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FfldCntyFan said:
If the 2014 had four senior starting OL and three starting DL's (like the 2013 squad had) I would say that 8 wins is not unreasonable at all. Considering that we are potentially going into the season with neophytes in both trenches it may be a bit early to draw a line in the sand and claim that anything shy of this is a failure. I realize that you are attempting to find some way to tell the board that you are a better football mind than Diaco but most here have seen through you for years Waylon.
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I think it's realistic to set a goal of competing for an AAC conference title in 2014, and secondarily goal of qualifying for a post season appearance. We'll need a few bounces and things to fall our way along the way to finish with an outright title, but this team, if they come out with the attitude and level of play as a team that they finished with, can compete.

That, I think is possible with the players we have returning in the trenches. Pruitt and Campenni have a lot of game reps. Frank, while not blessed with Trevardo Williams speed, starting showing some promise with more game reps. THe senior I'm worried most about replacing on D is Taylor Mack. Leadership on the field counts more than anything. It's no mistake that our D played well when he was on the field, and didn't play well, when he was at home and they were on the road.

Somebody going to have to step it up in the secondary. As for the OL - one of the glass half full views, finding the silver lining in anything views about a guy like George Deleone, is that the offensive linemen returning in this program, after having been through what they did with old George, are probably going to find it very easy to gel as a unit under new coaches that are in touch with the 21st century, and we're returning a multiple year player at center, to go with a QB - hopefully in #12, that knows how to read a defense and make adjustments.

But then again, we're into the first month of the offseason now. Everything looks great.
 
huskymedic said:
These areas are/were his responsibilities @ UVA/Richmond:

In-State Areas: Peninsula (Williamsburg, Hampton, Newport News) and the Northern Neck.
Out of State Areas: Eastern Pennsylvania (Harrisburg East), Delaware
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Huge areas for UConn recruiting.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
If the 2014 had four senior starting OL and three starting DL's (like the 2013 squad had) I would say that 8 wins is not unreasonable at all. Considering that we are potentially going into the season with neophytes in both trenches it may be a bit early to draw a line in the sand and claim that anything shy of this is a failure. I realize that you are attempting to find some way to tell the board that you are a better football mind than Diaco but most here have seen through you for years Waylon.
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Posts like this are the Apologists anthem. The same people telling me what a great hire this is are also telling me that we should expect failure.

Pick one or the other. Either Diaco is a great hire, or he is going to fail.
 
ZooCougar said:
Need to make a bowl next season. This team wasn't as bad as we think, and the competition isn't as good as we think.
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The competition is freaking terrible. This isn't the 2006 Big East, where you could almost give Edsall a pass for a lousy year, or the 2009 Big East, where Edsall underachieved with what was probably his best team at UConn, in a stacked conference.

The 2014 American is a mid major league with 4 good teams: UCF, Cincinnati, Houston, ECU, of which we will probably only play 3. 8 wins is the baseline.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
The competition is freaking terrible. This isn't the 2006 Big East, where you could almost give Edsall a pass for a lousy year, or the 2009 Big East, where Edsall underachieved with what was probably his best team at UConn, in a stacked conference.

The 2014 American is a mid major league with 4 good teams: UCF, Cincinnati, Houston, ECU, of which we will probably only play 3. 8 wins is the baseline.
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I'm still waiting for you to post what Shane Day's tweet said when he left.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Posts like this are the Apologists anthem. The same people telling me what a great hire this is are also telling me that we should expect failure.

Pick one or the other. Either Diaco is a great hire, or he is going to fail.
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It's a great hire. I don't buy your inference that he's just hiring buddies. To me, it looks like he has a plan and is putting it into place. Keeping the status quo was not an option.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Posts like this are the Apologists anthem. The same people telling me what a great hire this is are also telling me that we should expect failure.

Pick one or the other. Either Diaco is a great hire, or he is going to fail.
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Not an apologist by any means and if you were remotely as intelligent as you claim (and continually profess on this board) you would realize that there is a bit of room between the line that you have drawn in the sand and failure. I need to see quite a few things before I can claim that more than x number of wins will be a success and less than y number of wins would be a failure.

Additionally, the three wins that you are holding the former offensive in such high esteem over required an incredible second half in Temple (not Auburn or LSU, Temple) along with a bit of good fortune (two first and goals due to penalties within the same series and a pick six to give us the margin of victory) and wins over Rutgers & Memphis at home, teams that went 1-7, 3-5 and 1-7 respectively in this conference that, well to quote you "The competition is freaking terrible.".

