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[Whale22]

Might have missed someone else post it. I recall in years past this would provide some excitement on the board. Hope I'm wrong, but I think this reflects current sentiment for the season. Too bad UConn Football wasn't a stock. The lack of excitement would be nice contra-indicator.

http://cfn.scout.com/2/1306930.html

 

[bmayuc]

bad link...

 

[Chin Diesel]

bad link...

You have to be a subscriber to scout to see the article. Otherwise link is jibberish.

 

[Jax Husky]

http://cfn.scout.com/2/1306930.html

need the ".scout" part in there. For some reason, the link function here won't allow it. Go to cfn.scout.com. It is on the front page. Do not have to be a subscriber.

Edit again: I think the auto editing team from the Boneyard is a little overzealous. I otherwise cannot figure out why I cannot put "cfndotscoutdotcom"

 

[minidarren]

Glad that word mark has really taken hold. CFN Preview 2013 - Connecticut Huskies

 

[Pudge]

1. When UConn signed Pasqualoni two year ago, he appeared to be an odd choice to succeed wildly successful Randy Edsall. Still does.

2. The Huskies have squandered the goodwill and the budding reputation as an up-and-comer that they’d methodically corralled under Edsall. Two subpar years at a basketball school will have that effect on a football program.

Nothing sums up my position on my beloved UConn football team than those two phrases. I really hope we are going to see something good ... but I am not holding my breath.

 

[Palatine]

1. When UConn signed Pasqualoni two year ago, he appeared to be an odd choice to succeed wildly successful Randy Edsall. Still does.

2. The Huskies have squandered the goodwill and the budding reputation as an up-and-comer that they’d methodically corralled under Edsall. Two subpar years at a basketball school will have that effect on a football program.

Nothing sums up my position on my beloved UConn football team than those two phrases. I really hope we are going to see something good ... but I am not holding my breath.

I would love to meet the wildly successful Randy Edsall. Wonder if he is related to guy who coached here at UConn.

 

[uconndogs]

1. When UConn signed Pasqualoni two year ago, he appeared to be an odd choice to succeed wildly successful Randy Edsall. Still does.

2. The Huskies have squandered the goodwill and the budding reputation as an up-and-comer that they’d methodically corralled under Edsall. Two subpar years at a basketball school will have that effect on a football program.

Nothing sums up my position on my beloved UConn football team than those two phrases. I really hope we are going to see something good ... but I am not holding my breath.

No, I have it on good account from any number of posters on this board (and you know who you are), that anything would be better than Edsall. He couldn't recruit and his offenses sucked. We only made subpar bowls and the the BCS bowl was a fluke.

I am holding my breath too. Because if this season is a disaster, and that by no means is out of the realm of possibility, we could be in for a long slog to get back to the sucky seasons we had under Edsall.

 

[Palatine]

No, I have it on good account from any number of posters on this board (and you know who you are), that anything would be better than Edsall. He couldn't recruit and his offenses sucked. We only made subpar bowls and the the BCS bowl was a fluke.

I am holding my breath too. Because if this season is a disaster, and that by no means is out of the realm of possibility, we could be in for a long slog to get back to the sucky seasons we had under Edsall.

If Pasqualoni stinks, that doesn't make Edsall better than the average coach he was at UConn.

 

[Chin Diesel]

If Pasqualoni stinks, that doesn't make Edsall better than the average coach he was at UConn.

Let's scurry down this rabbit hole again.

For the record, Edsall's teams won at least 8 games each of his last four seasons at Uconn. No, he didn't win every game. And yes there were games that it was obvious halfway through the first quarter that Uconn would lose. But, as the great philosopher the Tuna, Bill Parcells said, you are what your record is.

There isn't a fan on this board that would be ticked off if we had two more consecutive 8 win seasons rather than two 5-7 seasons.

 

[Chin Diesel]

1. When UConn signed Pasqualoni two year ago, he appeared to be an odd choice to succeed wildly successful Randy Edsall. Still does.

2. The Huskies have squandered the goodwill and the budding reputation as an up-and-comer that they’d methodically corralled under Edsall. Two subpar years at a basketball school will have that effect on a football program.

Nothing sums up my position on my beloved UConn football team than those two phrases. I really hope we are going to see something good ... but I am not holding my breath.

Wish there was an "Agree" button to go with the "Like" button. I don't like what you wrote, but I agree with it.

 

[Chin Diesel]

And why are we 10+ posts in to this thread and no one has mentioned that they list WR Michael Smith as the best pro prospect on offense?

 

[Pudge]

Let me try to parse this ...

Palatine ... I disagree. Edsall was successful.

Edsall did a PHENOMENAL job of Program Building. He got us from Zero to the 25 yard line ... with lots of good things along the way. I'd agree IF you wanted more & found that Edsall was not going to get us there. He looked to be very Vanilla and not really advancing our Program to be the consistent BE leader. But ... Pasqualoni? I think he HAS regenerated OUR Connecticut ties; we seem (with not great evidence yet) to be recruiting better here and across the board. But, I think I am most disheartened by the regression of things I loved (the RBs and our Rush game) and the loss of the Don Brown attitude. I am hopeful ...

 

[BlueDogs]

Was dissatisfied with RE because of the anemic offensive progress and recruiting and wondered if you could take us to the next level. In some respects this view was driven by the very success RE managed to create. Then comes P who took us to a new level alright...in the wrong direction. RE looks a lot better to me in hindsight given what a disaster P has been. This is year 3 and I hope that it was just a miserable transition, but the indicator based on year 2 was not encouraging. Its inconceivable just how bad our offense was, and more so by P's stubborn adherence to a system that was failing. At least with RE it always seemed we got better over the season. I am hard pressed to say that with P in either season. The die is cast and there is no change coming. Lets hope things roll our way.

