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Marinatto was paid to lead the Big East, the same BE that saw 3 of its most marketable football teams defect to the ACC. Marinatto takes the helm and did he lead the conference? Did he through strength of argument and charismatic will unite the disparate factions into a stronger conference? He finally moves and allows a historical conference pirate (TCU) to be invited. Then what? His grand vision was upgrading a relatively poor parochial school that possessed neither the money nor viable facilities to compete at the BCS level
Instead he sat down with Swofford and Beebe (I guess a kind of cross between a Mauro Puzzo character and a Roman ambassador to the Senones.)
Once Marinatto did this, through his energetic and elegant leadership the BE proceeded to take it up the ssa.
But its not about the confetence chairman? If your complaint is that without compliant constituency the BE was doomed to failure, then by definition Marinatto failed. It was his J. O. B to lead. And he didn't.
So now UConn is in a conference with only one other northeastern football team. But go on thinking that Marinatto was a success!
Instead he sat down with Swofford and Beebe (I guess a kind of cross between a Mauro Puzzo character and a Roman ambassador to the Senones.)
Once Marinatto did this, through his energetic and elegant leadership the BE proceeded to take it up the ssa.
But its not about the confetence chairman? If your complaint is that without compliant constituency the BE was doomed to failure, then by definition Marinatto failed. It was his J. O. B to lead. And he didn't.
So now UConn is in a conference with only one other northeastern football team. But go on thinking that Marinatto was a success!