At the moment I believe Diaco is a great hire. We will not have any evidence to support or refute this for quite some time yet, because he didn't bring Day and/or Weist back you've decided to take the stance that Diaco doesn't know what he is doing and have been throwing out little comments, attempting to outsmart the board, such as claiming that the three wins (against schools that went 5-19 in this terrible conference) in eight games equates to an eight win season next year if our new coach is to equal what those he replaced accomplished. Diaco may go 8-4 (pre bowl game) next season with me believing that he did a poor job or he may go 4-8 with me believing that he did a very good job. There is far too much that at the moment is neither black nor white. Someone with your vast business expertise should know this.

Back to the great hire or failure and the need to demonstrate this with specific results eight months prior to his first game, we Jim Calhoun a great hire? What did he do year one? I will wager heavily that two weeks after we announced his hire someone (such as you) could have stated "if he can't make it to double digit wins in '86-'87 he is a failure.".
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
Posts like this are the Apologists anthem. The same people telling me what a great hire this is are also telling me that we should expect failure.

Pick one or the other. Either Diaco is a great hire, or he is going to fail.
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Classic false choice argument. It is not one or the other. He can be a great hire and have a lousy first year coaching a team with average talent. For an example where folks will focus on the name and not the facts, Bill Belichick was a pretty good hire despite going 5-11 in his first year with the Patsies. One year does not define a coaching hire
 
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Another coach with HC experience (albeit interm) and associate HC experience. Tells me leadership qualities are present. Very experienced staff being put together.
 
nelsonmuntz said: ↑
Posts like this are the Apologists anthem. The same people telling me what a great hire this is are also telling me that we should expect failure.

Pick one or the other. Either Diaco is a great hire, or he is going to fail.

Huskygrad88 said:
Classic false choice argument. It is not one or the other. He can be a great hire and have a lousy first year coaching a team with average talent. For an example where folks will focus on the name and not the facts, Bill Belichick was a pretty good hire despite going 5-11 in his first year with the Patsies. One year does not define a coaching hire
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Well put, Huskygrad. Anyone who expects perfection without a little tragedy simply can't be pleased.

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nelsonmuntz said:
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.
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Improving by 5 wins in one season is quite the not unreasonable. If can't do it, it's on Diaco and Ollie.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Good profile and very good that he has plenty of ties to recruiting Virginia HS.

Virginia is the southern border of UConn's driveable recruiting range. Plenty of talent throughout the DC suburbs, Hampton Roads and Richmond.
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I can tell you though, not a fun drive.... otherwise I'd be back for more games
 
Santini35 said:
I can tell you though, not a fun drive.... otherwise I'd be back for more games
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On my drive down to Charlotte for the Bowl Game, I really got fatigued at the southern virginia point. Jersey and Virginia back to back are long states to drive through.
 
noeynox said:
On my drive down to Charlotte for the Bowl Game, I really got fatigued at the southern virginia point. Jersey and Virginia back to back are long states to drive through.
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Not a fun drive at all. I did the drive down to Isle of Palms/Charleston and back for Christmas. By northern Virginia I was ready to tap out
 
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noeynox said:
On my drive down to Charlotte for the Bowl Game, I really got fatigued at the southern virginia point. Jersey and Virginia back to back are long states to drive through.
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After 9-11 I drove to Greensboro because I couldn't get a flight. I realized that if you pretend you're in New York's sphincter while driving through New Jersey it's almost a relief when 95 drops you into the hole that is Virginia.

(the quick pass through Delaware is like when you start to unroll the toilet paper)
 
Sorry that I'm late to chime in on this one, but it's incredible to me that a coaching staff would contain 4 former recruiting coordinators, and we aren't even done with the hiring yet! Amazing. I might be overly excited about nothing, but I'm preparing myself for an #uptick... :cool:
 
The drives are all relative. I drive South Florida to New England at least once every year and I only find the last 6-7 hours particularly dreadful. When I drive to Charlotte NC, I am bored out of my mind by Jacksonville. It's all in the mindset.

I also find that driving alone is much better. Despite the idea that "having company" is a good thing, I find it to be a bad idea. More bathroom stops, more comments about how long the ride is and more "want me to drive yet?", and "honey, don't you think I should drive for a while?" When it's just me, I haul ass and hold pee.
 
sportsart said:
Another coach with HC experience (albeit interm) and associate HC experience. Tells me leadership qualities are present. Very experienced staff being put together.
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Sticking with the Ansonia theme, for the love of Roger Ings the creation of the staff has been interesting to watch especially the experience factor and where on the compass new hires are coming from. Someday it would be very interesting if Coach Foley wrote a book on the transitions that he and the program have been through while coaching with different staffs at UConn. Other than Yarders I'd bet CoachFlood would buy a copy.
 
