Possible consideration: In a financially challenged athletic department, perhaps accessing significant dinero to jettison Wacko Diaco was different than sending Oystahs Ollie on his way at lesser cost.
The only question I would ask is that if you have a more than capable QB in Steven Krajewski why would you burn Tyler Phommachanh’s redshirt in a season that is 0-4?
Because the program is on life support and you have to play the players now that give you the best chance to win. Because QB is a high turnover position and the quarterbacks you have today probably won't be here for their full eligibility...so why protect their redshirt.
They are called hacks. Job 1 for the hack is staying employed. A common ploy is to run the most experienced players off while stating you "only want players that want to be here" all the time pleading for patience. We need to hire someone who sees the job as a stepping stone. Someone who will care about wins more than burrowing in.
I'm not defending or agreeing with the premise that RE2.0 was forced on AD David Benedict, but I wanted to note that everything you're saying AD David Benedict did is what he would/should do regardless if he wanted the hire or not. Had he not done so, the conspiracy theory crowd would have had a field day.ABSOLUTELY NO ATTACK on you personally.
I also like DB but please do supply a link showing how he hired RE against his better judgement. Nowhere have I ever read the hire was forced on him. He praised getting Randy back to the max. Then when things were in doubt a few years later gave him just as much praise and support.
To my original point please show something showing DB was reluctant to hiring Randy. He was all in on everything I had read and smiling ear to ear as he introduced him at the introduction party. I get AD's are salesmen but most believe in the product they are selling. Inquiring minds want to know.
True, I was talking to some of the Uconn FB alum, right after RE came back. The way they put it was after Diaco, "they were happy to have a grown-up in charge".
If Coach Spanos gets some wins, he should get a serious look as permanent head coach for at least another season. Maybe we have the answer right in front of us.
This will be unpopular with many here, but I agree. If he is winning and making the team better, you have to take him seriously. It goes without saying, he’s doing a great job right now.
Yeah it's my understanding that we needed to get rid of Diaco, and to do so the buyout had to be paid out ASAP. So DB went to the donor(s) and said look guys what do we need to do to get that done. One of the conditions was essentially hire Randy.
You ain't kiddin !!! .......and it ain't just us Husky fans alone in that thought, for years
I essentially heard the same thing, that DB had to hire Randy even if he didn’t want to. Several people in the athletic department and others associated with the football team, did not want to rehire the guy that left on a different plane after the Fiesta Bowl and flew straight to Maryland.
Pretty easy to give an extension with no remaining buyout to pay.
Completely agree. Could have gave him a lifetime contract for all I care, as long as the buyout wasn't extended.
It would certainly explain why no one local has ever really given Dave crap over the hire.
That was the canary in the coal mine. Never mind not embracing them, he all but called them losers. What a washed-up hack.
I viewed Edsall's pursuit of Dunn and Dunn's desperation to run away to the Jets as the canary for me. Dunn was handed the OC title and named heir apparently and he runs? Only one good reason to run and I think we know that reason now. And then Edsall searches high and low and all he can come up with is to elevate his nice guy OL lifer?
