Dunn leaving to become Jets TE coach

[huskymedic]

...and we are still paying Bobby D.

Diaco has been paid in full 2016/2017 FY.

 

[uconnfan68]

Well, that article has a serious credibility issue now, doesn't it. They lost $3 mil.

Last year... they were in the red for a few years.

 

[uconnfan68]

Everyone knows the P&L's can be manipulated to nearly whatever you want them to be. Comparing one to another isn't going to be apples to apples. However we are looking at what UConn is reporting itself about it's own programs. If anything the numbers are likely to be a lot worse across the board than what they are saying.



Of course the whole AD is a money pit and bloated with idiots who have run it into the ground. Geno, the hockey programs, track and field are all losing millions and would be the first places I'd look towards leaning out.

I'm past the point of caring what the national media wants to run with as the story of the day. They didn't say a peep when the 11 time national champions were left to rot on the vine in this Mickey mouse league did they?

Again what you are all failing to accept is that it's not about what Geno deserves, it's not about losing money on athletics (nearly everyone does), it's managing how much we are losing.

Football is the only program that can get us out of here. What don't you understand?

Football will never get us anywhere. The game is rigged.

 

[uconnfan68]

Tough to recognize a sea change isn't it. #1 player in the country the last three years? Yet somehow they are only 5th and managed to beat Cincinnati by only 10. (Cincinnati!!)

They WON. Snap out of it.

 

[uconnfan68]

I didn't read every reply in this thread but I don't think anyone is saying they want to cut WBB. I think what they are saying (I am too) that if we can aggressively spend to retain a top WBB coaching staff, we better goddam do it in football too. But we don't. And we have now lost our last 2 successful OCs to lateral or worse jobs. That's very hard to understand and justify.

There are administrative things UConn can do to clean up its house and free up some dough (lease agreements, stop handing out horrific extensions and buyout terms to mediocre coaches, etc). Eventually, UConn will need to cut several non-revenue sports. But at some point, we have to start devoting the appropriate funding to field a competitive FBS coaching staff.

Also, when Geno retires, some of that savings better be diverted into our football staff. That's really a no-brainer.

Geno wasn’t hired at his current salary. He’s been here for 33-34 years, and brought home 11 NCs. Voted into HOF. You want to toss him for a 75th best college football coach?

 

[Exit 4]

You idiots just ignoring the fact that Nike would cut the UConn deal by 1/3 to 1/2 without UConn WBB powerhouse because of their ability to market to women, who are 60% of the population. Do you think they pay that high above market rate for football? A struggling MBB program?

What about the SNY deal? Do you think they're in it for the men's OOC games against Wagner in November or the fact that they pull ratings throughout the entire WBB season?

Congrats, you just took $2m in WBB staff salaries, gave it to football, and also cut the media and licensing contracts by about $3.5m a year.

Well done. Phenomenal accounting. UConn is now another $1.5m in the hole than when you started. Before factoring in cratering ticket sales because the WBB program is much worse off.

. This place really is the worst.

Nowhere near as bad as that anti UConn troll twitter account “No escalators.”

 

[Chief00]

If our coaches suck so bad...why do other people keep hiring them?

Good question and Chief will take it. We started with an Auburn centric football coaching staff and now have an University of Maine flavor to our staff. Nice school but not the type of football pedigree you need to compete with the southern schools in our conference.
I would also venture to guess, if you ranked Edsall’s staff the last couple years, Lashlee, Grimes, Dunn and Richardson would all be part of the upper tier.
It takes me back to the guy who came to UConn from Maryland when Randy went there. Coach Brown turned into a very good DC. Do you see a trend?

 

[Dooley]

Geno wasn’t hired at his current salary. He’s been here for 33-34 years, and brought home 11 NCs. Voted into HOF. You want to toss him for a 75th best college football coach?

Nope. Not what I said at all actually.

We don't penny pinch MBB or WBB, nor should we. I'm tired of penny pinching football and expecting to win.

 

[FDNY99]

Nowhere near as bad as that anti UConn troll twitter account “No escalators.”

That moron isn’t Anit-UConn @Exit 4 ...he is Anti UConn Football...and is probably one of if not THE loudest “UConn back to the BE” drum beaters on Twitter followed closely by Russ Steinberg and the Not a Dime Back crew.

 

[Exit 4]

That moron isn’t Anit-UConn @Exit 4 ...he is Anti UConn Football...and is probably one of if not THE loudest “UConn back to the BE” drum beaters on Twitter followed closely by Russ Steinberg and the Not a Dime Back crew.

Using your bull horn to terminate a sport is anti UConn. He is a cancer. Absolute jerk.

 

[FDNY99]

Using your bull horn to terminate a sport is anti UConn. He is a cancer. Absolute jerk.

