do". The crowd may or may not respond to that kind of top-down approach. It would be great if the students formed a supporter's group to initiate these traditions on their own... and even better if they had the backing of athletic department and the casual crowd actually gave enough of a s*** to join in.

BTW - if I type four asterisks in a row, effectively self-censoring my words, the filter takes out the four asterisks, but if I type s+3asterisks it's okay?????

 

[freescooter]

What does anyone say he was doing between 1988 and 1992?

Maybe they wanted to emphasize that he began in 1994 after his career ended.

I have no idea. I'm just pointing out that it seems unusual at the very least that if he was on the staff in any official capacity BU wouldn't list a former BU player and assistant coach. One possibility was that he was back in school for at one of the years since the BU website indicates that he didn't actually graduate until 1989 despite missing his "senior" season which would have been 1987-88.

 

[upstater]

I have no idea. I'm just pointing out that it seems unusual at the very least that if he was on the staff in any official capacity BU wouldn't list a former BU player and assistant coach. One possibility was that he was back in school for at one of the years since the BU website indicates that he didn't actually graduate until 1989 despite missing his "senior" season which would have been 1987-88.

He was there for a few years. My housemates during those years were players.

 

[B1GALUM]

Agreed. I really don't think UConn and the ACC are a good fit. As long as BCU is in that conference they will 1) always politick against us because they are scared and 2) always remind southern football schools how much they dislike northeast football. I honestly don't think there is an AD in the country that could have gotten UConn into the ACC but the question really should be: why would we want to go to the ACC? Is the ACC the best UConn can do? The ACC has clearly demonstrated that it puts little value in top academics (Louisville, FSU, NC State) or recent athletic achievement (Pitt, BCU). It is a conference full of easily manipulated and weak Presidents who may or may not have a GOR in place, may or may not have a TV Network launch, and who are constantly fearful that they are third fiddle to the SEC and B1G. It's essentially the Big East, cirqa 2002. The absolute ceiling for such a p1ss poor academic reputation school such as Louisville is the ACC. I think UConn can do better, even if it means serving a few years in the AAC. Maybe I overvalue UConn through Husky blue tinted glasses, but I think UConn can and will go B1G. If it's 2016 and we aren't any closer to the B1G than we are today, then F Warde. But we're on the right track...it's just going to take some time and patience on our part (and a helluva lot support).

I think UConn would certainly find a more collegial atmosphere in the B1G. A part of an article, giving a Maryland perspective on their recent experience in the ACC, from the Big Ten SB Nation site.

http://www.offtackleempire.com/2013/6/10/4412098/b1g-2013-maryland-cocktail-party-preview

If You're Talking To A Terrapin Fan, Don't Mention:

The ACC, Debbie Yow, Angry Maryland Quarterback Hating God.
Maryland's divorce from the ACC is getting ugly, with both sides now seeming to despise the other and anxiously awaiting the results of the lawsuits each has filed relating to Maryland's move. Initially, the reaction from many Maryland fans about the move for the B1G wasn't super positive, as they lamented leaving the conference they helped found, along with the rivalries that have been developed over the last 50+ years. But over time, many have warmed up to the idea, partially as a result of the bitterness the ACC has shown towards Maryland. Additionally, many initially believed that money was the driving factor is Maryland's decision to leave the ACC. But as more learned that the move to the Big Ten was driven more about how the ACC was treating Maryland, such as the conference's decision to make Pitt the school's primary rival, the majority of the fan base has come on board about the decision, while also increasing their displeasure for the ACC. -Dave T.