Over beers this afternoon with fellow UConn grads at local microbrewery, the conversation turned to what appears to be the inevitable firing of KO and why his contract was structured so that it couldn’t affordably happen until after next season - May 2019- which could be after 3 straight losing seasons. When the question of why Warde Manuel made this contract, the answer seemed to be, “nobody thought it could get this bad.” Sort of the Neville Chamberlain defense made by historians trying to justify the pre-World War II actions of the British Prime Minister.