Basketball will collapse soon enough. Don't kid yourself about football not being relevant. It's all or nothing.
A BMW 6 series is 1000% better than a dented Dodge Minivan, but it doesn't matter, both can run you over and kill you. Only difference between the two is everyone wants a second hand 6 series no matter where it came from, but a dented Dodge Minivan can be embarrassing but might have some utility somewhere. That reminds me, what's Hathaway doing nowadays? LOL
Running the athletic program at Hofstra into the ground! The ONLY good thing is that there isn't a football program for him to ruin. The president he works for took care of that right before he arrived.
I don't think the UCONN administration and athletic dept has utilized the presence of two of the greatest college coaches in the history of sports, and as far as I know, both JC and Geno still have offices right down the hall from DB. IMO if Geno had been our AD and WBC, we'd be in the ACC right now. Warde was never a salesman, which is what we needed. Geno on the other hand could sell ice cubes to the Eskimos.
Try talking to any of the coaches who have been there through Hathaway, Manuel and now Benedict. Listen to their stories. Hathaway neglected all facilities, ran the dept on the cheap to show productivity to get his bonus. JH and gene hated his guts and it's no secret why he was terminated by Herbst shortly after he was hired because he basically got called out for what he was..a do nothing, lying ! Wade was hired to clean up the APR mess and solidify the department and facilities..which he did. The short time he was here he got more done in facilities wise than Hathaway did in 8 years.
Warde was OK, did some good things, but IMO he was the wrong guy at the wrong time, meaning conference realignment time. I'll say one thing for Warde, he certainly had his eyes open in the state while he was here, the top two recruits in the state this year (Ben Mason and Andrew Steuber) both committed to Michigan. Lol
Conference realignment time was finished for UConn long before Warde arrived at UConn...Hathaway was out maneuvered by Jurich facility wise and he made the HORRENDOUS hire of Pasqualoni. Believe what you want but if you ever get the chance to find out what really happened you will realize that decision the ACC made wasn't based off of anything Warde Manuel did or didn't do. If you want to place blame on the state of UConn Athletics blame the person who deserves it in Jeff Hathaway not the easy mark in Warde Manuel.
I generally agree with most your posts, but CR was not finished before Warde arrived. The fact that UConn was selected, then blackballed by BC in one of the earlier moves by the ACC indicated that UConn was still viable and would have been chosen if not for BC. By the time of the Louisville selection, I suspect that at that time Cr was finished for UConn, but there was a chance before that. As far as Warde, I suspect that he was penciled in at Michigan before he came to UConn and it was only a matter of time before he took that position there. He almost left, you may recall, about 2 years after coming to UConn, I believe.
Yeah true about CR but by that time Pasqualoni a Hathaway hire had the football running into the ground at full speed and the fact Jurich beat Hathaway at every upgrade facility wise sealed our fate.
Yeah, a sink hole for all of those Hockey East programs.
No, saying it can be used as a recruiting tool to a young player compared to a moron in red pants
