Pasqualoni & timing are huge factors

[upstater]

Both Pitt and Temple benefited buy getting into better conferences. I think having a series of aggressive younger coach has not hurt Cinci at all. My sense is that PP is here until he retires. Those kind of coaches never win big. They are collecting paychecks because the fire has gone out. They do enough to keep their jobs and they ride the loyalty train as long as there are factions at the school the value that trait. The best older coaches (Holtz, Paterno, Bowden) won in their prime, not late in their careers. Were PP's best years at Cuse and now Uconn gets the end of his career?

You have no choice other than to support what is there, mainly because of the kids that play the game for your enjoyment. You don't want failure, but is 7-8 wins really good enough? The bottom line is whether this coach and this staff has the fire to recruit the kids you need, and the aggressive play calling and philosophy that will consistently win 10 games. Because until Uconn is consistently 10-2 in the AAC and champion of the league for consecutive seasons, there will be no respect for the program and that hoped for invite will forever remain a hope.

It depends on what you mean by prime. Some of those guys coached to near 80. 15 years earlier they were Pasqualoni's age and winning big games.

Manuel has a football background. He didn't hire Pasqualoni. I tend to think those two factors alone would make him likely to fire him if the results are mediocre again.

Let's face it: you don't fire a coach after 2 years anywhere in college football. It doesn't happen. Kragthorpe, for instance, got 4 years. How many did Robinson get at Syracuse?

 

[freescooter]

well we certainly got the stepping back part down. As far "new systems" go I hope you're talking about the one TJ Weist is bringing in. I'm trying to hold my fire on PP until the season begins. The best I'm hoping for is he stays out of TJ's way and works with HH to make sure there's not too much of a dropoff on the defense. Even if the offense has a great year it will show that the past two years (and a defense that had 4 NFL draft picks) were wasted because PP felt obligated to bring along his boy -- and I highly doubt Hathaway bothered to ask PP normal questions like "who will your offensive coordinator be" and "what's your offensive philosophy?"

I'm still baffled about the provincialism on this board when it comes to citing the home state of the head coach as a positive (and a shield to deflect his inadequacies). What difference does it make? Jim Calhoun is from Mass, Bear Bryant was from Arkansas; Nick Saban is from West Virginia, Joe Paterno was from New York, etc. etc. Next go-round let's try to hire the best coach, not the best coach with CT ties.

ruskin, my man!!! We hire a football coach because he has good Connecticut ties. Then we repeat the error by hiring a hockey coach because he is the best guy available...oops, no, because he has the best Connecticut ties, then he hires an assistant because he is the best...oops again, because he is FROM Connecticut so clearly has great ties. He hasn't coached a minute in his life. Meanwhile, the best basketball coach in the history of the school couldn't have found Connecticut with a map until he was hired. He was not just a Massachusetts guy, but a Boston guy and I can tell you that guys from Braintree and Dedham think of Connecticut as some strange place located between Tanglewood and New York. We hear the same nonsense in recruiting, when the best players in our program have mostly been from other places. Conneciticut is a tiny state. You could argue that it "punches above its weight" in some sports, but even so, whether we get every D1 kid from Connecticut or none isn't going to make one bit of difference in how successful UConn will be. What will matter is that we get the best players at their positions.

 

[upstater]

ruskin, my man!!! We hire a football coach because he has good Connecticut ties. Then we repeat the error by hiring a hockey coach because he is the best guy available...oops, no, because he has the best Connecticut ties, then he hires an assistant because he is the best...oops again, because he is FROM Connecticut so clearly has great ties. He hasn't coached a minute in his life. Meanwhile, the best basketball coach in the history of the school couldn't have found Connecticut with a map until he was hired. He was not just a Massachusetts guy, but a Boston guy and I can tell you that guys from Braintree and Dedham think of Connecticut as some strange place located between Tanglewood and New York. We hear the same nonsense in recruiting, when the best players in our program have mostly been from other places. Conneciticut is a tiny state. You could argue that it "punches above its weight" in some sports, but even so, whether we get every D1 kid from Connecticut or none isn't going to make one bit of difference in how successful UConn will be. What will matter is that we get the best players at their positions.

