Assistant coaching news...

[Huskygamble19]

The only thing worse that a bunch of know nothing couch jockeys criticizing a coach is a poster telling other posters that they are not allowed to have an opinion about puzzling decisions made by a first time Head Coach.

Oh.. go eat some fava beans with a nice chianti

 

[gioff23]

Anytime a new manager is brought in and they don't bring in their people, run for the hills. It means they have no people from prior lives. Are we really crying about not retaining staff who could not generate a .500 record against the last 3 years schedules?

 

[Chin Diesel]

Adding fuel to the fire, look at UCF's OC. 63 years old and a "no-name" but the guy can coach and draw up a game plan that emphasizes his players' talents.

 

[Jimdish255]

Why? Put yourself in Coach Diaco's shoes. I am sure there are coaches he has worked with that he wants absolutely no part of. And there are some who he thinks highly of due to their past working relationship.

I have no problem with the criticism of the coaches due to their body of work, but not because they are Coach Diaco's "guys". He is the coach and he should be allowed to bring in the staff he is most comfortable with. He will ultimately be judged on results on the field.

Let's be honest about this situation. We are HCBD's experiment here. His frst chance to put together a staff at this level. I can see why he would take a somewhat insular approach to the hires given this is his chance to integrate and implement everything he's learned in his career so far. And who better to get that done than the guys he learned much of it from and who he has familiarity working with. Whether it gives him the best outcome or proves to be somewhat shortsighted is a reasonable question a this point.

One thing that's for sure. Given the continuing coaching carousel I'm glad we have some guys in there now who are past the introduction phase and ready to get to work.

 

[sdhusky]

Adding fuel to the fire, look at UCF's OC. 63 years old and a "no-name" but the guy can coach and draw up a game plan that emphasizes his players' talents.

He was 55-47-1 as a HC at Citadel. Sounds like a very shaky hire

 

[ZooCougar]

He was 55-47-1 as a HC at Citadel. Sounds like a very shaky hire

Holy cow. Let it go. We had our socks knocked off with the Diaco hire. The OC hire not so much, but fortunately he will have opportunity to prove us wrong.

 

[FDNY99]

Unless we hear more news today...in terms of filling the 5 open staff spots...I am going to assume the guys Diaco has chosen to fill them are still coaching in bowl games still to be played (including FCS championship game).

 

[J187Money]

For the love of Abbott Burrell! How many pages can this useless thread go on for...

 

[FfldCntyFan]

FD, I'm surprised that we haven't heard anything yet today.

I assumed that the bulk of the remaining coaches worked yesterday (as it is the biggest bowl day) and from ~ 10:00 am to noon we would have three or four names announced.

This is lending quite a bit of creedence to the guy from Okie St. I'm not sure what other schools have candidates we would be in contact with.

 

[Stinger92860]

For the love of Abbott Burrell! How many pages can this useless thread go on for...

Yet you keep reading......

 

[FfldCntyFan]

For the love of Abbott Burrell! How many pages can this useless thread go on for...

I don't know but the thread will not be complete until someone mentions Vin Clements.

 

[Carl Spackler]

For the love of the Wes Timko, Terry Antrum, Scott Sweitzer and all other little brothers......

 

[FDNY99]

For the love of Abbott Burrell! How many pages can this useless thread go on for...

For the love of Swat Burrell Abbot's Brother (yeah I know it's Scott..but I started calling him Swat after he made a block his freshman year) it will go on until the staff is in place!

 

[SAMCRO]

For the love of the Wes Timko, Terry Antrum, Scott Sweitzer and all other little brothers......

For the love of Glen Antrum, get it right man. Terry was a year or two older

 

[Carl Spackler]

For the love of Glen Antrum, get it right man. Terry was a year or two older

LOL. I did that for our Ansonia readers.

 

[freescooter]

For the love of Lou Mancari, will you guys drop it.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

For the love of Lou Mancari, will you guys drop it.

How can we drop this thread? Nobody has mentioned Nick Giaquinto yet.

 

[Husky15]

The only DC candidates that fit the description on the University website and haven't played yet are Oklahoma St CB coach Van Malone, Arkansas St Interim HC/ DC John Thompson, or an FBS coach

 

[freescooter]

How can we drop this thread? Nobody has mentioned Nick Giaquinto yet.

Has anyone mentioned Eric Torkleson or Lyndon Johnson?

 

[Husky15]

The only DC candidates that fit the description on the University website and haven't played yet are Oklahoma St CB coach Van Malone, Arkansas St Interim HC/ DC John Thompson, or an FBS coach

Van Malone is the only one that fits the qualifications and is still playing that has a connection to Bob Diaco

 

[nelsonmuntz]

You know that because your an expert on college coaching staffs and how they should be built. You're just another couch potato who thinks he knows everything but actually knows very little. Again I am not sure why you follow UCONN football since you think they should be disbanded and UCONN should have gone into the new Big East

Here is your coach evaluation Quick reference guide:

0-5 wins - They're horrible
6 wins - Maybe they'll get better
7 wins - These guys are OK...for now
8 wins - They may be worth keeping for a while
9 wins - These guys are good, hope they stick around
10 wins - They're awesome, how could they leave such a good thing
11+ wins - I hope their replacements don't screw it up

8 wins is the baseline for Diaco. Everyone points out how bad the last staff was and they managed to sweep the last 3 games. Boise and BYU are both playing at the Rent, and Boise won't have Peterson any more. The AAC sucks, so unless we get all of Houston, UCF and Cincinnati on the road, 8 wins is not unreasonable at all.

 

[Santini35]

Desmond Conner ‏@desmondconner2m
Wayne Lineburg, new addition from #Richmond to Bob Diaco's staff at #UConn will coach a position on offense... unclear which one right now

http://www.richmondspiders.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205207663&

 

[UConn17]

http://www.richmondspiders.com/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=205207663&

 

[ScottVib]

Link to Diaco at Virginia... another Recruiting Coordinator, this time from the mid-atlantic.

 

[ZackB05]

Loving the recruiting coordinator angles. Hopefully we can take advantage of all of their connections.