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johnhuskies95 said:
Rivals gets more inside info than anyone on UConn sports and they're still hurting for subscriptions because everything is brought back over here once they report something.
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This is the first info in months that has been shared here from Rivals. The reason Rivals has been hurting for memberships is they burned up their subscriber base with idiots like Jackson and Farrell.

HFD gets more info than Rivals, and I mean that with all true sincerety.
 
johnhuskies95 said:
Fair enough. Recruiting is obviously tricky with a lot of moving the parts. The whole staff needs to be A LOT better, not just one person.
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That I will agree with you on! If Warde Manuel ends up firing Pasqualoni...he needs to dismiss the entire staff. Let the new guy start from scratch
 
I agree with FDNY. Sos is a lousy coach, and not much better as a recruiter.

Wide receivers have woefully underperformed for us for years. Its not just that we have had poor QB play (we have), but our WR's never have any separation, run sub-par routes, and drop the ball far too often.

When Easley emerged (if you want to give sos credit for Easley...fine. That's 1 out of dozens. But i certainly don't), it made Frazer look like a competent QB for a few games (he wasn't). A good WR group can do a lot for a QB. We have never had a good WR group.

If you want to argue that the talent wasn't good enough....that's fair. But that was a large part of his responsibilities as a recruiter, and recruiting coordinator. Sub-par there too.

We have been getting 2-star players for years, and coaching them up to average-to above-average, and in a few cases, making them NFL talent. WR has had that less than any other position...BY FAR.

This is a change that should have been made years ago.
 
FDNY99 said:
Until P hired DeLone we SUCKED recruiting in NJ since Lakatos left for Georgia! Trust me when I tell you Cersosimo has ZERO recruiting ties in Bergen County at Bergen Catholic and Don Bosco...and he has done UConn ZERO favors at Arbc... besides when my buddy emailed Sos about Nelson...Sos told him that Darrel Perkins recruited NJ...So with DeLeone recruiting North NJ and Lerkins recruiting South NJ that blows a hole in that theory about Sos recruiting NJ!
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Rivals is not the gospel on recruiting, but it shows Perkins as having recruited a grand total of 2 New Jersey kids in his three years here.
 
johnhuskies95 said:
Rivals is not the gospel on recruiting, but it shows Perkins as having recruited a grand total of 2 New Jersey kids in his three years here.
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Yeah until DeLeone was brought on board UConn recruiting in NJ was almost non-exsistent since Scott Lakatos left for UGA. When Edsall hired him away from Rutgers his ability to recruit NJ was one of the main reasons.
 
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sportsart said:
This is the first info in months that has been shared here from Rivals. The reason Rivals has been hurting for memberships is they burned up their subscriber base with idiots like Jackson and Farrell.

HFD gets more info than Rivals, and I mean that with all true sincerety.
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Any time anything breaks on Rivals, it is brought over here. Usually having to do with recruiting. Eric over there has good connections to both coaching staffs, particularly basketball.

I don't mean to disrespect huskyfandan, but I promise you that John Battle gets more information, and knows more information than him.
 
johnhuskies95 said:
Rivals gets more inside info than anyone on UConn sports and they're still hurting for subscriptions because everything is brought back over here once they report something.
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No it's just because this board is far more entertaining than the Rivals board.
 
johnhuskies95 said:
Any time anything breaks on Rivals, it is brought over here. Usually having to do with recruiting. Eric over there has good connections to both coaching staffs, particularly basketball.

I don't mean to disrespect huskyfandan, but I promise you that John Battle gets more information, and knows more information than him.
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Please refresh me when Rivals broke any news worth .15 in the past 6 months. That was my point.
 
sportsart said:
Please refresh me when Rivals broke any news worth .15 in the past 6 months. That was my point.
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Rivals is basically the only site that covers UConn football recruiting. Not exactly an accurate comment by you
 
NateDogg11 said:
Rivals is basically the only site that covers UConn football recruiting. Not exactly an accurate comment by you
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If I had a nickel for every story they broke ( Des had more commit news than them this year) I'd have .15.
 
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I wish, and just a wish, Jeff Hafley hated Tampa bay and would come back to the college ranks and the northeast. His ties to NJ and PA were huge for Pittsburgh and Rutgers recruiting and he could coach tight ends/receivers. If only but a dream....

What about the Syracuse running backs (?) coach that is a prime recruiter in NYC/Northern Jersey? His name is escaping me.

Jon Wholley was a running back at Uconn. Is it possible that he could move to his natural position and we go after another defensive coach?
 
PolisHusky said:
I wish, and just a wish, Jeff Hafley hated Tampa bay and would come back to the college ranks and the northeast. His ties to NJ and PA were huge for Pittsburgh and Rutgers recruiting and he could coach tight ends/receivers. If only but a dream....

What about the Syracuse running backs (?) coach that is a prime recruiter in NYC/Northern Jersey? His name is escaping me.

Jon Wholley was a running back at Uconn. Is it possible that he could move to his natural position and we go after another defensive coach?
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I was hoping we would bring in Hafley in when he went to Rutgers. He was solely responsible for Rutgers haul from Bosco and Bergen Catholic among other NJ schools last yr and the yr before. Schiano was on the outside looking in at those schools...especially Bosco after Mike Teels experience at Rutgers. Then he brings in Hafley and bingo he cleans up!
 
hexlub said:
Looks like Sparano is available now too. Eeek!
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I was just going to add that little tidbit about Sparano, and see what people thought about it. I can mark down Hexlub as "not impressed"... ;)
 
I think Sparano and HDL are VERY similiar types of coaches. Sparano is also a OL coach and his offense with the Jets was similiar to DeLeone's...AND both LOVE the wildcat! Not my choice...but there is history here.
 
