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Exit 4 said:
Yeah, I think he was still a PWO or plain old WO.

Not that it really matters, but I wouldn't leave my UConn education for a couple years of football fun at Monmouth or Northern AZ.
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Your nuts if you don't think Monmouth isn't a decent spot to land... Depending on what his major is, I'm sure he'll be just fine down there if that's where he's going... AND he'll get playing time..

If it's N Arizona, weather wise, and with the opportunity to really travel away from home, AND play the game he loves (actually get a real chance to play in live games on meaning downs.. like Monmouth)... how can you say UConn's better ? For him? No way... Get that education kid... more than likely get a lot of it paid for and contribute on the grid iron while soaking in a new culture, a new learning/growing into manhood experience...

Happy for him wherever he ends up...
 
Exit 4 said:
Not that it really matters, but I wouldn't leave my UConn education for a couple years of football fun at Monmouth or Northern AZ.
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ktuck911 said:
how can you say UConn's better ?
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UConn #60 in National Universities

Monmouth #38 (tie) in Regional Universities North

Monmouth isn't in the vicinity of UConn academically (though it does have a pretty decent Criminal Justice program.) I think that was his point.

(Northern Arizona's rank is unpublished.)
 
ktuck911 said:
Your nuts if you don't think Monmouth isn't a decent spot to land... Depending on what his major is, I'm sure he'll be just fine down there if that's where he's going... AND he'll get playing time..

If it's N Arizona, weather wise, and with the opportunity to really travel away from home, AND play the game he loves (actually get a real chance to play in live games on meaning downs.. like Monmouth)... how can you say UConn's better ? For him? No way... Get that education kid... more than likely get a lot of it paid for and contribute on the grid iron while soaking in a new culture, a new learning/growing into manhood experience...

Happy for him wherever he ends up...
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I totally disagree about Monmouth. I have no desire to debate this - so you can have the last word - but my life experiences and what I see in business every day is that the bottom 60% of colleges are a waste of time unless they have a very specialized field like criminal justice. You wouldn't get a call back for your resume from my company graduating from Monmouth. UConn on the other hand is a yes. Also in the yes bucket, Syracuse, BC (lots of BC in my industry), any NESCAC school, Ivy schools of course, etc, etc.
 
Guess he wants to continue to follow his dream and perhaps get some sort of scholarship. Would guess maybe contacting FCS and D2 schools that originally recruited him or knows people on team.
 
CL82 said:
UConn #60 in National Universities

Monmouth #38 (tie) in Regional Universities North

Monmouth isn't in the vicinity of UConn academically (though it does have a pretty decent Criminal Justice program.) I think that was his point.

(Northern Arizona's rank is unpublished.)
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Maybe UConn isn't for him? Maybe let these kids make their own life decisions without judging them. Always a laugh when people overrate UConn's academics too. I say that as an alum. It's a fine school, but people go nuts about it.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
Maybe UConn isn't for him? Maybe let these kids make their own life decisions without judging them. Always a laugh when people overrate UConn's academics too. I say that as an alum. It's a fine school, but people go nuts about it.
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What the hell difference does it make what we say here? You said students/players don't read the boneyard anyway, so therefore aren't we free to judge and comment as we wish?
 
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Jimmy Serrano said:
Maybe UConn isn't for him? Maybe let these kids make their own life decisions without judging them. Always a laugh when people overrate UConn's academics too. I say that as an alum. It's a fine school, but people go nuts about it.
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I'm not knocking the kid's decision in the least. Life is choices, right? But Exit 4's point was entirely valid. Acknowledging, the difference between UConn and 38th ranked regional school, isn't overstating UConn's academics.

FWIW, I always shrug when people undervalue UConn's academics. It is a very good school, why pretend otherwise?
 
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CL82 said:
I'm not knocking the kid's decision in the least. Life is choices, right? But Exit 4 point was entirely valid. Acknowledging, the difference between UConn and 38th ranked regional school, isn't overstating UConn's academics.

FWIW, I always shrug when people undervalue UConn's academics. It is a very good school, why pretend otherwise?
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Because its more fun to post counter points.

As usual, the conversation here has gone way side ways over nothing by people who pretend to not care, but then post anyway.

