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BlueandOG said:
Are you kidding? You think he is the reason why we don't have athletes like Houston? Do you think he's trying to recruit sub-standard players?
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Recruiting and eval is an art. Diaco appears to be no Rembrandt. Plenty of talent in PA, NY, NJ, Mass to go around. Dare I say Edsall (despite is low power O) could find quality.
 
Good post, but this is the Land of Steady Habits. He will be back next year. Got a good kicker in the wings and hopefully a punter. That's what we're good at, it's what we do.
RedPants Gets canned only if Thomas lines up as QB in the wildcat
 
freescooter said:
When you know the guy you have is not the guy it is always best to end it sooner rather than later. As touchdown says the longer you wait the longer it sets you back.
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That is so true!
 
Besides the fact that it won't happen, firing Diaco now as opposed to 1/1/17 wouldn't make any sense anyway- why cost yourself $1.5m?
 
BlueDogs said:
Recruiting and eval is an art. Diaco appears to be no Rembrandt. Plenty of talent in PA, NY, NJ, Mass to go around. Dare I say Edsall (despite is low power O) could find quality.
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45 percent of the Houston roster is from Houston, so the fans told me last night. And they all run the same offense in high school. Not at all the situation Diaco is dealing with.
 
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3 wins fired. Stays with 4 or more. But only thing that saves Verducci is a nine-game winning streak (includes AAC title game & bowl).
 
uconndogs said:
Congratulations. You've taken this board to another level with this thread. Care to guess the direction?
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The 'Alamo' stuff is a little over the top, but the succeeding points have merit, esp. likelihood of a bowl decreasing severely w/a loss to Cincy. IMO the post-shaming is a little "out of order" here. Also IMO, BD does need two more wins to stay.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
This team is not that bad, despite Diaco's GameDay incompetence, and the schedule is not that tough. UConn will pick up some more wins.
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I'm not convinced Cincy is anything special, I guess we'll know a lot after next week.
 
politics said:
The 'Alamo' stuff is a little over the top, but the succeeding points have merit, esp. likelihood of a bowl decreasing severely w/a loss to Cincy. IMO the post-shaming is a little "out of order" here. Also IMO, BD does need two more wins to stay.
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I apologize for coming across as an balloon knot But, from my perspective, the "fire the coach" posts are almost always reactions to losing and folks posting out of anger and frustration. Half the college football fans in America want their coach fired every weekend - the half on the losing side of scores. I don't know if Diaco is the long-term answer, but I do know that constant rants by the fan base don't accomplish much.

You are correct, another loss diminishes our chances to get bowl eligible. Diaco is not getting canned after this season, however. Believe all you want that he is a goner, but he's not going anywhere.
 
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TRest said:
I'm not convinced Cincy is anything special, I guess we'll know a lot after next week.
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Agree. Cincy at home is winnable. I actually saw some positives against Houston. BS easily left 14 points on the field with easy missed throws and I thought the OLine did a respectable job against one of the better front seven in college football. We're starting to get some disruptive play at LB from Joseph and Diggs.
 
If we don't go bowling he should be gone. There's no other way around that. The guy is 10-20 here and never had a winning season. The fact he has huge issues coaching should help this decision.

I don't care if he inherited a dumpster fire and went 2-10. We're at Year 3 still making the same mistakes we did in 2014 and expecting different results. At some point you can't say, "we don't have an offensive line." Its pretty clear the coaching in game and in practice is holding these kids back. Lets not even talk about the play calling - Diaco makes worse decisions than Pasqualoni.
 
shizzle787 said:
The Cincy game is basically for a bowl. If we don't get to a bowl, he's done. Cincy is his alamo.
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I don't know if that is a good analogy. The Texans lost the battle at the Alamo and all of them were slaughtered, but their sacrifice allowed other Texans to regroup and win the war.

So unless you think Cincy is an ovetwhelming force that will destroy UConn and somehow that will make you better, it just doesn't work
 
NTXCoog said:
I don't know if that is a good analogy. The Texans lost the battle at the Alamo and all of them were slaughtered, but their sacrifice allowed other Texans to regroup and win the war.

So unless you think Cincy is an ovetwhelming force that will destroy UConn and somehow that will make you better, it just doesn't work
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Technically they were Texians.
 
NTXCoog said:
I don't know if that is a good analogy. The Texans lost the battle at the Alamo and all of them were slaughtered, but their sacrifice allowed other Texans to regroup and win the war.

So unless you think Cincy is an ovetwhelming force that will destroy UConn and somehow that will make you better, it just doesn't work
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Don't poke holes in it. Just let it slide.
 
