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Does anyone miss Diaco?

Let me play devils advocate here- BD’s recruits who were brought in went and played at other schools (Hahn @ Monmouth, Herring-Wilson @ AK State, D Williams @Elon, DeGeorge @ Louisville, Garson @ Duquesne), to name a few, are all contributing to teams that would beat UConn at the current moment.

How bare was the cupboard? What was the rush to get RE’s recruits on the field?

It’s time to ask this question.
 
mhk9run said:
Let me play devils advocate here- BD’s recruits who were brought in went and played at other schools (Hahn @ Monmouth, Herring-Wilson @ AK State, D Williams @Elon, DeGeorge @ Louisville, Garson @ Duquesne), to name a few, are all contributing to teams that would beat UConn at the current moment.

How bare was the cupboard? What was the rush to get RE’s recruits on the field?

It’s time to ask this question.
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This team is awful, no question. But you think Monmouth, Elon, and Duquesne would beat them? Diaco brought in FCS talent and the transfers went to FCS teams like their talent dictated.
 
Blades said:
No, but I miss Lashley, instead of another Cuse version of PP's clueless sidekick. This one wants to run draw plays 8 yards deep in the endzone and is still handing it off, down 38 points. While every OC Uconn plays still has their foot on the gas up 30-40.
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One can only wonder what our offense would look like with Lashlee calling the shots. With SK being his #1 recruit in 2018 would he have an air raid offense instead of the “pound on the ground” we’ve seen in the last three years?
 
Greedo said:
This team is awful, no question. But you think Monmouth, Elon, and Duquesne would beat them? Diaco brought in FCS talent and the transfers went to FCS teams like their talent dictated.
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And where have RE’s new recruits transferred to…?

Next weekend will answer a lot of questions- also, Monmouth plays both Middle Tenn. and Yale, so that will be an indication.

I’d love to be wrong. But just calling it as I see it.
 
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I think the most disappointing aspect was we were totally noncompetitive on both sides of the ball.
 
Greedo said:
This team is awful, no question. But you think Monmouth, Elon, and Duquesne would beat them? Diaco brought in FCS talent and the transfers went to FCS teams like their talent dictated.
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They all can’t be home runs. Some may be NFL. Davis, peart, Coyle, RVD, Rose. He recruited tall players unfortunately he couldn’t get tall and fast like he could at ND. Sheriffs was good but other than that offense sucked. He lost it and had to go.
 
Bongo Fury said:
They all can’t be home runs. Some may be NFL. Davis, peart, Coyle, RVD, Rose. He recruited tall players unfortunately he couldn’t get tall and fast like he could at ND. Sheriffs was good but other than that offense sucked. He lost it and had to go.
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Agree. My point was more along the lines of the excuse we have heard for the past 4 years, now that the rubber meets the road for RE, and other guys play at other successful schools, how valid was the excuse?
 
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huskymedic said:
Whenever his name comes up I wonder why he never really had another opportunity (other than his other interim HC gig @ USF when Taggart left). Always hitching his cart to the wrong horse/wrong place/wrong time or something else?
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It's a mystery to me also. There has to be a reason that we aren't privy to.
 
In defense of Bob Diaco (words I never thought I'd say)...

I said it two years ago and I'll say it again, Diaco was bad, but at least it seemed like he had a vision for the program. He was a nut and totally incompetent, but I'd rather watch UConn clown away games and feel total rage than feel nothing at all.

Edsall is mush of a human being. Nothing to look forward to, doesn't seem to have any vision for the program. Diaco's conFLiCT idea was so hilariously dumb but you have to give the guy props for at least seeming like he gave a damn.

I'll take a St Petersburg Bowl once every few years over this nonsense. Both sucked, one sucked but cared, the other is sucking the life out of our fan base.
 
Cuse Socks said:
In defense of Bob Diaco (words I never thought I'd say)...

I said it two years ago and I'll say it again, Diaco was bad, but at least it seemed like he had a vision for the program. He was a nut and totally incompetent, but I'd rather watch UConn clown away games and feel total rage than feel nothing at all.

Edsall is mush of a human being. Nothing to look forward to, doesn't seem to have any vision for the program. Diaco's conFLiCT idea was so hilariously dumb but you have to give the guy props for at least seeming like he gave a damn.

I'll take a St Petersburg Bowl once every few years over this nonsense. Both sucked, one sucked but cared, the other is sucking the life out of our fan base.
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Edsall is a snake to boot.
 
Cuse Socks said:
In defense of Bob Diaco (words I never thought I'd say)...

I said it two years ago and I'll say it again, Diaco was bad, but at least it seemed like he had a vision for the program. He was a nut and totally incompetent, but I'd rather watch UConn clown away games and feel total rage than feel nothing at all.

Edsall is mush of a human being. Nothing to look forward to, doesn't seem to have any vision for the program. Diaco's conFLiCT idea was so hilariously dumb but you have to give the guy props for at least seeming like he gave a damn.

