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vowelguy said:
Though I will say I've seen complaints on this board when UConn has scheduled games against schools like Buffalo as opposed to higher profile teams, even though Buffalo is more likely a win. So it's not _just_ about winning. It's about caring who the opponent is. In a what conference, seems like Diaco was trying to create a rivalry and thus increase fan interest. Perhaps flawed execution, but seems like the right idea.
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Rivalries are created on the field. You just don't wake up one day and create one out of no where.

As for his presser today, yikes.
 
I do not like BD as a HC in what I've seen so far. I sincerely think he wants to succeed and he really loves the kids. I am guessing he was using this (in my opinion) idiotic trophy/fake rivalry thing to excite the kids/fan base and looked at the success of the pre 2015 UCF program and wanted to beat them badly.
If UCF did snub him/UConn by leaving the trophy it is classless and screw them.
However, the fake rivalry stuff isn't going to make the game more relevant to me and I'm guessing to 90% of the fan base.
Winning and playing exciting football is going to do it
Watching this video - I almost felt sorry for him
 
Bob being Bob, always thinking six moves ahead when we can't even beat a team that won zero games last year. Like others have said if he ever started winning he'd be a mad genius. Instead...
 
JMick said:
I wouldn't want a teacher telling me that we had to have jesus in our classroom to succeed - I'm glad they fired him/he resigned
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Then you obviously wouldn't want Bobby Bowdin, the 2nd winningest coach in D-1 college football history (377) .743 winning % coaching UCONN either. I guess you would want to fire him too. FYI Earnest Jones didn't get fired, he resigned.

 
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Confident Carl said:
Here is a video of Diaco's response on the trophy

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I wasn't sure what to expect before watching this, but after doing so I came away from it thinking well he's not wrong. The American was a thrown together conference with little shared history and little interest nationally. He recognized this and tried to do something to drum up some excitement for an otherwise non relevant conference game. Was it a little misguided? Maybe. Did it work? Yeah it kind of did. Personally I think the dude is bat schit crazy, but in an incredibly entertaining way. I just wish this imagination would manifest itself on the field in his offensive and defensive schemes a whole lot more.
 
Confident Carl said:
Then you obviously wouldn't want Bobby Bowdin, the 2nd winningest coach in D-1 college football history (377) .743 winning % coaching UCONN either. I guess you would want to fire him too. FYI Earnest Jones didn't get fired, he resigned.

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No, I wouldn't. If I was good enough I wouldn't have played for him either. In this video Bobby Bowdin literally said taking jesus out of schools is why rape and murders happen "all the time" when in fact we are living in the safest time period throughout history. The "Christian Persecution" complex needs to end. It's just a matter of old people feeling uncomfortable that their beliefs aren't the recognized norms anymore.
 
Ldandy said:
I wasn't sure what to expect before watching this, but after doing so I came away from it thinking well he's not wrong. The American was a thrown together conference with little shared history and little interest nationally. He recognized this and tried to do something to drum up some excitement for an otherwise non relevant conference game. Was it a little misguided? Maybe. Did it work? Yeah it kind of did. Personally I think the dude is bat schit crazy, but in an incredibly entertaining way. I just wish this imagination would manifest itself on the field in his offensive and defensive schemes a whole lot more.
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I literally don't think it worked... until now. If we're stuck in the same league as UCF over the next decade and Diaco somehow becomes our program savior this game will always have a big red circle around it. You can tell he feels disrespected and embarrassed over the situation.
 
Exit 4 said:
Ooh, that is indeed genius.

I also like the idea of UConn bringing the trophy to every game and raising it high at every victory. Just put a new opponent label on it every week. Think of it as a wrestling championship belt that we parade around with no intentions of sharing.
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We should screw the trophy into the table leg and we could hold it up high when we take the field like the Roman legions when they were on the battlefield and they had their shield of arms on a staff. If and when we start to win it would strike fear into the hearts of our opponents and give us strength. I kid, somewhat but it is time to start winning. We will have attitude this Saturday. I know I will. It is time to cut the BS and start hitting on all cylinders. I've had it with being doormats.
 
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And this is why we must protect basketball at all costs and move to the big east. Hopefully the AAC will keep this team and this nutjob. If not- DROP IT. Protect basketball (the sport that gave UConn a name) AT ALL COSTS.

Hey Bob- if you were a halfway decent ****g coach, like our basketball coach, you'd win some important games. That will get you fan support. Not these duck**d up little stories you have in your head about how to "market" your team. Clown.
 
