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weyuo said:
I listened. He said he was extremely proud that both men's and women's basketball teams had 1000% APR or something like that especially after all the distractions of the last couple years. He said the Basketball teams are itching to get into the new practice facility which they will be able to do this fall. Said it frees up Gample scheduling and makes B-ball practice scheduling a hell of a lot easier and more conducive to their class work schedule. Is excited about the hockey team joining Hockey East. Visited the XL Center recently and was impressed with the renovations. As for the football team: Said he saw an uptick in speed and excitement from years past. As for the AAC he said UConn worries about UConn first but says that the conference did well last year with UCF winning their bowl game vs a Big 12 team and of course the dual National Championships in basketball. He said he had a discussion with the coaches and they agreed they are in the AAC so from what I gather they are all in to make the most of that opportunity and he thinks it's just a matter of letting the conference have time to rack up championships to gain respect. Got to admit the conference did well for their first year in existence. He also said he was concerned about Olympic sports travel and expense. Was glad Tulsa would be the farthest west they would have to travel.
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Thanks weyuo. I wonder if UCONN will start scheduling more events at Gampel now that the Basketball facility is open. Maybe concerts? More hoops games at Gampel than XL Center?
 
weyuo said:
I listened. He said he was extremely proud that both men's and women's basketball teams had 1000% APR or something like that especially after all the distractions of the last couple years. He said the Basketball teams are itching to get into the new practice facility which they will be able to do this fall. Said it frees up Gample scheduling and makes B-ball practice scheduling a hell of a lot easier and more conducive to their class work schedule. Is excited about the hockey team joining Hockey East. Visited the XL Center recently and was impressed with the renovations. As for the football team: Said he saw an uptick in speed and excitement from years past. As for the AAC he said UConn worries about UConn first but says that the conference did well last year with UCF winning their bowl game vs a Big 12 team and of course the dual National Championships in basketball. He said he had a discussion with the coaches and they agreed they are in the AAC so from what I gather they are all in to make the most of that opportunity and he thinks it's just a matter of letting the conference have time to rack up championships to gain respect. Got to admit the conference did well for their first year in existence. He also said he was concerned about Olympic sports travel and expense. Was glad Tulsa would be the farthest west they would have to travel.
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Also said that he hopes to sell out the lower bowl at the XL for Hockey East (@ 6000 seats) & that the initial reception was positive with ticket sales well on the way to attaining that goal
 
coachcap said:
Also said that he hopes to sell out the lower bowl at the XL for Hockey East (@ 6000 seats) & that the initial reception was positive with ticket sales well on the way to attaining that goal
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AWESOME! I will be buying season tickets too but have procrastinated for some reason.
 
He deserves kudos for Diaco. He fell into Ollie under JC's demands and sat on the sat on the fence. He inherited the women's championship and Ollie proved to be magnificent. You can't take credit for the good them claim the bad is everybody else's fault. He bungled CR. True he was new on deck, but when you're the captain of the ship you take on the responsibility to save the ship.

I would be happy to see I'm succeed. My fear though is he is way out of his league on critical CR matters. As somebody said, P5 is all that matters or our days as a national program are dwindling fast. The programs cannot be supported with a few million a year in TV revenue.
 
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huskymedic said:
Haters gonna hate... YouTube Video
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So based on the four AD's he challenged, we're going to replace umass in the Mac. I kid. I kid. But interesting that he picked two ACC AD's rather than multiple B1G. I know he's buddies with the BC AD, but what's the FSU connection? Trying to grease the wheels with the ACC's football power I suppose. Make him watch the video featuring 3 of the finest facilities in the country and our 3 national champs as well. Maybe I'm stretching but I think there was secret CR code in that video.
 
freescooter said:
What record is this? Like going off to the Bahamas while Louisville was eating his lunch? getting played by Calhoun? It worked out spectacularly well, but he still got embarrassed. he didn't know his head coach was retiring until a week before the start of the season. he's hired a couple of head coaches who might or might not turn out to be good in Diaco and Cavanaugh. One coached a season in transition and the other has yet to coach a game. Warde could not even acknowledge Geno's existence for the next 5 years, and Geno will continue to win championships. He took an athletic program that was in the highest level and now it isn't. And I'm not even getting into the logo stuff...or the laughable football helmets! He is here for APR reasons and APR reasons alone.
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God, you're stupid.
 
I was impressed with how articulate Knappe sounded when Joe D interviewed him. Didn't know his name was pronounced K-nap-ay. Pruitt was impressive as well and glad to hear he has become a great leader, hopefully Pruitt is this year's Ryan Wirth.

BTW anyone who thinks it's Warde's fault we aren't in a different conference is dumber than dirt.
 