As I stated from the get go, its not a choice I would make on its surface. He may have many excellent reasons, or maybe not - who really knows....
 
ktuck911 said:
Your nuts if you don't think Monmouth isn't a decent spot to land... Depending on what his major is, I'm sure he'll be just fine down there if that's where he's going... AND he'll get playing time..

If it's N Arizona, weather wise, and with the opportunity to really travel away from home, AND play the game he loves (actually get a real chance to play in live games on meaning downs.. like Monmouth)... how can you say UConn's better ? For him? No way... Get that education kid... more than likely get a lot of it paid for and contribute on the grid iron while soaking in a new culture, a new learning/growing into manhood experience...

Happy for him wherever he ends up...
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Ktuck, The weather in Flagstaff, AZ is as cold or if not colder in the winter months than it is in Ct. and they get nearly double the annual snow fall. I awoke one morning in August to 38 degree temp. In Flafstaff.
 
Exit 4 said:
I totally disagree about Monmouth. I have no desire to debate this - so you can have the last word - but my life experiences and what I see in business every day is that the bottom 60% of colleges are a waste of time unless they have a very specialized field like criminal justice. You wouldn't get a call back for your resume from my company graduating from Monmouth. UConn on the other hand is a yes. Also in the yes bucket, Syracuse, BC (lots of BC in my industry), any NESCAC school, Ivy schools of course, etc, etc.
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LIUCHusky said:
Ktuck, The weather in Flagstaff, AZ is as cold or if not colder in the winter months than it is in Ct. and they get nearly double the annual snow fall. I awoke one morning in August to 38 degree temp. In Flafstaff.
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I think you guys kinda got my point... Alls I'm sayin is the world has changed a lot when it comes to college, IMO... It's become way more like a world of who you know and not what you know or where you went, unless you specialize in certain fields or even whether or not an area of the country I assumed (my bad) might've been in a warmer climate than where we are now.
The college experience, for the majority, is the biggest life experience you could have before life really begins....
It's a nice journey this kid takes for his own sake, not what's considered social norm...
 
Exit 4 said:
What the hell difference does it make what we say here? You said students/players don't read the boneyard anyway, so therefore aren't we free to judge and comment as we wish?
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You're free to comment and judge all you wish. Just realize that on a message board there will be people who don't see things through your world view. You're an angry guy.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
You're free to comment and judge all you wish. Just realize that on a message board there will be people who don't see things through your world view. You're an angry guy.
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Criminy, all he did was say that he'd have stayed at UConn for the education. How does that make him an angry guy?
 
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CL82 said:
Criminy, all he did was say that he'd have stayed at UConn for the education. How does that make him an angry guy?
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Amazing right? That's all I said. Pretty harmless.
 
ktuck911 said:
I think you guys kinda got my point... Alls I'm sayin is the world has changed a lot when it comes to college, IMO... It's become way more like a world of who you know and not what you know or where you went, unless you specialize in certain fields or even whether or not an area of the country I assumed (my bad) might've been in a warmer climate than where we are now.
The college experience, for the majority, is the biggest life experience you could have before life really begins....
It's a nice journey this kid takes for his own sake, not what's considered social norm...
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That's cool, I get your drift.

Sometimes I can't help be share my own observations and my life experience has seen alot of kids attend lesser schools and then become frustrated with their glass ceiling in middle age. Some really haven't accomplished anymore than had they gone to school at all.
 
Exit 4 said:
That's cool, I get your drift.

Sometimes I can't help be share my own observations and my life experience has seen alot of kids attend lesser schools and then become frustrated with their glass ceiling in middle age. Some really haven't accomplished anymore than had they gone to school at all.
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I'd agree with KTuck's sentiment that it's about who you know, but who you know is incredibly dependent (in most cases) on where you went. I've been a UConn student and am doing grad work at a higher endowment private school and it's really incredible to see how easy it is to get people to take you seriously when the institution at the end of your e-mail address changes. Also, there are so many connections through alums and faculty, way more money/resources to do things while you're in school. Two different worlds really.
 
Not seeing Will Richardson listed on the roster. I may have missed something.
 
We had heard some disgruntled parents recently.

