The way this has broken for us, makes me want to jump in the ditch football and beg the Big East wagon. It's not like we've shown a commitment to fund football at a level where were going to rise to the top of this conference.
We have among the top (if not "the top") facilities in the league. And we are deficit funding football. What do you feel is missing? I'd like to pay assistants a bit more and maybe up the coaches salary up a bit form the 1.7M Diaco was getting (I think) but other than that what do feel we are missing? Serious question.
Nah, the reason it will fall on deaf ears is that current deal only really sucks for us, and there are 12 of "them" and only one of "us."
You're gonna have to pony up for a head coach and assistants. Bringing Randy back on the cheap has us looking at 3rd consecutive disaster of a season. 3 seasons is what the previous 2 coaches got before being shown the door.
Maybe, but there's no way you don't give him at least 3 years and probably s/b 4. REv2 coming back on the cheap for us seemed to be a good deal given the desolation left by first the idiot twins and then by Red Pants. Last season was really ugly, but hopefully he turns it around... which means at least having a vaguely effective defense.
To have any hope, they're going to have to pay the staff in the top 4 of the league. If you're hoping to pay the HC a million and fill the staff out with FCS coaches can you honestly say you're shocked at the results?
Randy was worth more than a million when we took him (whether he is now is a different question.) It's not like we got a HS coach and took a million dollar flyer on him. Two DI head coaching gig and NFL experience. Diaco gutted this program. There aren't many coaches who could have done better with what we had in the cupboard.
You asked what i thought they needed. I think they need to spend like a big boy program. If we simply can't afford to, then what's the point. I'm not saying the have to spend like an SEC school, but they have to find a way to get a legit staff all around to compete with the likes of Houston, UCF, USF, Memphis.
Yep and then you talked about Randy's deal but that is more a prior coach doing us a solid than us cheaping out, IMO. UConn's facilities are first class and we're upgrading refreshing the locker room. It's not like we've doing football on the cheap. Burton and Shenkman are first class facilities and the Rent (though off campus) is a really nice place to see a game.
Oh no, yes the committed to the upgrade. That's not what i meant. We tried for and missed out the P5 boat. What now though, hope to catch lightning in bottle? Randy doing us a solid? Eh, he wasn't getting another HC job in FCS. That solid went both ways when his kid got a job on the staff.
Don't disagree with that, but who do think had a better resume and was available that we passed over when we took Randy.
Maybe you should start a Go Fund Me page so you can watch the games?
I wonder if that was genuine or all for show knowing Dunn was leaving anyways? You notice he did not offer money out of his own pocket for Dunn’s OC replacement. Instead he promoted internally on the cheap.
I think it may have been more along the lines of making UConn look as cheap as it is to force them to pony up more money. Then when none was given, he went with “you want cheap? I’ll show you cheap.” Sadly, our football program is now an underfunded pile of garbage and there are powers in the state that want it to go away, and will choke it to kill it if they can’t do so outright. Who goes to the mat over Corey Edsall? Who allows the state to go to the mat? Why did the former President play to the Olympic sports crowd? Your answers are in Hartford.
