Edsall/Hurley Contracts Extended two years...

[Waquoit]

Find a young hungry coach willing to bet on himself.

We did. You want us to find another but better?

 

[huskysupporter]

We did. You want us to find another but better?

Yep. One who has a vision and can explain how he is going to manage the program and make UCONN competitive despite all the obstacles. Winning breakfast isn’t the answer that is needed.

 

[freescooter]

Honestly sometimes it’s just luck, too. James Franklin wasn’t even vanderbuilt’s first choice when he got the job and he mAde them competitive. And they have far worse problems than UConn. At Penn State he has been good but not great. The guy from Houston was considered “can’t miss” at Texas where he missed at least according to expectations. Go 7-5 at UConn every year and you’re good. At Texas it is a fail!

 

[John Greene]

Btw, Bill Clark gets paid more than Randy. Bill Clark is thinking about how he can get the next SEC HC job, not a lateral move north - even if we upped the financial ante big time.

UAB coach Bill Clark gets big raise, becomes C-USA’s highest-paid coach

The school today announced "an agreement in principle has been reached" with Clark, making him the highest-paid coach in Conference USA.

www.al.com

98.5% of the UConn fan base would have a difficult time understanding more than 5 words coming out of Clark's mouth. Not only that but he would also be more then a little inclined to try to bring you know who into the huddle. Hell he would probably try to name him honorary captain.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

This spring may be a good time to fire Edsall. First, look to other sports. Perhaps, UConn will not only make the NCAA tournament in Men's basketball and make it through to the sweet 16, men's hockey has done well, and women's basketball remains at the top. I remain impressed where baseball is heading this spring.

Edsall leaving will send a message that UConn sports are back and we are confident about our winning future. The optics also will send a message to the ACC or other P5 conferences we take athletics seriously here.

Even if we remain as a FB independent, there remains a risk that calls to send UConn to the FCS will be successful. I even saw a post here that UConn should play Sacred Heart in football. What if UConn loses to Yale? Maybe Central CT will be a struggle? Some will argue FCS is the right home for the Huskies, playing other New England teams as in the Yankee Conference.

Also, typical arguments against firing a college coach tend to apply to mediocre programs with mediocre records where there is a large payout to the coach. UConn FB is in the dumpster. It is also in the rare situation that it was seen as marginally better because it skipped playing an entire season and did not have another horrible win-loss record for all to view.

Edsall has never been a great recruiter. His strength decades ago was taking very good FB players and turning them into great FB players. We haven't seen that in his second reign. And I am skeptical it will happen this fall.

If UConn does not act soon, be ready for Sacred Heart as the annual homecoming game and posters on the Boneyard getting all excited about playing Univ. of Rhode Island.

 

[cullaville]

The general consensus is that he's improved recruiting. He deserves the chance to see if it's translated to the field.

The way I interpret this extension is that there is nobody else at this time that would take the UCONN job and that he can be fired at any time. If I was a recruit this gives me no confidence that he will be around long.

As a program I am disappointed because it seems to me there is a coach who they know is going to be let go sooner rather than later.

 

[hardcorehusky]

This spring may be a good time to fire Edsall. First, look to other sports. Perhaps, UConn will not only make the NCAA tournament in Men's basketball and make it through to the sweet 16, men's hockey has done well, and women's basketball remains at the top. I remain impressed where baseball is heading this spring.

Edsall leaving will send a message that UConn sports are back and we are confident about our winning future. The optics also will send a message to the ACC or other P5 conferences we take athletics seriously here.

Even if we remain as a FB independent, there remains a risk that calls to send UConn to the FCS will be successful. I even saw a post here that UConn should play Sacred Heart in football. What if UConn loses to Yale? Maybe Central CT will be a struggle? Some will argue FCS is the right home for the Huskies, playing other New England teams as in the Yankee Conference.

Also, typical arguments against firing a college coach tend to apply to mediocre programs with mediocre records where there is a large payout to the coach. UConn FB is in the dumpster. It is also in the rare situation that it was seen as marginally better because it skipped playing an entire season and did not have another horrible win-loss record for all to view.

Edsall has never been a great recruiter. His strength decades ago was taking very good FB players and turning them into great FB players. We haven't seen that in his second reign. And I am skeptical it will happen this fall.

If UConn does not act soon, be ready for Sacred Heart as the annual homecoming game and posters on the Boneyard getting all excited about playing Univ. of Rhode Island.

No matter how much logic we send your way, you keep coming up with this drivel. This isn't even about having a conversation, your lack of desire to learn something from anyone else's posts makes it impossible to give any credence to your posts. You, Huskysupporter and a few others just want RE out. The rest of us just want to win but understand this is college sports and not the pros and you just can't throw money at it and acquire players.

 

[huskymedic]

This spring may be a good time to fire Edsall.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

This spring may be a good time to fire Edsall. First, look to other sports. Perhaps, UConn will not only make the NCAA tournament in Men's basketball and make it through to the sweet 16, men's hockey has done well, and women's basketball remains at the top. I remain impressed where baseball is heading this spring.

