Ummm, does ether excite you? The man is a walking keg of ether so at best he is a yawn at worst a nightmare I still struggle to get over!
yeah, look, I thought he was a massive step backwards for a UConn program that was too timid to do anything useful at the time but that doesn't mean he didn't care or didn't want to do good. Everything said about Paul P I've seen here is that he's a strong and active contributor.
Dude loves or is obsessed with football
His recruiting was better than all of Diaco and Edsall 2.0. PP recruits well, his problem was exactly the same as Ollie. He ran a loose ship that didn't translate to development. That and GDL
Correct, Coach Pasqualoni was a symptom of the problem, he did not hire himself! The “Hirers” are the ones who sent this program and Athletic Department into a near death spiral. We are not out of the woods yet, 2 National Hoops Champs notwithstanding
Ok. I can get behind that statement.
I can't... I watched when he coached Cuse. I watched his lethargy and his lost look on their sidelines. When he came to UConn it was worse. I watched when a player with his head down and coach P. bumped into each other. We were losing by only 7 but the coach looked lost and the player dis-spirited. I recall fans cheering for him to be our coach and was like - oh my God no! He was a disaster and unfortunately not the worst disaster we faced with our coaching hires. But just because he was unfortunately not the worst... doesn't mean I am glad he came here. I recall the H.S. coaches ecstatic at the hire. I recall how some fans were so happy that he was going to keep local talent from leaving to other programs... How did that work out??? so yea, as a coach I disliked him - why - his results at the programs I watched. I laughed when we played Cuse and he was coaching and then I felt cursed when he came here.
I'd rather make the HS coaches happy by being in reasonably frequent contact and trying to do reasonable things for them rather than having somebody who is "part of the community". We saw it a week or two ago. They want uconn to validate their goal to live vicariously through their players. I get it as somebody who is slowly passing middle age still wanting to be something for once in my life but that's not on UConn to provide for the CT HS coaches.
He wasted the most football talent of any UConn coach in last 50 years.
Paul is a good man and a terrific coach of the sport. Good for him.
Had a lot of talent. But that first year, had no qb, and the second year, OL collapsed. Just a rough go of it.
Everywhere Ed Orgeron coached went on probation. lol.
