Pasqualoni doesn't need to go 0-12 to get fired...I think that decision has been made but a guy named Larry McHugh is getting both P and his life long buddy GDL a stay till the end of the season.
Bill I would really like to know if Larry is involved in keeping P & GDL around right now. If he is he needs to step down from the BOT asap!
Who the is Larry McHugh, what is his job @ Uconn ?
I usually avoid politics, but this b*stard really duckked up our football program. At least over the past 2+ years. And he thinks he's doing the state a favor with keeping PP around??
It's not completely up to Warde Manuel. It's up to some dirtbag named Larry McHugh. He has more influence than anyone else. The CT high school coaches association loves PP and McHugh. And McHugh was a high school coach. So....
superjohn,
Waiting to the place burned down to the ground is not leadership. He waited until his was starting to go into the fire. He is entirely unimpressive and gets no credit for doing the obvious after having numerous opportunities to lead and make a change. I hope there was other forces tying his hands and he is not as incapable of making a decision as history has shown on this and even KO. Burton is dead-on in recommending an active conference solicitation effort. Manuel fumbled on that as well. He is singularly unimpressive.
You were the kind of brat kid who pestered their parents for some expensive toy for Christmas, and then threw a tantrum on Christmas morning when the toy was the exact one you wanted with a different color, weren't you? You ruined Christmas for the whole family BlueDogs! I hope you're happy!!
I've called it correct with respect to PP for a long while, and I'm not impressed with Manuel. Big deal. You can disagree. I've also stated that TJ will get the job done. Mark my words. I just don't see the need to congratulate a guy for doing what was obvious and over due.
That's reasonable, but it's one thing to be Winston Wolf and say "I'm not impressed, let's not start sucking each other's d***s yet" and another to call repeatedly for the AD to be fired because he is doing his due dilligence instead of responding to fan's sentiments and emotions at the drop of a hat. Over the course of 2 1/3 seasons, yes those sentiments have proven to be correct. But the AD is running an athletics department, which is a kind of business, and in this business if you dump your CEO every two years you wind up like Blackberry. If you run a company on emotions and sentiments alone and not on data, you're not going to be successful. Maybe firing P in 2012 would have been fine and then UConn has no problems getting candidates, but there's also a chance it would have damaged the job and made it less attractive to the best possible coach. I think WM got Weist on board so he could evaluate him close-up, and he would not have hired Weist (a guy with no HC experience) to be HC last year. If Weist is successful in his audition, fine. If not, hire someone who can be successful.
Yes, I hope the cynics watch at least a few minutes of the press conference. I think it should be pretty clear what the standards are at UConn.
