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CL82 said:
I'm mildly concerned but at this point we might as have faith that in BD. I'm hopeful that that these guys will turnout to be a high energy enthusiastic group that get us back in the game...and then some. You just gotta believe:

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I forced myself to watch it to the end. Too funny.
 
I have no issue with any of these coaches coming in because it is who HCBD is comfortable with and must feel they can help UCONN move forward with his goals for UCONN.

I am curious who will be the linebacker, defensive lineman and DC coach. My guess is two coaches will fill the spots.
 
Nobody on here can really accurate predict whether or not this will be a good hire, but based on the facts alone (CMU's offense rankings) and that he hasn't ever even called the plays ( per the quote in his interview) it makes you scratch your head.

To be overly negative or positive at this point is premature, but to have a concern based on his resume seems legitimate.
 
sportsart said:
So a coach is supposed to lose his starting QB, RB and 4 starters from the OL and shine. What a loser Cummings must be. I believe they put up 30 ten times in 2012, but hey...that's 2012.
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He didn't even call his own plays.
 
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ConnHuskBask said:
Nobody on here can really accurate predict whether or not this will be a good hire, but based on the facts alone (CMU's offense rankings) and that he hasn't ever even called the plays ( per the quote in his interview) it makes you scratch your head.

To be overly negative or positive at this point is premature, but to have a concern based on his resume seems legitimate.
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You are right, we don't know. But Diaco is making a lot of first time Head Coach mistakes. He blows out the old staff. He replaces them with a lot of friends of his who are getting pretty significant promotions. And we don't see a single guy on the list that looked like he was in demand with other schools.

I thought Pasqualoni was a silly old fossil, but the resumes of some of the coaches that came in were solid if not outright impressive. The only mistake he made on the staff was bringing in his friend.

We are where we are, and this program and entire athletic program is totally *$%@ed if Diaco doesn't work out, so we got to root for him. Let's hope for the best.
 
UCFBfan said:
Honestly, who specifically were some of you looking for us to hire? I'm not looking for general responses like "a high profile QB coach". I want names. Honestly, I think many of you see Central Michigan and already form your opinion of negativity. Let's give it time and see what happens.....I trust that Diaco knows a hell of a lot more than we do regarding what type of offense he wants run and what type of person he wants calling those plays.
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I was not expecting a previous OC who did NOT call his own plays. Doesn't this make you think twice about the hire? If Diaco was an OC himself it would make more sense. I know a position coach would not have play calling experience, but this is slightly different.
 
FWIW:

Jon Wilner ‏@wilnerhotline28 Dec
Stanford DC Derek Mason turned down interview opps w/ teams, includng Army & UConn. Said happy at Stanford & "it's got to be the right job."

So it appears that Mason will not be our new DC, though I like seeing how far and high HCBD was reaching out.
 
This board is starting to turn into a gaggle of hand wringers. Has the former regime beaten everyone down so badly? Has any person with hope fled?

Geez, one of the rumored candidates may have slept late once, and will set a bad example for the team!!!

Maybe the coaches will be so good that they will defeat the British with fireballs from his arse!

Maybe we all should breathe a bit, have a shot of rye, and just chill. It's bad enough that no official news is posted without worrying above our pay grade...


Happy New Years to all!
 
Jimdish255 said:
I don't think so. Read both again.
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My Google post actually had nothing to do with my other post. I can see how you could think my last line is about us over analyzing things but it's actually in regards to life in general. My wife alone becomes a doctor in seconds as soon as she has a cough thanks to stupid WebMD. No need for it. It's just life.
 
Stinger92860 said:
I was not expecting a previous OC who did NOT call his own plays. Doesn't this make you think twice about the hire? If Diaco was an OC himself it would make more sense. I know a position coach would not have play calling experience, but this is slightly different.
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Technically we don't know for sure if Weist called his own plays before PP left and look how he turned out. I'm convinced Moorehead never called all the plays when we was OC here under Edsall and he's doing pretty well at Fordham. So I'm not losing sleep over that fact like many here. It's how things were handled at CMU and hopefully Diaco saw things he hopes will turn out to be solid here. Time will tell and there's nothing any of us can do to change the fact that this guys our OC.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
You are right, we don't know. But Diaco is making a lot of first time Head Coach mistakes. He blows out the old staff. He replaces them with a lot of friends of his who are getting pretty significant promotions. And we don't see a single guy on the list that looked like he was in demand with other schools.

