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Message: [QUOTE="Waquoit, post: 3077187, member: 50"] Let me see if I can format this right: They all were/are great coaches of course. But only Morrone worked for him for any length of time and was constantly beating the drum for more support even though he was running the best program in the country. I don't know for sure, but I think the Friends of Soccer came about as a result of this lack of support. JC worked for him for less than a year, Geno was hired the year before. This is where I start to wonder if you know what you are talking about. In 1982, UConn beat G'Town on they road in their bandbox. They beat up on that Ewing-Fred Brown Finals team on national television. They were on their way to the dance. They ended up losing 7 out of their last 8, including the 1st round of the BET when it was held in the Civic Center. It was a pathetic collapse. Add to that, all of the best players on the team were graduating. Any decent AD would have recognized that Perno was not the guy. Toner gave him another [I]four[/I] years and would have been more if he wasn't finally forced to sack him. Don't tell me Toner wasn't content with status quo. He would say as much when asked. Example of what a joke the BB program had become on Toner's watch. We were at the first game of the 1984 BET against Cuse. Cuse was a huge favorite but we weren't getting blown out. During the 8 minute time out The PA announcer says, "There will be reception for UConn fans at the Hotel Penta following the game. The Syracuse reception will be after [I]tomorrow's[/I] game...' Not all, he didn't hire Calhoun. By that I mean he didn't have the power to make the call himself by that time. And though we'll never know. I'm pretty sure that if Toner was still around, Geno wouldn't have been. He wouldn't have put up with that nonsense. If he wanted to be NCAA president he should have resigned. Instead, he was an absentee AD for years while the basketball program cratered. He took UConn paychecks for years while failing to do his primary job. And "absentee AD" aren't my words, that's what it said in the AD review (similar to what they did to Hathaway) that was performed after situation became too dire too ignore. I lived through this. Every UConn fan I knew wanted Toner gone yesterday back then. He was the Hathaway of the 80's. Not a reach, it's literally true. Toner was gone in 1987, the very next year UConn wins the NIT and they are off! Resigned/fired, isn't it just semantics when you don't leave on your own accord? That would be called retiring. Hathaway resigned after all. [/QUOTE]

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