So it must be a holiday week because we are in complete agreement on here. The heat that Edsall took after the Fiesta Bowl for the awful manner in which he left AFTER staying and seeing the season through, as opposed to what most other coaches were doing which was quit and not worry about the bowl game, was always unfair and at times plain stupid.
And again, full agreement. Even beyond the commitment you’re making to teammates to play a season, just from a rational point of view I still don’t understand why the risk of injury in your bowl game is any different than the risk of injury you had no problem playing through for the last three months.
Yep. He’s coaching the Bowl Game.
Yes, no doubt.
Edsall was the worst of both worlds. Biggest game in UConn history coached by a Maryland guy with one eye on his watch. He had a plane to catch.
One of my greatest regrets in life was attending Edsall 2.0's welcome back presser. He had me pumped....until he coached.
Worst than that, while keeping his players in the dark on what he was doing, he forced Jordan Todman to inform his teammates before the game that he was going to enter the draft because they deserved to know he wasn't coming back.
Because it’s two things on different planes. The AD has to find the next coach. While he’s looking, and while the players are wondering if other schools will want to pay them more money (or some money), they have a game to win. I don’t understand how AD Dave working hard affects the players preparation. They have one less coach to help them. They’ll survive. As for what happens to their careers, almost every FBS player is worried about that coach leaving or not.
Arsenal played its best guys today. Just say’n
Wow! Some people still don't understand the nuances of why that whole Fiesta Bowl keeping players "in the dark" - RE not announcing his intent to leave until he was at the Maryland introduction press conference - went down the way it did? Geez, Jim Mora tells players and staff, Jim Mora no longer coaching UConn at bowl game, Colorado State not giving a sheet about any UConn procedural eventualities, life going on at CSU business as usual. RE didn't want that for his UConn team and Maryland was not gonna permit a leak from UConn people.
A bowl win is always valuable. It helps put UConn football out there for the entire nation to see. Make the right hire and things will be fine. The blue print for how to do it has been revealed this season.
A bowl win would only matter if the opponent also cared. Beating an indifferent UNC last year did nothing but provide the anti-UNC contingent with more fodder to laugh at how far they had fallen: losing to UConn.
UNC players cared, they were auditioning for their new coach (think he didn't watch game tape). UConn just whipped their as-is. Maybe it was the cold weather that caused the "indifference".
Disagree... UConn has beaten the drum and most of the national articles talk about 3 P4 wins in the last two years. UNC is one of those wins. I don't care who does/does not show up for the other team, if the opponent is a P4, even a disinterested one, decimated by the portal; a UConn victory is a great thing for changing the narrative. If the opponent is G5 (or G6 if you count the returning Pac-##) there is no real benefit to the narrative for the win (except this year, where it allows us to claim a 10-win season for the first time) and a loss can damage the narrative.
Fully agree. If the losing team doesn’t bring their A game for whatever reason, that’s not the winning team’s problem.