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Someone has already been hired would be my thought and we will all know within a few days or so.
 
Confident Carl said:
So I get that you are not a Bob Diaco fan. You are entitled but why so mean spirited if someone is? Not sure why the attempt to discredit me. I have been quite transparent in my belief that in time Bob Diaco will bring success to UCONN. My Dec. 11, 2014 post "Why I believe in Bob Diaco" below got 29 likes, so Whaler, I must not be the only person on the Boneyard that feels that way. There are plenty of negative sorts in the world, what else is new? Bob Diaco is going to turn this program around and his coaching decisions will not be determined by anyone on the Boneyard.

HERE IS THE POST AGAIN. IT CLEARLY STATES HOW I FEEL ABOUT COACH

I just posted this in another thread but felt this was important to be on its own, so here goes. To start, I know Diaco has said a few questionable things about abilities and such. He is not perfect and it was a long season. So I cut him some slack. I believe he will become a tremendous head coach. Here goes:

UCONN football under Diaco:

1. 2014 was not a program renovation, it was a Total tear down-rebuild
2. Diaco is a perfectionist - He only knows 1 way to do things - the right way
3. Diaco and staff could have done things to achieve greater results in the W-L column but didn't want to take short cuts. They made a decision to build for the future as a #1 priority. In other words they sacrificed short term gains for long term sustained success.
4. People did not like the exhibition/preseason game analogy (paying customers didn't want to hear that) but that is exactly what Diaco was doing. That was very painful for everyone.
5. Diaco and staff were building a culture and system designed to last for years and built on:
a. Good Nutrition
b. Strength & Conditioning
c. Discipline, Academically, Socially, Mentally*,Physically, Spiritually, Family
6. Technique - Understanding timing and footwork, fundamentals
* Mentally is huge. He needed to wash out a Negative losing mentality that had
been at UCONN the last three years.
6. Recruiting - Diaco (for 2015)recruited Big, tall players, smart kids that bought into his philosophy.
7. Unfortunately, the fan base has been affected by all the change and Diaco has asked us to be patient and to trust him. He knows it isn't easy. I believe he understands.
8. The team suffered major loses by injury in particular two team captains in Casey Cochran and Byron Jones.
9. We had a very young and inexperience Offensive line that got a lot better in 2014
10. We had some young pup running backs that will be great in the next couple of years and the same goes for the receiving corps.
11. Diaco has promised us a conference championship
12. He is our best chance at moving up to a better conference.

In summation I will use a golf analogy. I am a 12 handicap golfer. I could take my swing and game and up my time at the range by 1,000 balls a week. I could buy state of the art equipment, play a couple more times a week, watch all kinds of videos, etc. No doubt I would get better. My ball striking would no doubt improve. Putting, Driving, everything. The problem is, that if I had inherent flaws in my swing, I would be building my game on a questionable foundation that would ultimately fail against stronger competition.

On the other hand if I paid David Leadbetter to train me the right way, he could possibly trash my golf swing and make drastic changes that would actually make me look worse and make me feel very uncomfortable for a while. I would probably start swearing at him and state that I never should have gone to him in the first place as I am now worse than before I hired him. He would tell me to be patient and that it will take time for the new techniques to become a habit and that for a while, I would be playing worse until I got comfortable but in the long run I was going to have a more sustainable consistent game. Down the road I could go up against single digit golfers in competition and beat them.

I hope this has helped some of you. Others may poke fun of my analogy and theory but that's okay. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. For now, I choose to believe the Bob Diaco is the best thing to happen to UCONN football. And NO, I didn't get paid for writing this! College football is a very passionate sport. Most of us on the yard are passionate about UCONN football. No one more than Bob Diaco.
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Well it's snowing outside so take a few minutes to give a second look at the (It's a mess) press conference. After I looked at it a second time, I was more excited than ever to have Bob Diaco as our head football coach...


After you watch that one. Take a look at an interview Diaco had during signing season his last year at Notre Dame. The man has not changed. His message and philosophy is grounded and consistent.
 
noeynox said:
I hear TJ Weist is available:)
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This quote TJ made last year gets me to thinking although his preference would be a head coaching assignment, he would accept the right coordinator job. I still have a sneaky feeling TJ could be the guy.

