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Bob Diaco Is Not Getting a Fair Shake

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UConnDan97 said:
The entire premise of the article is ridiculous. Most people in the thread have already pointed out the bigger talking points, but I'll just try to drive home the point. Here's my Jeff Foxworthy-like version of this subject:

If you play multiple QB's from game 1 all the way through game 10, without settling in on 1 play caller for an entire game, your coaching is suspect.
If you use your QB's as your running backs, even though you have 4 more-than-capable running backs, your coaching is suspect.
If you consistently waste or fail to use timeouts at critical points in the game, your coaching is suspect.
If you go for a field goal when you need a touchdown, simply to get your kicker a little more work from the right hash, your coaching is suspect.
If you have an extra week to prepare for an Army team that struggles to beat 1-AA teams, yet you lay a stinker, your coaching is suspect.
If you lose a game where you throw the ball 4 times, your coaching is suspect.
If your response to a loss is that you have improved a team from colossally bad to simply bad, your coaching is suspect.
If you think it's a good idea to rush only 3 people against arguably the best QB in the league, your coaching is suspect.
If you think that a successful gameplan was the fact that you played 55 people in one outing, your coaching is suspect.

Didn't get a fair shake??? For 1.5 million dollars this year and absolutely no media pressure, his "shake" has been more than fair...
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Dan you've been more than fair on many occasions. This unfortunately, is not only fair but all too accurate.
 
What a wierd, defensive article. I would never expect anything to be said in public, but if Warde Manuel is 'not second guessing the hire' himself, then he is not following the results closely enough. This is his signature hire, and one that is loaded - probably with future of the rest of UConn sports (as perhaps his own as AD), hanging in the balance. If he is not concerned with the lack of results, performance, excuses and strange verbiage coming from his recent hire, he should be.
 
stephen Henry said:
What a wierd, defensive article. I would never expect anything to be said in public, but if Warde Manuel is 'not second guessing the hire' himself, then he is not following the results closely enough. This is his signature hire, and one that is loaded - probably with future of the rest of UConn sports (as perhaps his own as AD), hanging in the balance. If he is not concerned with the lack of results, performance, excuses and strange verbiage coming from his recent hire, he should be.
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I trust Warde more than Bob. Hartford has been a hockey town for much, much longer and sustained than ever football.

Football is and always will be my sport, but Connecticut culture embraces winners and throws losers to the gutter. Football, because of the Ivy league choices 50 years ago, does not have the social equity for anybody to financially contribute to a loser.

Hockey is different. Safe investment here, and we have a nice league and potential.
 
Bill Bellichick is not getting a fair shake. His name keeps being mentioned in the same breath as Bob Diaco.

It's becoming clear that Matt is simply trolling the boneyard at this point. He can't believe this crap he's writing.
 
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Unwarranted Criticisms
There are many and it started back in camp when the staff wouldn’t let the media watch practice, something that occurs at a large number of institutions around the country.
And also doesnt occur at a large number of institutions around the country - whats the reason for it is the better question. Are you hiding some of your flaws and inexperience from trained eyes maybe?

Next, it was the unique way he answers questions. Problem with that, no matter how much he goes off the beaten trail to answer questions, he always tries to answer them honestly, truthfully and in great detail.
Truthfull and in great detail - WTF are you listening to? Many have said his answers are coach speak which is a nice way of saying I answered the question by avoiding to answer the questions.

Injury news? Take one from the Bill Belichick playbook. Cryptic is the word here and it’s called gamesmanship. Do you want your opponent to know the situation or not? What will give the team the best chance to win?
You have got to be joking!?! Which game in particular did UConn FB benefit from by not divulging injury information and gave us the best chance to win?

Finally, there are some that believe he is placing blame on the players for the current situation. That is clearly not the case, which he has reinforced, time and again. Describing the situation he took over is not blaming the players. It’s stating a fact that the program was in disarray. They are also part of what is going to turn this thing around as Diaco noted again this afternoon.
The disarrayed program in the past looked more ready to play than this one - and I would have never thought I would say that after PP. Michigan game they were ready to play last year - Cinci this past weekend that team was NOT ready to play.

“We have enough talent and enough personnel to have a damn good football team next season, absolutely,” he said.
Is this one of the time where he 'tried' to answer honestly, truthfully and in great detail?

Matt - you want to hitch your wagon to the BD train that is completely understandable but if you want to write articles to tell us he isnt getting a fair shake you are going to get pounded. He has had a fair shake and I will still give him next year, but until you write the article 'Bob Diaco leaves us scratching our heads' many will believe your journalism is one sided.
 
WingU-Conn said:
Bill Bellichick is not getting a fair shake. His name keeps being mentioned in the same breath as Bob Diaco.

It's becoming clear that Matt is simply trolling the boneyard at this point. He can't believe this crap he's writing.
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Agree he's totally trolling you guys. And he'll keep doing it and the bonehead, I mean boneyard will keep taking the bait.
 
Pasqualoni had issues as a Head Coach, but it is ignorant to say he didn't know what he was doing. He, and Edsall before him, were recruiting Big East caliber talent, and now those players are getting manhandled and embarrassed by some of the worst programs in the FBS. No matter how many recruiting mistakes Pasqualoni made, it should not have ended up with the record we have. I have to think our talent is better than Tulane's or Army's.
 
SubbaBub said:
(we can't lose at home to a zero win team from Texas in December can we?).
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If we get a repeat of the Fall of '89 ( my sophmore at UCONN, can remember it plain as day watching it in my dorm room on East campus ) it'll happen....
 
