Was not aware of the other HC paychecks in the same conference, but I support the open market, and if this is what Santos and UNH have chosen, then we'll see what happens. Just as an FYI, I do not support UNH ending Football (others on here disagree, and that's fine, but to me its unrealistic for a school that just built their new stadium), any more than I supported them cutting Baseball and Lacrosse to get into the good graces of Title IX.
But the not-so-new AD's record to date is hardly impressive ... to my knowledge, fantastic Soccer coach gone, pretty good Football coach leaving now, Hoops' all-time winningest coach lol (decent) replaced by an apparent DEI hire, and of course Hockey extending a mediocre-to-date HC.
Agreed that Kelly isn't coming back ... thought I said that somewhere, him being in a different universe, only thing that might make sense would be a retirement job type of situation, but knowing a couple of folks close to the source here, the chances of that happening here are probably less than 5%. Day isn't even on the radar.
First of all, apologies for being
gauche and quoting my own prior post. But in this situation, context is important, when some (not all) folks are taking liberties with my content. I know this is all makes for super-fascinating reading while hockey season is on pause ... but as anyone still interested can see, we were discussing the debate over the recent UNH departure of Coach Santos (Football). The second paragraph - which I will loosely call the "offending paragraph" - caused this stir, and I get that it was probably careless to add DEI in the discussion of the AD's short-but-unimpressive tenure to date, and I've owned up to that.
As an aside, the previous paragraph invoked Title IX in discussing UNH programs that have disappeared, and nobody had a conniption over that. Interesting.
Anyway, I want to respond to the two folks who had something to say, one of the two of whom did not take any liberties, but both actually offered content:
i was talking basic PR, but in the end im pretty sure it was just a good hire. is the presence of recycling cans on campus suddenly greenwashing?
by this logic, you could declare the hiring of any minority figure to be signs of obvious virtue signaling. id hope i dont have to explain why that is a terrible precedent to set, but you appear to have a tough time with the definition of "concluding" (it means AT THE END, not the middle of a wall of text) so i'll oblige: this discredits the entire careers of very hardworking and competent members of society who have contributed so much by minimizing their presence into a statistic for some culture war.
IN CONCLUSION, no one is claiming the scary monster DEI policy wasn't present. it is merely that most people have enough sense to focus on the whole picture, not the one speck in the corner of the photograph because it offends their sensibilities.
cinnamoroll, I left your entire post up so no one would say I just picked certain parts of it and discarded the rest. I only added the
bold section in Line One to point out that even you, in disagreeing with my take overall, have conceded ("pretty sure") like me it was probably a good hire. Neither you nor I, nor anyone else not directly in the UNH process at the time, can speak in definite terms. And his career is still in process. Your second paragraph offers a helpful mix of construct suggestions lol, and fairly points out what can happen when one gets careless with words/terms. Your conclusion line is an absolutely fair take, although I've made my own suggestion for an edit, since I think it's a little over the top, given what was and wasn't said earlier. So kudos, sir - 8 out of 10.
“Probably wrong” ???
It is abundantly clear to everyone(including you) that you are 100% wrong. The guy had way more credentials than needed for acceptance, inclusion, equality without any DEI mantra. You manufactured and labeled him as a token DEI hire and it blew up in your face.
I don’t have any interest in helping you beyond this…
When you are clearly wrong and don’t just say you are wrong and follow it up with all this nonsense to justify why you think what you said was ok then it cheapens the admission of being wrong. It cheapens any sense of apology.
No, I wont help you get out of your hole - not until you put the shovel down.
Now on to Sparkee, who has definitely upped his game on here in the last couple of months, but in this post fell victim to going a little over the top and taking things entirely out of initial context. Even cinnamaroll won't go to "definite", because he is apparently a little more balanced and tempered, and you may still be susceptible to the emotions of the past wars on here, I guess? You packed a lot of imagination and invention into my original sentence fragment there. Your responses on this little exchange over the last few days are more akin to what I'd expect from a teenager triggered by a microaggression. You are way better than that. However, I'll admit that with this response, it's time to put aside the shovel. For that decent piece of advice, I'll generously give you 6 out of 10.
And as for you, mister potty ... zero point zero. Absolutely no content to offer, nothing but a tone-deaf one-trick pony. Maybe you should take your own advice and am-scray?!? Or start unmasking your DM hostages to show how deep your apparently invisible "support" on here actually is?????
