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Exit 4 said:
On the subject of BC...and Syracuse, are we well served by their perpetual mediocrity? I used think so, but IDK anymore.... Northeast football needs a boost from somewhere.
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Yes, the bias is anti-northeast. We need programs to be good up here. A rising tide raises all boats.
 
History Geek said:
Yes, the bias is anti-northeast. We need programs to be good up here. A rising tide raises all boats.
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Yeah, or at least one program to be in the top 20 and finish there. Otherwise, this year after year of slog and mediocrity for all is not that helpful. Someone needs to have fun.
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
there will be fewer and fewer coaches who are going to want to deal with the current NIL culture. The new up and coming coaches wont be those who have a new approach to offfense or defense…it will be those who can negotiate best with kids and donors.

I wonder how long Mora will stick it out. He is already frustrated.
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I’m sorry but for the $$$ they will apply for the job.
 
UConnJim said:
Do you realize there are 31 colleges and universities playing football in Massachusetts? That is more than Florida 19, Georgia 19, South Carolina 15, Tennessee 18, Arkansas 13, Louisiana 12, Mississippi 10... Texas has 42, but has 4x the population as Massachusetts. So, there are more kids playing college football in Massachusetts than in Florida and Georgia.

BC's last 3 coaching hires over the past 15 have not been good and Fr. Leahy has allowed athletic mediocrity. Leahy is 75 so he will be gone soon. The other problem with BC is that it is not the state flagship so the average fan is not going to get behind them. That is why the greatest college football upside in New England is with UConn, just like it was in basketball. UConn when given the chance in the BE showed they can compete. We just need another chance.
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BCU has the history in football and it’s a Catholic school, hence they have a large Irish & Italian following. Their location in a great sports city is another big asset
 
BOB to BC looks like a done deal. This is a game changer for BC. I can’t believe it is happening, this will make us completely irrelevant
 
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JMick said:
In parts of the state. It's not a statewide thing. Litchfield and Fairfield county don't give a crap about UConn
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They do, but they’re further away. Less in person time.
 
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UConnJim said:
Disagree. UConn did not put in maximum effort to go big time in football over those years. And, the coaching hires were atrocious, PP, Diaco, Edsall 2.0. Think about this. PP was hired 11 years after being fired at Syracuse for being stale! Until Mora was hired, I don't feel that any UConn leader stood up and explained to the fan base/boosters why football was important and what it would take to be successful. That is the complete opposite from what Cincinnati and UCF did and they are now in the Big 12.
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You make it sound like PP was sitting on his porch for 11 years after being fired at SU (because McNabb graduated). He was in the NFL. At the time I thought he’d be good for us, with really strong support from CT high schools. I thought kids would buy into working with NFL types. I didn’t plan on the old guys forgetting they were dealing with kids.

I like much of what I’ve seen from Mora, but I really hope he gets a DC, and gets someone to help the OC (who doesn’t appear to be going anywhere). Oh, and better ST too.
 
NE Football said:
I’m a third generation UConn fan, not a Johnny come lately like you.
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Unlike you I have a stake in the success of the University of Connecticut. But you wouldn't know anything about that.
 
Chin Diesel said:
I always have respect by those who pulled themselves up.

Give Farrell credit for being a kid who didn't play sports, didn't have parents to hook him up, had no advantages of his HS or hometown, and had to start from scratch.
Regardless of how dismissive he was towards UConn football, across college football he's earned respect.
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Never forget the damage he did. Screw him.
 
ZooCougar said:
Struggling at what? They were Top 10 last year. They’ve never been on Ohio State or Michigan’s level. This is like a golden age for them,
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Finished 13th this year. Last 4 seasons: unranked, unranked, 7th, 13th. This is not the golden era of Penn State football. Franklin is 1-9 and 3-7 against Ohio State and Michigan.

In the first 5 years Penn St. joined the Big 10 under Paterno, Penn St. was 3-2 against Ohio State and 2-3 against Michigan.

I think Penn St. fans are frustrated with Franklin as he can't get over the hump and they are ready to see a change. In 10 years at Penn St., Franklin's highest final ranking is 7th (2x).
 
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Patman said:
Unlike you I have a stake in the success of the University of Connecticut. But you wouldn't know anything about that.
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Doesn’t every taxpayer in the state have a stake?
 
ZooCougar said:
Never forget the damage he did. Screw him.
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Damage he did?

Lol. Did he recommend hiring PP, Diaco or RE2.0?

That was the damage done.

Was he a friend of the program or a cheerleader? Hell no. But nothing he does in his profession should be more important than how UConn handled thing internally.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Damage he did?