"I want to make sure my friends in the profession know that even though I'm not coaching this fall, I still want to coach," Weist said. "Nobody knows what jobs, head, coordinator, assistant, come open really until December. I'm not going to sit back and wait. I'm also going to study all my head coaching and coordinator playbooks, notebooks and plans, compare them to other teams, be ready for everything. I'm using the time to get a different perspective."
 
uconnbill said:
Someone has already been hired would be my thought and we will all know within a few days or so.
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Yup. If the Boneyarders are correct with all of the speculation, Quinn's probably the guy. But with Tennessee now in play (& maybe BCU), pray its not Molnar.
 
Confident Carl said:
Well it's snowing outside so take a few minutes to give a second look at the (It's a mess) press conference. After I looked at it a second time, I was more excited than ever to have Bob Diaco as our head football coach...


After you watch that one. Take a look at an interview Diaco had during signing season his last year at Notre Dame. The man has not changed. His message and philosophy is grounded and consistent.
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I don't get what this has to do with an OP titled:"Assistant Football Coach/Offensive Coordinator:. It get's back on track and you attempt to tale it off track again.
 
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huskymedic said:
I don't get what this has to do with an OP titled:"Assistant Football Coach/Offensive Coordinator:. It get's back on track and you attempt to tale it off track again.
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sorry you are having difficulty but help me out here, who appointed you editor in chief? If you follow the entire 8 pages of posts, it's relevent. The fact that people have commented that Diaco searching for an offensive coordinator is a signal that he is trying to right the ship is silly. The man has been trying to right the ship from day one. This is going to be a protracted gut wrenching process. Medic, trust me, it's relevent.
 
Anything on the hire? Have all the media outlets stopped covering UCONN football as OC is a pretty significant hire for a football program and except for when it was announced there was been no follow up as to who might be interviewed, etc. Spring ball starts in about six weeks and that is when you start putting in your offense for the season, so unless we are planning to run same playbook as last year we need to have this hire soon.
 
10 days til signing day. You gotta believe we'll know something (unofficial) by week's end, then formally announced on signing day...
 
I'm surprised it wasn't wrapped up and announced this past weekend when the majority of ou recruits came up. Maybe they really don't have the guy they want??
 
UCFBfan said:
I'm surprised it wasn't wrapped up and announced this past weekend when the majority of ou recruits came up. Maybe they really don't have the guy they want??
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I bet we have our guy... would be nice to know who though...maybe its somebody none of us expected?
 
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If history is a guide, we should know this week. Weist was hired as OC around this time two years ago, I think it was on a weekday.
 
I wouldn't be shocked if Mike Groh ends up here guys... just a hunch.. I could definitely be wrong, but if he's our guy, no shocker here...
 
ktuck911 said:
I wouldn't be shocked if Mike Groh ends up here guys... just a hunch.. I could definitely be wrong, but if he's our guy, no shocker here...
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If Mike Groh is the OC I swear we'll be Virginia number two (garbage). Mike Groh was the OC when we (UConn) destroyed them a few years ago. His own dad fired him because he was a garbage coordinator, we cant afford hiring Mike Groh.
 
Too many successful guys out there to settle for a track record that's questionable to say the least. Hiring Mike Groh would take whatever air is left out of the energy balloon. As much as I like some of our skill guys coming back it would be a shame if they had to invest their futures in another poor OC.
 
As much as I agree on the TJ hiring........I am pretty sure he and his family are no longer living in CT as I was told they had moved to Michigan back in September.
 
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31GuardTrap said:
As much as I agree on the TJ hiring...I am pretty sure he and his family are no longer living in CT as I was told they had moved to Michigan back in September.
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Thanks. I read your response and then I saw this. http://articles.courant.com/2014-08...-weist-coach-pasqualoni-uconn-business-school

You are correct it says he moved to Michigan.

I guess that takes away reasons 1 and certainly puts him more in play for something like CMU.

For that reason, I agree not likely a candidate.
 
TIMELINE:
September 24, 2014: For the first time this season, UConn offensive coordinator Mike Cummings was on the sideline the entire game. (source: Hartford courant).
October 13, 2014: Buffalo has fired coach Jeff Quinn two days after the Bulls lost to Eastern Michigan (7 games into the season/5 games left).
November 25, 2014: Bob Diaco says, "I am looking for more with the team and we are going to get it solved. The problem has been identified. I am not a problem-identifier. I would like to think I am a problem-solver. So we have enacted an action plan to solve it."
January 8, 2015: Mike Foley was relieved of his duties
January 11, 2015: Bob Diaco says, "“I need to be sure the offense is functioning at a high level or at a level that fits and suits the personnel,” he said. “I’m going to get that done. I’m in the process of doing that.” (Source: the Offseason interview Series Part 1)
January 19, 2015: OC position posted on UConn careers website.

