My view starting football was a mistake. We should have focused those resources on Hockey and Lax. When the football spend got to be too high it caused the board to also kill hockey. That was very unfortunate. We are too small a University to support football financially.
Please explain in what way we’re too small since our undergraduate enrollment is very similar to Holy Cross.
Well financially our football program was not viable previously and it proved to be a poor decision to invest in football. Its very difficult for a school with only 4000 Alumni per year and no tradition to develop a large enough fan base to generate the revenue needed to sustain football. Furthermore, we are competing with with schools that have 20 to 30,000 graduates a year who have a much larger alumni base to support a program. I think if you are a school like Fairfield, you have to select a few flagship sports and invest heavily in making those successful not drain resources away from Lax, Soccer, Basketball and Baseball to try and make a go of it with football.
Wow Ghost, you ought to be a reporter considering your knack for giving us 'breaking news.' Yesterday I found out from you about Edsall leaving after the season was over while today I learn from you that it's over for him immediately. Anyway if Karma had a connection with this situation, maybe Randy got what he deserved for the way he sneaked out on the Huskies in the middle of the night ten years ago when he was a hero and on top of the world as the man who took their program to a top bowl game. After that incident I never really cared for the man to be honest.
Most people dislike gloating over the misfortune of others.
However, in the case of UConn, I struggle to suppress this emotion.
Their years of success (which must be given credit) have always been surrounded by arrogance.
They were never gracious winners be it their coaches (Calhoun was the king of arrogance IMO), right down to their big donors.
I use the example of the Yankees and Derek Jeter. I always despised the Yankees for a similar reason--arrogance, but always rooted for Derek Jeter. -- He is one of the best of all time, who kept his nose clean, and I'm sure will demonstrate his usual humility during his induction into the Hall of Fame tomorrow. -- As an avowed "Yankee hater", I even travelled to Fenway on his last weekend to watch one of his last games. And it was sweet. We gave Jeter a nice send off (which was surprisingly cordial by the die hard Sox fans) and Tanaka gave up a ton of runs in the first couple of innings essentially sending the Yanks to the showers in the second inning. For me, a win-win.
Not shedding any tears for the Huskies. They have lots of resources and will be back.
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Schadenfreude is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another and in this case UCONN.
Sell don’t buy UConn- UConn was blocked going into the ACC by BC. It was rejected by the Big 10 too. Geno won’t be there forever. Calhoun long gone and they turned on Kevin Ollie. Budget cuts for the athletic department. Never played FU at the arena- lost opportunities to further its brand in Fairfield county. Lost the exposure of NYC tournaments due to Covid.
Most people dislike gloating over the misfortune of others.
However, in the case of UConn, I struggle to suppress this emotion.
Their years of success (which must be given credit) have always been surrounded by arrogance.
They were never gracious winners be it their coaches (Calhoun was the king of arrogance IMO), right down to their big donors.
I use the example of the Yankees and Derek Jeter. I always despised the Yankees for a similar reason--arrogance, but always rooted for Derek Jeter. -- He is one of the best of all time, who kept his nose clean, and I'm sure will demonstrate his usual humility during his induction into the Hall of Fame tomorrow. -- As an avowed "Yankee hater", I even travelled to Fenway on his last weekend to watch one of his last games. And it was sweet. We gave Jeter a nice send off (which was surprisingly cordial by the die hard Sox fans) and Tanaka gave up a ton of runs in the first couple of innings essentially sending the Yanks to the showers in the second inning. For me, a win-win.
Not shedding any tears for the Huskies. They have lots of resources and will be back.
Exactly how I feel. Despite loathing most of the yankees team, Jeter was a big play player and class act that I always respected. Impossible not to root for him. Ditto for UConn, I kind of hoped for the best up in storrs until Calhoun arrived but they have been tough to like every since.
Sell don’t buy UConn- UConn was blocked going into the ACC by BC. It was rejected by the Big 10 too. Geno won’t be there forever. Calhoun long gone and they turned on Kevin Ollie. Budget cuts for the athletic department. Never played FU at the arena- lost opportunities to further its brand in Fairfield county. Lost the exposure of NYC tournaments due to Covid.
Yes in the future there probably will be some decay in the overall outlook of the UConn athletic department based primarily on some of the reasons you have stated above. However in regards to hoops, both with the men and the women, that time may be a LONG way off. Geno still has a long way to go and Hurley has hit the recruiting bonanza this summer meaning bad news for Huskie haters I'm afraid. Some of the other sports too such as baseball and hockey are currently in great shape. Therefore I wouldn't be in a selling mode regarding those programs. Football, totally different story of course. As an independent in a part of the country that doesn't worship the sport, they may be doomed for failure no matter who is in charge. Even now the suggestion of dropping down a level or even getting rid of the program has been suggested by a couple of people in the media. So I would definitely sell them (if I had any money left).
Most people dislike gloating over the misfortune of others.
However, in the case of UConn, I struggle to suppress this emotion.
Their years of success (which must be given credit) have always been surrounded by arrogance.
They were never gracious winners be it their coaches (Calhoun was the king of arrogance IMO), right down to their big donors.
I use the example of the Yankees and Derek Jeter. I always despised the Yankees for a similar reason--arrogance, but always rooted for Derek Jeter. -- He is one of the best of all time, who kept his nose clean, and I'm sure will demonstrate his usual humility during his induction into the Hall of Fame tomorrow. -- As an avowed "Yankee hater", I even travelled to Fenway on his last weekend to watch one of his last games. And it was sweet. We gave Jeter a nice send off (which was surprisingly cordial by the die hard Sox fans) and Tanaka gave up a ton of runs in the first couple of innings essentially sending the Yanks to the showers in the second inning. For me, a win-win.
Not shedding any tears for the Huskies. They have lots of resources and will be back.
Exactly how I feel. Despite loathing most of the yankees team, Jeter was a big play player and class act that I always respected. Impossible not to root for him. Ditto for UConn, I kind of hoped for the best up in storrs until Calhoun arrived but they have been tough to like every since.
Back in the day, I always liked Richard Hamilton, who never seemed like the prototypical loud mouth or trouble making player for UConn. I actually rooted for him. Not sure if I can say the same for another UConn player over the past 25 years. Maybe Emeka Okafor.