Edsall leaving will send a message that UConn sports are back and we are confident about our winning future. The optics also will send a message to the ACC or other P5 conferences we take athletics seriously here.

Even if we remain as a FB independent, there remains a risk that calls to send UConn to the FCS will be successful. I even saw a post here that UConn should play Sacred Heart in football. What if UConn loses to Yale? Maybe Central CT will be a struggle? Some will argue FCS is the right home for the Huskies, playing other New England teams as in the Yankee Conference.

Also, typical arguments against firing a college coach tend to apply to mediocre programs with mediocre records where there is a large payout to the coach. UConn FB is in the dumpster. It is also in the rare situation that it was seen as marginally better because it skipped playing an entire season and did not have another horrible win-loss record for all to view.

Edsall has never been a great recruiter. His strength decades ago was taking very good FB players and turning them into great FB players. We haven't seen that in his second reign. And I am skeptical it will happen this fall.

If UConn does not act soon, be ready for Sacred Heart as the annual homecoming game and posters on the Boneyard getting all excited about playing Univ. of Rhode Island.

Are you a fan of UConn football?

 

[huskysupporter]

No matter how much logic we send your way, you keep coming up with this drivel. This isn't even about having a conversation, your lack of desire to learn something from anyone else's posts makes it impossible to give any credence to your posts. You, Huskysupporter and a few others just want RE out. The rest of us just want to win but understand this is college sports and not the pros and you just can't throw money at it and acquire players.

How did I get associated with that post? He should have been fired two years ago but the notion of firing him in the spring is absolutely bizzarre.

 

[deltastew]

This spring may be a good time to fire Edsall. First, look to other sports. Perhaps, UConn will not only make the NCAA tournament in Men's basketball and make it through to the sweet 16, men's hockey has done well, and women's basketball remains at the top. I remain impressed where baseball is heading this spring.

Edsall leaving will send a message that UConn sports are back and we are confident about our winning future. The optics also will send a message to the ACC or other P5 conferences we take athletics seriously here.

Even if we remain as a FB independent, there remains a risk that calls to send UConn to the FCS will be successful. I even saw a post here that UConn should play Sacred Heart in football. What if UConn loses to Yale? Maybe Central CT will be a struggle? Some will argue FCS is the right home for the Huskies, playing other New England teams as in the Yankee Conference.

Also, typical arguments against firing a college coach tend to apply to mediocre programs with mediocre records where there is a large payout to the coach. UConn FB is in the dumpster. It is also in the rare situation that it was seen as marginally better because it skipped playing an entire season and did not have another horrible win-loss record for all to view.

Edsall has never been a great recruiter. His strength decades ago was taking very good FB players and turning them into great FB players. We haven't seen that in his second reign. And I am skeptical it will happen this fall.

If UConn does not act soon, be ready for Sacred Heart as the annual homecoming game and posters on the Boneyard getting all excited about playing Univ. of Rhode Island.

That would be the worst thing we could do.. yes let’s fire Edsall and get in a new coach and start over AGAIN. All new coaches would be a program builder!! Lol. The boys attitude is that they have bought in 100 percent. Give it through 2021 and then you can reevaluate .

 

[DoctorWho85]

This was done for optics for recruits. Nothing else. Edsall has a pretty good recruiting class coming in and let's be honest, if the defense is middle of the road this year, we win no less than 4 games.

 

[J187Money]

And let's be honest, politics aside, we didn't play football this year - I'm not sure what coach is going to want to walk into that situation. Regardless of whether you think Randy should stay or go, he should get this year and see where we are. And as everyone has pointed out, no downside financially. At this point, I just want games to go to.

I went to Indy and GB to see the Packers play this year, but that's it for live football. I hate to say that I care less about the winning at this point. Just want to get back to normalcy.

 

[freescooter]

Here is my read. 1. Pasqoloni recruited some talent but couldn’t coach them
2. Diaco couldn’t coach and couldn’t evaluate talent so we went through 6 years of decline leaving a program that was a complete mess and quite honestly needed a complete rebuild.
3. AD Dave brought Edsall back with 5he complete understanding that this could be done in 2 ways. You might get a guy who goes 7-5 in year 1 but likely would couldn’t sustain it. There are lots of those guys around. They look like world beaters in year 1 but can’t sustain it. By year 3-4 you are right back where you started. Or you do a total rebuild similar to what Edsall did in his first stint. That is what they agreed to do. Look, Edsall is in his sixties. He isn’t going anywhere. Truthfully he doesn’t need this. He is doing it because he wants to rebuild the program. I think the move from the AAC is actually going to help because those teams were very good. I am sort of of the opinion that there is some Master Plan to get into another league at some point but we need a product first. Am I sure Edsall can do it? Nope. But I think when he leaves, either on his own or by being fired, the next guy will have a good bit more to work with than he did.