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.

 

[FAIRTIDES]

The football culture exists in CT, Pudge. It always has, since college football was invented. It's a sleeping giant waiting to be awakened.

What it's going to take, is scheduling, and winning. UCONN isn't going to be perceived by the football culture as trully big time, until we can start playing the schedules like we've got coming up (Michigan, BYU, Tennessee, etc.) at home - and - winning.

There are only 12 games a year, and at very, very most 8 home games - a year. Growth in football, is slow, steady wins the race. But you ahve to schedule the opponents that matter, and get them to your home, and then you have to win.

There are way too many people, basketball culture, that think that football can follow the same track to popularity and success that basketball did.

Carl, you continue to espouse the need for "slow and steady" while lamenting a fan base that requires "instant gratification." Hey, when we were growing up, "patience was a virtue" and good things did "come to those that wait." That's no longer the case especially as it relates to entertainment.

People want to feel good about stuff on which they spend significant amounts of money. And, it's not "basketball culture." It's an overriding market culture. It's "fix it, fix it fast, prove it's fixed, and keep it fixed (i.e. 'don't take me for granted') or I'll find some other entertainment vehicle." UCONN FB has no time for "slow and steady." If fans aren't soon able to leave the RENT, or turn off TV, feeling good about what they just saw, they'll go elsewhere or watch something else. That's the market environment to which UCONN must adapt. Yesterday.

 

[junglehusky]

Meanwhile, the best basketball coach in the history of the school couldn't have found Connecticut with a map until he was hired. He was not just a Massachusetts guy, but a Boston guy and I can tell you that guys from Braintree and Dedham think of Connecticut as some strange place located between Tanglewood and New York.

The best basketball coach in the history of the school began his career coaching at Old Lyme. So yes, he could have found Connecticut on a map before he was hired. Or are you saying that Jim Calhoun, who recruited kids out of high schools all over the northeast, Texas, Utah, California, Minnesota, couldn't read a map?

 

[Carl Spackler]

Carl, you continue to espouse the need for "slow and steady" while lamenting a fan base that requires "instant gratification." Hey, when we were growing up, "patience was a virtue" and good things did "come to those that wait." That's no longer the case especially as it relates to entertainment.

People want to feel good about stuff on which they spend significant amounts of money. And, it's not "basketball culture." It's an overriding market culture. It's "fix it, fix it fast, prove it's fixed, and keep it fixed (i.e. 'don't take me for granted') or I'll find some other entertainment vehicle." UCONN FB has no time for "slow and steady." If fans aren't soon able to leave the RENT, or turn off TV, feeling good about what they just saw, they'll go elsewhere or watch something else. That's the market environment to which UCONN must adapt. Yesterday.

I don't continue to espouse anything, except if you care enough to bitch about the situation the university is in on this website, you better be contributing $ to the school to do it. Otherwise STFU.

 

[Stinger92860]

name those decisions.

Easily your shortest post in a long time

 

[Dann]

Easily your shortest post in a long time

He still has not. I have yet to be given one great decision by warde from any one on this board. Tell me he's getting the stadium expanded or something. Please. I want good news. I want uconn to be big time. I have yet to see it.

 

[Srqhusky]

He still has not. I have yet to be given one great decision by warde from any one on this board. Tell me he's getting the stadium expanded or something. Please. I want good news. I want uconn to be big time. I have yet to see it.

Dan when u go to the gym u just don't put 400 in the bar and bench it

 

[junglehusky]

I find it hilarious that Warde gets criticized for hiring Cavanaugh instead of Gwozdecky. For one thing if Gwoz had never been a candidate then most of the critics would be happy with Cav over Berard. For another, we don't know what the sticking point was for Gwoz. Maybe he asked for way more money for assistants or even his own salary than was in our budget. Something may have come up in his background that put him at a disadvantage, or maybe something in Cav's background put him ahead. Instead, we have a pre-baked conclusion (Warde is an idiot) and the outcome is fitted to the conclusion.

