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Message: [QUOTE="cohenzone, post: 4191086, member: 504"] I think this whole theme was about handling college athletics and I pointed out that athletics are far from the only thing a college president has to handle. If he’s saying Herbst left a mess in the athletic department and now has a job some might consider cushy is so full of biases and assumptions it isn’t funny. First of all. sadly, the UConn athletic financial picture is pretty typical of universities with major sports and says more maybe that big time college sports are a stupid idea, especially football, than how a particular college president is perceived by some to have handled it. Could UConn have done so much better that the deficit would be markedly better is highly debatable. Did you read the article I posted about U of Illinois sports that included info about the other Big whatever schools? Nobody is going to say UConn made sterling decisions in the football program but they haven’t been half bad in almost any other sport. Moreover, if anyone thinks the university president is immune from political pressure exerted by the Board of Trustees and in our case the State elected officials I hope they are in grammar school, speaking of obtuse. As to whether Herbst has some job some people think is cushy, they are probably jealous. Lots of people might think being paid millions of dollars to coach and play sports is a pretty cushy gig too. [/QUOTE]