I agree 100%...and his posse of the above mentioned names in my post are just as bad

 

[uconnbill]

As a KU Grad, I didn't think I would ever see a program pass KU in ineptitude, but bravo UConn!

Edsall is not the answer. Either AD Dave bucks up and shells out the money for a real coach and staff or take it out back and shoot the program in the head. KU got a new AD that was invested in football, raised the money and hired a real coach and staff, and KU just had its most successful signing day in school history.

I agree with part of this for sure. Someone needs to raise money and do it quick.

 

[uconnbill]

This is how he becomes an OC in the NFL. Chances like this don't come around often.

I don't blame him. Good luck, Dunn.

at times, but more than likely get the push from quarterback coach then tight end coach

 

[uconnbill]

You are an ignorant twit.

"Women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey was reported with more than $2.1 million in total pay, with nearly $1.85 million as base pay. Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma's basic pay for the 2015-16 season was $2.17 million.Apr 29, 2016"

so yeah he probably could leave for more money. Care to bring anymore stupidity to the board?

They are in a Power five where the money is there, UConn isn't.

 

[ZooCougar]

This is a nightmare.

 

[Waquoit]

You read this article and you wonder if Dunn might be looking for a job next year. (No Dunn mention)

 

[whaler11]

You read this article and you wonder if Dunn might be looking for a job next year. (No Dunn mention)

i dont need an article to tell me latching yourself to adam gase is a bad idea.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Nope. Not what I said at all actually.

We don't penny pinch MBB or WBB, nor should we. I'm tired of penny pinching football and expecting to win.

It’s chicken or egg at this point. UConn football needs to win, sell tickets so we can again spend more on the staff. Randy is here on the cheap and the theory was he’d get us back to competitive, so we could then get a decent replacement and staff.

They didn’t cheap out hiring Diaco. Even though it didn’t work out. We grabbed a Broyles award winner from ND.

Like it or not, this is Randy’s show for a couple more years.

 

[RSTuthill]

Like it or not, this is Randy’s show for a couple more years.

That is what I thought too, at least until the end of his contract. But the new president changes things. I now think that chances are 50-50 that if 2019 produces less than 3 wins that he will be gone along with AD David Benedict.

 

[ktuck911]

That is what I thought too, at least until the end of his contract. But the new president changes things. I now think that chances are 50-50 that if 2019 produces less than 3 wins that he will be gone along with AD David Benedict.

IF that happens and Edsall & Benedict get canned, this program might be done @ the FBS level for a little while. Some of us that road the wave to FBS football from the beginning may not be around to see this program where it should've probably already have been by now, as a competitive FBS football program going to bowl games year in & year out.

 

[RSTuthill]

The program has already been done for a little while at the FBS level. And likely a fourth year coming up.

 

[Buffett10]

IF that happens and Edsall & Benedict get canned, this program might be done @ the FBS level for a little while. Some of us that road the wave to FBS football from the beginning may not be around to see this program where it should've probably already have been by now, as a competitive FBS football program going to bowl games year in & year out.

If they fire Edsall they should go and hire Briles he’ll turn this program around in 2 yrs

 

[zls44]

Using your bull horn to terminate a sport is anti UConn. He is a cancer. Absolute jerk.

That moron isn’t Anit-UConn @Exit 4 ...he is Anti UConn Football...and is probably one of if not THE loudest “UConn back to the BE” drum beaters on Twitter followed closely by Russ Steinberg and the Not a Dime Back crew.

Their entire point, if you bothered to read or use comprehension, is that UConn should spend the proper amount of money to actually compete in football or G_T_F_O, which is 100% the sentiment of everyone here, if you, repeating, paid any attention.

 

[FDNY99]

Their entire point, if you bothered to read or use comprehension, is that UConn should spend the proper amount of money to actually compete in football or G_T_F_O, which is 100% the sentiment of everyone here, if you, repeating, paid any attention.

The group I just mentioned on twitter? Absolutely not...they want UConn to go indy in football if they don't drop it and go back to the BE in all sports so that the basketball teams can get back to playing schools like Nova, St Johns, PC and Georgetown. They could care less about football and make no bones about it. That crew is all about college hoops! I know this because I have gone at it with Steinberg and the Not a Dime back crew several times about it in the past. As for No Escalators..he's just a complete ! But hey don't let the truth get in the way of a good story.

 

[Husky25]

I really don't understand the "Belongs in the Big East" Crew. UConn's only true rivals there are Nova and GTown. UConn's actual rivals are in the ACC (BC, Pitt, Cuse, Duke, UNC).

"Belongs in the Big East" is lazy.

 

[uconnbill]

Stop with the Big East bullcrap already.
Number one: They may not want UConn back.
Two: The league is limited in what they will make and UConn will still lose money hand over fist

When will the basketball people realize that College Football runs the show.

UConn should have made the jump ten years earlier and would be in a better place now, IMHO