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metsfan2323 said:
Sparano hates zone blocking. He utilzes power running schemes. The Jets used zone blocking in 2011 under Brian Schottenheimer
and part of the reason Rex went to Sparano was his power running style. The Jets running game and offensive line play did improve in 2012.

http://thejetpress.com/2012/08/06/tony-sparano-introduces-a-new-form-of-ground-and-pound/

BTW Sanchez is a coach killer.
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Good link! If he's truly a "ground and pound" kind of guy, then I could certainly get behind him as an OC. That might also mean that Foley would be back in the mix to take over the offensive line again...
 
sportsart said:
This is the first info in months that has been shared here from Rivals. The reason Rivals has been hurting for memberships is they burned up their subscriber base with idiots like Jackson and Farrell.

HFD gets more info than Rivals, and I mean that with all true sincerety.
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They just charge too much for what they provide. Instead of $100 a year it should be more like $20.
 
Here is a tweet I got back from Chris Bains (@bearcats_nation) after i asked him if he liked TJ Weist and was he surprised he didn't go to Tenn with Jones

“@Bearcats_Nation: @AB670 Yea I was a surprised. I've like Weist; he's a solid WR coach, a great recruiter, did a nice job as UC's interim OC in the Belk Bowl.”
 
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sportsart said:
If I had a nickel for every story they broke ( Des had more commit news than them this year) I'd have .15.
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We can agree to disagree especially since it looks like you dont read rivals (which basically disqualifies you from commenting on who breaks what). To me its not always about breaking commit news anyways. I like to hear when UConn offers recruits and stuff like that. To each his own I guess
 
Cincinnati fan here. I think most UC fans liked Weist. He was known as a pretty good recruiter who covered parts of Florida and Georgia. He called the plays in the Belk Bowl which involved a much more vertical passing game than we were used to under OC Mike Bajakian (in fairness to Bajakian, many people indicated that Butch kept a pretty tight leash on his play calling). I know Duke's defense sucks, but we did manage to put up 550 yards of offense with him calling the plays. This could be a good fit for both parties.
 
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I would love to see this guy from Cincy became the new OC, but the problem is still GDL. Unless GDL is gone, I have no faith in anybody coming in and running the offense with GDL breathing down his neck. It's PP's best friend who do you think is going to be calling the plays. Maybe the new OC can help with the wallpaper. Fire GDL and get him out of there.
 
joey3$trike$ said:
I would love to see this guy from Cincy became the new OC, but the problem is still GDL. Unless GDL is gone, I have no faith in anybody coming in and running the offense with GDL breathing down his neck. It's PP's best friend who do you think is going to be calling the plays. Maybe the new OC can help with the wallpaper. Fire GDL and get him out of there.
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The only way that I agree with your assumption of GDL mucking up the works after a new OC comes here is if GDL is left in charge of the OLine. If he is made to be, let's say, the Tight Ends coach (Foley back to the line), then I don't see this happening. It's clearly already out there that the fanbase doesn't want him calling the shots, and more importantly, that Warde doesn't want him calling the shots. I expect that he won't be calling the shots and he will not have a chance to screw things up, so long as he stays away from our offensive line...
 
Cincy's WR coach as OC sounds fine to me. Anything to get GDL away from the offense is a good thing. What are we going to do with GDL? Assign him to TE only? I really hope he is away from the OL.
 
UConnDan97 said:
The only way that I agree with your assumption of GDL mucking up the works after a new OC comes here is if GDL is left in charge of the OLine. If he is made to be, let's say, the Tight Ends coach (Foley back to the line), then I don't see this happening. It's clearly already out there that the fanbase doesn't want him calling the shots, and more importantly, that Warde doesn't want him calling the shots. I expect that he won't be calling the shots and he will not have a chance to screw things up, so long as he stays away from our offensive line...
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I'm going off the history of what we know happened at Cuse. He should be shown the door. I want him to stay away from our football program. If he's here, it's just going to be a clusterduck. And will probably limit the candidates who would be willing to come here.
 
noeynox said:
Deleone needs a recruiting coordinator role where he is not part of the game planning. Kids seem to like him on the trail, but the results of his coaching are atrocious.
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kids do not like him on the trail. parents locally like him on the trail becuase his whole convo is local stuff. kids think he is extremely awkard. i have seen kids tweet several times how close he gets to them when they talk and how weird he is looking at them and stuff like that and confirmed this idea with several kids. he has old guy approach to kids and they think its a mix of wierd and creppy. parents don't care how the guy looks the kids in the eye and his body motions, they care baout his local talk, resume and substance so he wins with that. the kids think hes wierd. i can not stress it enough how much i want him outside of state lines. if the jerry sandusky thing neve happened i would have been making jokes about certain tweets and intel for months but i held back and focused on warde donuts for the good of our pr battle we lose everyday anyway.

everything has to be new and cool with kids these days. his first impression is just scary. he always gives the same hard handshake and stares the kid in the eye introducing himself. almost old military style or i don't even know, its hard to explain. when ever he is talking with some 1 he needs to be close to that person or connected like arm over shoulder of slap on the back or elbow nudge type shit. i'm telling u guys, u may hate me for all the fire talk i speak of, but its not made up shit. i have just had enough with so many aspects of this school this winter it pains me.

i said i would stop the fire posts and negative stuff. i hope this didn't come across as that, i simply want to let u know what its like in a living room or in a seat at the rent pregame with him around. it sucks as a kid. back to opnly positive/non fire things...
 
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