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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 4385126, member: 44"] Herbst was around a while, and while I have a lot of complaints about her, most notably sitting on the beach in the Virgin Islands sipping piña colada‘s with Warde Manuel while Louisville was weaseling its way into our ACC slot, and deciding to get rid of 80 + years of mascot tradition because “there’s no such thing as a white husky“, she was at least reasonably competent. The next guy was just an abysmally bad hire. I forgot his name but he vaguely looked like Scott Bakula. His first move as president was to unilaterally decide that UConn was going to giveaway tuition to low income families. A noble goal, I suppose, but we were already doing that via aid to qualified students, so the question would be to whom was his initiative aimed at? Unqualified students? In any event here’s a pro tip for future entity new presidents don’t publicly announce that you were going to give away your core product totally free of cost without consulting the board first. He was a dead man walking like two weeks into his tenure. The next guy was an interim hire who got a really nice private offer. That happens. And now we have this new interim president who sows her own clothes and sports a bleached blonde fright wig perm from the 1980s. So in answer to your question why we are having a lot of turnover I respectfully suggest that candidate selection may play a role. [/QUOTE]