I thought Pasqualoni was a silly old fossil, but the resumes of some of the coaches that came in were solid if not outright impressive. The only mistake he made on the staff was bringing in his friend.

We are where we are, and this program and entire athletic program is totally $%@ed if Diaco doesn't work out, so we got to root for him. Let's hope for the best.
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How did those resumes on the assistant coaches work out for PP? Last I checked we never hit .500 and as much as we all wanna blame PP and GDL, those assistant coaches had a hand in it as well. What looks good on paper isn't always good in real life. A lot of it has to do with how all the parts work together and if this staff has some previous experience with the HC, then that's a decent start. We just have to hope that the inexperience turns out to be a non-factor and that these guys can really coach, just haven't had all the experience due to age.
 
RedSoloCup said:
This board is starting to turn into a gaggle of hand wringers. Has the former regime beaten everyone down so badly? Has any person with hope fled?

Geez, one of the rumored candidates may have slept late once, and will set a bad example for the team!!!

Maybe the coaches will be so good that they will defeat the British with fireballs from his arse!

Maybe we all should breathe a bit, have a shot of rye, and just chill. It's bad enough that no official news is posted without worrying above our pay grade...


Happy New Years to all!
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UCFBfan said:
Technically we don't know for sure if Weist called his own plays before PP left and look how he turned out. I'm convinced Moorehead never called all the plays when we was OC here under Edsall and he's doing pretty well at Fordham. So I'm not losing sleep over that fact like many here. It's how things were handled at CMU and hopefully Diaco saw things he hopes will turn out to be solid here. Time will tell and there's nothing any of us can do to change the fact that this guys our OC.
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UCFBfan said:
How did those resumes on the assistant coaches work out for PP? Last I checked we never hit .500 and as much as we all wanna blame PP and GDL, those assistant coaches had a hand in it as well. What looks good on paper isn't always good in real life. A lot of it has to do with how all the parts work together and if this staff has some previous experience with the HC, then that's a decent start. We just have to hope that the inexperience turns out to be a non-factor and that these guys can really coach, just haven't had all the experience due to age.
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Some Byardrs all need to take a giant chill pill....let's look at the positives and this BY needs to get real...nothing is official until it's official-everybody here was talking Narduzzi-AND TRACING AIRFLIGHTS of prospective coaches and WM.
First-HCBD calls the shots and a massive effort is needed to revamp the OL. It looks like we got an OC who has humongous o-line experience PLUS FOLEY.
Second-New OC was OC before and save for last year had success coaching up....
Third-Heavy emphasis on recruiting. Resumes show that...We need ginormous push in this area. looks like this staff can get it done there...plus Bobby on the hard sell....
Fourth-Diaco as a prior DC at ND and Cincy can evaluate offensive performance as he had to stop offenses.
Fifth-So new OC did not call his own plays...do you think he, HCBD and remainder of staff are stupid? Think Kelly didn't influence the play calling at ND? Ask HCBD..he was the Ass't head coach.
Six- How much play calling experience did TJ have and once we got settled....the play calling was pretty damn good and Casey set records (took awhile to get the o-line back on track but the results were good...chill out!!!!
 
Kept Foley because he "fit the DNA" of the team that he wants to be. So do the other guys evidently. We have to let it play out? The Patterson hire makes more and more sense now that we see the rest of the staff. The defensive side will be young as well.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
You are right, we don't know. But Diaco is making a lot of first time Head Coach mistakes. He blows out the old staff. He replaces them with a lot of friends of his who are getting pretty significant promotions. And we don't see a single guy on the list that looked like he was in demand with other schools.

I thought Pasqualoni was a silly old fossil, but the resumes of some of the coaches that came in were solid if not outright impressive. The only mistake he made on the staff was bringing in his friend.

We are where we are, and this program and entire athletic program is totally $%@ed if Diaco doesn't work out, so we got to root for him. Let's hope for the best.
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There is no way for you to know that (the bolded statement). He knows these guys, and their capabilities. Something none of us on this board know. P brought in one guy that turned out "impressive". Weist. Guys like Clayton White, and Kermit Buggs (who was coaching at a D2 school) didn't really distinguish themselves as special team coordinators. Wholey and Fogarty were alums but didn't have "impressive" resumes. If people were expecting to see a slew of guys come over from P5 conference teams, well maybe our budget isn't up for that even if we are at the top of The American in terms of assistant pay.

