Edsall's Thougts on UCONN vs. Maryland

[UConnDan97]

The Edsall era:

Maryland 31

CT 16

Okay, so that means that it is statistically the other way during his era, since they have 60% larger population but 91% more NFL players produced in that time.

Here's the $64 question: does he believe that he will be able to capitalize enough from that disparity at "State U" than he did from CT prospects along with our better ability to attract the MA players and the rest of New England (players like Todman, Reyes, etc.)? I guess he'll find out in a couple of years....if we don't get him fired after this week!!

In the immortal words of CoachCap, "Let's hang 60 on 'em!!"

 

[pj]

The Edsall era:

Maryland 31

CT 16

Maybe he felt he couldn't recruit Connecticut. Does no good to be coach in an area that produces NFL players if you can't recruit them. Perhaps he thought he would recruit Maryland as the UMd coach better than Connecticut as the UConn coach, at least until they got to know him ...

Maryland produced 43 D-I signees in 2012. As far as individual schools, according to MaxPreps http://www.maxpreps.com/signingday/...=MD&ssid=f28cd02d-9746-48e9-a74b-fffef375b19a last year Our Lady of Good Counsel (Olney, MD) produced 6 D-I recruits and DeMatha (Hyattsville MD) and Gilman (Baltimore) produced 4 D-I recruits and Calvert Hall (Baltimore) and Dunbar (Baltimore) each produced 3. Maryland got 4 of the Our Lady of Good Counsel players. So almost half of D-I recruits in the state of Maryland came from 5 powerhouse schools.Washington DC produced another 12 recruits, 3 from Woodson and 2 each from Archbishop Carroll and Coolidge.

Connecticut produced 9 D-I signees, no school had more than 1. http://www.maxpreps.com/signingday/...=CT&ssid=f28cd02d-9746-48e9-a74b-fffef375b19a

NFL players go proportionate to population because genetics dominate. D-I signees are more influenced by football culture.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

Randy's thoughts on the Connecticut game? "Run right, run left, run up the middle. Execute. Defend against the run right,run left and run up the middle. Execute."

 

[HuskyDogArt]

The problem anyone coaching UConn and trying to recruit CT kids is that there simply isn't a very big pool to pick from. I mean look at this state. There are counties in other states bigger than CT. LOL there's probably a couple ranches out west bigger than CT. Then add the fact that there are a lot of people in this state leary about football related injuries and whether they want their sons playing the sport in the first place and...... school systems looking at soccer as a less expensive alternative. Look at Suffield. For a while they had a combined team with Windsor Locks and I'm not even sure they have that any more. I'm not saying that there isn't legit Div 1 talent in the state, I'm just saying states like VA are bigger and have more kids playing football so they obviously have a bigger pool of players.

Now Randy could have done a better job reaching out to the high school coaches around here and obviously anyone coaching UConn has to see that it's got to be a regional thing because of the size of the recruiting pool you have. I give credit to Edsall for sticking it out for 10 years while UConn made the transition to BCS but he killed that credibility in the way he left and I won't let go of that. That was a real bush league move and he has to be held accountable. After UConn pounds them up here next year I'll let it rest.

Of course, in FL even the smallest high schools are bigger than most of the high schools in CT. Heck even the elementary schools in Hillsborough county (Tampa, FL) are bigger then the high schools in CT. Ok, Plant High (in Tampa) might be a nationally ranked high school in FB, but in a SCIENCE BOWL game... RHAM could beat them.

 

[HuskyDogArt]

I don't doubt some of the high schools down there turn out a high number of D-1 athletes. Baltimore's Gilman HS just beat Don Bosco Prep - the same Bosco that just waxed Greenwich in a scrimmage 42-7. This years Bosco squad has 8 players I believe who have D-1 offers. Who knows what Gilman has. DeMatha HS is routinely ranked in the top 25 nationally. CT schools rarely get a sniff in regional rankings. I don't take offense at the comment. It is what it is.

Remember, some of the states that are 'FB states' do not have LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS. HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT (Tampa, FL) is about 1/2 the size of CT. If you think that a school district of 18 sq mi (for instance the town of East Hartford) could compete with a school from HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT (like Armwood High, who is on probation for illegally moving people into the area for FOOTBALL), it is no contest. If EHHS played ARMWOOD (usually nationally ranked, but they lost their first game of the season since 1992), AHS could play the JV team against EHHS varsity and AHS would win.

comparing FB in CT to MD or FL (or TX) is comparing apples to oranges.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

comparing FB in CT to MD or FL (or TX) is comparing apples to oranges

TCU recruits Texas
USF recruits Fla and JC
Utah is KState of the Rockies, Mostly CA JCs and non JCs
Louisville and Boise State you can be a bivalve and go there but...
Louisville recruits GA and Fla hard and JCs
Boise State recruited CA and is getting Texas kids now too.
All these schools recruit in goldmines

Randy could not recruit into one that was in his backyard (New Jersey)
At UMD he doesnt have to

 

[huskysupporter]

Randy's thoughts on the Connecticut game? "Run right, run left, run up the middle. Execute. Defend against the run right,run left and run up the middle. Execute."

. . . And ride that system to two BE championships.

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[SAMCRO]

. . . And ride that system to two BE championships.

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Shhhh. We sucked those years, remember.