Coaching hires ranked

[ShakyTheMohel]

They gave the Candle hire a B. Similar thoughts about how he recruits well but the win totals don’t reflect the recruiting rankings.

We shall see.

Ranking the FBS coaching hires: How all 30 moves grade out

The coaching changes came at a dizzying clip. Which schools did the best -- and worst -- jobs?

www.espn.com

 

[Scrutineer]

Who is this Connelly guy? Does he know anything? If he does, it sounds like Toledo got a great replacement for Candle. Morris seems to be following the Chesney formula and, if so, may not be there long before some P4 steals him.
He puts down Candle as if he didn't accomplish much. Meanwhile Candle won the MAC twice and had great success putting players in the NFL.
I'd take winning with great players as something to aspire to as long as he doesn't have "red pants" moments managing the games.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

Who is this Connelly guy? Does he know anything? If he does, it sounds like Toledo got a great replacement for Candle. Morris seems to be following the Chesney formula and, if so, may not be there long before some P4 steals him.
He puts down Candle as if he didn't accomplish much. Meanwhile Candle won the MAC twice and had great success putting players in the NFL.
I'd take winning with great players as something to aspire to as long as he doesn't have "red pants" moments managing the games.

I would love to know more specfics about why they think Candle underachieved. Was it game prep…game management..offensive of defensive scheme…leadership?

 

[How Sway?!]

Who is this Connelly guy? Does he know anything? If he does, it sounds like Toledo got a great replacement for Candle. Morris seems to be following the Chesney formula and, if so, may not be there long before some P4 steals him.
He puts down Candle as if he didn't accomplish much. Meanwhile Candle won the MAC twice and had great success putting players in the NFL.
I'd take winning with great players as something to aspire to as long as he doesn't have "red pants" moments managing the games.

Connelly is one of the best cfb guys out there imo. He's the one that created SP+ and also spent a lot of time at Football Outsiders. I wouldn't put too much stock on his grade considering there's no way he could have put too much thought into 30 coaching hires. However, the Candle description is stuff that a lot of Toledo fans were saying about his tenure there.

 

[Jimdish255]

I would love to know more specfics about why they think Candle underachieved. Was it game prep…game management..offensive of defensive scheme…leadership?

It's an interesting read but grain of salt to most of this. I'll best half of these evaluations are based on message board opinions and backfilled with selective statistics. No way were they (ESPN) going to grade us higher than Toledo or CSU. Take a look at Bill's 2025 ACC Preview if you want to know how much he knows.

 

[ZooCougar]

They gave the Candle hire a B. Similar thoughts about how he recruits well but the win totals don’t reflect the recruiting rankings.

We shall see.

Ranking the FBS coaching hires: How all 30 moves grade out

The coaching changes came at a dizzying clip. Which schools did the best -- and worst -- jobs?

www.espn.com

My thought is that ESPN doesn’t do sports anymore.

 

[Kolumbo]

while perusing the Toledo message boards when Candle was first hired I noticed some posters stated that Candle underachieved. I'm not sure I buy it. Toledo is probably one of the strongest MAC programs but I'm sure the top of the conference was fairly equal

plus many couldn't understand why a coach would leave Toledo for UConn, so their perception was obviously skewed like Mrs Riley without glasses

 

[gioff2323]

IMHO, he’s what we need

A serious guy to lead a program where many still question how serious where we are.

A winner when we need to show sustained winning.

A developer of talent where I felt we became overly reliant on the portal.

A guy committed to building and maintaining programs. We’ve seen too many coaches in the time he spent at Toledo. We need someone who is fully committed to the school and the program and not looking to get back home.

 

[FightOnCT]

A B hire is perfectly fine for us, it was a reasonable choice that wasn’t a media breaker, but that’s about as good as you can expect with UConn. The fact we were able to get a great recruiter with FBS experience and success is the value.

 

[UConnJim]

Here are some of ESPN's grades for the year Jim Mora was hired:

Jim Mora UConn B+
Dan Lanning Oregon B
Joey McGuire Texas Tech B
Jerry Kill New Mexico St. B
Brent Pry Virginia Tech B+
Don Brown UMass A-
Billy Napier Florida A-
Jay Norvell Colorado St. A

In other words, don't worry about ESPN's coaching hire grades.

 

[AllHusky]

Yard excels at research! Nice job UConnJim

 

[SportsFan88]

Here are some of ESPN's grades for the year Jim Mora was hired:

Jim Mora UConn B+
Dan Lanning Oregon B
Joey McGuire Texas Tech B
Jerry Kill New Mexico St. B
Brent Pry Virginia Tech B+
Don Brown UMass A-
Billy Napier Florida A-
Jay Norvell Colorado St. A

In other words, don't worry about ESPN's coaching hire grades.

All the dudes who got B’s should be A’s and all the A’s should be D’s or F’s LOL