The board is really over thinking this. We won't know jack squat until the first game. Despite the previous staff resume, we looked awful with the basics picking up delay of game penalties, procedure calls, and most importantly clock management was frigging horrendous, not lining up in the victory formation to run out the clock once. To say nothing of the unblocked rushers we routinely saw. That's just the offense. If the new staff could manage those simple intracancies, this team will be better by default.

Now if these guys can recruit kids with multiple offers we will know we are on the right track.

Edit: Shane Day was an impressive hire coming from the Bears.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
You are right, we don't know. But Diaco is making a lot of first time Head Coach mistakes. He blows out the old staff. He replaces them with a lot of friends of his who are getting pretty significant promotions. And we don't see a single guy on the list that looked like he was in demand with other schools.

I thought Pasqualoni was a silly old fossil, but the resumes of some of the coaches that came in were solid if not outright impressive. The only mistake he made on the staff was bringing in his friend.

We are where we are, and this program and entire athletic program is totally $%@ed if Diaco doesn't work out, so we got to root for him. Let's hope for the best.
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Great Post. I am nervous. If his friends don't get the job done like GDL does he have the guts to fire them. Coach P's only significant mistake was hiring his buddy and not having the guts to fire or demote him until he was forced. His other non-friend and objective staffing choices were good. Don Brown was a great choice. Shane Day good choice.

Also does anybody know if this standard practice? It seems odd that you would fire the whole staff and replace them with your buddies. If you did this in the business world it would look like nepotism. Is coach BD saying that nobody on the current staff was any good.

Here is what coach BD has done so far

1 Fire everbody
2. Go on vacation
3 Hire his buddies
 
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Go_Huskies said:
Great Post. I am nervous. If his friends don't get the job done like GDL does he have the guts to fire them. Coach P's only significant mistake was hiring his buddy and not having the guts to fire or demote him until he was forced. His other non-friend and objective staffing choices were good. Don Brown was a great choice. Shane Day good choice.

Also does anybody know if this standard practice? It seems odd that you would fire the whole staff and replace them with your buddies. If you did this in the business world it would look like nepotism. Is coach BD saying that nobody on the current staff was any good.

Here is what coach BD has done so far

1 Fire everbody
2. Go on vacation
3 Hire his buddies
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Troll sighting!
 
Go_Huskies said:
Great Post. I am nervous. If his friends don't get the job done like GDL does he have the guts to fire them. Coach P's only significant mistake was hiring his buddy and not having the guts to fire or demote him until he was forced. His other non-friend and objective staffing choices were good. Don Brown was a great choice. Shane Day good choice.

Also does anybody know if this standard practice? It seems odd that you would fire the whole staff and replace them with your buddies. If you did this in the business world it would look like nepotism. Is coach BD saying that nobody on the current staff was any good.

Here is what coach BD has done so far

1 Fire everbody
2. Go on vacation
3 Hire his buddies
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You forgot the part where he shook my hand and gave me a chubby.
 
Go_Huskies said:
Great Post. I am nervous. If his friends don't get the job done like GDL does he have the guts to fire them. Coach P's only significant mistake was hiring his buddy and not having the guts to fire or demote him until he was forced. His other non-friend and objective staffing choices were good. Don Brown was a great choice. Shane Day good choice.

Also does anybody know if this standard practice? It seems odd that you would fire the whole staff and replace them with your buddies. If you did this in the business world it would look like nepotism. Is coach BD saying that nobody on the current staff was any good.

Here is what coach BD has done so far

1 Fire everbody
2. Go on vacation
3 Hire his buddies
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Yeah, typical in all levels of football, new HC...all new staff. Hand picked by the HC
 
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Gotta love the Boneyard. When UCONN was 0-9, all everyone wanted was for UCONN to clean house completely and go in a different direction. Now that that has happened, we are all praising PP for his assistants hires (except GDL) and are pining for the "good ol' years" under TJW when the team went 3 and friggin' 5 (I love the work TJW did as much as the next guy but let's be real, he was 3-5). Absolutely ridiculous. We could have hired Bill Belichick as HC and if he brought in Nick Saban to be his DC, I swear we'd have a few downers complain that Belichick was just hiring his buddies. Can't we all give the new coach and staff at least one season to show what they can do? PLEASE notice I said SEASON. Not 1 offseason day. Not 1 practice. Not 1 game. 1 SEASON. And even then, 1 season may not be enough time to turn this mess around. It took Charlie Strong a few seasons to dig out from Steve Kragthorpe's mess and guess what? It will likely take Diaco a few seasons to dig out from PP/GDL's mess.