Lol. Did he recommend hiring PP, Diaco or RE2.0?

That was the damage done.

Was he a friend of the program or a cheerleader? Hell no. But nothing he does in his profession should be more important than how UConn handled thing internally.
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Before then genius. The guy is a total pos.
 
coachcap said:
As much as I despise Mike Farrell, he hit it out of the park with his commentary on Sirius-XM this morning as the guest of Childers & Neuheusel. He said that BC will be irrelevant in the future because they have a small non-caring fan base. What fans they DO have don't like fighting the traffic on Commonwealth Ave., & if they choose to attend the games, arrive late in the first quarter & leave starting in the Mid-third quarter. The won't be able to attract great coaching going forward & should be satisfied with a .500 season record,
Then, he piled on & said that the same fate awaits Rutgers once Schiano leaves.

Priceless!
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Man, what I would give for .500 seasons .... sigh...
 
JMick said:
In parts of the state. It's not a statewide thing. Litchfield and Fairfield county don't give a crap about UConn
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There is an electronic dog fence running along Rte. 8
 
UConnJim said:
Finished 13th this year. Last 4 seasons: unranked, unranked, 7th, 13th. This is not the golden era of Penn State football. Franklin is 1-9 and 3-7 against Ohio State and Michigan.

In the first 5 years Penn St. joined the Big 10 under Paterno, Penn St. was 3-2 against Ohio State and 2-3 against Michigan.

I think Penn St. fans are frustrated with Franklin as he can't get over the hump and they are ready to see a change. In 10 years at Penn St., Franklin's highest final ranking is 7th (2x).
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That’s not struggling. That’s Penn State.
 
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JMick said:
In parts of the state. It's not a statewide thing. Litchfield and Fairfield county don't give a crap about UConn
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I don’t agree about Litchfield. Not everyone that lives there is from New York.
 
uconnfan68 said:
You make it sound like PP was sitting on his porch for 11 years after being fired at SU (because McNabb graduated). He was in the NFL. At the time I thought he’d be good for us, with really strong support from CT high schools. I thought kids would buy into working with NFL types. I didn’t plan on the old guys forgetting they were dealing with kids.

I like much of what I’ve seen from Mora, but I really hope he gets a DC, and gets someone to help the OC (who doesn’t appear to be going anywhere). Oh, and better ST too.
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You guys are both way off base.

Pasqualoni was hired 7 years after getting let go from Syracuse which was at the end of the 2004 season.

McNabb graduated in 1998.

Pasqualoni was let go because he couldn’t recruit and the program hadn’t adapted to the modern game. He was a decent Xs and Os guy but he couldn’t do all the other stuff to make the magic happen. Which he further demonstrated at UConn.

He was hired as a caretaker by Hathaway. It was literally a slow moving car crash. CT high schools? Who cares?!? Morons.
 
Chin Diesel said:
Go-ahead.

Educate me.
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Most of this went down a little before my time, but I caught the tail end of it. As one of the lead analysts on Rivals dot com he used to deliberately downgrade our recruits once they committed to UConn. Most notably Dan Orlowski sky. He is a BC fan and was connected to EagleAction.

He and Edsall had a feud of sorts over this.. I think Edsall eventually cut off most access to Rivals. Which might have been counter productive.

There are definitely some people here who could fill you in better. Like much better. They might even have the paper trail. But Farrell was UConn public enemy #1 for quite a while.
 
ZooCougar said:
Most of this went down a little before my time, but I caught the tail end of it. As one of the lead analysts on Rivals dot com he used to deliberately downgrade our recruits once they committed to UConn. Most notably Dan Orlowski sky. He is a BC fan and was connected to EagleAction.

He and Edsall had a feud of sorts over this.. I think Edsall eventually cut off most access to Rivals. Which might have been counter productive.

There are definitely some people here who could fill you in better. Like much better. They might even have the paper trail. But Farrell was UConn public enemy #1 for quite a while.
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Yes, the man is corrupt as hell. There is no qualifiers here.
 
I didn’t research
ZooCougar said:
You guys are both way off base.

Pasqualoni was hired 7 years after getting let go from Syracuse which was at the end of the 2004 season.

McNabb graduated in 1998.

Pasqualoni was let go because he couldn’t recruit and the program hadn’t adapted to the modern game. He was a decent Xs and Os guy but he couldn’t do all the other stuff to make the magic happen. Which he further demonstrated at UConn.

He was hired as a caretaker by Hathaway. It was literally a slow moving car crash. CT high schools? Who cares?!? Morons.
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I didn’t research everything in the original post. My bad.
 
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