Addazio, a Bristol family & the Urban legend

[Pudge]

There are few episodes in the last 10 years of this here Boneyard more contentious than the trip that Aaron Hernandez took, with a "supportive" Bristol family, down to Gainesville at the "invitation" of Steve Addazio ... and that Urban legend.

Sure, we were ticked (as UConn fans) that a Commitment meant little to the 17yo AH. But, I think there was more for many of us. It was the sequence of events whereby the kid's father dies ... and within months, a commitment and discussion that had been endorsed by the father (with his brother on the team), was then broken. The explanation ... if it was merely a "High Publicized Connecticut" athlete going to a greener pasture ... was plausible. The sequence was not.

This is not to explore the background of Aaron Hernandez. I simply don't know. And, I do know that some of our posters on the Boneyard HAVE connections to the Connecticut justice system & do know far more than they post. I think the real point, which I remember well (and is NOW being re-publicized in press), was that Addazio & Meyer ... were going to MENTOR this kid who just had a major event happen in his family. It is NOW obvious that Gainesville was the Wild West. The influence of a handful of Connecticut residents (maybe family ... but certainly an opportunistic family that was looking for something) helped get Aaron out of Bristol. Maybe they thought it was best ...and the circumstances NOW seem cloudy what was going on then.

I felt then the way I feel now. He was better off on that UConn team ... with his brother. And, what I knew to be a good environment. (and that included Randy Edsall ... and his rules)

 

[Pudge]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/co...6/urban-meyer-aaron-hernandez.ap/?eref=sircrc

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/sto...eyer-defend-florida-program-murder-odin-floyd

During Meyer's time with the Gators, Florida had at least 31 arrests involving 25 players. Many involved alcohol possession and disorderly conduct, but a dozen involved initial charges of felonies or violent misdemeanors.​

Does anyone remember Randy Edsall putting up with anything like this?​

 

[Palatine]

I would love to know what happened on that recruiting trip. Florida is famous for the "Gators Getters" a flock of young pretty girls that would escort recruits around Gainesville. I know they exist, I had a friend who was one, and she was smokin'. Among other highlights of these campus visits were the Hooters visit.

I do not know what happened on AH trip to Gainesville. But I am aware of the "tactics' used to lure recruits to UF. That are not high minded and they are certainly not family of mentor oriented.

 

[Pudge]

I would love to know what happened on that recruiting trip. Florida is famous for the "Gators Getters" a flock of young pretty girls that would escort recruits around Gainesville. I know they exist, I had a friend who was one, and she was smokin'. Among other highlights of these campus visits were the Hooters visit.

I do not know what happened on AH trip to Gainesville. But I am aware of the "tactics' used to lure recruits to UF. That are not high minded and they are certainly not family of mentor oriented.

I am actually OK with whatever they do ... common practice in the SEC ... to lure a kid.

Just don't talk "MENTOR" when it is obvious that you had no intent on really serving the best interests of one AH. You got his football services. You did not care about his environment.

 

[Hoophound]

As I say with CR and other matters, things have a way of working themselves out. AH is a bad kid and I am glad he didn't come here. I don't know if things would have turned out for better or worse if he had and I don't care. Chalk this up to another example of things working out for us in the end.

 

[UConnJim]

In an article in the Globe, Addazio said he didn't know of any off field incidents involving Hernandez and hadn't spoken with him in 3 to 4 years. So much for being a mentor.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2...egal-issues/udspiPQhaJhlp1QYvv2nBI/story.html

 

[mattp]

In an article in the Globe, Addazio said he didn't know of any off field incidents involving Hernandez and hadn't spoken with him in 3 to 4 years. So much for being a mentor.

to most recruiters these kids are nothing but cattle, and it sucks when they're good enough salesmen to convince them otherwise

 

[freescooter]

In an article in the Globe, Addazio said he didn't know of any off field incidents involving Hernandez and hadn't spoken with him in 3 to 4 years. So much for being a mentor.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2...egal-issues/udspiPQhaJhlp1QYvv2nBI/story.html

is that excluding the failed drug tests and the bar fights? And the fact that the local police recommended he be prosecuted for assault? Adazzio strikes me as th ebiggest phony on the planet. He might generate some positive results at BC but I suspect in the long run the costs will be pretty high. He'll recruit slimeballs and they'll embarrass BC, which is saying quite a bit...

 

[Pudge]

Addazio has told the BC administration ... and then the media ... that he is going to recruit a NEW Student-athlete typology. The reality is he will slip into the muck he has in the past. To Win ... He will do something beyond what's coming out of his mouth now.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Addazio, like all of us, is getting older every day. The one thing I feel fairly certain of, is that at Boston College, he will face a life changing decision moment, that he has not yet faced to date, where he will need to decide, that how he continues as a football coach, will be about truly developing quality young men through the game of football, or to win at all costs and he will follow that course to the end.