UConnfan8 said:
And this is why we must protect basketball at all costs and move to the big east.
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UConnfan8 said:
And this is why we must protect basketball at all costs and move to the big east. Hopefully the AAC will keep this team and this nutjob. If not- DROP IT. Protect basketball (the sport that gave UConn a name) AT ALL COSTS.

Hey Bob- if you were a halfway decent ****g coach, like our basketball coach, you'd win some important games. That will get you fan support. Not these duck**d up little stories you have in your head about how to "market" your team. Clown.
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No.
 
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Skiblets said:
My guess is that the losing is getting to him and this is the first time he's failed at anything or at least has heard a chorus of complaints. This is virgin ground and he has no experience dealing with it publicly
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That's an assessment I can agree with. He's in uncharted territory.
 
JMick said:
No, I wouldn't. If I was good enough I wouldn't have played for him either. In this video Bobby Bowdin literally said taking jesus out of schools is why rape and murders happen "all the time" when in fact we are living in the safest time period throughout history. The "Christian Persecution" complex needs to end. It's just a matter of old people feeling uncomfortable that their beliefs aren't the recognized norms anymore.
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Confident Carl said:
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Look, I'm going to guess you're at least 50? 60? The world is changing, maybe it's scary for you. You used to go to church with your peers and now you show up and the mean age just keeps getting older and older. You start seeing all the bad things in the news and assume well the youngin's ain't goin ta church, this is why the world is in shambles. Sure, I get it.

Ya know, for a generation that complains about the millenial generation being "special snowflakes" you're really, really soft. Soft .
 
JMick said:
Look, I'm going to guess you're at least 50? 60? The world is changing, maybe it's scary for you. You used to go to church with your peers and now you show up and the mean age just keeps getting older and older. You start seeing all the bad things in the news and assume well the youngin's ain't goin ta church, this is why the world is in shambles. Sure, I get it.

Ya know, for a generation that complains about the millenial generation being "special snowflakes" you're really, really soft. Soft .
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BlueDogs said:
Hardly. It's origins relate to the decision by UConn to push out a coordinator for sharing his faith. What was disrespectful was Herbst's intolerance. I'd provide more detail in regards to separation of church and state and it's historical antecedents, but you wouldn't understand.
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please share. I'm real curious how you come up with Herbst being intolerant, yet it was the coach assuming you need Jesus in the huddle.
 
Marty Jackson said:
please share. I'm real curious how you come up with Herbst being intolerant, yet it was the coach assuming you need Jesus in the huddle.
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Well, it's probably not the right forum but you asked, and I apologize to the rest for this diversion.

As a historical matter, the notion of separation of church and state has never extended to the private expression of faith in the course of one's official duties until recent times. In fact, on the contrary, there is jurisprudential precedent since the earliest times of the country's founding and well into the 20th century that the country is founded on Christian values and it is a Christian nation. This view was not considered to be inconsistent with rights of free expression and practice. In fact, there are even references to "Mohammedans" being present and being able to freely practice provided they conformed to civil laws which were informed by Christian ethics (thusly, why most courts used to post the 10 commandments until very recent times). The singular letter that is consistently misinterpreted and, if read out of context, stands in opposition to the writings of other founders of the period is Jefferson' reference to a wall separating church and state written to a Baptist church in Danbury, Connecticut. In recent modern times, progressive left legal scholars known as positivists seized on that singular instance of language to reinterpret the Constitution's free practice guarantee and prohibition against making laws respecting or prohibiting religion. As a matter of legal interpretation and customary practice for over 150 years, there was never any understanding that prayer was prohibited in schools, in legislatures, in courts or any other place. As pertains Herbst, she reflexively took the public position that a prayer by a coach was intrinsically offensive, and because of his beliefs and expression of them, he was forced out. This is by definition intolerant and an abuse of power under the impratuer of government authority. It is part and parcel of an ongoing sanitizing of Christianity from public life when it was never intended to be the case. Several generations of legal scholars have been poisoned by positivism (the notion that you can interpret Constitutional provisions as you see necessary to fit modern times, when as a fundamental matter the provisions are fashioned on immutable matters of natural law emminating not from man but from the higher authority of God). It is precisely why these rights are not given or granted but exist independently of any state's authority. They are the basis of human liberty and limit a state's power. That is my reasoning. But, you won't hear this in many places because the leftist agenda has infiltrated most institutions of learning and the goal of disconnecting God from mankind to shift authority to the power of the state in alignment with socialism is on the rise. So, there it is in quick nutshell.

I promise the rest of the BY'rs not to further continue this on our football site.
 
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