The world is filled with amateur athletic directors.
It’s so easy for anyone following college sports to put on their leadership hat and profess to know what a school should do when faced with a major decision. Once a decision is made, there’s a fevered race to be the first person to proclaim it’s a mistake. Every subsequent piece of news is an opportunity for referendum on the previous decisions.
As most of you know, UConn spent most of its life as a bit player on the college sports scene before joining the Big East and riding the wave of college basketball’s national rise in popularity with two groundbreaking programs.