Santini35 said:
I can tell you though, not a fun drive.... otherwise I'd be back for more games
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noeynox said:
On my drive down to Charlotte for the Bowl Game, I really got fatigued at the southern virginia point. Jersey and Virginia back to back are long states to drive through.
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Bill Sussman said:
Not a fun drive at all. I did the drive down to Isle of Palms/Charleston and back for Christmas. By northern Virginia I was ready to tap out
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formerlurker said:
After 9-11 I drove to Greensboro because I couldn't get a flight. I realized that if you pretend you're in New York's sphincter while driving through New Jersey it's almost a relief when 95 drops you into the hole that is Virginia.

(the quick pass through Delaware is like when you start to unroll the toilet paper)
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It's not the most fun drive coming in around 9 hours, but it's driveable for the families to see their sons play. If my memory serves correct, Virginia Beach to Hartford was just about nine hours going up the Eastern Shore of DelMarVa.
 
jdb50 said:
Sticking with the Ansonia theme, for the love of Roger Ings the creation of the staff has been interesting to watch especially the experience factor and where on the compass new hires are coming from. Someday it would be very interesting if Coach Foley wrote a book on the transitions that he and the program have been through while coaching with different staffs at UConn. Other than Yarders I'd bet CoachFlood would buy a copy.
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Why, by Andy Scott, I think you are right.
 
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For the love of All American John Dorsey, which of these coaches is the FL connection? GA?
 
Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
For the love of All American John Dorsey, which of these coaches is the FL connection? GA?
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If you remember John Dorsey, then for the love of UConn you should remember Eric Torkelson and also remember that Mike Cummings has the Bama, FL and Western PA connections.;)
 
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Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
For the love of All American John Dorsey, which of these coaches is the FL connection? GA?
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In my very novice look at the recruiting areas, this is what I came up with (through use of Rivals recruiting targets for each coach):

Patterson - NY, general Midwest (Iowa, Illinois, etc.)
Lineburg - VA mostly, southern NJ (almost exclusively Virginia)
Jones - NY, FL, GA (more southern than northern recruiting)
Cummings - IL, AL, FL, MI, PA, OH (very heavy in Illinois and in Alabama)
Diaco - NJ, NY, VA, MA (heavy New Jersey influence but went into Mass. a lot)
Foley - NY, MA, NH, MD, VA, Canada (he's the one that got Petrus, Delahunt, and Joseph)
Reardon - IN, MI, NE, ND, SD (Thanks, Medic!)

At a glance, we are obviously going to be heavy in the Northeast (which we should be and which makes the most sense from a staffing standpoint). Seeing how important NY, NJ, MA, and VA are in this graphic leads me to believe that it was a strategic plan with a lot of thought put into it by Diaco (*or just a great coincidence). Also, there are two guys (Jones, Cummings) that seem to recruit heavily in Florida/Georgia and Alabama respectively. Patterson probably will help out in NY with Diaco / Jones, and maybe even leverage Midwest ties in Illinois along with Cummings. A nice balance of northeast, southeast, and midwest. Lineburg will likely focus on the mid-Atlantic, while Foley cleans house in New England and further north.

If anyone has any additional info to this, feel free to add on to it. I like what I'm seeing, with all of the recruiting coordinator experience and with the right geographical mix covered by the staff. Go get 'em, boys!!! :cool:
 
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UConnDan97 said:
In my very novice look at the recruiting areas, this is what I came up with (through use of Rivals recruiting targets for each coach):

Patterson - NY, general Midwest (Iowa, Illinois, etc.)
Lineburg - VA mostly, southern NJ (almost exclusively Virginia)
Jones - NY, FL, GA (more southern than northern recruiting)
Cummings - IL, AL, FL, MI, PA, OH (very heavy in Illinois and in Alabama)
Diaco - NJ, NY, VA, MA (heavy New Jersey influence but went into Mass. a lot)
Foley - NY, MA, NH, MD, VA, Canada (he's the one that got Petrus, Delahunt, and Joseph)

At a glance, we are obviously going to be heavy in the Northeast (which we should be and which makes the most sense from a staffing standpoint). Seeing how important NY, NJ, MA, and VA are in this graphic leads me to believe that it was a strategic plan with a lot of thought put into it by Diaco (*or just a great coincidence). Also, there are two guys (Jones, Cummings) that seem to recruit heavily in Florida/Georgia and Alabama respectively. Patterson probably will help out in NY with Diaco / Jones, and maybe even leverage Midwest ties in Illinois along with Cummings. A nice balance of northeast, southeast, and midwest. Lineburg will likely focus on the mid-Atlantic, while Foley cleans house in New England and further north.

If anyone has any additional info to this, feel free to add on to it. I like what I'm seeing, with all of the recruiting coordinator experience and with the right geographical mix covered by the staff. Go get 'em, boys!!! :cool:
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Add Reardon's previous recruiting areas of Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota to the mix.
 
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