Bobby Petrino

[superjohn]

When he was available I remember most of the board saying they didn't want him and UConn is too good to stoop down and take Petrino. It's this type of small-time idiotic thinking that has us stuck with Diaco.

 

[WestCoastHusky]

Win or lose, Diaco is not the coach for UCONN. His team is just uninspiring and boring. He coaches like he is 70 years old. I can't stand this vanilla offense and defense. No fanbase gonna be excited to see this week after week. On top of it, we are losing to a bad team.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Somehow, Louisville's hookers, blow, a big player benefits bankroll, and SECish ethics appears to work ...

 

[FartMan69]

Somehow, Louisville's hookers, blow, a big player benefits bankroll, and SECish ethics appears to work ...

It's worked for over 100 years, weird that it still works.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

I think there are other coaches who play exciting football and you don't have to bring on the baggage Petrino brings.

 

[superjohn]

I think there are other coaches who play exciting football and you don't have to bring on the baggage Petrino brings.

I'll gladly take the baggage of what looks like one of the two best teams in the country and the best player in the country. Outside of Saban and Meyer who exactly is better than Petrino? I can care less about his personality, the guy is an awesome coach. Our coach absolutely sucks.

 

[Scoe]

I'll gladly take the baggage of what looks like one of the two best teams in the country and the best player in the country. Outside of Saban and Meyer who exactly is better than Petrino? I can care less about his personality, the guy is an awesome coach. Our coach absolutely sucks.

Yep ill take an @$$whole who wins over a nice guy that sucks any day.

 

[sub legacy]

When he was available I remember most of the board saying they didn't want him and UConn is too good to stoop down and take Petrino. It's this type of small-time idiotic thinking that has us stuck with Diaco.

#CallArtBriles

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

I'll gladly take the baggage of what looks like one of the two best teams in the country and the best player in the country. Outside of Saban and Meyer who exactly is better than Petrino? I can care less about his personality, the guy is an awesome coach. Our coach absolutely sucks.

it must be all those championships that Petrino has that makes you think so highly of him. If Petrino was at UConn and won 3 in a row, he would leave mid season for another job. He has no loyalty or integrity.

I do think he will stay with UL, but I don't think he would have ever come to UConn and he definitely wouldn't have stayed long.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I'm glad UConn didn't hire Petrino and I hope they wouldn't ever hire Briles.

None of that has anything to do with replacing Diaco. There are plenty of good minds and program builders out there. You just have to find them.

 

[kris1]

Win or lose, Diaco is not the coach for UCONN. His team is just uninspiring and boring. He coaches like he is 70 years old. I can't stand this vanilla offense and defense. No fanbase gonna be excited to see this week after week. On top of it, we are losing to a bad team.

Yeah, but he dresses like a metro-sexual hipster, so.......

 

[Adios]

Yeah, but he dresses like a metro-sexual hipster, so..

Is that why the players like him?

 

[JSM1970]

Agreed, the SEC should poach Louisville. It belongs in the SEC, chithole academics, zero regard for rules, dirty coaches

Somehow, Louisville's hookers, blow, a big player benefits bankroll, and SECish ethics appears to work ...

 

[superjohn]

I'm glad UConn didn't hire Petrino and I hope they wouldn't ever hire Briles.

None of that has anything to do with replacing Diaco. There are plenty of good minds and program builders out there. You just have to find them.

Then I guess you are glad with being a bad football team in a bad conference, I'm not. I think we deserve way better.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Then I guess you are glad with being a bad football team in a bad conference, I'm not. I think we deserve way better.

It's not a zero sum game of Petrino level ethics or suck. There are plenty of examples out there of coaches who win without being his level of sleaze.

 

[superjohn]

It's not a zero sum game of Petrino level ethics or suck. There are plenty of examples out there of coaches who win without being his level of sleaze.

Sure but I can put up with the sleaze if we are guaranteed to win and Petrino wins. It's no time to around, it feels like our athletic future is on the line and I have no doubt Petrino could have turned us into a top 25 team in 3 years. We have a whole bunch of things going for us in conference realignment except for ths most important metric, football success. Petrino is pretty much a guarantee to bring you football success.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Sure but I can put up with the sleaze if we are guaranteed to win and Petrino wins. It's no time to around, it feels like our athletic future is on the line and I have no doubt Petrino could have turned us into a top 25 team in 3 years. We have a whole bunch of things going for us in conference realignment except for ths most important metric, football success. Petrino is pretty much a guarantee to bring you football success.

Well, since Petrino isn't available, who's your magic elixir?

 

[weyuo]

Guys like Petrino and Briles, Mendehall and Charlie Strong won't come to "a basketball school"(or better put a New England basketball school) because to recruit a real top 25 D-1 team would take a decade and folks in CT don't have that kind of patience. Be glad Diaco is willing to take on the challenge and pray he stays till they get ranked some day. Then color him gone just like Edsall.

 

[superjohn]

Well, since Petrino isn't available, who's your magic elixir?

I don't have one. The whole point of the thread is that Petrino was available and instead of going after the proven great coach with an exciting brand of football we went with the most vanilla least imaginative coach. . . . . . . . .I wasn't against Diaco when he's who we decided on but I've seen enough of his coaching to think he's not the guy. I always wanted Petrino and thought it was idiotic many here said they didn't want him. I want us to win football games and still think we could be a sleeping giant. Whaler and some others think the best we can hope for is to be like modern day Syracuse, Pitt and BC. I think this small time way of thinking is a problem. If Calhoun thought this way UConn would still be like UMass.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I don't have one. The whole point of the thread is that Petrino was available and instead of going after the proven great coach with an exciting brand of football we went with the most vanilla least imaginative coach. . . . . . . . .I wasn't against Diaco when he's who we decided on but I've seen enough of his coaching to think he's not the guy. I always wanted Petrino and thought it was idiotic many here said they didn't want him. I want us to win football games and still think we could be a sleeping giant. Whaler and some others think the best we can hope for is to be like modern day Syracuse, Pitt and BC. I think this small time way of thinking is a problem. If Calhoun thought this way UConn would still be like UMass.

I'm with you on your 2+ year opinion of Diaco. Certainly 25 games is a big enough sample to get a feel for a coach.

I don't have the GAF quotient to look at every previous HC who was out of work or looking for work at the end of the 2013 season. I just know you can with without being Petrino.

 

[superjohn]

I'm with you on your 2+ year opinion of Diaco. Certainly 25 games is a big enough sample to get a feel for a coach.

I don't have the GAF quotient to look at every previous HC who was out of work or looking for work at the end of the 2013 season. I just know you can with without being Petrino.

Agree there were other guys out there who are better than Diaco but Petrino was the best coach around. I guess my point is I could care less about whether or not someone is a pariah, I want the best coach available who will make us good. College football is a cesspool, if we don't want to roll around in the mud a little we should probably go back to D1-AA. We deserve so much better than the conference purgatory we find ourselves in.

 

[Bomber36]

Yeah, but he dresses like a metro-sexual hipster, so..

He should be fined for those slacks....

 

[rich1122]

Yeah, but he dresses like a metro-sexual hipster, so..

My wife laughs at that. She agrees.

 

[UConn66]

When he was available I remember most of the board saying they didn't want him and UConn is too good to stoop down and take Petrino. It's this type of small-time idiotic thinking that has us stuck with Diaco.

Petrol has all the loyalty of a snake! Please stop!

 

[superjohn]

Petrol has all the loyalty of a snake! Please stop!

Of course Petrino would leave after he made us really good. Edsall left after he made us decent, Diaco would as well. I just want a coach who makes us good.