Diaco on Jim Rome Show Today @ 2PM | Page 4 | The Boneyard

Diaco on Jim Rome Show Today @ 2PM

Status
Not open for further replies.
PAGS said:
Also....anyone going to the Basketball game tonight feel like using your smartphone and videoing Coach D's appearance tonight and posting it? I'm sure most Boneyarders would love to check it out....
Expand ...

I'll be in the student section which should be fairly empty so I'll do my best.
 
PAGS said:
Also....anyone going to the Basketball game tonight feel like using your smartphone and videoing Coach D's appearance tonight and posting it? I'm sure most Boneyarders would love to check it out....
Expand ...

I would but the truth is, I feel like a huge when I record stuff on my phone. Like I'm contributing to the terrible culture which ruined concerts because everybody's holding up their phones like some sort of jerk.
 
PAGS said:
No doubt Coach D is a great guy and a great motivator. Just seems like I keep hearing the same stories over and over, like he's got a script. Talk of the millions of people in so many square miles of campus, how great our math and science departments are.... He was on a national radio show, no mention of our great facilities and other selling points for student athletes? Sell our program when you can Bob, market to potential recruits and the national audience. I'm psyched and excited about the future of UConn football, just hope he can coach as good a game as he can talk.
Expand ...

He keeps getting asked the same questions by different interviewers. College kids that enter the NFL draft get asked the same questions over and over by different teams, and I'm sure they give the same answers over and over again. Diaco's only been here for a week, he's selling the program the best way he can.
 
sdhusky said:
Are yo ua genius or are you saying stupid things on purpose?
Expand ...
No i'm serious...poems and all the talk about energy vampires are great. But if i'm a 4 star recruit i'm not going to UConn because of that. He's an interesting guy, it gets him on sports talk shows. Do you care that we have a great math program? Not many football players are algebra or calculus wizards! Use the opportunity to market the football program...that's all i'm saying. Perception of UConn football outside of the Northeast is that we're a joke. We're getting positive press now, run with it. How does this make me seem like a genius??
 
PAGS said:
No doubt Coach D is a great guy and a great motivator. Just seems like I keep hearing the same stories over and over, like he's got a script. Talk of the millions of people in so many square miles of campus, how great our math and science departments are.... He was on a national radio show, no mention of our great facilities and other selling points for student athletes? Sell our program when you can Bob, market to potential recruits and the national audience. I'm psyched and excited about the future of UConn football, just hope he can coach as good a game as he can talk.
Expand ...

If it is a script, can he paper his office with it? Oh, wait, that would be bad. Really, really bad.
 
.-.
PAGS said:
No doubt Coach D is a great guy and a great motivator. Just seems like I keep hearing the same stories over and over, like he's got a script. Talk of the millions of people in so many square miles of campus, how great our math and science departments are.... He was on a national radio show, no mention of our great facilities and other selling points for student athletes? Sell our program when you can Bob, market to potential recruits and the national audience. I'm psyched and excited about the future of UConn football, just hope he can coach as good a game as he can talk.
Expand ...


Pick a coach

"I used to coach in the NFL and we have great facilities" "We run an advanced NFL style offense that will help get you to the next level"

"When you have someone on the field, they cross the stripe, whether it be a coach or player, and you have that monster possessed,” he said. “An unstoppable force that, no matter what happens during the course of a play or game or quarter or season, that player will continue to persist and go and go and attack and attack. That is a monster. Werewolf comes out.” (Diaco's words)

"I also coached the top ranked defense in the country in the NC game and have put players in the NFL" (my words)

I know who I want.
 
sportsart said:
Pick a coach

"I used to coach in the NFL and we have great facilities" "We run an advanced NFL style offense that will help get you to the next level"

"When you have someone on the field, they cross the stripe, whether it be a coach or player, and you have that monster possessed,” he said. “An unstoppable force that, no matter what happens during the course of a play or game or quarter or season, that player will continue to persist and go and go and attack and attack. That is a monster. Werewolf comes out.” (Diaco's words)

"I also coached the top ranked defense in the country in the NC game and have put players in the NFL" (my words)

I know who I want.
Expand ...
Valid argument...you're right that's very Coach P-ish. Didn't work with him...i'll let Coach D run with it! I guess @sdhusky is right....i'm a genius!
 
I do the love fact how me mentioned he packed his office in the middle of the day with is door open so he could talk to everyone. He didn't "disappear into the darkness" and pack up in the middle of the night. He surely is a class act. Unlike someone else......
 
PAGS said:
I do the love fact how me mentioned he packed his office in the middle of the day with is door open so he could talk to everyone. He didn't "disappear into the darkness" and pack up in the middle of the night. He surely is a class act. Unlike someone else......
Expand ...

He (BD) said last night that one of the first things he did @ Burton was have the football admin procure 6 doorstops so he could prop the doors open to encourage an open door policy without the access fobs.
 
.-.
That was an awesome interview. WM fell in love and I'm in love as well. Now I just don't care for the sport of basketball. Not one bit. I'm seriously considering leaving now to get a ticket for tonight's game to listen to Coach Diaco speak. Love this guy...a born leader.
 
