There have been 4 coaches since finishing above .500.
You telling me every single coach the problem?
I wound say the biggest issue is they need a power conference to compete as a power conference team.
Same thing happened to hoops in the AAC. They didn’t recruit while there. They got into big east, they recruited.
UConn is going to do well in its non power conference portion of schedule. The chasm between these power teams and the g5 are huge. The gap is accelerating.
The team isn’t going g to be able to compete until they are on a level playing. Field.
It really looked like UConn was playing a team from higher division.
Uh yeah. The coaches ARE potentially the problem. Since Edsall round 1.
Not exactly coaches that built anything after or were ascending with experience. Lets go through them.
-Pasqualoni was about 10 years too late. Well into his 60's, he was out of coaching essentially for 7 years after running the "Cuse into the ground. The Burton family hated the hiring so much they pulled all there $$. Looks like they were correct in that assessment of PP. Hes bounced around not landing in one place more than a year or so ever since and is now in the UFL.
-Bob Diaco was a decent hire and was making waves in college football world but had not been a DC more than 3 years and had VERY little experience and this was his first HC job. He has flamed out and bounced around everywhere and is now no longer tasked as a DC anymore anywhere. LB coach which is a major step down and only because he has a relationship with Brian Kelly at LSU-saw him on TV yesterday getting his @ss chewed out.
- Randy Round 2 was much like PP. A coach that had flamed out and made his $$ and was essentially no longer fully invested. I appreciate what Randy round 1 did for the football program and I will always say his job was one of the best I've seen in college from where he took them to where he ended up. I wish he had never left, but he did. But you could see Randy round 2 didn't have the fire that Randy round 1 had almost from the get go. He had made his $$ and was now 60 and over. Seemed like a desperate hire to spark something that was long gone with a coach thinking more about retiring than rebuilding a program again.
-Which brings us to present day Mora. Same kind of thing, older coach, flamed out elsewhere (at a bigger school) and now trying his hand at rebuilding a program at over age 60s+ which is when most are winding down/retiring. Again not saying he cant be the answer but so far its not looking so hot. I hope I'm wrong.
So essentially we seem to be hiring guys who may be past there prime and moving toward retirement age or guys who are so green they have never been an HC before. Where's the Dan Hurley type guys for the football program? I'm not saying a coach as good as Hurley (obviously that's super rare) but a demographic resume LIKE Hurley.....you know, that mid to late 40's guy whos been an HC 3-5+ more years and is still ascending, but not thinking of retiring but not super green with no experience either? That guy, those guys not interested in UConn the last 15 years?
