By the time Diaco learns how to coach.

[businesslawyer]

Tell you what, you find me the coach who already knows everything there is about coaching and wants to coach here, and I'll pay his salary, deal?

LOL. That would have been Coach P.

 

[businesslawyer]

Bob's a better coach than the program deserved at the time of his hire. Ward made a good pick in spite of everything. He just needs to adjust on gameday. Everything else is looking pretty good. Recruiting appears to be getting better, the guys are playing hard and getting better. I enjoy watching the games again.

I simply want us to get over the hump of being a losing program as fast as humanity possible because that stink takes a lot longer to get off than it does to put on.

There are 3 long time terrible football programs from this conference ranked this week and deservedly so. However one loss and they are right back to irrelevant town. While teams like Missouri, Northwestern and Ole Miss are a win away from the media driven good to see you again pats on the back.

A bowl game this year would be huge and set up a run to compete for a conference title next season. Credibility takes at least an extra year to find you. For all the suck we've endured, cutting a year off the rebound schedule would do wonders for the program even if Bob left.

A bowl is a decidely uphill climb after Saturday, but it continued improvements should result in an opportunity for a wtf win to offset this wtf loss.

ECU and Tulane become the must wins #4 and #5. Will need an upset of Cincy, Houston, or Temple. I don't think this is our week but, who knows, we've played better on the road this year. An upset at the Nipper would be a huge boost, bigger than UCF last season.

If we played ECU this week, at home, we'd be significant dogs. Significant. The thought that anyone is looking at that as a "must win" rather than a "wtf win" is misguided. It is both.

 

[SubbaBub]

If we played ECU this week, at home, we'd be significant dogs. Significant. The thought that anyone is looking at that as a "must win" rather than a "wtf win" is misguided. It is both.

But it's at home on a Friday night and ECU is a cut below the three teams leading the AAC. I would much rather have beat Navy and USF and looking towards Tulane for #6, but we eat what is served. ECU is the best looking dish left at the buffet that wouldn't be a major upset.

 

[DCUconnfan]

What does having his own players have to do with the idiotic game decisions being made by the staff? If anyone hired a CEO at several million and that person performed like Diaco has for two years, he would be long gone.

Challenge. Steve Jobs was brought back into Apple after their acquisition of NeXT in 1997, and he was named CEO later that year. It took until 2003 to see consistent positive EPS growth. People saw the progress and innovation, so they kept him around. I wonder where they'd be if they fired him sooner?

I see the progress. I was at Stony Brook last year thinking it couldn't get worse than how that game looked, and felt rock bottom hit while freezing my can off wearing a tshirt at the game vs. Army @ Yankee stadium. There's not been a game this year I felt like turning off before it was over because I wanted to cut my emotional losses for the day, and I've bought into Diaco's madness, and appreciate the fact he's owning up to errors, and even taking the heat for players (even though we all know we saw him yelling at Shirreffs after the 1st half throw to Newsome saying something along the lines of 'I told you to throw it out of the end zone if there was nothing open'). So if I'm on the Board, I'm keeping my CEO around and giving him the latitude he needs for 3 years to see him build.

 

[rich1122]

Somebody said it elsewhere. Players developing faster than coaches. 100% on that.

But, having said that. Diaco good for program. Good hire, as well as Assts.

 

[cohenzone]

Some threads are inane. This one is up there. Time management is an issue that is pretty correctable. Most of us agree that play calls have been questionable but the two 4th downs Sat where once we didn't kick and the other one we didn't has a pretty divergent view on this board, so obviously not everyone thinks he made the wrong call. Our short yardage game is worthless, but hopefully correctable as is the reluctance to use the short middle of the field in the passing game.

Is our QB effectively a freshman in terms of game experience? Yes. Are the QBs in a rotation like last year? No. Is the guy learning on the job? Yes. Are we watchable compared to last year and the three before that? Yes.
Does he have many of his own recruits on the field? No. Do we have any noticeable play-makers on either the defensive line or among the line backers? I don't see any. Can he bring some in? We'll see. The guy is clearly accepting responsibility publicly the way he wasn't last year, and for better or worse, is less of a cheer leader and sobered up. The wishing of the guy away or the assumption that he'll become good and the then leave, so wy not dump him now is off the wall. Frankly, after the last few years, I haven't a clue why anyone would think that winning enough to go bowling was any more than an outside hope. FWIW, they still have that chance, but next year is more the time to start passing judgment.

 

[Alum86]

This loss had a lot to do with coaching. Time expiring with a tackle on the 2 yard line and a timeout in your pocket is unacceptable. 3 points left on the table.

Not kicking a fld goal early in the first half left another 3 points on the table.

Kicking a 45+ yard field goal into the wind on 4th and inches?

Still firmly behind Diaco and staff... But this is a game the staff needs to learn from.

He blamed himself, not the OC. shirreffs said he made the error when the 1st half ended. I would have kicked the FG
then and there, our O and clock mgt being what it is, not putting it on the QB.
Bobby looked like he wanted to cry in the post game press conference. Kooky

 

[tduconn]

Its easy to criticize when things go wrong, and that's fine with me.

