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Susan Herbst said she wasn't groveling nor was she trying to strong-arm anybody.
In proposing self-imposed penalties for failure to meet academic standards, UConn, according to Herbst, was merely following policy for waiver requests set by the NCAA.
And while this certainly appears to be the case, we would argue that the UConn president should have strong-armed somebody — the school's Hall of Fame basketball coach. Short of Jim Calhoun's willingness to sit out at least the first weekend of the 2013 NCAA Tournament, it's hard to see how the governing body for college athletics will buy into the argument that UConn is...
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