Lincoln Millstein’s Opinion: UConn football’s shame (Hearst)

[huskymedic]

Timing is everything (especially when you can control it)

“Lincoln Millstein is a 1977 graduate of UConn and retired senior vice president of Hearst Corp., which owns this newspaper.”



Backdoor read

 

[ktuck911]

How much more piling on can any writer do? We already know. We're currently a bad bad team. I still believe we have a much brighter future

 

[bc puckett]

How much more piling on can any writer do? We already know. We're currently a bad bad team. I still believe we have a much brighter future

Hard to take very seriously when he calls Rhode Island a Division II team. Comes off as another whiny rich

 

[Palatine]

These are the same people who (in the 1980s) thought we should leave Big East basketball because it was too difficult. Now they all cling to the ZBE because it's easier than the American. Losers will always be losers.

 

[BlueDogs]

For one whining about brand, you’d think she’d understand that football drives brand and $$ and receding from FBS is to recede from a national flagship status. These people wring their hands about money when the the vast bulk of spending is high priced university personnel and employees under generous union contracts. Tack on a bloated administration and you have your answers on profligate spending. Clueless.

 

[superjohn]

Losers will always be losers.

Nice self-awareness.

 

[SubbaBub]

How much money did he donate to the program? Doesn't sound like he's been to a game in decades.

Anyone discussing money needs to do two things. Acknowledge the CR screw job and donate. Otherwise I don't want to hear it.

 

[guyergym]

Millstein wrote:

Had I been at the news conference I would have followed Edsall with these questions:

“Do you feel an obligation to represent the university as other than just a cash-sucking hole with no future?

“What do you have to say to students on campus on financial aid?

“How do you feel about having only 10,000 fans show up at a home game?” (Memorial Stadium during the Yankee Conference days drew more than UConn does now in East Hartford.)

I'd bet $10 million he wouldn't have the guts to ask either of the first two questions, and $9 million he wouldn't have the guts to ask the third.

By the way, Millstein wrote he was sports editor of the Daily Campus in the spring of 1971. The tag line says he graduated in 1977. Was he on the John Blutarsky seven-year plan>

 

[Dooooooomed]

Who? Some other other guy?

 

[uconnbill]

Timing is everything (especially when you can control it)

“Lincoln Millstein is a 1977 graduate of UConn and retired senior vice president of Hearst Corp., which owns this newspaper.”



Backdoor read

Sounds like one of those people who kicks people off of his lawn

 

[cohenzone]

How much more piling on can any writer do? We already know. We're currently a bad bad team. I still believe we have a much brighter future

As a Fed lawyer in Hartford when Milstein was a scrub reporter with the local edition of the Courant he did a really unprofessional story after which I decided never to help him with information unless I had no choice. And I’m a defender of the free press.

 

[huskymedic]

Sounds like one of those people who kicks people off of his lawn

Not a friend/fan of UConn Football

 

[noeynox]

One way to stop articles like this. Don’t be the worst team in all of FBS.

 

[jdb50]

Not a friend/fan of UConn Football

What the heck is he talking about? In the 70's there was no weekend meal plan and we cooked on a 2 burner hotplate in the laundry room on weekends. $20 for food all weekend was all I had at times. Now students on campus have weekend meals and quality of food that would put what we got in the cafeterias to shame. This guy is a DINGUS.

 

[Scrutiner]

How much more piling on can any writer do? We already know. We're currently a bad bad team. I still believe we have a much brighter future

Comes off as a snarky weasel who doesn't have his facts straight in a number of places. So many trite comments he sounded as if he had his thesaurus at his side to help him produce catchy phrases.
“What do you have to say to students on campus on financial aid?
Edsall responds, "well, we're hoping some of our stellar alums in the media will start donating more and misrepresenting less".

 

[CL82]

Acknowledge the CR screw job

Which one. There's a few to choose from.

 

[Waquoit]

The Lincoln Millstein?

 

[gioff2323]

Only a would write,

There is a place and time for righteous indignation

and then provide readers with nothing but the same.

 

[Redding Husky]

Lies and half-truths. More propaganda than Pravda.

 

[CL82]

The Lincoln Millstein?

Perhaps the finest touring car of the 1930s.

 

[Skiblets]

Y’all expected someone named Lincoln Millstein to be a supporter?