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Edsall stepping down immediately

Last time out, there was significant concerns about LGBTQ+ issues at BYU that actually overshadowed the won't play on Sundays thing. Have those been resolved now?

I admit to being surprised the B12 would even care about such things, but there was significant press on it.
I don't know that the issues have been resolved so much as the B12 needs more members and BYU moves the needle so they can look the other way this time around.
 
It's the right move.
Randy 2.0 was not the same as Randy 1.0. Seemed very aloof. He's always been a "my way or highway" type of coach, which doesn't work when "my way" isn't working. DB knew that Spanos was well liked by the team and they had obviously lost respect for Randy.

Move had to be made.
 
Randy 2.0 was not the same as Randy 1.0. Seemed very aloof. He's always been a "my way or highway" type of coach, which doesn't work when "my way" isn't working. DB knew that Spanos was well liked by the team and they had obviously lost respect for Randy.

Move had to be made.

You can gain buy in for the process of "my way or the highway" but when on field results go bad, or in this case historically bad, you will lose the team quickly.
 
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You can gain buy in for the process of "my way or the highway" but when on field results go bad, or in this case historically bad, you will lose the team quickly.
Put another way, "my way or the highway" works best when your way leads to success. Take Belichick for example, players that follow his instruction win and get paid. Just not by the Pats, as a rule.
 
Hyperbole galore
Misinformation abounds

1. Unless you sat in the room with RE and AD the db you have no idea what went on. If DB had control it wouldn't have taken until Sunday to have RE retire - it was reactionary at best
2. Lashlee and his family pushed Lashlee out - when will you Lashee tear jerkers understand that Lashlee wouldn't have taken $3Mill per year to stay in Storrs
3. JC did not like a weak schedule - could not be further from the truth - his goal was to play the best to become better - not 32-3 but NC
Agree with #1 and #3. Regarding #2, I believe Randy was too much of a control freak and blamed Rhett scoring too quickly for his hand picked D coordinators failures. With Randy offense was all about ground control and clock management.
 
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Randy must have literally been punching the air after he got this email. What a power move by DB.
punching the air in a good way or because he was angry?

Edit: I am somewhat surprised that email thread was leaked.
 
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We are the only fanbase like this that I know of and it's pathetic. Even with the bball fans getting their wish of rejoining the NBE, they still want the FB to go away. I had a whole conversation with a good friend yesterday about how the FB program is essential to the AD. He said it was not true and the program is an embarrassment and should just be dropped. My friend is a huge FB guy too, yet he grew up with UConn bball and thinks we need to just "accept" that's what we are as a school. It's embarrassing that our own alumnus and fans can't cheer for ALL UConn teams, no matter the sport. It's even worse when your own fan base are actively stating that the football team should be scrapped.
UConn might have the most NIMBY fans in the country. That attitude has been a significant factor in what's holding back the football program in particular.
 
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punching the air in a good way or because he was angry?

Edit: I am somewhat surprised that email thread was leaked.
Quite frankly Dave knew it would go public. Subject to FOI.
 
Eleven weeks of paid work to basically be told when I ask for something, you better get it for me.
Don't call me but if I call you, you need to pick up.
 
Benedict marking his territory and making it clear that he makes the decisions, not Edsall.

Now seems pretty sure that Edsall tried to preempt his firing with that unilateral retirement announcement, and DB was not having it.
I don’t agree. Since there’s no buyout there’s no upside to either retiring or being fired other than the allusion that it was on Edsall’s terms. But the first announcement was so clearly a respectful way not to fire Edsall but even in that Benedict withheld final judgement which he obviously rendered the following day. He probably needed just to get some alignment internally with Chair of board, president and chief of staff
 
We are the only fanbase like this that I know of and it's pathetic. Even with the bball fans getting their wish of rejoining the NBE, they still want the FB to go away. I had a whole conversation with a good friend yesterday about how the FB program is essential to the AD. He said it was not true and the program is an embarrassment and should just be dropped. My friend is a huge FB guy too, yet he grew up with UConn bball and thinks we need to just "accept" that's what we are as a school. It's embarrassing that our own alumnus and fans can't cheer for ALL UConn teams, no matter the sport. It's even worse when your own fan base are actively stating that the football team should be scrapped.
Yup. The embarrassment is the BB only fans. No other alumni base treats it’s programs so disparately and with such malign intent. The truth is they know football would suck the air out of the room if successful, as it should.
 
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Crazy train.

Edsall didn’t even work with Benedict on this.

Locker room issues…. Not the first time with Randy. He had an issue in the locker room in 2006 too. Moorhead saved Randy’s ass.
Moorhead must have had a Flux Capacitor to have gotten to 2006 from 2009.
 
UConn might have the most NIMBY fans in the country. That attitude has been a significant factor in what's holding back the football program in particular.
This is aggravating. The joke about 15 years ago was that the men’s team hated football, women’s team hates the men’s team and that football hated everyone.

I gotta blame a lot of the very old media for this many many moons ago. Calhoun was always miffed how much we spent on football (stadium, practice center) and the media kind of took up that passive aggressive spirit …basketball vs. football. I can’t tell you how many times, after a loss, the old “is it basketball season?” I heard.

Then, it was men’s hoops making fun of the older people liking women’s hoops, then women’s hoops doing the “men are men, and women are champions BS”

One of the great mysteries I have as a former writer covering the team, an alum of the school and a CT resident is the hate one of the fan bases has fir the other.

The only thing all 3 fan bases agree on is Jim Penders is awesome. I am not joking on that either.
 
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