I wonder if the problem HCBD identified was Mike Foley, which is why Cummings had to come down to the sidelines (plus the fact that he can't call an offensive play to save his life)

Anyways, I can't wait for the announcement of the hiring of Jeff Quinn, coming some time early this week, IMO.
 
Sprague03 ( named after my fav dorm on campus. fun times there. ) - I get what you mean, like others have posted, about Quinn... he makes sense too, but, he makes a bunc a sense at other spots too ( Tennessee, CMU, & even BCU... my opinion on the latter ). If he doesn't want to leave New England I'd like our chances over BCU, but if Tennessee came a calling that'd be hard to beat....
 
The Tennessee OC and CMU head job probably threw a wrench in our plans as seems like the candidates for the three jobs overlap and come from the MAC coaching tree. Unfortunately pay wise figuring OC salary is similar to what Enos got at Arkansas, we are third most desirable spot after Tennessee and CMU jobs and guys we want might be holding out for one of those spots. Hope it is sorted by signing day when main focus is moved to spring ball.
 
How has no one heard a peep on this? I have not seen a single rumor about any candidates. All guesses. Are our reporters that bad or is the program that tight lipped?
 
Honestly what the hell do some of you guys expect? Jeff Quinn is not a s e x y name. Sorry but Lane Kiffin isn't coming here. Quinn has HC experience and you can make the argument that his firing at Buffalo wasn't warranted. Guy comes from the Brian Kelly tree and was the OC behind all of those Cincy teams that lit up the old Big East. We could do a lot worse than bringing in Jeff Quinn as OC.
 
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Jimmy Serrano said:
Honestly what the hell do some of you guys expect? Jeff Quinn is not a s e x y name. Sorry but Lane Kiffin isn't coming here. Quinn has HC experience and you can make the argument that his firing at Buffalo wasn't warranted. Guy comes from the Brian Kelly tree and was the OC behind all of those Cincy teams that lit up the old Big East. We could do a lot worse than bringing in Jeff Quinn as OC.
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Convinced me. Get him the fill out the UConn paperwork.
 
Confident Carl said:
sorry you are having difficulty but help me out here, who appointed you editor in chief? If you follow the entire 8 pages of posts, it's relevent. The fact that people have commented that Diaco searching for an offensive coordinator is a signal that he is trying to right the ship is silly. The man has been trying to right the ship from day one. This is going to be a protracted gut wrenching process. Medic, trust me, it's relevent.
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As of 2:30 this afternoon I have appointed huskymedic editor-in-chief. Anyone who can second this appt. should do so immediately.

In fairness to Confident Carl, I will name him the new offensive coordinator.

Out of respect to Coach Diaco, I will advise him that if he is not a problem identifier, he should spend more time on the Boneyard.
 
Dogged said:
As of 2:30 this afternoon I have appointed huskymedic editor-in-chief. Anyone who can second this appt. should do so immediately.

In fairness to Confident Carl, I will name him the new offensive coordinator.

Out of respect to Coach Diaco, I will advise him that if he is not a problem identifier, he should spend more time on the Boneyard.
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A wonky press conference with the two of them sitting side-by-side is absolutely necessary. Just making sure you have that covered.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
Honestly what the hell do some of you guys expect? Jeff Quinn is not a s e x y name. Sorry but Lane Kiffin isn't coming here. Quinn has HC experience and you can make the argument that his firing at Buffalo wasn't warranted. Guy comes from the Brian Kelly tree and was the OC behind all of those Cincy teams that lit up the old Big East. We could do a lot worse than bringing in Jeff Quinn as OC.
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Jeff Quinn is also not good looking!

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Jimmy Serrano said:
Honestly what the hell do some of you guys expect? Jeff Quinn is not a s e x y name. Sorry but Lane Kiffin isn't coming here. Quinn has HC experience and you can make the argument that his firing at Buffalo wasn't warranted. Guy comes from the Brian Kelly tree and was the OC behind all of those Cincy teams that lit up the old Big East. We could do a lot worse than bringing in Jeff Quinn as OC.
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I was hoping for Jimmy Serrano. Don't get much sexier than that!
 
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