Now, people might think there's a pattern of going with a coach with local connections over someone with a national or other regional background, i.e. Pasqualoni Jr. Well, I don't know much about college hockey but I'd wager that having a coach with state ties, especially CT being more of a hotbed for hockey talent (certainly not the case for football) then that becomes more of a factor for hiring a hockey coach than a football coach.

 

[Dann]

Dan when u go to the gym u just don't put 400 in the bar and bench it

I play real sports. Not trying tO be the best at exercising......

I have still yet to be given a answer on what warde has done. I'll wait. It's been months of ppl here defending him with no substance. Still waiting.....

Tell me he has super secret plans for expansion. Tell me he's doing lax and canning tennis. Tell me he's not seriously impressed with the logo or uniforms. Please do.

Here's a stone cold fact and if u try to twist it your exposed as a warde groupie. Warde has yet to add one, ONE just one BCS team to our football schedules. He has got good non BCS games and 2 fcs games. Not one BCS game. Bite on that. Let it sink in. But hey, we are trying to schedule bc in basketball which goes against every single thing we stand for as a school and state. If he goes thru with that. I will put a price on his head. How's that.

 

[junglehusky]

Dan when u go to the gym u just don't put 400 in the bar and bench it

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.

 

[junglehusky]

I play real sports. Not trying tO be the best at exercising......

I have still yet to be given a answer on what warde has done. I'll wait. It's been months of ppl here defending him with no substance. Still waiting.....

Tell me he has super secret plans for expansion. Tell me he's doing lax and canning tennis. Tell me he's not seriously impressed with the logo or uniforms. Please do.

Here's a stone cold fact and if u try to twist it your exposed as a warde groupie. Warde has yet to add one, ONE just one BCS team to our football schedules. He has got good non BCS games and 2 fcs games. Not one BCS game. Bite on that. Let it sink in. But hey, we are trying to schedule bc in basketball which goes against every single thing we stand for as a school and state. If he goes thru with that. I will put a price on his head. How's that.

That's fair to criticize the lack of a BCS foe for FB. As far as playing BC, I will be happy as long as we beat them. How's that.

 

[Srqhusky]

I play real sports. Not trying tO be the best at exercising......

I have still yet to be given a answer on what warde has done. I'll wait. It's been months of ppl here defending him with no substance. Still waiting.....

Tell me he has super secret plans for expansion. Tell me he's doing lax and canning tennis. Tell me he's not seriously impressed with the logo or uniforms. Please do.

Here's a stone cold fact and if u try to twist it your exposed as a warde groupie. Warde has yet to add one, ONE just one BCS team to our football schedules. He has got good non BCS games and 2 fcs games. Not one BCS game. Bite on that. Let it sink in. But hey, we are trying to schedule bc in basketball which goes against every single thing we stand for as a school and state. If he goes thru with that. I will put a price on his head. How's that.

Playing bc is every bit what we need to do. Unfortunately They fear us like a cat fears water. Beating them will expose their athletic program like the dud it is. Hopefully playing them in hoops will lead to football games but I doubt it. It would expose their program losing to us. They have only to lose.

He will have bcs teams on our schedule for 2015 or 2016. He had to finish up 2014. When he got the job. He still managed to get boise and byu. Honestly would you rather see boise byu or Iowa or Iowa state on the schedule?

 

[Dann]

That's fair to criticize the lack of a BCS foe for FB. As far as playing BC, I will be happy as long as we beat them. How's that.

Playing bc is every bit what we need to do. Unfortunately They fear us like a cat fears water. Beating them will expose their athletic program like the dud it is. Hopefully playing them in hoops will lead to football games but I doubt it. It would expose their program losing to us. They have only to lose.

He will have bcs teams on our schedule for 2015 or 2016. He had to finish up 2014. When he got the job. He still managed to get boise and byu. Honestly would you rather see boise byu or Iowa or Iowa state on the schedule?