Carl Spackler said:
I trust Warde more than Bob. Hartford has been a hockey town for much, much longer and sustained than ever football.

Football is and always will be my sport, but Connecticut culture embraces winners and throws losers to the gutter. Football, because of the Ivy league choices 50 years ago, does not have the social equity for anybody to financially contribute to a loser.

Hockey is different. Safe investment here, and we have a nice league and potential.
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Agreed. Warde is doing his best, and even beyond just mere self interest, he is a professional and wants to succeed. While Warde may speak as a AD (and AD is a political position), some of Bob's comments are really off the wall. His effort to create a rivalry with UCF after their one and only victory against an BCS opponent was embarrasing. While UConn desparately needs rivalries, they tend to be earned over time and not if your only other victory was a marginal one against Stoney Brook. Before you start braying about rivarly, please win games you are supposed to win, and a few you are not, otherwise you appear like a total fool.
 
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stephen Henry said:
Agreed. Warde is doing his best, and even beyond just mere self interest, he is a professional and wants to succeed. While Warde may speak as a AD (and AD is a political position), some of Bob's comments are really off the wall. His effort to create a rivalry with UCF after their one and only victory against an BCS opponent was embarrasing. While UConn desparately needs rivalries, they tend to be earned over time and not if your only other victory was a marginal one against Stoney Brook. Before you start braying about rivarly, please win games you are supposed to win, and a few you are not, otherwise you appear like a total fool.
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The difference between the fool and the genius, is the win and loss record.
 
Dogged said:
If one knew the difference between a fool and a genius, he would keep his mouth shut.
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That is very wise, and must make me change my statement.

"The difference between labeling the bizarre statements and actions of a head football coach as foolish or genius, is the win and loss record."
 
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amory said:
The guy is a total whackjob. And that's fine if he proves he can coach but he hasn't, and he won't even acknowledge the numerous obvious errors he's made this year.

I'm very worried there's no deeper layer of football knowledge that we all assumed was laying just underneath the Looney Toon paint job.

He gets another year before anyone should be calling for his head but he doesn't get a 100% no strings attached free pass
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Exactly. He was an assistant for Brian Kelly who repeatedly has turned out incompetent head coaches from his "tree". What if Diaco's great coaching acumen is simply being in the right place at the right time and he fell upward to us?
 
Carl Spackler said:
That is very wise, and must make me change my statement.

"The difference between labeling the bizarre statements and actions of a head football coach as foolish or genius, is the win and loss record."
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A career is not made in one season, grasshopper!
 
stephen Henry said:
Agreed. Warde is doing his best, and even beyond just mere self interest, he is a professional and wants to succeed. While Warde may speak as a AD (and AD is a political position), some of Bob's comments are really off the wall. His effort to create a rivalry with UCF after their one and only victory against an BCS opponent was embarrasing. While UConn desparately needs rivalries, they tend to be earned over time and not if your only other victory was a marginal one against Stoney Brook. Before you start braying about rivarly, please win games you are supposed to win, and a few you are not, otherwise you appear like a total fool.
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That and the fact that I don't think the north was ever really in a war with Orlando.
 
Dogged said:
A career is not made in one season, grasshopper!
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LOL. Let' s talk accountability and leadership for a second. Lots of different ways to identify what accountability and leadership is, but there are usually 4 common denominators that effectively break into categories of expectations, honesty, learning, and measuring progress.

I have 2 problems - expectations and learning, from our young leader.

Did this coach really expect a team to develop well on the field with his plan to approach the season rotating so many players, and never establishing a clear starting lineup on offense? Lots of ways to move from that simple yes or no response.

Has this coach learned from mistakes? As far as my interest goes, you don't even get to what those mistakes are until after you figure out what expectations were.

Careers are made based on goals, actions and patterns of behavior.
 
From just a preparation standpoint, how many games this year have we seemed, uh...unprepared and unmotivated: I'd say BYU, Stony Brook, Temple, Tulane, Army and Cincy. I'm being generous by not adding the USF game, that was one I thought the defense was ready to play and the offense was never given a chance to play until the last drive.

And we're supposed to go easy on a coach who 50% of the time minimum has not put us in a position to succeed? .
 
Carl Spackler said:
LOL. Let' s talk accountability and leadership for a second. Lots of different ways to identify what accountability and leadership is, but there are usually 4 common denominators that effectively break into categories of expectations, honesty, learning, and measuring progress.

I have 2 problems - expectations and learning, from our young leader.

Did this coach really expect a team to develop well on the field with his plan to approach the season rotating so many players, and never establishing a clear starting lineup on offense? Lots of ways to move from that simple yes or no response.

Has this coach learned from mistakes? As far as my interest goes, you don't even get to what those mistakes are until after you figure out what expectations were.

Careers are made based on goals, actions and patterns of behavior.
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If we had some ham, we could have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.

I think we only had some cereal and a little bit of sour milk!

To your first question, I would answer "no."

To your second question, I would say it's hard to be sure what his mistakes were when we don't know the reasons why he made his decisions. (Although Pal has mentioned a certain quarterback change once or twice.)

As the CEO he is not likely to explain himself to us the fans nor should he, not now, not yet. No CEO would endure that kind of inquisition. We do not have a Desi/Lucy relationship with him.

Successful careers are based on results and achieving your goals: a man will be measured by his thoughts and actions and his achievements.

So in the end time will tell. It always does!
 
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