The failure of the team isn't based on one component only. It could have been a good play call.....bad execution. Bad play call, bad execution. Bad coaches.......good players. etc, etc.

I don't disagree with anyone with time management comments. Thirty seconds to get a play in after a previous play was executed or not executed frustrates me to no end when the snap always seems to come with less than 10 seconds to go. Observing UConn's competition it seems some snap the ball anywhere between 30 seconds down to tens seconds. When opposing teams execute or don't execute a play, it seems their coaches have the next play ready based on results of the previous play. UConn needs to hold a convention between the end of a play and the start of another play.

I don't think BD is a bad coach. Whether the team is able to execute or not execute the plays is a different issue. This is the first time in decades that I've seen any UConn coach send in plays that don't make it seem like a glorified high school program. It has the potential to be a very, very, exciting offense.....for the first time ever. We can always retreat to GDL wallpaper play book.

USF has a better talent level at this point. To hear discussions of their program on TV, they've beaten ACC, Big 12, and SEC teams for recruits.

A lot of UConn's competition for recruits, if there is any, includes the FCS programs. Maybe that is why UConn seems smaller and slower than the teams that have scorched them for huge gains.......and why they have trouble scoring in the red zone.

I firmly believe BD can eventually change all aspects of UConn's game....from coaching, play calling and recruits. It just won't happen as fast as many desire.

Lets be honest with ourselves........no big time football coach with a successful resume is coming to UConn. If/when BD leaves, the next coach will probably be from the FCS ranks.

 

[Pudge]

Its easy to criticize when things go wrong, and that's fine with me.

The failure of the team isn't based on one component only. It could have been a good play call.....bad execution. Bad play call, bad execution. Bad coaches..good players. etc, etc.

I don't disagree with anyone with time management comments. Thirty seconds to get a play in after a previous play was executed or not executed frustrates me to no end when the snap always seems to come with less than 10 seconds to go. Observing UConn's competition it seems some snap the ball anywhere between 30 seconds down to tens seconds. When opposing teams execute or don't execute a play, it seems their coaches have the next play ready based on results of the previous play. UConn needs to hold a convention between the end of a play and the start of another play.

I don't think BD is a bad coach. Whether the team is able to execute or not execute the plays is a different issue. This is the first time in decades that I've seen any UConn coach send in plays that don't make it seem like a glorified high school program. It has the potential to be a very, very, exciting offense.....for the first time ever. We can always retreat to GDL wallpaper play book.

USF has a better talent level at this point. To hear discussions of their program on TV, they've beaten ACC, Big 12, and SEC teams for recruits.

A lot of UConn's competition for recruits, if there is any, includes the FCS programs. Maybe that is why UConn seems smaller and slower than the teams that have scorched them for huge gains..and why they have trouble scoring in the red zone.

I firmly believe BD can eventually change all aspects of UConn's game....from coaching, play calling and recruits. It just won't happen as fast as many desire.

Lets be honest with ourselves...no big time football coach with a successful resume is coming to UConn. If/when BD leaves, the next coach will probably be from the FCS ranks.

You and others make this sound like science. It ain't.

WE ... the UConn Football Program ... are in a region of the country that gets no coverage from all these rivals/scout/247 services and USF is in a region that every high school gets scrutiny. 37 million people live in NE and NY. You can't tell me that there isn't raw football talent throughout.

I watched a kid recently. 6'6" 250 pounds. His mother is a friend. His father played DT at Auburn and then 4 years in the NFL. He can run a really fast 40; but, plays in a suburban Albany, NY high school that won't be seen by most coaches. Except maybe the FCS program at UAlbany. He didn't go to camps before his Junior year. He went to camps this June. What does this say? It is the typical story of lots of raw kids throughout the region, except this kid obviously had the genes. Nobody tracked him.

He now gets labeled as wondrous. A true-under-the-radar. (Committed to BC - btw) This story has been repeated often over the last 12 years of UConn's FBS. And, it is also what we saw with Syracuse recruiting. And, we heard dismissive remarks from the SUNJ/Rutgers fans; until they started to bring some of these kids in and were successful. Penn State has benefited over the years.

See: it is not that we are only competing with FCS schools. It is we have an entirely different process than Florida. The results speak for themselves actually. Kids that come through NY or NE do excel and do get to the NFL. It just is not as much of a breeding ground for them with early identification and lots of training.

 

[Excalibur]

So you disagree with that statement?

If this were a business analogy we'd be looking at a CEO executing a turnaround plan. Year 1 was the cost-cutting -- tear any and all excess out of the business. In year 2, he has grown the top and bottom lines (improved competency on offense and defense, and more wins). So no, he would not be fired.

 

[Dogged]

So you disagree with that statement?

I wouldn't fire Bob Diaco.
Donald Trump would fire Bob Diaco. "Bob, you're fired!"
Then, Donald is mean and impatient and it would probably be a case of hair envy anyway.

 

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[Chin Diesel]

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Defensive game plan was spot on. Adjusting the offensive game plan for Boyle was great. Deciding to kick both FG's was great.

Someone needs a kick in the head for 3-4 penalties for too many men in the huddle.

 

[superjohn]

Palatine never disappoints.