So bc won't play us in fball. JC built his legacy on F bc and there high horse. They suck at bball and play in front of empty home crowds. They keep us out of the acc and now u want to give them a bball game so they can sell out there arena and profit off us and play underdog, first one to blink type poop. Gyro you soft piece of.....over my dead body bs gets. Bball game from uconn. Acc invite or stfu. How dare you spit on our own grave. You guys have lost sight of the issue at hand. We're left out and one certain school played a big part in it. Now you guys want to be nice guys and give them bball games? Chests Christ why not just send china our launch code passwords.

I would rather play BCS teams. Any one who says different doesn't understand the structure of cf in the years to come. There were schools looking for 2014 games who were BCS. We could have made moves. We didn't. Stop making excuses.

Obama is not a Muslim. He grew up under the influence but so he feels respect for several religions. Why ppl are upset is because he tries to cater to that community feeling for them as its a small % of them that are bad but perception is they all are terrorists. He's caught in a tuff spot. But he won't pick a side and that's why he gets hammered. Whatever this is not the topic. Make the Middle East a parking lot. Make the acc a parking lot. And c k bc and ny bball game u clowns think u want to play vs them. It's a sad day on the boneyard when u want to give bc a bball game. How about we jack our practice facility up off the ground, put it on a trailer and tow it o Boston and give it to them? Charity asz mother stupid dockers. noise.

 

[Srqhusky]

So bc won't play us in fball. JC built his legacy on F bc and there high horse. They suck at bball and play in front of empty home crowds. They keep us out of the acc and now u want to give them a bball game so they can sell out there arena and profit off us and play underdog, first one to blink type poop. Gyro you soft piece of.....over my dead body bs gets. Bball game from uconn. Acc invite or stfu. How dare you spit on our own grave. You guys have lost sight of the issue at hand. We're left out and one certain school played a big part in it. Now you guys want to be nice guys and give them bball games? Chests Christ why not just send china our launch code passwords.

I would rather play BCS teams. Any one who says different doesn't understand the structure of cf in the years to come. There were schools looking for 2014 games who were BCS. We could have made moves. We didn't. Stop making excuses.

Obama is not a Muslim. He grew up under the influence but so he feels respect for several religions. Why ppl are upset is because he tries to cater to that community feeling for them as its a small % of them that are bad but perception is they all are terrorists. He's caught in a tuff spot. But he won't pick a side and that's why he gets hammered. Whatever this is not the topic. Make the Middle East a parking lot. Make the acc a parking lot. And c k bc and ny bball game u clowns think u want to play vs them. It's a sad day on the boneyard when u want to give bc a bball game. How about we jack our practice facility up off the ground, put it on a trailer and tow it o Boston and give it to them? Charity asz mother stupid dockers. noise.

First if all. Bc is a bcs school which contradicts your argument of wards scheduling. Second if you can run our only regional competitor over with a semi while they are at their weakest why wouldn't you. We have te chance to be looked at as the regional leaders. Destroy them in hoops on espn by twenty. Beat them on the grid iron. Are you tellin me that won't help uconn? Also yes they blocked us to the acc. Do want the acc? You did say big time

 

[Dann]

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.

- Michigan was never going to pay that buyout because of SOS. They couldn't get a BCS team to visit in that slot for a 1 off. Don't let's facts hurt your side of it. All they could get was non BCS teams.
- fundraising was Paul Pendergast
- so warde is now construction manager and not ad? Which is it. Stop making things up.
- he strung ok along while the acc was seeing what our future looked like. That's a real solid perception strategy. We did lose recruits and the whole situation was n called for. Same with Geno. If there was ever a time to show strength and not question the future if your number one program, that was the time. When your point guard calls out your ad, you have issues. Keep ignoring that. How many students call out a ad in a post game media stint.
- he moved gdl, not fired him full knowing the Cuse 04 situation. He moved gdl full time to what most here consider the worst position in play last year.
-puck hire was ok to solid. He missed a homer run by not having the balls to make it work. Telling......
- BYU and BSU are nice but not BCS. The return dates are brutal.
- playing Stanford and md in bball are normal games. Not special ones. Play uk, ku, zona types. We're uconn in bball. Games are not hard to cone by. Stop acting like we're Weston and just got Cuse on the schedule or ome thing. It's amazing how low your looking for a goodie for your boy warde.
-

