Done deal with Edsall

[UCweCONN]

Why the rush with this decision??? There was time to at least kick the tires with better candidates. I was looking forward to buying season tickets too...... So much for that....

 

[Waquoit]

Yup, his goal is 8-5. Baby steps.

 

[BRS24]

With the supposed buyout details in RE contract, are there any thoughts that he's just a placeholder to get the program back to a modicum of respectability and then go after a big name?

 

[Tdaley]

I'd assume this time around, Edsall would not handcuff the OC. Whatever.

Leopards don't change their spots. For better or worse Edsall is a control freak. I don't ever see him giving is OC a free rein.

 

[sdhusky]

Yup, his goal is 8-5. Baby steps.

8-5 and a AAC title would be so delicious right now

 

[Bomber36]

With the supposed buyout details in RE contract, are there any thoughts that he's just a placeholder to get the program back to a modicum of respectability and then go after a big name?

I hope not....people here were just talking about not changing coaches every three or four years. I am confident this man can be successful here again and look forward to him being here for a long time. Forgive and remember the good times....they will be back.

 

[upstater]

I'm an optimist and I don't like this but...

Edsall was excellent at developing NFL talent.

As I said, I am an optimist, and that is something to hang your hat on.

Now go recruit Pennsylvania and Maryland.

 

[huskeynut]

Not sure I'm excited about this hire, but as others have stated and I beleive it is true, UConn is not that attractive as many of us think.

Randy proved he could get raw recruits and coach them up. We haven't seen that in the last few years. A lot is going to depend of who we see as the OC and DC and the coaches that will be under these two. I would hope that we get a mix of air it out and some smash mouth on the offense. Defense should return to a very good level.

If this hire gets us to 8 - 4, 7 - 5 on a regular basis I won't complain. It s a lot better than we have seen in the last 6 years.

 

[huskymedic]

Randy Edsall Back At UConn: Coach Says He Should Have Done Things Differently When He Left

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

HCRE and Diaco are complete opposites in terms of player-coach relationship. The over/under on transfers has to be about 8.

 

[UChusky916]

PP was a dumb hire. All Randy has to do is win, which he's proven he can. May polarize some of you BY's, but we all want to see the ship righted. He's not going to polarize the fan base.

'He's not going to polarize the fan base'

• Look around here and social media at the reaction of the hire -- if you don't think the fan base is polarized by the hire, then you're out of your mind. Edsall specifically had to make amends for his previous exit on his announcement. That tells you the fan base is indeed polarized on his hire and he has work to do to earn back the trust of the fans.

'All Randy has to do is win, which he's proven he can'

• Edsall was 74-70 at UConn and 22-26 in the Big East -- a Big East which never had Miami/Virginia Tech or other football powerhouses. While I think we'd all be okay with just above a .500 record NEXT SEASON... that shouldn't be a long term aspiration for our football program, we needed to reach higher.
• Edsall had 1 (ONE) win versus a ranked team in his tenure here from 99-10. Diaco had just as many ranked wins in just 3 seasons -- and you could argue that the football schedule is tougher in the American now than Edsall had to deal with in the old Big East (UL and USF were only 'good' teams some years).

This hire screams average and reeks of desperation.

 

[UChusky916]

Terrible. Boring, "safe" retread hire that looks totally small time and condemns this program to another defensive coach completely uninterested in modern explosive offense. This does nothing to excite or grow the fanbase.

Major opportunity squandered by Benedict.

100% agree.

 

[BRS24]

I hope not....people here were just talking about not changing coaches every three or four years. I am confident this man can be successful here again and look forward to him being here for a long time. Forgive and remember the good times....they will be back.

Or, a pseudo placeholder for 3-4 years until a young talented OC or DC is ready to take the reins?

 

[BugsyCT]

Honestly, not sure how to feel about this. How hard were they looking for a replacement all this time to just go back to a retread?

 

[Bonehead]

HCRE and Diaco are complete opposites in terms of player-coach relationship. The over/under on transfers has to be about 8.

Excellent.

 

[Stinger92860]

I'm not sure you know what zero sum means.

(Hint, it doesn't mean you win 3x as much)

How about inconceivable!!!

 

[Stinger92860]

If its a donor driven choice, then you see where Uconn is financially. they had no choice and DB nor SH could possibly argue that RE is not an improvement over BD. so the donors had all the leverage. It is what it is. I highly doubt DB's dream hire is Randy Edsall.

Here's the thing for me...I appreciated the fact that RE built his teams from the lines out, knew that Uconn would never have a great passing game given the climate and ......

Please stop with the climate nonsense. We play most of our games in warm weather. We start at home in the summer and we travel south to play most of the AAC. Somehow Brady and Manning and Rodgers can throw the ball after we are done playing.

 

[Jimdish255]

Please stop with the climate nonsense. We play most of our games in warm weather. We start at home in the summer and we travel south to play most of the AAC. Somehow Brady and Manning and Rodgers can throw the ball after we are done playing.

 

[fgbrault]

Breaking news: Edsall agrees to return to UConn

I have very mixed feelings. I thought the way Edsall left the program was disgraceful, both because of how he handled letting the team know and the state he left the team in for the future. However, now he is our coach again and I fully support him and hope he and and the team are very successful. I have a feeling that this team needs to get away from the style of coaching of "trophies for participation" and may do better with Edsall's more traditional and disciplined way of coaching football.

 

[BUConn10]

This really only confirms one thing for me, UConn and successful football just are never going to happen.

 

[Bonehead]

This really only confirms one thing for me, UConn and successful football just are never going to happen.

Can you define successful UConn FB?

Beating Notre Dame on the road?
Beating an SEC school in a bowl?
Winning majority of your home games?

 

[Redding Husky]

I just keep thinking of Joe Gibbs' second coaching tenure as the Redskins coach. It didn't work out so well.

It's hard to recreate the magic.

 

[Adios]

This really only confirms one thing for me, UConn and successful football just are never going to happen.

This move is a stopgap before we could sink to Kansas and Indiana (and Rutgers) level.

 

[BUConn10]

Can you define successful UConn FB?

Anything resembling respect from a national perspective of the sport. Something that may be targeted as a program with potential worth expanding a football centric conference for.

 

[Bonehead]

Anything resembling respect from a national perspective of the sport. Something that may be targeted as a program with potential worth expanding a football centric conference for.

Very abstract and hard to measure.

I thought that's where we were in 2009/2010?

Sniffing top 25 in polls?