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Diaco is starting to rub me the wrong way

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weyuo said:
I don't really care if Diaco is in their faces or patting them on the back, just get the Huskies into a bowl game this year, get them in the mix for a conference championship next year and knocking on the door of the final top 25 the year after that. I think all these motivational speeches will calm down once he gets his nose dirty as a head coach. Right now he isn't just trying to sell the system to the players he's trying to sell the program to everyone. Once he has a track record of winning he won't have to sell as hard.
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What? You mean all this is not going to happen this year ? Fire his ass right now. :D
 
CodyJ. said:
Hold on one minute here. I never said I wanted a demoralizing coach. I've had that in my own experience and it sucked. I'm just sayin I want more "fire" and less "lovey dovey" stuff.
You're taking what I said completely the wrong way. I hope I'm more clear now
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I think the "fire" is there at practice with the players and the "lovey dovey" stuff is just for public consumption to show the parents and fans he cares - which I think he really does.
 
CodyJ. said:
Hold on one minute here. I never said I wanted a demoralizing coach. I've had that in my own experience and it sucked. I'm just sayin I want more "fire" and less "lovey dovey" stuff.
You're taking what I said completely the wrong way. I hope I'm more clear now
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How can you say Diaco hasn't shown any fire? To me, he has shown passion, enthusiasm, the drive to be great, the drive to want to win, all of this to me again embodies the fire that you may speak of. He's got more energy than 98% of the roster. If he was allowed to he'd probably suit up and hit the field still. I think your comments about wanting more fire etc., will soon be a total joke (to me they already are).
 
CodyJ. said:
"It’s not about winning and losing games. That mission and a job well done on that mission of cultivating and developing young men is what drives me personally and it has been for some time"

You want to help college kids become better people, that's cool. But what I want, as a season ticket holder and Alumnus, is wins. I want to see heads rolling. I want to see other teams come into our house and leave wishing they never came.

Make these young men into great people. Fine but I honestly dont care. They will grow up one way or another. We all have.

Show me winning football and save the hippie crap for your Kumbaya circles.
Give me some Mike Ditka fire, give me some Gruden stares. For the love of God, give us hard nosed football not tree hugging.

Just sayin.

--C
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shut up, please before you start to sound more stupid and ignorant than you already are
 
fgbrault said:
I suspect that coach Diaco believes that "cultivating and developing" young men leads to wins. I am sure he understands that if his team does not win he does not get to the chance to accomplish his mission.
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Save the cultivating young minds for the Yale - Harvard crowd. I want royal kicking.
 
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BNich said:
My doctor would say you're obese.
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In his defense, he's got like 14 cellphones in his pockets at that weight.

He is also lighter than what Cochrane played at last year.
 
Cody 1
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I think most BYers here too young to remember IDC.
 
whaler11 said:
In his defense, he's got like 14 cellphones in his pockets at that weight.

He is also lighter than what Cochrane played at last year.
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Comes in at 212 and plays more than 245 his RS soph year. Find that hard to believe. I'm probably wrong, but that just sounds crazy.
 
Obese is a strong word. Yeah I got some extra but I'd much rather be 245 than 175. Military had me at 205.
All this damn tailgating had gotten to me ;-)
 
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UConn9604 said:
Rats. I had 7:05 pm on August 29 in the "Most Premature Criticism of Our First-Year Head Coach" Pool.
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At least it's only a week before the start of the season. Do you remember the KO criticism before he was even hired?
 
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There was a reason why Diaco wanted the railings in the Burton re-painted in red, and why he says this stuff too- its to rebuild the program and the football culture here at UConn. Plain and simple.
 
I will fight all of you.

I am 6'6" and 290 pounds.
 
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Rocktheworld said:
And how many smartphones you got?
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I got smartphones to keep track of my other smartphones.

Sometimes AT&T calls me and says, "Hey, we're a little tight on bandwidth here....can you turn some of your phones off?!
 
Alum86 said:
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I think most BYers here too young to remember IDC.
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Did he make an IDC reference? Or just hippies? I used to like to check out the hallway paintings.
 
