Maybe I'm beat down. I've been the one who for 3 years has been saying we don't have to settle for an inexperienced head basketball coach when Calhoun retires. We UConn and most coaches would lick the yellow line up 195 just to get an interview. and I've been posting for a while that we need to make our case since saying Lousiville has a better athletic program than UConn, or before that the Syracuse does or the Pitt does, those are absolutely absurd statement. Factually incorect. Or that our football program is lousy. We've had a couple of years of adjustment to a new coach and new system but UConn football is on a pretty impressive trajectory, or was, and you're always going to have difficult periods where you pick the wrong coach or you need to rebuild or you have injuries or whatnot...hell, our "lousy" team just got back from knocking off this century's apparent super team from Louisville. Still, we seem to have an administration that either doesn't want, doesn't care enough, or doesn't know how to play the inside game to get us into a major conference. The idea that they let some of the utter nonsense about how good Louisville's athletic program is go unchallenged publicly (I mean come on...they went to a final four in both mens and womens basketball? Hello?) is enough to make me sick to my stomach. But since we are where we are, the question, and the opening post in this thread, dealt with what are the next steps to get the best out of the situation. When you look at the mid-majors who have succeeded, they tend to rely heavily on JUCO players (Bosie for example has 11, East Carolina has 12, we have 2), and more marginal academic types. My hope is we can limit the academic ones. From a scheduling perspective, we'll likely be going to 8 or 9 conference games anyway, so given our position outside the Big 5 auto bid leagues, we should drop 1AA games. We need to drop a game anyway. Might as well be the one that doesn't give you any "points" in the standings.
