Her job is to run the whole University with academics at the center. That said, to not understand that national sports success is a critical driver in increasing applicant interest and improving overall academic selectivity is foolhardy. UConn will never be Yale or Harvard. It can be one of the country's top public universities on par with a Northwestern, but that requires the pool of accepted applicants to continually improve. UConn today is orders more selective in admissions than it used to be, and the reason is the sheer numbers of applicants with excellent credentials. It has little to do with anything beyond that fact that UConn successfully placed itself front in center by winning National Championships. Watch the decline if we wallow in a nondescript tier mid-level conference. The lack of national network presence alone will have a major adverse effect. So, Susan ought to be in a full fledged panic, and if she cant get it done get somebody who has the connections, respect and network to get major conference affiliation done. Same goes with Manuel. Both are lightweights and lack the experience and networks to move us where we want to be. We have add our lunch eaten.
