BC’s Hafley takes job as Packers DC

[ZooCougar]

Even Penn State is struggling however

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,

 

[UConnJim]

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,

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).

 

[Bongo Fury]

Sounding like Nebraska fans.

 

[06029]

Unlike you I have a stake in the success of the University of Connecticut. But you wouldn't know anything about that.

Doesn’t every taxpayer in the state have a stake?

 

[Chin Diesel]

Never forget the damage he did. Screw him.

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.

 

[ZooCougar]

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.

Before then genius. The guy is a total pos.

 

[Forte]

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!

Man, what I would give for .500 seasons .... sigh...

 

[Duncan Idaho]

In parts of the state. It's not a statewide thing. Litchfield and Fairfield county don't give a crap about UConn

There is an electronic dog fence running along Rte. 8

 

[ZooCougar]

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).

That’s not struggling. That’s Penn State.

 

[ZooCougar]

In parts of the state. It's not a statewide thing. Litchfield and Fairfield county don't give a crap about UConn

I don’t agree about Litchfield. Not everyone that lives there is from New York.

 

[ZooCougar]

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.

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]

Before then genius. The guy is a total pos.

Go-ahead.

Educate me.

 

[ZooCougar]

Go-ahead.

Educate me.

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.

 

[Patman]

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.

Yes, the man is corrupt as hell. There is no qualifiers here.

 

[uconnfan68]

I didn’t research

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.

I didn’t research everything in the original post. My bad.

 

[RSTuthill]

What fans they DO have don't like fighting the traffic on Commonwealth Ave., ....

The pleasures of on campus stadiums in places not built to handle huge crowds. And they even have the T.

 

[UConnJim]

The pleasures of on campus stadiums in places not built to handle huge crowds. And they even have the T.

BC's stadium was built to hold about 26k and then expanded to 32k until ~1994 when it was expanded to 44.5k. I think the final expansion was too much for the location. Back in the 80s, BC played some big games like Penn St. and Alabama at Foxboro Stadium which made sense.

 

[CL82]

Is anyone worried that BC will try to steal our DC now that they are looking for one? Oh wait...

 

[Ldandy]

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).

From a Penn State Fan's Perspective, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who would consider this current era of football a golden age. Saying this is laughable to a program that has had multiple undefeated seasons, National Titles, and won every major bowl game except for The Peach Bowl prior to the last 10 years taking place.

When you consider the state of the roster that CJF took over in 2014, most reasonable fans understand that a ton of good has been accomplished over the last decade. That's the rub though, most REASONABLE fans. Having multiple double digit win seasons, top ten finishes, and wins in The Fiesta, Cotton, and Rose Bowls would be amazing to most fanbases. That said a very vocal minority of our fanbase only views success as beating UM and OSU. There is no other success to them. By this self-created metric CJF has failed more than he has prevailed. This gets them howling mad LOL. With the playoff expanding, the goal posts will move again to CJF not winning a national championship.

 

[BlueandOG]

I have never understood this “flagship” stuff. URI is the flagship of Rhode Island and ZooMass for Massachusetts. So what? This is not the South or Midwest where people have pride in their state. Sadly, very few non-alumni of our great school care that much. As the post above noted, BC and other eastern schools will have a tough time competing against SEC and Big 10, but we are in even worse shape. Did you notice the protests on campus last week about the UConn budget cuts? We are on thin ice across all departments.

People who live in CT care about UCONN even if they did not go to the school. Almost no-one cares about BC; in fact, more people up here dislike BC than cheer for the teams.

 

[GoConn]

Sounds like BC is going to hire Bill O'Brien, would be a solid hire for them

 

[PackTheRent]

People who live in CT care about UCONN even if they did not go to the school. Almost no-one cares about BC; in fact, more people up here dislike BC than cheer for the teams.

Some of that is natural jealousy from umess and bu people, just like people from the regional state schools here resent UConn grads. Non-alums in Connecticut will show some interest in the basketball team but the football team is ignored

 

[huskysupporter]

Sounds like BC is going to hire Bill O'Brien, would be a solid hire for them

Would be a home run if true.

 

[Ldandy]

Sounds like BC is going to hire Bill O'Brien, would be a solid hire for them

On paper it's a good fit. BOB clearly has an affinity for New England, so he may stick around long enough to build a solid foundation in Chestnut Hill. My guess is that he'll be able to attract some good QBs and TEs but struggle bringing in enough talent elsewhere to actually be competitive in The ACC. He could put a dent in recruiting for programs like Rutgers, Syracuse, and Pitt who recruit the same level of talent.

I'm guessing a ceiling of around 8-4 for the program will be the norm with some 6-6 & 7-5 type years thrown in. BC's Fanbase is mostly apathetic so that will probably buy him 5+ years if he wants to stay that long. Boston Media can give a F all about BC, so he won't encounter the crushing scrutiny that he faced in State College or Tuscaloosa. What will be interesting is seeing how he navigates the new world of college football with the transfer portal and NIL. BOB is a football coach plain and simple. He's not great at kissing a** and glad handing. How quickly he adapts to these changes will determine how quickly he gets that mess turned around.

 

[UConnJim]

O'Brien should do a good job at BC as long as he hires some good recruiters. I think he wants to be at BC as he grew up in the Boston area and went to Brown. O'Brien's wife went to Boston College and her college roommate is married to Doug Marrone.