I'll start by saying I've never been a fan of Zimpher. The students hate her and the whole way she handled the Huggins situation shows she knows nothing about college athletics. With that said, she has raised the profile of the university and I think in a few years we might see the benefits of that. There are some things that I disagree with her on with her direction of the school but I won't go into details of that. Since the Huggins ordeal and maybe the Kennedy situation she has done and said the right things that lead me to believe she does care about a winning sports program. At first I don't think she did, but I think since coming to a big university she has seen the impact sports can have to a school. She was willing to give Dantonio more money and she hasn't hired schmucks in Kelly or Cronin to start the rebuilding process. She could have easily brought in nobody's and run the programs in the ground. Granted she didn't personally make the hires but she did approve them. She seems or at least the university with her at the helm seems serious about promoting its football status to the next level. She could easily kill that if she wanted. I'm not sure why she got named to the Big East advisory commitee or whatever it was, but that's a different story. I guess my point is I'm giving her a second chance. Sorry Nate to the dizzo, I know how much this will upset you.
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