Benedict is from the SEC. the SEC plays wide open football. Do you think he could be liking what this team looks like? i would hope that he hs a southern coach in mind if he did decide to make a change, but I think Diaco needs a chance to see what he can do when his recruits are more seasoned. he is working off of PP's recruits still.
 
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We have something the SEC teams covet but we never use it. An awesome field goal kicker. I hope Diaco apologizes to Bobby Puyol after every game. Benedict probably can't comprehend that.
 
Last seasons team wasn't as good as their record indicated and as a result it inflated expectations. The turnover differential has swung 180 degrees which tends to amplify problems. If Diaco can get this team to six wins, it will constitute progress, and there is no way, under that scenario, that he is going anywhere. It would take a complete meltdown for him to lose his job, IMO.

You can't hire a guy with no coaching experience - with the acknowledgement that there will be growing pains and that a short-term fix is not plausible - and fire him after three years. Not when you're UConn, not even when you're fighting for your life in CR.

The fact that he seems completely detached from reality scares me, but that wouldn't put him in uncharted territory as a football coach.
 
noeynox said:
Isn't the buyout something stupid?

Barring a total caving in of the season, like 2 and 10, he's coming back.

He will have zero excuses next year. Hope we can grind toward bowl contention this year.
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If we want to be serious about football and continue as a big boy sports school Diaco doesn't come back next year. Not exactly sure where the money will come from but anymore of the Diaco experiment and we are totally farcked.
 
superjohn said:
If we want to be serious about football and continue as a big boy sports school Diaco doesn't come back next year. Not exactly sure where the money will come from but anymore of the Diaco experiment and we are totally farcked.
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I think the bowl game last year bought him time. Not excited by his passive approach on both sides of the ball.

And if you watched Dino Babers Coach the last 3 minutes of the 1st half today it only drove home further how deficient Bob is at this, but I believe he gets another year to see what he could do with more of his recruits.
 
uconndogs said:
I apologize for coming across as an But, from my perspective, the "fire the coach" posts are almost always reactions to losing and folks posting out of anger and frustration. Half the college football fans in America want their coach fired every weekend - the half on the losing side of scores. I don't know if Diaco is the long-term answer, but I do know that constant rants by the fan base don't accomplish much.

You are correct, another loss diminishes our chances to get bowl eligible. Diaco is not getting canned after this season, however. Believe all you want that he is a goner, but he's not going anywhere.
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It isn't shaming. It's a reasoned response based on observing what has occurred and is occurring. I'd much rather see Diaco be a great success. That's not in the cards as we know them. You'd think we learn after the last debacle and recognize the signs. The most basic is little noticeable improvement by the third year. Great coaches can noticeably turn programs in one year and continue year over year with large improvements. We don't have the time to let Diaco flounder and suffer further stagnation. Hoping and praying to find a way to steal 6 wins is not what great programs are built on.
 
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We have 7 games left and the Diaco I saw in a postgame interview looked like he knows he has to get his act together. He has to make decisions that will right the ship. There is no hiding behind building, foundations, nutrition, batman etc. He has this year and next but if the ship isn't righted he will be back to being a DC and the way we have been playing D that may be a stretch. We will see if he is the happy cheerleader on the sideline or if he will start demanding more from all involved.
 
Alum86 said:
Good post, but this is the Land of Steady Habits. He will be back next year. Got a good kicker in the wings and hopefully a punter. That's what we're good at, it's what we do.
RedPants Gets canned only if Thomas lines up as QB in the wildcat
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Losing gets to be a habit.
 
The funny thing is - if we didn't give him a huge buyout the board would be screaming about how "UCONN is small time and doesn't take football seriously"...

Bottom line - win and all is forgiven, lose and all decisions are wrong.
 
BlueandOG said:
Are you kidding? You think he is the reason why we don't have athletes like Houston? Do you think he's trying to recruit sub-standard players?
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I think that with the boring, ultra conservative offense (and defense & punt return teams) that Bobby-Boy lives by, UConn will never recruit Houston type athletes. He will never recruit at that level because HE offers them nothing in return in terms of playing in an exciting program.
 
TouchdownHusky said:
I think that with the boring, ultra conservative offense (and defense & punt return teams) that Bobby-Boy lives by, UConn will never recruit Houston type athletes. He will never recruit at that level because HE offers them nothing in return in terms of playing in an exciting program.
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This is so true. We thought we had a hotshot young coach with fresh ideas and we get Pasqualoni Light.
RedPants is so lost on O. Lost.
 
Alum86 said:
This is so true. We thought we had a hotshot young coach with fresh ideas and we get Pasqualoni Light.
RedPants is so lost on O. Lost.
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Pasqualoni Light!!!! LMAO. Great soubriquet.
 
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