Don Brown

[rich1122]

Tony Orlando might be a step up - as AD.

(Sorry, I don't have the energy to post a picture.)

Here try this.

 

[Dooley]

Calm down. Brown is 57 years old. He is attaching himself to the new HC at BC, which should get him 3 to 4 more years before retiring. The risk of staying at UConn and only getting 1 or 2 more years was too high, so the decision makes sense for him.

We will miss Brown, but the defense wasn't perfect. Brown's defense was exciting, but it took many risks. UConn's defense was good before Brown got here and I think it will be good after he leaves.

For UConn, this may make the coaching staff YOUNGER, which is sorely needed. Brown was the youngest of our 3 top coaches!

Agree with this. Brown knows Pasqualoni is on the hot seat and will likely be fired after this season if the team doesn't improve on its 5-7 mark (against a better schedule and losing half its defense). He's just making a move for stability now while his stock is up before being forced to look for work after 2013. Plus, I'm sure BC pays their assistants much higher than UConn pays. This issue HAS TO BE ADDRESSED. Otherwise, we're doomed with DeLeone-esque coordinators.

 

[rich1122]

Agree with this. Brown knows Pasqualoni is on the hot seat and will likely be fired after this season if the team doesn't improve on its 5-7 mark (against a better schedule and losing half its defense). He's just making a move for stability now while his stock is up before being forced to look for work after 2013. Plus, I'm sure BC pays their assistants much higher than UConn pays. This issue HAS TO BE ADDRESSED. Otherwise, we're doomed with DeLeone-esque coordinators.

Maybe PP forced out DB. Ever think of that? Maybe he wants to go in another direction.

Sounds crazy, but who knows.

 

[Hoophound]

Maybe PP forced out DB. Ever think of that? Maybe he wants to go in another direction.

Sounds crazy, but who knows.

Lol. Knowing this staff, he probably did.

 

[rich1122]

Lol. Knowing this staff, he probably did.

If Hughes is DC then PP had no problem with DB leaving. If a national search then he was surprised.

 

[B1GEast]

Have DeLeone coach the D, and hire Ray Handley to run the offense.

How about Rich Kotite as the OC?

 

[DDaileyuconn]

Maybe, just maybe after next year, Coach Addizo, comes back 2 CT 2 become Uconn next coach, and stick it 2 BC, I hope not because that would mean we had a bad season!!!!

 

[Chief00]

How about Rich Kotite as the OC?

Where is zone blocking when you need it?

 

[rich1122]

Where is zone blocking when you need it?

Inside hand-off even better.

 

[Dooley]

Maybe PP forced out DB. Ever think of that? Maybe he wants to go in another direction.

Sounds crazy, but who knows.

That certainly is possible. If Hughes is named DC, then I'd certainly buy into it.

 

[ctchamps]

It's do or die for PP this season. He fails UConn can always hire DB as their head coach next season. He would take it in a heart beat. DB wasn't going to make it easy for PP to succeed.

 

[BG79]

Calm down. Brown is 57 years old. He is attaching himself to the new HC at BC, which should get him 3 to 4 more years before retiring. The risk of staying at UConn and only getting 1 or 2 more years was too high, so the decision makes sense for him.

We will miss Brown, but the defense wasn't perfect. Brown's defense was exciting, but it took many risks. UConn's defense was good before Brown got here and I think it will be good after he leaves.

For UConn, this may make the coaching staff YOUNGER, which is sorely needed. Brown was the youngest of our 3 top coaches!

Age doesnt matter to me when the coach in question doesnt coach like his age. Don Brown's style of coaching was the complete opposite of this coaching staff. You blast him for being too aggressive, I cheer him for it. The rest of the staff is not just old but BORING, and that's the key part not their age. You can have older coaches who are still competent and willing to adapt to the changing game. There is very little to cheer for with this team these days.

 

[Jarhead_1775]

What the motherfucking ??? you you piece of worthless shitbag fuckstick ****sucking assface of a pathetic excuse for an HC, OC, or AD!!!!!!! YOU!!!! You've ruined everything. Is this the change you had in mind, Warde? There I was all ok with things after reading the prez' email. God dammit!

 

[ctchamps]

So if UConn has a losing season next year, was anyone interested in style points? People were ready to bury PP this year.

Either PP produces or not. His recruits are finally coming into play and he no longer has the RE leftover excuse. Worse case scenario if he starts off bad, WM fires him and does a national search early ahead of the other programs that s*ck. I wager UConn goes big if that scenario comes about!

And if PP surprises the out of everyone well............... crows will become extinct.

 

[Waquoit]

And if PP surprises the out of everyone well............... crows will become extinct.

I will happily, ecstatically eat crow if we win more than we lose next year. I will party my ass off at the bowl game. I will buy a drink for any Boneyarder I run into there. Ain't gonna happen.

 

[ctchamps]

I will happily, ecstatically eat crow if we win more than we lose next year. I will party my ass off at the bowl game. I will buy a drink for any Boneyarder I run into there. Ain't gonna happen.

And this is the time we have to evaluate WM. Not now. If our suspicions are correct, when does WM pull the trigger and who does he get. If he fired PP after this season his coaching search would have less candidates then if he fires PP next season. There are coaches who don't want to go in to a program, uprooting their family knowing they have only two years to prove themselves.

 

[joey3$trike$]

I will happily, ecstatically eat crow if we win more than we lose next year. I will party my ass off at the bowl game. I will buy a drink for any Boneyarder I run into there. Ain't gonna happen.

I'll enjoy a beer at Yankee stadium next year! Thanks for buying

 

[BNich]

Why don't they just fire coach P while they're at it and start fresh.

 

[Waquoit]

I'll enjoy a beer at Yankee stadium next year! Thanks for buying

It will be my pleasure. Maybe I ought to hope for the Birmingham game. Only $5. for a 24 ouncer, IIRC.

 

[Srqhusky]

What the mother****ing ****??? **** you you piece of worthless ****bag ****stick ****sucking assface of a pathetic excuse for an HC, OC, or AD!!!!!!! **** YOU!!!! You've ruined everything. Is this the change you had in mind, Warde? There I was all ok with things after reading the prez' email. God dammit!

glad I'm not the only one to go Clark griswold

 

[ruskin]

If he fired PP after this season his coaching search would have less candidates then if he fires PP next season. There are coaches who don't want to go in to a program, uprooting their family knowing they have only two years to prove themselves.

Disagree canning PP Dec. 2 would have reduced the number of HC candidates. There would be virtually the same pool factoring things "out of our control" as the poohbas like to say - geography and unsettled conference status. Most coaches understand are smart enough to realize PP was hired by an AD who was canned six months later for making bad decisions (like hiring PP and pissing off a major donor in the process). Second, as shaky as UConn's position is, it is only one of 65 or so paying over $1 million plus. Any decent, ambitious young coach worth his salt would take a 2-year window as a challenge.

A lot of great coaches started in the MAC (Urban Meyer, etc), and as bad as things are we're still a notch or two above that. I'd take a quick run of success over what we're stuck with now any day.