I just listened to it. If he coaches half as good as he interviews we're going to win a lot. Add in Foley and in my opinion he's started as well as can be expected.
 
UConn '89 "98 said:
Indispensable Man - words to live by is right. Reminds me of Time by Pink Floyd.
Expand ...

Ah yes, the 70's. Me and my friends were....


Someone should ask HCBD is he ever inhaled.
images
 
  • Like
Reactions: THC
He's a smart, and articulate man who's also young enough to relate. I have a feeling he is gonna recruit well against the other teams in our region. No one at any of the "local" schools against whom we recruit have a personality that will rival his. Hopefully that will make up for what we lack in history and tradition.

And in fairness to his answers...people keep asking him the same questions. He doesn't really have much of a choice.
 
sportsart said:
Oh Danny boy. You are one of my favorites on here. That said...really? Randy keeps getting blasted 3 years later and PP gets a pass 3 months after he's gone?

Wow....
Expand ...

P was getting blasted before he was hired, after he was hired, a year before he was fired right on up to the present. If your in the market to dine on P hate, stick your head outside and open wide.
 
.-.
UConnDan97 said:
Question: Really?
Answer: Really!

You will also not hear me living in the past with Edsall either. Nor do I advocate for anyone to continue to blast Edsall. Nor will you see me chatting about Skip Holtz, or Tom Jackson, or....you get the point. Over. Done with. As for giving someone "a pass"; you don't believe that we have beat that horse to death over the last couple years? For a person that has changed his avatar to "no energy suckers", I'm not sure you're sticking to the mantra this morning.

You're one of my favorite posters here also, no doubt about it. But I just don't understand where you're coming from today on this thread...
Expand ...
Really? Lol
 
huskyrob1 said:
He was an old man by the time UCONN hired him and just forgot how to coach college kids and recognize which kids had talent, he lost the flexibility with these kids, and the college game had changed since his days at Cuse.
Expand ...

I've got some years on me, as well. My working life has been the big-systems technology sector. Early on, I saw that knowledge and know how do not pass by people. People through laziness, stubbornness or unwillingness to adapt to change, get passed. Add blind loyalty to the mix and disaster is assured.
 
I'm currently doin push ups getting ready for signing day so I can hug Bob and say "I love you man!"
 
Dooley said:
I could be mistaken but I don't recall PP doing any national sports talkshow interviews during his entire tenure at UCONN. Diaco is creating some serious national buzz...

UConnFootball ‏@UConnFootball6m
New #UConn coach Bob Diaco will be on the @jimrome show today at 2 p.m. Listen here: http://jimrome.com/ #BleedBlue
Expand ...

Thank you for the post Dooly. Susie called Warde a Rock Star, I think he found one that fits the bill......
 
Does anyone have a transcript or recording of the interview? Not trying to subscribe to Rome's site if I don't have to.
 
.-.
Uconnalliance said:
I'm currently doin push ups getting ready for signing day so I can hug Bob and say "I love you man!"
Expand ...
Don't take this the wrong way but I imagine if I offered you a dollar for every pushup you did you wouldn't be able to buy a beer at the Rent with the proceeds.
 
You could hear HCBD in the background of the telecast on ESPN. Couldn't quite make out what he was saying but was def loud and full of energy.

Adding to the Men's Basketball Energy Bucket.
 
PAGS said:
No i'm serious...poems and all the talk about energy vampires are great. But if i'm a 4 star recruit i'm not going to UConn because of that. He's an interesting guy, it gets him on sports talk shows. Do you care that we have a great math program? Not many football players are algebra or calculus wizards! Use the opportunity to market the football program...that's all i'm saying. Perception of UConn football outside of the Northeast is that we're a joke. We're getting positive press now, run with it. How does this make me seem like a genius??
Expand ...

Perhaps ...him talking up the academic side of the school is necessary. Student enrollment, a top 20 state school in the country...Sounds like some buttons to push for the AAU invite which leads into what??? Oh that's right CR. Look, I don't expect him to key on every opportunity with every accolade. Leave something for the next time....and selling the program??? try this let him do what he is here to do....WIN FOOTBALL GAMES...everything else is nice, in fact it has great, but his greatest achievement wont begin to happen until kickoff in 2014. Until then I am enjoying the positive vibe around this program and compared to the dark thunder cloud we had for a view years, a ray of sunshine would have gotten most if us here to smile, ...didn't expect to see the sun...let's hope we have these same sunny days on game days in 2014.
 
At what point does the Co-op start stocking novelty energy buckets? I want one.
 
HarryAGampel said:
Does anyone have a transcript or recording of the interview? Not trying to subscribe to Rome's site if I don't have to.
Expand ...

In Internet Explorer, I got the pop up that wanted me to subscribe.
In Google Chrome, I did not get that pop up and was able to listen to it.
 
.-.
Status
Not open for further replies.

Forum statistics

Threads
168,381
Messages
4,569,635
Members
10,475
Latest member
Tunwin22


Top Bottom