 

[Storrs South]

This is brielfy discussed again today by AD Benedict

David Benedict on The Rob Dibble Show | 97-9 ESPN | The Rob Dibble Show

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Those that want him fired now recognize that he has a history of developing lightly recruited or not highly ranked kids into great college players but wont give him the same amount of on the field work afforded him the first time. This is also while playing a full FBS schedule and with the constraints outlined by E4.

 

[Bongo Fury]

Those that want him fired now recognize that he has a history of developing lightly recruited or not highly ranked kids into great college players but wont give him the same amount of on the field work afforded him the first time. This is also while playing a full FBS schedule and with the constraints outlined by E4.

REs methods are slow and calculated. Not generally accepted in today’s world. Was surprised by the hire but hope to see dividends this year. They will be better.

 

[freescooter]

REs methods are slow and calculated. Not generally accepted in today’s world. Was surprised by the hire but hope to see dividends this year. They will be better.

This is my view on the process too. It is also my hope on results.

 

[raf46]

->Salary structure of both contracts remains unchanged from the original agreements.

Edsall and the University agreed to a two-year contract extension through December 31, 2023, with compensation valued at $1,256,000 during 2021-22 contract year.

"When I hired Randy, he and I knew that rebuilding our football program was a long-term project that would require a great deal of patience," Benedict said. "My confidence in his ability to revive UConn football remains strong, and I look forward to watching a committed group of young men compete on the gridiron this fall."

"I'm very appreciative that David and the university leadership understand what goes into rebuilding a football program here at UConn," Edsall said. "We are looking to reap the benefits of the hard work that our players and coaches have put forth as we head into the 2021 season." <-

two more seasons and he is gone. To be followed soon by football itself.

 

[DoctorWho85]

two more seasons and he is gone. To be followed soon by football itself.

Football isn't going anywhere. And if it does, basketballs becomes a mid-major on it's best years.

 

[Nextmanup]

Football isn't going anywhere. And if it does, basketballs becomes a mid-major on it's best years.

two more seasons and he is gone. To be followed soon by football itself.

Can’t make this fan base happy no matter what you do. Thought once the basketball team was back in the big east the critics would be happy that they got what they wanted and stop bashing the football team. I guess you just can’t win here..getting tired of this endless narrative..

 

[DoctorWho85]

Can’t make this fan base happy no matter what you do. Thought once the basketball team was back in the big east the critics would be happy that they got what they wanted and stop bashing the football team. I guess you just can’t win here..getting tired of this endless narrative..

I hated the idea of us going back to the BE, but then I saw the schedule Benedict was getting for the independent football schedule and I was made a believer. Full disclosure, I don't watch basketball at any level. I'll check scores or watch it if UConn is in the title game, anything beyond that I couldn't care less. But I will never miss a UConn football game when it's on.

 

[freescooter]

I hated the idea of us going back to the BE, but then I saw the schedule Benedict was getting for the independent football schedule and I was made a believer. Full disclosure, I don't watch basketball at any level. I'll check scores or watch it if UConn is in the title game, anything beyond that I couldn't care less. But I will never miss a UConn football game when it's on.

I agree to a point on the Big East. It drives me nuts that people pretend that the. NBE is even On the same planet as the league that existed prior to 2013-14. I think the Indy route does make it rebuilding a bit easier and I do give AD Dave kudus for the schedules he has managed to pull togther. I watch and root for the Huskies in lots of sports. And I honestly don’t get the “opposition” to having a football team. It is kind of bizarre really. Almost like those folks are scared that someone else will be successful.. I joke about it, but can you imagine how they would react if the hockey team won a national championship and the basketball team lost to LaSalle in the NIT?

 

[DoctorWho85]

I agree to a point on the Big East. It drives me nuts that people pretend that the. NBE is even On the same planet as the league that existed prior to 2013-14. I think the Indy route does make it rebuilding a bit easier and I do give AD Dave kudus for the schedules he has managed to pull togther. I watch and root for the Huskies in lots of sports. And I honestly don’t get the “opposition” to having a football team. It is kind of bizarre really. Almost like those folks are scared that someone else will be successful.. I joke about it, but can you imagine how they would react if the hockey team won a national championship and the basketball team lost to LaSalle in the NIT?

Or if baseball makes it to the super regional or championship game and Hurley has a .500 record and misses both NCAA and NIT.

 

[Woof 101]

Even if there is no financial commitment, by delaying approving or rejecting a contract extension it sends a message to Randy and to other UConn coaches: winning is important at least half of the time.

Please out of kindness supply a list of coaches of any sport at the D1 level that do not think winning is important. In all my years I have missed out on this one.

This spring may be a good time to fire Edsall.

Simply a stroke of genius with this one.

The optics also will send a message to the ACC or other P5 conferences we take athletics seriously here.

Yes! other conferences and their AD's would find firing Randy this spring knowing the dynamics and what has been going on here a brilliant move. Thus providing the fairy dust up their nose we have to get UConn on board ASAP!

No matter how much logic we send your way, you keep coming up with this drivel. This isn't even about having a conversation, your lack of desire to learn something from anyone else's posts makes it impossible to give any credence to your posts.

How dare ye apply common sense???