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Would love to hear what other resumes The Boneyard has been reviewing that would be better suited to coach our tight ends.

Christ.
 
huskymedic said:
They clearly stole the wrong pic from the MD site...

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I think you should pass that along to them... Do the poor guy some justice...
 
noeynox said:
Edsall hired his son? Happens everywhere in college fb. In CT, I expect some heads to explode over it
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My head isn't exploding, I'm just trying to make sense of how TE coach applies to the language in Edsall's contract:

"...you may not be a direct supervisor of your son... your son will report to an individual designated by the Athletic Director who does not report to you."

It seems that any position coach reports up to Edsall. If Edsall thinks Corey should coach TEs, I'm all for it, I just don't want anyone to cry foul about this down the line...
 
ConnHuskBask said:
Would love to hear what other resumes The Boneyard has been reviewing that would be better suited to coach our tight ends.

Christ.
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George DeLeone, but, ironically, he already has a better job at the moment.
 
mikedog10 said:
My head isn't exploding, I'm just trying to make sense of how TE coach applies to the language in Edsall's contract:

"...you may not be a direct supervisor of your son... your son will report to an individual designated by the Athletic Director, who does not report to you."

It seems that any position coach reports up to Edsall. If Edsall thinks Corey should coach TEs, I'm all for it, I just don't want anyone to cry foul about this down the line...
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I'm going w/ a missing comma after Athletic Director (who does not report to Randy) ;)
 
mikedog10 said:
My head isn't exploding, I'm just trying to make sense of how TE coach applies to the language in Edsall's contract:

"...you may not be a direct supervisor of your son... your son will report to an individual designated by the Athletic Director who does not report to you."

It seems that any position coach reports up to Edsall. If Edsall thinks Corey should coach TEs, I'm all for it, I just don't want anyone to cry foul about this down the line...
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I'm just wondering how they're going to explain that the OC is an "individual designated by the athletic department that does not report to" HCRE.
 
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mikedog10 said:
My head isn't exploding, I'm just trying to make sense of how TE coach applies to the language in Edsall's contract:

"...you may not be a direct supervisor of your son... your son will report to an individual designated by the Athletic Director who does not report to you."

It seems that any position coach reports up to Edsall. If Edsall thinks Corey should coach TEs, I'm all for it, I just don't want anyone to cry foul about this down the line...
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Technically in the coaching tree...his direct supervisor is the OC. Like I said in a another post it may be semantics but technically Edsall is only the direct supervisor of the OC...then the OC is the direct supervisor of the offensive position coaches.
 
MattMang23 said:
I'm just wondering how they're going to explain that the OC is an "individual designated by the athletic department that does not report to" HCRE.
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His daily direction can come through the HC to the OC and to him as needed.

For performance review, for human resources type questions, he probably has another 'manager' that he reports to. That person will complete performance reviews, wage evaluations, etc. They will have a different hierarchy to the AD than the head football coach.

Corporations and consulting firms use the term matrix organization - your 'manager' boss is different that your 'project' boss.
 
RedSoloCup said:
His daily direction can come through the HC to the OC and to him as needed.

For performance review, for human resources type questions, he probably has another 'manager' that he reports to. That person will complete performance reviews, wage evaluations, etc. They will have a different hierarchy to the AD than the head football coach.

Corporations and consulting firms use the term matrix organization - your 'manager' boss is different that your 'project' boss.
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I am guessing you don't work for the state.
 
MattMang23 said:
I am guessing you don't work for the state.
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Edsall has always been anal about details. I'm sure that what they are doing has been vetted. I don't need to understand how/why it works.

Again, in a perfect world I would be happier avoiding nepotism (as we do in my law firm) because it reduces the risk of certain problems. That having been said, there is nothing unusual here in the football coaching profession in terms of hiring your son, there is nothing unusual here about having one junior member of the staff with a G.A. background who is in their first year as an actual coach (heck, Wholly made that jump while at UConn the whole time I think) and this just isn't worth worrying about any more. So I don't intend to.
 
businesslawyer said:
Edsall has always been anal about details. I'm sure that what they are doing has been vetted. I don't need to understand how/why it works.

Again, in a perfect world I would be happier avoiding nepotism (as we do in my law firm) because it reduces the risk of certain problems. That having been said, there is nothing unusual here in the football coaching profession in terms of hiring your son, there is nothing unusual here about having one junior member of the staff with a G.A. background who is in their first year as an actual coach (heck, Wholly made that jump while at UConn the whole time I think) and this just isn't worth worrying about any more. So I don't intend to.
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BL for the record..after he graduated Wholley was a Asst at Central (TE's) then came back to UConn as a GA (worked with the offense) for 2 years...then went to Fordham for a year (TE Coach) ....came back to UConn for the next 4 (Te coach 1st season..LB's next 3)...then back to Fordham (LB's/Asst DC) in 2014. As a Asst at Central and Fordham he did have some experience recruiting before he came to UConn. Again I hope OCrey succeeds here and proves me wrong.
 
FDNY99 said:
BL for the record..after he graduated Wholley was a Asst at Central (TE's) then came back to UConn as a GA (worked with the offense) for 2 years...then went to Fordham for a year (TE Coach) ....came back to UConn for the next 4 (Te coach 1st season..LB's next 3)...then back to Fordham (LB's/Asst DC) in 2014
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O.K. Stand corrected. That having been said, that part of it (not having a year or two as a FCS coach) doesn't bother me, assuming he's the only coach without experience as a coach
 
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businesslawyer said:
Edsall has always been anal about details. I'm sure that what they are doing has been vetted. I don't need to understand how/why it works.