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I'd love to work for some of you guys. Screw up and its not your fault. Someone else succeeds and you get the credit. What a perfect situation. I attribute some of it to the Hathaway effect, though. They could have installed a parking meter as AD and most people would have seen it as an improvement. Warde>parking meter>Hathaway.
 
freescooter said:
I'd love to work for some of you guys. Screw up and its not your fault. Someone else succeeds and you get the credit. What a perfect situation. I attribute some of it to the Hathaway effect, though. They could have installed a parking meter as AD and most people would have seen it as an improvement. Warde>parking meter>Hathaway.
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I'd hate to have you work for me. Unable to understand complex problems with multiple variables. Every time the toilet clogs you probably blame the guy who invented indoor plumbing.

ACC wanted a football school. We were a football program with issues. And a basketball program with an unproven coach and on probation. Warde Manual could be giving out Rolexes and it's not going to make the ACC football schools imagine we're a football school anymore. But hey, I'm sure you'd do better, what with your impressive judgment about Kevin Ollie and all.
 
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freescooter said:
I'd love to work for some of you guys. Screw up and its not your fault. Someone else succeeds and you get the credit. What a perfect situation. I attribute some of it to the Hathaway effect, though. They could have installed a parking meter as AD and most people would have seen it as an improvement. Warde>parking meter>Hathaway.
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You just gave about as good a definition of Jeff hathaway's tenure at UCONN as one can give. But then again I'm sure you thought he was the BEST AD in the country when he was here. I stand by what I posted eariler in this thread... you are either a family member, friend, or former neighbor of Hathaway!
 
freescooter said:
I'd love to work for some of you guys. Screw up and its not your fault. Someone else succeeds and you get the credit. What a perfect situation. I attribute some of it to the Hathaway effect, though. They could have installed a parking meter as AD and most people would have seen it as an improvement. Warde>parking meter>Hathaway.
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I thought you stopped following football because you didn't like the uniforms?
 
WingU-Conn said:
Yeah, a new AD should allow a retiring coach to name his successor, a guy who didn't have a single day of head coaching experience, when the AD is the one who will be held accountable if it doesn't work out. Manuel handled it perfectly, he let Calhoun get his way, but on Manuel's terms, meaning he retained his onions as AD.

Ollie got an extension in December of his first season as head coach, before conference play even started. But don't let the facts get in the way of your rant.

90% of (actually nearly all) coaches aren't Kevin Ollie, and don't get offered one of the top 10 jobs in college basketball without ever being a head coach at any level. 90% (actually more) wouldn't have had the 1 year try out, because they've got experience and a proven history. You think the ACC reacted negatively because our new AD wasn't bowing to a retiring head coach? Amazingly stupid. It was a football decision, pure and simple.

It's seriously funny to watch you complain that he was outsold by Jurich, after you complained we were trying too hard to get into the ACC.

You can argue he waited too long to hire P, you can also argue that he had to wait that long because he inherited the man the trustees (who can have him replaced tomorrow) obviously wanted in the job. There are still people in the loop that think P was the right man and just needed more time.
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When you are the boss, your main job is to just get it right. By hedging on Ollie, Manuel was telling the country that he didn't have confidence in Ollie, which couldn't have helped us with the AAC in the fall of 2012. Warde could have given Ollie almost any deal he wanted in 2012 and Ollie would have signed it. By making Ollie sing for his supper, he invited other schools in to poach Ollie. We are incredibly lucky Ollie didn't bolt after getting treated like that. Pasqualoni was a train wreck in 2012 with good talent, it wasn't going to get better in 2013. Sure enough, it got worse. As for CR, Louisville is in the ACC and we are not. Scoreboard.

The Warde Manuel Apologists have to say "it wasn't his fault" by about the 3rd sentence of any post on him. When the pro side of a debate consists of explaining why the screwups are not your guy's fault, you have already lost the debate.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
Well it's Freescooter and Nelson against the Boneyard. I'm glad I'm on the side that I am.

Replace "Warde Manuel" with "Barack Obama" in Nelson's last paragraph and the irony gets thicker than Nell Carter.
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I was going to respond to him, but you nailed it.

I'm wondering who all these programs comparable to UConn that were knocking on his door looking to hire him as a head coach in 2012. Can anyone name one verifiable report of a top 10 (even top 100) basketball program looking to offer him a job?

When the Warde Manuel haters have to invent high demand for a guy with no head coaching experience they've already lost the debate.
 
WingU-Conn said:
I was going to respond to him, but you nailed it.

I'm wondering who all these programs comparable to UConn that were knocking on his door looking to hire him as a head coach in 2012. Can anyone name one verifiable report of a top 10 (even top 100) basketball program looking to offer him a job?

When the Warde Manuel haters have to invent high demand for a guy with no head coaching experience they've already lost the debate.
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I believe St. Peter's was looking for a coach in 2012. Thank God Warde's screw up didn't cost us KO bolting there.
 
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It's interesting to note the dichotomy when everyone to a man admits that conference realignment is about football and demographic markets (i.e. eyes on TV screens / cable subscribers), that the first thing brought up when ranking on Warde Manuel is how he handled a basketball coaching transition.
 
