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Message: [QUOTE="ScottVib, post: 5307891, member: 694"] Pasqualoni did the worst job. He had good talent left to him... (8 draft picks in his 3 years (plus a pair of UDFA); while Edsall V1 had 15 in his 11. He also brought in 2 guys who were drafted the year after he left (and one more draft pick). Pasqualoni had the talent needed to keep things rolling and only his poor performance coaching the talent led to back-to-back 5-7s and a level of disfunction the final year that forced his termination (I remain convinced that had UConn not reached the Fiesta Bowl and Edsall leaves a week earlier, the Huskies land Addazzio (rather than his going to Temple) and likely keeps things on the tracks). Had Pasqualoni not squandered the talent and UConn coming off of a run of five straight bowls, including (at least) two conference title shares and a BCS appearance, it may well have been harder to bypass UConn for Louisville on the final life raft to the ACC (if not harder to displace UConn for Pitt). Diaco looked like a good hire on paper and he was going to land a head-coaching job in that cycle. He was the reigning Broyles Award winner for top assistant. He struggled to bring in talent and in many phases of running the program. [/QUOTE]