I understand that the UCONN fan misery index is always set to ludicrous. Heck, this CR mess and seeing local rivals that I view as being inferior to UCONN (complete body of work) get seats on AAC escape pods has turned me into one miserable old coot too. But let's all just be patient folks. The entire staff hasn't even been assembled yet. The players haven't begun offseason conditioning. Signing Day is months away. Spring Ball seems like an eternity away. And yet here some of us are complaining away before this year's bowl season is even over. Patience people. Let's see how the team plays on the field before we all go back to jumping off the same cliffs that we were when our team was 0-9.
 
Go_Huskies said:
Great Post. I am nervous. If his friends don't get the job done like GDL does he have the guts to fire them. Coach P's only significant mistake was hiring his buddy and not having the guts to fire or demote him until he was forced. His other non-friend and objective staffing choices were good. Don Brown was a great choice. Shane Day good choice.

Also does anybody know if this standard practice? It seems odd that you would fire the whole staff and replace them with your buddies. If you did this in the business world it would look like nepotism. Is coach BD saying that nobody on the current staff was any good.

Here is what coach BD has done so far

1 Fire everbody
2. Go on vacation
3 Hire his buddies
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Hey Mr. Go_:
Go home...you suck..better yet ..go back to the BC/Rutgirls Board.
a) He did not fire everybody...he retained Foley/TJ and several others moving on/maybe 2 fired not counting GA's.
b)Go on vacation...get serious..not in his DNA....would bet dollars to donuts he has worked round the clock to get this off the ground.
c)He is the CEO and is hiring who will fit into his system.
So freakin' go back to your hole and stay there..........
 
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I think you'd be a fool not to be nervous given every coach except for one is new. But I find it interesting we can get so excited for a new head coach who has no top level head coaching experience but are wringing our hands to the point of blisters over an OC who didn't call his own plays. Didn't TJ call plays for just 1 game at Cinci?
I'm very excited for Diaco and at the moment can do nothing but hope he's putting together a good staff. He knows a heck of a lot more than I ever will. For my tastes, as long as the new OC doesn't run up the middle on every first down it will be an improvement over the GDL days.
 
The accusation of nepotism is kind of hilarious. As if managers in the business world only ever hire employees they have no prior relationship with. When a company hires a VP, and the CEO knows the candidate, does he recuse himself from the process and leave the therm when decision is being made? I doubt it.

Secondly, as to Cummings' non play calling role at his previous job - if you think this reflects poorly on Diaco's judgement, the implicit assumption is that this took place during the interview :

BD : You didn't call plays last year but you must have have ideas of your own. Tell me what your philosophy on play calling would be.

MC : Herp derpy derp de derp!

BD: Good enough for me! You're hired!
 
Go_Huskies said:
Great Post. I am nervous. If his friends don't get the job done like GDL does he have the guts to fire them. Coach P's only significant mistake was hiring his buddy and not having the guts to fire or demote him until he was forced. His other non-friend and objective staffing choices were good. Don Brown was a great choice. Shane Day good choice.

Also does anybody know if this standard practice? It seems odd that you would fire the whole staff and replace them with your buddies. If you did this in the business world it would look like nepotism. Is coach BD saying that nobody on the current staff was any good.

Here is what coach BD has done so far

1 Fire everbody
2. Go on vacation
3 Hire his buddies
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So you are saying he's following coaching 101? I guess that 's comforting.
 
junglehusky said:
The accusation of nepotism is kind of hilarious. As if managers in the business world only ever hire employees they have no prior relationship with. When a company hires a VP, and the CEO knows the candidate, does he recuse himself from the process and leave the therm when decision is being made? I doubt it.

Secondly, as to Cummings' non play calling role at his previous job - if you think this reflects poorly on Diaco's judgement, the implicit assumption is that this took place during the interview :

BD : You didn't call plays last year but you must have have ideas of your own. Tell me what your philosophy on play calling would be.

MC : Herp derpy derp de derp!

BD: Good enough for me! You're hired!
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No, I disagree. I am assuming that there is more than meets the eye here, but in hiring an OC who didn't call his own plays you are assuming risk. It's as risky as hiring an OC whose prior job was a WR coach at Cincy.

I guess my expectation was that we were going to get an OC, who had done all of his job before. Calling plays is a pretty huge part of the duty.
 
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