It irks me a bit that Addazio pilfered Don Brown, but blessings come in many disguises. Brown is a crazy man that everywhere he's been, including UCONN, has injected and created huge waves of energy. But how successful the schools have been on riding those waves?

? 1=AA championships. Not so much in 1-A.

I cannot wait for this season to begin.

as for aaron hernandez....

the moment that someone is ready and willing to pick up and use a lethal weapon, whether it be a knife, or a sword, or pressing the button, is a very, very, very important defining moment in a persons life,that without a doubt, had a lot of precipitating factors leading up to that moment.

What happens thereafter, after that moment, when the ability to take another's human life, has been broached for the first time, is very telling, as to what all those precipitating factors were and how they shaped that human being.

Aaron Hernandez, is lucky that he didnt' get caught in a state with capital punishment, and he should focus on that fact, and that alone, while contemplating the value of life in his cell. IMSNHO.

 

[Dooley]

Florida is famous for the "Gators Getters" a flock of young pretty girls that would escort recruits around Gainesville.

We need some Husky Pounders, Dog Pounders, Doggy Stylers, Puppy Groomers, UCONN Jackers, Husky Hussies...whatever it takes.

 

[Excalibur]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/co...6/urban-meyer-aaron-hernandez.ap/?eref=sircrc

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/sto...eyer-defend-florida-program-murder-odin-floyd

During Meyer's time with the Gators, Florida had at least 31 arrests involving 25 players. Many involved alcohol possession and disorderly conduct, but a dozen involved initial charges of felonies or violent misdemeanors.​

Does anyone remember Randy Edsall putting up with anything like this?​

Only the pellet gun incident . . .

 

[FAIRTIDES]

Addazio, like all of us, is getting older every day. The one thing I feel fairly certain of, is that at Boston College, he will face a life changing decision moment, that he has not yet faced to date, where he will need to decide, that how he continues as a football coach, will be about truly developing quality young men through the game of football, or to win at all costs and he will follow that course to the end.

It irks me a bit that Addazio pilfered Don Brown, but blessings come in many disguises. Brown is a crazy man that everywhere he's been, including UCONN, has injected and created huge waves of energy. But how successful the schools have been on riding those waves?

? 1=AA championships. Not so much in 1-A.

I cannot wait for this season to begin.

as for aaron hernandez....

the moment that someone is ready and willing to pick up and use a lethal weapon, whether it be a knife, or a sword, or pressing the button, is a very, very, very important defining moment in a persons life,that without a doubt, had a lot of precipitating factors leading up to that moment.

What happens thereafter, after that moment, when the ability to take another's human life, has been broached for the first time, is very telling, as to what all those precipitating factors were and how they shaped that human being.

Aaron Hernandez, is lucky that he didnt' get caught in a state with capital punishment, and he should focus on that fact, and that alone, while contemplating the value of life in his cell. IMSNHO.

I think it's appropriate to note that the 1AA championship was, I believe, the only time he had control of an entire team. Everything we've seen indicate he has turned out top-10 type D's as a DC.

It's looking, more and more, like AH is just a "bad seed."

 

[Husky1964]

I believe Aaron's trip to UF was with his mother. Remembering that from Courant. As for the "Dazzler" in the words of that previous Boston prevaricator, I think he "misremembered" details of Aaron's stay at UF

 

[BoatShow]

After seeing poor innocent Ray Ray in He Got Game I don't trust recruiting tactics of anyone.

 

[Carl Spackler]

I think it's appropriate to note that the 1AA championship was, I believe, the only time he had control of an entire team. Everything we've seen indicate he has turned out top-10 type D's as a DC.

It's looking, more and more, like AH is just a "bad seed."

DB was HC at Plymouth State, Northeastern, and UMASS. He had some pretty good players at UMASS when they won the 1-AA title.

His Northeastern team (as HC) beat our 2000 team under Edsall in Storrs, and that came a year after his UMASS team as Defensive coordinator completely destroyed Edsall's team in 99 in Amherst. Edsall wanted Don Brown on his staff at Maryland, and coming to UCONN, and then going on the road with the D, and beating Edsall's squad in College Park? Yeah - there's some history there.

He's a great guy. Don Brown - a fireball of energy, and it stinks that we lost him, as I noted, but sometimes, blessings come in many disguises, and I think, that under Hank Hughes, we will have a much more tough and disciplined defense - that will play with the same attacking philosophy.