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I'd offer both Narduzzi and Lembo $2M/yr range and the first one to accept, wins our job. UCONN is a much better job than Wake.
 
Skiblets said:
Dez has zero credibility. Has he ever come out and said he was wrong about the lack of talent card he kept playing?
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He lost credibility with me when he yucked it up with Michigan's press about how they were going to blow UCONN away, predicting a 45-10 win for the wolverines. Even if potentially true at the time, it was just bad form for a UCONN beat reporter. It looks like the Detroit Free Press is now charging for the article but you can probably search by headline via chache.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SNWNG6xi40EJ:www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/C4/20130920/SPORTS06/309200071/ &cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

http://www.freep.com/article/20130920/SPORTS06/309200071/michigan-football-uconn
 
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Dooley said:
I'd offer both Narduzzi and Lembo $2M/yr range and the first one to accept, wins our job. UCONN is a much better job than Wake.
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I agree with the second part of your post but the first part makes zero sense.

I've seen this approach in recruiting and there it has some validity but if the recruit who blinked first ends up being less than what was expected having him on the roster can still provide some value and more importantly, you have a chance to correct this error in the next recruiting class. We cannot play games with this hire. We need to be as thorough and deliberate as possible. We cannot chose candidate A over candidate B just because once said yes quicker.
 
UConn Dan said:
Saw that... I was just thinking it was oddly placed and longish within the coaching update write-up. And most writers/blogger/reporters would have just said UConn has been vying for an ACC and B1G invite... maybe he knows something? Maybe Tim F. from the Daily Campus also spoke to someone who knows something?

Well anyway, back to Narduzzi, Lembo, Clawson, Hermann, Diaco, Weist, Saban...
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Saban... lol
 
Skiblets said:
Dez has zero credibility. Has he ever come out and said he was wrong about the lack of talent card he kept playing?
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Des is going to have to earn his stripes as a beat reporter with the new staff. His SoUrces at the school are gone.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Des is going to have to earn his stripes as a beat reporter with the new staff. His SoUrces at the school are gone.
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He still meets up with PeePee and Ole Gray George at McDonalds on RT 5 in South Windsor on Sunday mornings. They fill him in on happenings in the college landscape.

What's good?
 
Chin Diesel said:
Des is going to have to earn his stripes as a beat reporter with the new staff. His SoUrces at the school are gone.
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If we hire Narduzzi, we can let him know Dez is pro-Syracuse!
 
FfldCntyFan said:
I agree with the second part of your post but the first part makes zero sense.

I've seen this approach in recruiting and there it has some validity but if the recruit who blinked first ends up being less than what was expected having him on the roster can still provide some value and more importantly, you have a chance to correct this error in the next recruiting class. We cannot play games with this hire. We need to be as thorough and deliberate as possible. We cannot chose candidate A over candidate B just because once said yes quicker.
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Oh, I agree. I was speaking tongue in cheek. Getting cheeky after spending all day on this Twitter thing searching UCONN news. I'm getting punchy because I think we are up next!
 
It's a mute point now but I don't remember seeing anything about why Clawson was never "in the mix" for UConn? Just seems a little odd unless some insiders knew he was Wake's #1 choice and wanted to be there.
 
minidarren said:
He still meets up with PeePee and Ole Gray George at McDonalds on RT 5 in South Windsor on Sunday mornings. They fill him in on happenings in the college landscape.

What's good?
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Small coffees, hot cakes and mc breakfast burritos all around. lol
 
SonsOfNutmeg said:
Saban... lol
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you're the first to catch that Easter egg. You win the boneyard today. Hahs
 
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SonsOfNutmeg said:
Small coffees, hot cakes and mc breakfast burritos all around. lol
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Hell no. Always large coffees that he brings home with him in the Buick Century. Mrs PeePee microwaves the left over coffee on Monday morning while he watches reruns of the golden girls. Tuesday's are bridge lessons at the senior center followed by lunch at the Red Onion.
 
Have the Connecticut High School Football Coaches Association weighed in yet with their verdict?

I hear it's a good idea to factor in the opinion of PE teachers in the choosing of a Division 1 head football coach.
 
If Hermann and Diaco are really on WM's list, why no mention anywhere of WM courtesy calls to Meyer and Kelly like to Dantonio? Maybe WM is already down to his short list of finalists?
 
Well at least Clawson is off the list now. Good for Wake, they went out and knew UConn was breathing down their neck with selecting a head coach too and got their man. This will certianly take some pressure off of Warde to make the right decision. WM needs to interview Narduzzi, Tom Herman, Bob Diaco, and potentially Rob Ambose just for good measure. In the end its going to be Narduzzi's job to turn down. Although my stock in Herman is rising the more I read about him, and Diaco has been a HC in waiting now for a few years. I don't know that he'd accept the job IMO. As much as I love this program, there is a lot of work to do and a lot of making up for the last 3 years of complete and udder failure to make good on by our next head coach. Who ever accepts needs to make this their program 100% and get the fans in this state energized and engaged again in UConn and the concept of "big boy" football in Connecticut... and that's all accomplished by winning. The pieces are all here, we just need the man to put them all (back) together.
 
cttxus said:
If Hermann and Diaco are really on WM's list, why no mention anywhere of WM courtesy calls to Meyer and Kelly like to Dantonio? Maybe WM is already down to his short list of finalists?
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We only know of his call to MSU because Dantonio commented about it. Warde is VERY close to tOSU AD Kevin Smith...and ND may chose to not announce it like MSU did.
 
SonsOfNutmeg said:
Well at least Clawson is off the list now. Good for Wake, they went out and knew UConn was breathing down their neck with selecting a head coach too and got their man. This will certianly take some pressure off of Warde to make the right decision. WM needs to interview Narduzzi, Tom Herman, Bob Diaco, and potentially Rob Ambose just for good measure. In the end its going to be Narduzzi's job to turn down. Although my stock in Herman is rising the more I read about him, and Diaco has been a HC in waiting now for a few years. I don't know that he'd accept the job IMO. As much as I love this program, there is a lot of work to do and a lot of making up for the last 3 years of complete and udder failure to make good on by our next head coach. Who ever accepts needs to make this their program 100% and get the fans in this state energized and engaged again in UConn and the concept of "big boy" football in Connecticut... and that's all accomplished by winning. The pieces are all here, we just need the man to put them all (back) together.
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At this point Ambrose may be the "I'll interview him if Narduzzi, Diaco and Herman all say no"..and even then just hire Lembo.
 
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So we have cttxus asking about Diaco / Herman after it came up earlier in the thread and then Roussel tweets about surprising news. Hmmmm....
 
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That's like rationaling letting career alcohoilcs deside who the Head Brewmast
ASweet3781 said:
Have the Connecticut High School Football Coaches Association weighed in yet with their verdict?

I hear it's a good idea to factor in the opinion of PE teachers in the choosing of a Division 1 head football coach.
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tcf15 said:
Pete Roussel‏@coachingsearch
Hearing some surprising news about the UConn search. Trying to get more confirmation...
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Its gotta be that Warde is interviewing Jim Tressel!!! :p
 
sportsart said:
WTF. I guess I can buy a new F5 button and lack of sleep never killed anyone.
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He's just fawking with you guys.
 
I'm not going to sleep until there's announcement...so past the whiskey it's going to be a long week
 
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