 

[Dann]

First if all. Bc is a bcs school which contradicts your argument of wards scheduling. Second if you can run our only regional competitor over with a semi while they are at their weakest why wouldn't you. We have te chance to be looked at as the regional leaders. Destroy them in hoops on espn by twenty. Beat them on the grid iron. Are you tellin me that won't help uconn? Also yes they blocked us to the acc. Do want the acc? You did say big time

Bc is a BCS school. In football. Your mixing two arguments and not understanding the point as usual. Uconn bball does not need bc types. Remember bc fball argument vs uconn? Uconn bball is above bc bball. Way above. We don't play them. They suck. Everyone in New England and in the acc knows this. We don't have to play them to prove this. It's already a fact. Holy cow this board has lost it.

Holy frock I'm talking to a bunch of clueless wagons. Some one jumpin here and speak common sense for me.

 

[Dann]

Warde scheduled md bball game the same day as a fball game for the 2nd year in a row.

Please reply to this with a line of how this was also a good decision. I'm sure u have a excuse for it. Playing md, at Barclays, same day as a fball game. It's a great time to show the b10 what our 2 brands together can do in NYC, accept when the place is all red......clown shoes.

Next one...who else has a warde decision to debate? Wake up ppl the guy is a fraud.

 

[Bezzz]

[quote="How about we jack our practice facility up off the ground, put it on a trailer and tow it o Boston and give it to them? Charity asz mother stupid dockers. noise.[/quote]

It hurts my brain to follow HFD but worth it for the occasional gem.

 

[Dann]

Seriously will some one here step in?

1) how many BCS football games has warde scheduled?
2) true or false the md bball game is at Barclays?
Bonus: is it on the same night as a fball game?
3) did bc block uconn from the acc then go make media perception nonsense all about it?
4) does bc refuse to play uconn in fball?
5) how cool is the new logo?
6) what is the name of the state warde works in?
7) when will michigan rebrand to UMich?
8) when will Alabama rebrand to UBama
9) when will texas rebrand to UTex?
10) is win warde win currently win monitoring win the win situation win?
11) since when is playing Stanford in bball a big dea? Since never? Or since now because warde groupies have nothing else to pump chest bout?

For the record I'm still waiting to hear about a big decision warde made correctly. Still waiting. Meanwhile buffalo has the state outline on its court. Indiana, UNC and ole miss have cool new unis, temple has a great recruit class, the dazzler is cleaning house in New England and USF is scheduling BCS games. It's ok. We have middle school uniforms, a Down syndrome dog mascot and a clueless ad who's school president calls him a rockstar. Where is the Denver coach right now? Real home run with that one slots. He played it safe. No balls.

 

[Dann]

How is the new marketing plan going so far guys?
How many season tix have we sold for our best schedule ever?
How many of you saw that new uconn football commercial on sny, news12 and msgv recently?
How big of a cartoon can you paint on the 50 yard line?
How about we bring bak the JD in the same roll he's been lately?
Love the new tailgating rules and regulations right?
and so on. The guy has literally done nothing. Ppl here need to wake up.

 

[junglehusky]

- Michigan was never going to pay that buyout because of SOS. They couldn't get a BCS team to visit in that slot for a 1 off. Don't let's facts hurt your side of it. All they could get was non BCS teams.

- BYU and BSU are nice but not BCS. The return dates are brutal.

In general scheduling BCS (soon to be called power five, I guess) will be more difficult in the coming years as the B1G increases the number of conference games. This is going to be tough on everybody (other AAC schools have some good games the next 2 years but beyond that it's going to get harder).

- fundraising was Paul Pendergast

Immediately after JH left.

- so warde is now construction manager and not ad? Which is it. Stop making things up.

I think construction manager - i.e., getting projects out of the "on paper" phase - falls under the AD's responsibility. What did I make up?

- he strung ok along while the acc was seeing what our future looked like. That's a real solid perception strategy. We did lose recruits and the whole situation was n called for. Same with Geno. If there was ever a time to show strength and not question the future if your number one program, that was the time. When your point guard calls out your ad, you have issues. Keep ignoring that. How many students call out a ad in a post game media stint.