I'll take a St Petersburg Bowl once every few years over this nonsense. Both sucked, one sucked but cared, the other is sucking the life out of our fan base.
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Here is the flaw in your assessment....the only reason Diaco won 6 games was because he had PP's players and they had an easy schedule. Diacos ship was sinking.

And I think Randy does have a vision for the program...you may not like it, but he has one. He likes old school football and old school players. Very disciplined and conservative.
 
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huskymedic said:
Whenever his name comes up I wonder why he never really had another opportunity (other than his other interim HC gig @ USF when Taggart left). Always hitching his cart to the wrong horse/wrong place/wrong time or something else?
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I was at the BC game when, early in the game with the score 0-0, we had the ball on the BC18 4th and goal. I was right on the goal line when I watched that attempt at a fake field goal. Everyone, including BC fans, were stunned. In what world does someone make that call?

To answer your question, I think I know exactly why no one has ever or will ever offer him another HC gig. I think when he's under the gun he simply can't perform. That and the fact that he recruited a hell of a basketball team as head coach for UCONN's football team.
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
Here is the flaw in your assessment....the only reason Diaco won 6 games was because he had PP's players and they had an easy schedule. Diacos ship was sinking.

And I think Randy does have a vision for the program...you may not like it, but he has one. He likes old school football and old school players. Very disciplined and conservative.
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Beating undefeated Houston wasn't an easy game. I see your point. It's like comparing a rotten banana to a rotten orange, but I cannot see Edsall's vision at all.

Edsall has nothing to prove. If it were up to me he would've been banned from ever stepping foot on campus again after how he left last time. Give the job to a young coach with something to prove. I'm one of the most risk averse people you'll ever meet, but that is not what we need right now. Start swinging for the fences or else this Independent football thing is gonna crumble fast.
 
mhk9run said:
Let me play devils advocate here- BD’s recruits who were brought in went and played at other schools (Hahn @ Monmouth, Herring-Wilson @ AK State, D Williams @Elon, DeGeorge @ Louisville, Garson @ Duquesne), to name a few, are all contributing to teams that would beat UConn at the current moment.

How bare was the cupboard? What was the rush to get RE’s recruits on the field?

It’s time to ask this question.
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Is this a joke? None of the transfers from UConn made major contributions to any FBS program, except DeGeorge. And, so far, only 2 Diaco recruits, Peart and Tyler Davis, has been drafted. Davis was recruited as a QB, but was drafted as a TE. The cupboard was bare when Edsall arrived.

And, if you couldn't see how slow UConn was during the Diaco years, I don't know what to say.
 
Waquoit said:
Here's the flaw in your assessment. PP couldn't win six games with PP's players.
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Actually, it was even worse than that. If you go back to P's first season he inherited an NFL defense. His first two seasons probably had the best defenses UCONN ever had and probably some of the best in the Big East and AAC.

Then he had Deleone dialing up plays to get our QBs wide out as receivers and other such s.........
 
huskymedic said:
Whenever his name comes up I wonder why he never really had another opportunity (other than his other interim HC gig @ USF when Taggart left). Always hitching his cart to the wrong horse/wrong place/wrong time or something else?
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uconndogs said:
I was at the BC game when, early in the game with the score 0-0, we had the ball on the BC18 4th and goal. I was right on the goal line when I watched that attempt at a fake field goal. Everyone, including BC fans, were stunned. In what world does someone make that call?

To answer your question, I think I know exactly why no one has ever or will ever offer him another HC gig. I think when he's under the gun he simply can't perform. That and the fact that he recruited a hell of a basketball team as head coach for UCONN's football team.
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I was talking about Weist - not Diaco - w/ that comment.
 
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uconndogs said:
Actually, it was even worse than that. If you go back to P's first season he inherited an NFL defense. His first two seasons probably had the best defenses UCONN ever had and probably some of the best in the Big East and AAC.
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Not making a bowl game his first year killed the momentum more than anything Diaco did. And you're right about that defense, that's what gave him the undeserved third year after they beat Teddy Bridgewater despite what was it, seven or eight three and outs by the offense.
 
I'm not off the Edsall train yet. I can chock last week up to extreme temperatures, being off for 2 years and abysmal play calling and qb play. I've said it on another thread, this week against Holy Cross will be out litmus test. It's a team, playing at our level, we should beat handedly. If we look as bad as we did on offense as we did against Fresno, Guifre needs to go and JZ needs to be benched. IMO, Edsall gets til the end of the year, but something needs to change offensively.
 
Looking back, we made a mistake letting him go. His first season we went 2-10 but lost a lot of close games. His second season we went to a bowl game and beat an undefeated ranked Houston. His third season, we went 3-9 but lost three or four close games.

We were competitive under Diaco. Not good, but competitive. Randy 2.0 is neither.
 
This is what I wonder about Edsall’s “we run the ball to control the time of possession” or whatever comments. If that is truly your goal, how did you not pick up some grad transfers for the o-line? You’re not going to do that with sophomores and freshmen
 
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