 

[Doggie Style]

Let's scurry down this rabbit hole again.

For the record, Edsall's teams won at least 8 games each of his last four seasons at Uconn. No, he didn't win every game. And yes there were games that it was obvious halfway through the first quarter that Uconn would lose. But, as the great philosopher the Tuna, Bill Parcells said, you are what your record is.



There isn't a fan on this board that would be ticked off if we had two more consecutive 8 win seasons rather than two 5-7 seasons.

Chin- rule #1 : stay out of the GD rabbit hole! Rule # 2: I'll get back to you on that....

 

[Palatine]

Let me try to parse this ...

Palatine ... I disagree. Edsall was successful.

Edsall did a PHENOMENAL job of Program Building. He got us from Zero to the 25 yard line ... with lots of good things along the way. I'd agree IF you wanted more & found that Edsall was not going to get us there. He looked to be very Vanilla and not really advancing our Program to be the consistent BE leader. But ... Pasqualoni? I think he HAS regenerated OUR Connecticut ties; we seem (with not great evidence yet) to be recruiting better here and across the board. But, I think I am most disheartened by the regression of things I loved (the RBs and our Rush game) and the loss of the Don Brown attitude. I am hopeful ...

I agree with most of the points in your point.

I agree that Edsall was successful (not wildly so). He did accomplish his main goal of getting his dream job at Maryland. The folks at Maryland didn't view him as wildly successful either as there were great reservations about his hiring.

Edsall was a brilliant evaluator of high school talent. This gave him the ability to build the program. That and the many assets that were given to him along the way, like the Burton.

The most amazing thing about Pasqualoni is that he turned out to be more vanilla and a worse game day coach than Edsall. Even so, a touchdown here or a dropped INT there and he pretty much would have the same record.

 

[uconndogs]

If Pasqualoni stinks, that doesn't make Edsall better than the average coach he was at UConn.

He took an D1AA program to a BCS conference championship and a BCS bowl in a little over 10 years. If that's your definition of average then so be it. It's not mine.

I will admit that I think he's been an absolute bullet head at Maryland (which is his trait) and it may end up costing him his job there. But, the job he did here was terrific imo.

 

[Pudge]

Edsall did have a way of looking at an area we were deficient one year ... and working like a dog to fix it. We did get better on the DLine some years in this; we got better on Special Teams with this; and finally, the year he jumped into the Secondary ... we seem to suddenly have lots of good talent there. And ... it's clearly coaching up kids.

 

[Jax Husky]

Let me try to parse this ...

Palatine ... I disagree. Edsall was successful.

Edsall did a PHENOMENAL job of Program Building. He got us from Zero to the 25 yard line ... with lots of good things along the way. I'd agree IF you wanted more & found that Edsall was not going to get us there. He looked to be very Vanilla and not really advancing our Program to be the consistent BE leader. But ... Pasqualoni? I think he HAS regenerated OUR Connecticut ties; we seem (with not great evidence yet) to be recruiting better here and across the board. But, I think I am most disheartened by the regression of things I loved (the RBs and our Rush game) and the loss of the Don Brown attitude. I am hopeful ...

Edsall got us from the goal line to just past the 50, CPP has taken consecutive sacks. We are back on our own 35 now.

 

[Goofus]

I thought Edsall did a great job while here. The one negative I feel about him is his recruiting the last two years. A couple gems, but overall I think our young players are more talented than our current seniors. We're reaping the harvest of Edsall's last two years of recruiting. Its also unfortunate that our coaching change came after our BCS bowl berth. I would have loved to see how Edsall would have used that to boost recruiting.

 

[CL82]

HCPP may redeem himself somewhat this season so long as he keeps his bromance with GDL in check. If not, we may look back on his era as a necessary evil to bring the CT HS coaches back into the fold.

I am cautiously optimistic about our chances this year. TJ may be the difference maker.

 

[SubbaBub]

Let's scurry down this rabbit hole again.

For the record, Edsall's teams won at least 8 games each of his last four seasons at Uconn. No, he didn't win every game. And yes there were games that it was obvious halfway through the first quarter that Uconn would lose. But, as the great philosopher the Tuna, Bill Parcells said, you are what your record is.

There isn't a fan on this board that would be ticked off if we had two more consecutive 8 win seasons rather than two 5-7 seasons.

I can't image what the state of the program would be if we were coming off two straight 8 win seasons under PP. I just seems too distant a thought to comprehend.

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[junglehusky]

Well, I don't know for sure but I'd guess there would still be some complaints if PP had back to back 8 win seasons... because you can always say we should have had 9 or more.

Anyway, I think it's not mutually exclusive that RE was a good program builder and also stagnated somewhat in in his last couple of years at UConn. It's also not mutually exclusive that he did a good job of coaching up 2 star kids to being NFL picks and also didn't nourish ties to some CT HS coaches as well as he could have, resulting in missing out on some 3-4 star kids. We have heard he was frustrated with getting some kids qualified so maybe some of those issues were traceable to Hathaway or Hogan.

 

[Srqhusky]

I don't understand coaching up. The kids choose to train and get better and work hard. Maybe the coach selects those characteristics buy all our kids are in great shape and blow the combine away. That comes from their hard work

 

[CTMike]

Edsall did have a way of looking at an area we were deficient one year ... and working like a dog to fix it. We did get better on the DLine some years in this; we got better on Special Teams with this; and finally, the year he jumped into the Secondary ... we seem to suddenly have lots of good talent there. And ... it's clearly coaching up kids.

The only problem I have with this is that he was pretty negligent at o-line and qb before his departure.