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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5197131, member: 71"] Please don't try to defend Perno. Coaching games alone I cannot think of anything worse than the opening round loss to St John's in the 1982 Big East tournament (anyone who followed the team then knows what happened. I watched that debacle live at the Civic Center. Perno spent nearly a year trying to convince Rod Foster to change his mind about UCon when Foster told him upfront that he was only heading somewhere a lot bigger than UConn. In that time he completely ignored John Bagley. Mike McKay begged Perno to offer him but Perno wasn't interested (the line about academics was damage control. Look at where Bagley ended up and who Perno brought overr the next few years.). Then, in a knee jerk reaction to Bagley's freshman year, he brought in a pair of undersized guards (Hobbs & Giscombe) who weren't bad players, but made it impossible to go after Michael Adams the following year. [/QUOTE]