Any word on a new HC @ UConn yet?

[JwittersPAC]

Terry Smith comes from Penn State and he's bringing at least the starting QB who was impressive, a star LB and at least one starting WR and CB. We could use them. Any Penn Stste players are better than comps on UConn. We have a lot of holes to fill. Terry is 56, 4-5 years younger than Mora was. I'll overlook his age for everything else he brings.

Why would the starting QB come? If he is P4 caliber player he can get more NIL in the portal.

 

[superjohn]

Terry Smith comes from Penn State and he's bringing at least the starting QB who was impressive, a star LB and at least one starting WR and CB. We could use them. Any Penn Stste players are better than comps on UConn. We have a lot of holes to fill. Terry is 56, 4-5 years younger than Mora was. I'll overlook his age for everything else he brings.

Hiring a coach because you think he might bring some players with him is ridiculous.

 

[Bandito2025]

Hiring a coach because you think he might bring some players with him is ridiculous.

He can bring in some big name players come on

 

[businesslawyer]

Don't forget he will bring a dozen Penn State players with him to Husky land.

The big time players on PSU will get more money than we can pay them, either there or at another P-4 school. He very well might bring us some guys who haven’t gotten major playing time yet. Guys like — I don’t know — Roberson and Mills?

Payment to players has changed everything. Nothing comes free with a coach any more.

 

[Bandito2025]

Hiring a coach because you think he might bring some players with him is ridiculous.

He could bring football players with him.

 

[TheDude]

He can bring in some big name players come on

I think Uconn doesn't want to pay a high buyout. Looking to just pay salary, get 7 or 8 wins in the G5 and let Dan and Gino win championships and get Yormark to sway some votes to get us in Big 12. I really thinks that the plan.

 

[ZooCougar]

I think Uconn doesn't want to pay a high buyout. Looking to just pay salary, get 7 or 8 wins in the G5 and let Dan and Gino win championships and get Yormark to sway some votes to get us in Big 12. I really thinks that the plan.

Good luck getting 8 wins cheap in this market.

This is Suzie Herbst/Warde destructive level thinking. Good god I hope you are wrong.

 

[HuskyAlum012]

I think Uconn doesn't want to pay a high buyout. Looking to just pay salary, get 7 or 8 wins in the G5 and let Dan and Gino win championships and get Yormark to sway some votes to get us in Big 12. I really thinks that the plan.

This is and should absolute be the plan. Football just has to be "good enough" not elite. Once we get in a power conference, you can up your spend on a coaching staff

 

[ZooCougar]

This is and should absolute be the plan. Football just has to be "good enough" not elite. Once we get in a power conference, you can up your spend on a coaching staff

That’s exactly how you fail.

 

[JohnFSilver]

When’s the last time two thirds of the 75 students sat in a classroom to watch English lit?

We should sell the rights to the ice cream for football money.

 

[JohnFSilver]

This is and should absolute be the plan. Football just has to be "good enough" not elite. Once we get in a power conference, you can up your spend on a coaching staff

Basketball people are paranoid about football being popular.

At no other school in the United States do people not want to have a great football team. Never seen anything like it.

 

[AllHusky]

I think Uconn doesn't want to pay a high buyout. Looking to just pay salary, get 7 or 8 wins in the G5 and let Dan and Gino win championships and get Yormark to sway some votes to get us in Big 12. I really thinks that the plan.

Spell Geno right and maybe someone will take you a little seriously. Geez.

 

[Patman]

The big time players on PSU will get more money than we can pay them, either there or at another P-4 school. He very well might bring us some guys who haven’t gotten major playing time yet. Guys like — I don’t know — Roberson and Mills?

Payment to players has changed everything. Nothing comes free with a coach any more.

No kidding and definitely not from pre-season number two to connecticut

 

[AllHusky]

Can someone explain the appeal of Cahill? Not trying to be a jerk I just don't understand why people like him?

Winners win, competitors compete. All the other stuff is just details. Refuse to lose and all those details fall into place.

 

[JwittersPAC]

Winners win, competitors compete. All the other stuff is just details. Refuse to lose and all those details fall into place.

He does not have a name like Mora had - ex NFL coach to attract players in the portal with NFL aspirations.

 

[HuskyAlum012]

Basketball people are paranoid about football being popular.

At no other school in the United States do people not want to have a great football team. Never seen anything like it.

It's not that people are scared, its just next to impossible to do here.

 

[UConnJim]

Mora is 64 and BY has no problem with him

Mora was 59 when hired at UConn with 10 years of prior head coaching experience at UCLA and the NFL. Cignetti had 11 years of head coaching experience before he was hired at Indiana and had won big at each stop.

UConn can not take the risk of hiring a 57 year old career assistant coach with no head coaching or coordinator experience. The conference realignment stakes are too high.

 

[superjohn]

Basketball people are paranoid about football being popular.

At no other school in the United States do people not want to have a great football team. Never seen anything like it.

What on earth are you talking about?

 

[HuskyAlum012]

That’s exactly how you fail.

If you can find the school an extra $6M to pay their head coach and an extra $20M to spend a support staff and roster, I would be more than welcome to think otherwise

 

[HuskyAlum012]

What on earth are you talking about?

I think he's drunk again

 

[Fishy]

Apparently the “scoop” is literally just people they are talking about on their internal message board. You can safely disregard anything from that place.

I didn’t even know it existed. Will return to not knowing.

 

[JakeTheDog]

Basketball people are paranoid about football being popular.

At no other school in the United States do people not want to have a great football team. Never seen anything like it.

Why would basketball people be paranoid about football being popular?

 

[maple]

This is and should absolute be the plan. Football just has to be "good enough" not elite. Once we get in a power conference, you can up your spend on a coaching staff

 

[Kembafan]

Why would basketball people be paranoid about football being popular?

It might be an exaggeration to say they're "paranoid" about football being popular, but there definitely is anti-football sentiment from some basketball people at UConn.

 

[CLAS92]

I don’t think that is true actually. They’ve done it for assistants as a proforma thing. But I don’t even think they have done that. I’m not even sure it is 5 days.