Again, in a perfect world I would be happier avoiding nepotism (as we do in my law firm) because it reduces the risk of certain problems. That having been said, there is nothing unusual here in the football coaching profession in terms of hiring your son, there is nothing unusual here about having one junior member of the staff with a G.A. background who is in their first year as an actual coach (heck, Wholly made that jump while at UConn the whole time I think) and this just isn't worth worrying about any more. So I don't intend to.
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I am sure Edsall, et. al. have figured out how this is to be handled and I don't have a problem with his kid on staff. Frankly, I couldn't care less. There will no sleep lost by me pondering this, I assure you.

I will simply be intrigued to hear how it bypasses the second clause of that contract stipulation- that his kid must report to someone who does not report to HCRE himself. I read that sentence and, to my eye, this doesn't pass muster. I don't overly care, I'm just curious.

My point that you responded to about being in state service, however, still holds. In state service, you can not report directly to an immediate family member, and there is no way around it, so what RedSoloCup is saying about organizational structure does not exist in the state. Private entities may be different but this is a long-standing state policy, which it should be. I realize this is not a prototypical state job, but UConn does have hiring practices that must be approved by the state.
 
For comparison, I have an account manager who supports me and our account list. He is my primary day to day support but ultimately reports to a separate director of account management who handles performance reviews. I then report into my VP separately.
 
Operational/Functional manager.
Administrative/HR manager.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
Would love to hear what other resumes The Boneyard has been reviewing that would be better suited to coach our tight ends.

Christ.
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nephews.

This guy Edsall gave a deep discount on the Salary to the University and his boss. With all due respect, he gets to pick his Assistants ... and he clearly pointedly outlined to David Benedict that he was bringing his son over. Jon Wholley, BTW, was his last GA to Tight End coach. Corey Edsall isn't coming on with zero background. He just did 2 years GA at Colorado - a very successful program and one with a wide-open offense. Plus he gets 4 solid experienced TEs to show him the ropes.

Please tell me that WE aren't that small to putz around with the TE coach. Let's unwrap the OC present first.
 
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Pudge said:
nephews.

This guy Edsall gave a deep discount on the Salary to the University and his boss. With all due respect, he gets to pick his Assistants ... and he clearly pointedly outlined to David Benedict that he was bringing his son over. Jon Wholley, BTW, was his last GA to Tight End coach. Corey Edsall isn't coming on with zero background. He just did 2 years GA at Colorado - a very successful program and one with a wide-open offense. Plus he gets 4 solid experienced TEs to show him the ropes.

Please tell me that WE aren't that small to putz around with the TE coach. Let's unwrap the OC present first.
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I'm agreeing with you. It's the tight end coach. I agree that working with family could be potentially be a conflict of interest, but knowing Randy the way we do, if anything, the kid will likely have it harder than most.
 
huskymedic said:
Updated: "The Courant has reached out to UConn to find out who supervises Corey Edsall".
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His mother Supervises him. Enough already.

;-)

EDIT- that was 'not enough already' to medic! It was a generalized statement directed at no one and everyone.
 
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huskymedic said:
Yup...

Bryan Fischer ‏@BryanDFischer 9m 9 minutes ago
Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz has named Brian Ferentz as the teams new OC
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And Steve Belichick works for the Patriots. I don't know why people are surprised by this stuff. Mike Shanahan's son is the OC in Atlanta. Brian Shottenheimer is a coordinator. Kids of good coaches tend to make pretty good coaches.
 
huskymedic said:
Updated: "The Courant has reached out to UConn to find out who supervises Corey Edsall".
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The Courant figures that after all the updates and inside scoops on the coaching staff they gave us, they needed to do some serious research into this. Oh wait...the Courant has provided diddly on the coaching staff until it was already posted somewhere else. They are useless.
 
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sportsart said:
The Courant figures that after all the updates and inside scoops on the coaching staff they gave us, they needed to do some serious research into this. Oh wait...the Courant has provided diddly on the coaching staff until it was already posted somewhere else. They are useless.
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Speaking of the Courant... did Jacobs ever get to the bottom of what happened with the B12 non-expansion? Wasn't he going to dig into it with some hard core intense investigative journalism? Or did a squirrel run by and distract him?
 
SAMCRO said:
Speaking of the Courant... did Jacobs ever get to the bottom of what happened with the B12 non-expansion? Wasn't he going to dig into it with some hard core intense investigative journalism? Or did a squirrel run by and distract him?
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He didn't. He is working on this weeks "Could the NHL Return to Hartford" article.
 
SAMCRO said:
Speaking of the Courant... did Jacobs ever get to the bottom of what happened with the B12 non-expansion? Wasn't he going to dig into it with some hard core intense investigative journalism? Or did a squirrel run by and distract him?
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The click bait worked and he got what he needed with that headline. No need to do any work on this...
 
uconnphil2016 said:
Relax, guys. Rule #1: We don't use tight ends at UConn!!

Oh, wait--that's from my Diaco notes. Sorry, you may continue lighting the torches and gathering the pitchforks.
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Ask Ryan Griffin about that.
 
SAMCRO said:
Speaking of the Courant... did Jacobs ever get to the bottom of what happened with the B12 non-expansion? Wasn't he going to dig into it with some hard core intense investigative journalism? Or did a squirrel run by and distract him?
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First, he' got to help O.J. find Nicole's real murderer.
 
Honestly you can't masks this crap up. The State crucified some guy for helping his kid get a job with some consultant who works for the state among others but the wife of the governors chief of staff lands a job with the state as a liaison with the governors office but that's ok. Edsall hires his kid and it's a for a job for which he is well qualified.

I agree with the late Richard J Daley of Chicago. If you don't think I'm going to do everything I can to help my kid you can kiss my as $.
 
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