Napier is entitled to his opinion and is free to express his opinion. However he's what, 20,21 years old? If I were AD I wouldn't base my decisions on what the point guard, who could have possibly left the program for the NBA in a few months, was thinking, but that's just me. I also disagree with your characterization that Warde "strung out" KO - we know from Jacobs' reporting that academic performance was one of the key metrics, once the fall semester grades were in the contract was done in what, a week and a half?

- he moved gdl, not fired him full knowing the Cuse 04 situation. He moved gdl full time to what most here consider the worst position in play last year.

He advised PP on what he was expecting for production and it sounds like he suggested finding another place for GDL, but Warde himself did not demote GDL, or anything. That was PP's decision and PP will bear responsibility for that choice. That's how things work in the real world, sometimes good managers don't micromanage, they let the employees make the decisions and then hold them accountable. Keep in mind there will be more factors to PP's fate than just whether GDL or TJW is calling plays.

-puck hire was ok to solid. He missed a homer run by not having the balls to make it work. Telling......

Sometimes, it takes balls to hire the younger coach than the "name" coach. For example - McGee over Pasqualoni would have been a ballsy hire. Judging from McGee's record at UAB however, perhaps it would have had the same result or worse. In this case, my suspicion is it wasn't a matter of balls, it was a matter of $$$ and local ties (see my earlier post)

- playing Stanford and md in bball are normal games. Not special ones. Play uk, ku, zona types. We're uconn in bball. Games are not hard to cone by. Stop acting like we're Weston and just got Cuse on the schedule or ome thing. It's amazing how low your looking for a goodie for your boy warde.
-

I don't see what makes zona more special than Florida and Maryland. How many true "blue bloods" are there? UK, KU, Duke, then maybe Indiana, Michigan State, UCLA... Louisville... there's less than ten true "blue bloods" for bball. Anyway, you can make the point that we should have these games anyway so no credit to Warde - whatever. I'm not saying one Florida game makes an AD's resume. I'm saying it's one small part of a complete record, which you dismiss completely because we're not in the Big Ten or ACC and we still have Pasqualoni as the coach.

 

[junglehusky]

Seriously will some one here step in?

1) how many BCS football games has warde scheduled?
2) true or false the md bball game is at Barclays?
Bonus: is it on the same night as a fball game?
3) did bc block uconn from the acc then go make media perception nonsense all about it?
4) does bc refuse to play uconn in fball?
5) how cool is the new logo?
6) what is the name of the state warde works in?
7) when will michigan rebrand to UMich?
8) when will Alabama rebrand to UBama
9) when will texas rebrand to UTex?
10) is win warde win currently win monitoring win the win situation win?
11) since when is playing Stanford in bball a big dea? Since never? Or since now because warde groupies have nothing else to pump chest bout?

For the record I'm still waiting to hear about a big decision warde made correctly. Still waiting. Meanwhile buffalo has the state outline on its court. Indiana, UNC and ole miss have cool new unis, temple has a great recruit class, the dazzler is cleaning house in New England and USF is scheduling BCS games. It's ok. We have middle school uniforms, a Down syndrome dog mascot and a clueless ad who's school president calls him a rockstar. Where is the Denver coach right now? Real home run with that one slots. He played it safe. No balls.

Haha. #'s 5,6,7,8,9 - all the same thing. Here's my list:

1) Your conclusions are pre-baked
2)Your pre-baked your conclusions
3) Pre-baked are your conclusions

And it really cracks me up that you want a "big decision" and then you dwell on what UB did to their court, while our court looks much better and that's not even debatable. I'll take our new unis (WITH THE RED duck*ING TRIM WHICH WAS IN OUR BBALL UNIS SINCE DONYELL) over UNC, Ole Miss, or whoever anyday. But hey that must mean I'm in the tank for warde, not because I'm a UConn fan.

 

[Dann]

Lol at all of that. Don't even know where to begin.

