Any of these names sound promising for Diaco's replacement?

[sub legacy]

Been hearing Bob Stoops is starting to get the 'Les Miles' treatment at Oklahoma. Any UConn fan would take him in a heartbeat assuming he'd ever give them the time of day, or whether UConn could even afford him in the first place.

 

[UConnNick]

I sincerely appreciate your passion and enthusiasm. However, two of your statements in the (+) column are in actuality negatives and why UConn will not probably will not land a Big name. The Northeast did not recently become a college football vacuum. It always has been (e.g. in over 100 years of college FB, All of New England has not been a hot bed for 1-a football team). P-5 conferences are well established in NJ recruiting.an AAC team is not going to oust any of them from that dominance. Big name coaches probably have more insight into who ultimately will be in P5/P4 conferences than most AD's and university presidents. For those reasons, I agree with you..they ain't coming to UConn.

New England was once very much a part of big time major college football when the Ivy League schools and service academies were perennial national powers. The problem is the eight Ivy League schools formally aligned in 1956 and decided to de-emphasize football with a bowl ban and no awarding of athletic scholarships. The service academies declined in stature soon thereafter, and nobody with the possible exception of Penn State ever filled that void. That's why the Northeast lags far behind the rest of the country in CFB fan interest. There's almost nobody alive anymore that remembers even the tail end of that era in the 1940's and early 1950's.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

No offense Nos but for your statement to have any merit, Oregon at the time they promoted Kelly to HC would have had to have been equivalent to UConn at the time we hired Diaco.

The reality is that UConn at the time we hired Pasqualoni wasn't close to Oregon hired Belloti (Kelly's predecessor).