0 and 0 with possibilities of a bowl resurgence, but vampire away. What would it be without a few CT natives rationalizing whining in the pre, mid, or post season? Carry on vampires, suck the positive possibilities dry.
 
Colt house75 said:
Hey Cody,
Seems to me, IMHO, you might have a point if it's December and we're 2 & 9 going into the SMU....you need to back off until you see results. He is in this to WIN baby..... He has already started winning and that's in the locker room and weight room and personal accomplishments that each of the DEVELOPING PLAYERS are achieving. He is developing a winning program...ask the 18 players who have left already and by last count...the 14 new recruits, (so far) salivating to get into the program in 2015. So, being an alumnus like you...don't * on the program. This guy is going to go down as one of the great coaches of our time by the time all is said and done. Sit back and enjoy the process and ride. By the time he's done, it's going to be a beautiful cruise.
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Intelligent words of wisdom. You understand, how it works and that it's a process. You get it! Today people are spoiled. They want instant everything. They don't understand that this isn't a video game. It's about real people, kids finding themselves and growing into successful men and citizens.

Watch what coaches like Randy Edsal,MD and Butch Jones do after humble beginnings at their programs. From what I can see, Diaco has the potential to be another Chris Peterson!
 
We know about humble beginnings.

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I sort of get what Cody means, I think. Sometimes this peace love and grooviness stuff seems a little forced, and I never hear it from say Belicheck. Though Lombardi used some of it, (My players need to be committed to their God, their family and the Green Bay Packers, in that order). I think though it is mostly that we just want to get this party started. See how the new attitude translates or doesn't translate into play on the field. Diaco has a tough job I think. He is trying to rebuild not just the team but also community interest which was really slipping after the the wreckage of the Pasqualoni years. And I think he knows that deep down he won't be that good until he recruits better players. He's expanded the recruiting already into New Jersey again, back to Florida, where it had fallen off dangerously under P, back to Pennsylvania...It is tough to sell a program that you know has major flaws unless you're a Wall Street bank, so he has to sell the sizzle and hope people buy that until he can actually deliver top notch football in a couple of years.
 
CodyJ. said:
"It’s not about winning and losing games. That mission and a job well done on that mission of cultivating and developing young men is what drives me personally and it has been for some time"

You want to help college kids become better people, that's cool. But what I want, as a season ticket holder and Alumnus, is wins. I want to see heads rolling. I want to see other teams come into our house and leave wishing they never came.

Make these young men into great people. Fine but I honestly dont care. They will grow up one way or another. We all have.

Show me winning football and save the hippie crap for your Kumbaya circles.
Give me some Mike Ditka fire, give me some Gruden stares. For the love of God, give us hard nosed football not tree hugging.

Just sayin.

--C
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Cody: If you happen to be Catholic and go to confession. You are probably going to have to put this post on your list of sins. If not, I will give you your penance now.
1. Run up and down the bleachers at the Rent full speed 10 times
2. Write, I will never put Coach Bob Diaco down again 100 times
3. Read Dale Carnegie's book, How to win friends and influence people
4. Volunteer time at a local drug rehab center
and finally the punishment that will probably teach you the most
5. No beer at UCONN home games during the upcoming 2014 season.
You are restricted to bottled water only!
 
freescooter said:
I sort of get what Cody means, I think. Sometimes this peace love and grooviness stuff seems a little forced, and I never hear it from say Belicheck. Though Lombardi used some of it, (My players need to be committed to their God, their family and the Green Bay Packers, in that order).
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Pros and college are different, if you're not getting paid emotional fulfillment becomes even more important, but Belichek might be a better coach if he believed in love a bit more.
 
Confident Carl said:
Cody: If you happen to be Catholic and go to confession. You are probably going to have to put this post on your list of sins. If not, I will give you your penance now.
1. Run up and down the bleachers at the Rent full speed 10 times
2. Write, I will never put Coach Bob Diaco down again 100 times
3. Read Dale Carnegie's book, How to win friends and influence people
4. Volunteer time at a local drug rehab center
and finally the punishment that will probably teach you the most
5. No beer at UCONN home games during the upcoming 2014 season.
You are restricted to bottled water only!
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I think no. 5 may be unconstitutional.
 
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