In general scheduling BCS (soon to be called power five, I guess) will be more difficult in the coming years as the B1G increases the number of conference games. This is going to be tough on everybody (other AAC schools have some good games the next 2 years but beyond that it's going to get harder).

Immediately after JH left.
I think construction manager - i.e., getting projects out of the "on paper" phase - falls under the AD's responsibility. What did I make up?

Napier is entitled to his opinion and is free to express his opinion. However he's what, 20,21 years old? If I were AD I wouldn't base my decisions on what the point guard, who could have possibly left the program for the NBA in a few months, was thinking, but that's just me. I also disagree with your characterization that Warde "strung out" KO - we know from Jacobs' reporting that academic performance was one of the key metrics, once the fall semester grades were in the contract was done in what, a week and a half?
He advised PP on what he was expecting for production and it sounds like he suggested finding another place for GDL, but Warde himself did not demote GDL, or anything. That was PP's decision and PP will bear responsibility for that choice. That's how things work in the real world, sometimes good managers don't micromanage, they let the employees make the decisions and then hold them accountable. Keep in mind there will be more factors to PP's fate than just whether GDL or TJW is calling plays.
Sometimes, it takes balls to hire the younger coach than the "name" coach. For example - McGee over Pasqualoni would have been a ballsy hire. Judging from McGee's record at UAB however, perhaps it would have had the same result or worse. In this case, my suspicion is it wasn't a matter of balls, it was a matter of $ and local ties (see my earlier post)
I don't see what makes zona more special than Florida and Maryland. How many true "blue bloods" are there? UK, KU, Duke, then maybe Indiana, Michigan State, UCLA... Louisville... there's less than ten true "blue bloods" for bball. Anyway, you can make the point that we should have these games anyway so no credit to Warde - whatever. I'm not saying one Florida game makes an AD's resume. I'm saying it's one small part of a complete record, which you dismiss completely because we're not in the Big Ten or ACC and we still have Pasqualoni as the coach.

-BCS scheduling is getting harder? No poop Sherlock. But yet temple and USF are not having trouble finding games. What does it take to get one of there ad's?
-Paul pend was after jh. You are correct. That still doesn't give u any leg on what u originally said. All it proves is that capable men can handle that job. Jh couldn't. Warde doesn't have to because Paul pend did it for him. Not sure how u can possibly chalk that up for warde.
-warde is far from the bball of being built. He had a shovel for pictures just like Susan. He's not in front of blueprints and that jazz.
- no poop Napier can have his opinion. So can everyone in this country. The point was for him to actually speak up considering how well spoken he's been here at uconn for 3 years ment something impetigo ally on how it was a drag on the program and kids. What is not to understand about that. He said that they played for ko's contract and they thout after the MSU game he would get it. It was a drag on ther minds all fall semester. That's wrong.
-I have said over and over the Denver coach was a home run and the bc ast coach was a solid get. Nothing wrong with solid. But a home run is a home run. He didn't hit one.
- I applaud Florida on the schedule. If u look back at the thread here announcing it I support warde for that one. It's amazing how you all like to think I am doom all day. When they guy did something right I have him his due. That simple. Stanford types are nothing to clap about and if you think they are then you have very low expectations. There are 6. Blue bloods, 4 new bloods and 5 solid programs that make up a top 15 all time. Maryland is not in that group. They are. 15-30 list team. They are in the b10 now. We have to make a good impression to show the b10 that this state and md together make noise fans and ratings wise. Playing on the same night fball and bball will only hurt that cause.

The UNC and ole miss jerseys are way better than ours. Your delusional if you think different. Kids like things new and fresh. Our jerseys are that. So they like them. Doesn't mean they are the right thing. I want new jerseys. I want cool ones that can last tho. Not middle school cartoon and helmets. How long those helmets going to last for. How many zoo jokes can the media make before they are gone?

The list of things to do tops 1,000 in this ad. Warde has pretty much crumbled the list up and played nerd hoops above his door with a trash can under it n his office while monitoring the situation. I beg him to do something. I beg someone here to push him. I can sit here and make you a list for hours of things and ideas. But I am not a employee like warde is. Do something fat asz.