Not even two weeks on the job and having the university Prez publicly reprimand you.
Many head football coaches make the choice to not allow media to speak with their assistants unless it's under highly controlled circumstances, if they even allow them to meet with media at all. I would be shocked to find out that any of the UCONN football coaching contracts other than Diaco's mandate media accessibility.
What we've all witnessed here, was Diaco's very first rookie head coaching mistake. I had feared that it was in his hiring of too many chiefs, but it seems that it was an indian that caused the problem.
At some point in the future, he will make the conscious choice to either allow his assistants access to media and will trust them with what they say, or he'll turn into a Randy Edsall (Bill Parcells) type, and his voice will be the only voice for his program. For now, he's got to be consistent, which means I don't think that media access to assistants would be restricted, but I guarantee that they will be very careful about what they say, and to whom from here on out. It's good that this kind of thing happens in the offseason, when only diehards are paying attention.
As for the concerns that others have had, the position and work this guy is going to do, has been done at two other public universities (Cincinnati and Central Michigan if I'm not mistaken) and I highly doubt that we've got a coaching staff hired here that has got a goal of being evangelical proselytizers and has for some reason changed what they did specifically for UCONN.
Yes, the things quoted in the media piece, were in line with that kind of evangelical thinking, but the concern that people have here, is born out their own biases, experiences and preconceived notions leading to conclusions, because the reality is that there is no reason to think that these coaches named, are trying to get our recruits and players to be born again Christians, following evangelical Christian belief systems.
The entire thing is the product of a beat reporters bad choice in writing, and most likely, without that media piece, there is no need for a supervisory speaking to and public address by the university president.
But it's done and overwith. I will now post only photos of beautiful women in this thread.