The clear thing is that HCRE has a different (and had) worldview of using Walk-ons. And how they achieve scholarships than Mr. Diaco. Diaco, imho, really sought the recruited walk-on and promoted them through the ranks. Thus, Allmendinger and Bisack ... others ... have been afforded some good opportunity. I can't tell you how many got 2017 scholarships ... but some are leaving. Besides Tabur, Luke Sowa has left. And that's all I know. I scanned the roster just now; nothing else looks missing.
 
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Pudge said:
We had heard some disgruntled parents recently.

The clear thing is that HCRE has a different (and had) worldview of using Walk-ons. And how they achieve scholarships than Mr. Diaco. Diaco, imho, really sought the recruited walk-on and promoted them through the ranks. Thus, Allmendinger and Bisack ... others ... have been afforded some good opportunity. I can't tell you how many got 2017 scholarships ... but some are leaving. Besides Tabur, Luke Sowa has left. And that's all I know. I scanned the roster just now; nothing else looks missing.
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Edsall V1 would play a walk-on if he thought it could help the team, but walk-ons rarely got schollies unless they were truly going to be regularly on the two deep. There were also rumblings from time to time that a walk-on had to be clearly better than a scholarship player -- not just marginally better -- to earn snaps. It may be that Diaco made it easier on walk-ons.

While I'm obviously always sorry for those young men who are harmed and inconvenienced by coaching changes, it is what it is and it's hardly something troubling.
 
Did Richardson just not fit the system? I was really looking forward to watching him play
 
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BNich said:
Luke Sowa‏ @Luke_Sowa35 27m27 minutes ago
Just to clear up some misunderstandings I was on full scholarship at UConn so was Tom Tabur. We were both on full scholarship fall '16

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Interesting, I'm sure these kids are great student athletes and best of luck to these young men in the future, but why did Diaco give them D1 scholarships if they aren't ready to play D1 football? Did Diaco give every PWO player a scholarship before he left?!

Reading between the tea leaves, but it looks like Edsall's been very open about playing time with his new players as he continues to evaluate their skills and open up scholarships for the upcoming recruiting season.
 
However ... both Sowa & Tabur arrived at UConn as preferred walk-ons

There was anger and expressed as they exited.

We know ... from all we've seen in the past ... Edsall has a different perspective on walk-ons than Diaco. Disco truly believed he could foster a Program whereby physically capable underrecruited kids got a shot. This I believe has good potential - frankly beyond 100 other wacky ideas of BD. Edsall doesn't see the Program player prospects this way. That's just a fact: we know from watching.

Both Tabur & Sowa had a shot thru Spring practice. It was Edsalls perogrative to use the scholarships on other kids. I'm sorry about the hard feelings. But that's certainly a life lesson.
 
Pudge said:
However ... both Sowa & Tabur arrived at UConn as preferred walk-ons

There was anger and expressed as they exited.

We know ... from all we've seen in the past ... Edsall has a different perspective on walk-ons than Diaco. Disco truly believed he could foster a Program whereby physically capable underrecruited kids got a shot. This I believe has good potential - frankly beyond 100 other wacky ideas of BD. Edsall doesn't see the Program player prospects this way. That's just a fact: we know from watching.

Both Tabur & Sowa had a shot thru Spring practice. It was Edsalls perogrative to use the scholarships on other kids. I'm sorry about the hard feelings. But that's certainly a life lesson.
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It is nice to be acting like we're a big boy program again.
 
Yup... completely missed:

Storrs South‏ @UConn6thBorough 56m 56 minutes ago
Replying to @NeillOstrout
somehow we all missed this from last week

Report: South Carolina graduate transfer RB David Williams visits SEC West program

>>The one-time starter for the Gamecocks, who announced earlier in the offseason that he would transfer to Connecticut, reportedly visited Arkansas over the weekend, according to 247 Sports. Williams, a graduate transfer and eligible to play immediately, announced plans to transfer after he lost playing time throughout the season, and didn’t play in the Birmingham Bowl.

Williams played in nine games last season, rushed for 239 yards and three touchdowns. He had less than nine carries in seven games.

Arkansas, meanwhile, is looking for running back depth following the retirement of Rawleigh Williams III after a second neck injury.<<
 
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