WingU-Conn said:
Does anyone else see the irony in all of freescooter's rambling about Warde being hired for one reason and one reason only?

Even if he were right, then he accomplished what he was hired for.

http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2014/05/three-national-champions-three-perfect-apr-scores/

"A total of 14 UConn teams earned a perfect 1000 APR score for the 2012-13 academic year – including men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s cross country, field hockey, men’s golf, women’s rowing, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, softball, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, men’s indoor track and field, men’s outdoor track and field, and volleyball.


Five UConn teams had perfect 1000 four-year APR scores – men’s cross country, field hockey, men’s golf, women’s tennis, and men’s outdoor track and field, while 20 UConn teams scored 970 or better in that mark."
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STOP USING FACTS!!! Freescooter has a source....A SOURCE!!!
 
MilliniumPrince said:
STOP USING FACTS!!! Freescooter has a source....A SOURCE!!!
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I'm not even disputing that APR was a large factor in WM coming here. But blaming him for not immediately fixing the MANY sins of administrations past is, well, stupid. And even more stupid is using arguments like "sunning on a beach" and "donuts" to prove the point.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
When the pro side of a debate consists of explaining why the screwups are not your guy's fault, you have already lost the debate.
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How about when the con side of a debate consists of explaining why successes are not the guy in charge's fault, you are just being a douc7bag.
 
Irish Loop said:
ACC wanted a football school. We were a football program with issues. And a basketball program with an unproven coach and on probation. Warde Manual could be giving out Rolexes and it's not going to make the ACC football schools imagine we're a football school anymore.
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Your are right. We had absolutely no chance and it was obvious to everyone. So obvious that the consensus on the board was that the administration was quiet because our joining the ACC was a done deal and every talking head was convinced that we were in.... until we weren't. I'm not a fan of Warde bashing, but I think you are being a bit revisionist.
 
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freescooter said:
What record is this? Like going off to the Bahamas while Louisville was eating his lunch? getting played by Calhoun? It worked out spectacularly well, but he still got embarrassed. he didn't know his head coach was retiring until a week before the start of the season. he's hired a couple of head coaches who might or might not turn out to be good in Diaco and Cavanaugh. One coached a season in transition and the other has yet to coach a game. Warde could not even acknowledge Geno's existence for the next 5 years, and Geno will continue to win championships. He took an athletic program that was in the highest level and now it isn't. And I'm not even getting into the logo stuff...or the laughable football helmets! He is here for APR reasons and APR reasons alone.
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You have no clue. The ACC was taking Louisville no matter what because of what the power football schools wanted in the ACC.

He has moved UCONN forward but you don't see it, because of your blind hatred for him.
 
Oh my. The boneyard is all of a sudden Warde lovers. Yak. Nelsom is right, and Scooter, to an extent. This board was ready to run this fraud out on a rail and now it's a Love fest for him? WTF? This AD never wanted Ollie and is not proactive nor out front explaining where he wants to take us.
Stop dog piling on Scooter et al. You guys seem to just like to eat your own
 
Complain complain complain. If Warde handed out $100 bills at every home game, some people on this board would complain that they didn't get $200.

I'm failing to see how being hired "because of APR" is necessarily a bad thing. The B1G has stated over and over again that they'd like to see some sort of emphasis made towards academics. They have been very vocal in supporting the PAC Commissioner's academic reform proposal. If the B1G is UCONN's dream conference, wouldn't an athletic department that is 1) successful and 2) achieves perfect APR scores be a good thing?? We lost an ACC seat to LCC because, in part, of APR. While I think that the APR is a ridiculous metric (especially now that we've learned that players from the 90s can change scores), if we're achieving excellence on the field AND in the classrooms, how is this a bad thing? Isn't this EXACTLY the kind of environment that the B1G Conference fosters?
 
APR . He was not hired for that. EVERY AD should be about academia.
WM was hired as AD and promptly was on wrong end of JC succession, then was partying in VI when Louisville got the call. Justified or not - he was not out front lobbying for us. If he has been benind the scenes with CI I
applaud that, but doubt it nonetheless .
He is not the reason we are not in big ten or acc, but he will not get us there.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
Well it's Freescooter and Nelson against the Boneyard. I'm glad I'm on the side that I am.

Replace "Warde Manuel" with "Barack Obama" in Nelson's last paragraph and the irony gets thicker than Nell Carter.
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Doesn't anyone else see that Warde got some things right, but should have managed other things better?

All of the apologists and critics around here remind me how so much of the world sees black or white but is blind to gray...
 
CL82 said:
Your are right. We had absolutely no chance and it was obvious to everyone. So obvious that the consensus on the board was that the administration was quiet because our joining the ACC was a done deal and every talking head was convinced that we were in.... until we weren't. I'm not a fan of Warde bashing, but I think you are being a bit revisionist.
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Yes everyone was surprised to learn, at the 11th hour, that UConn never had a chance - we all thought the opposite. Doesn't change the fact that UConn never had a chance.
 
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