Game Week - UConn v. Tulane (Senior Day)

[Confident Carl]

The lack of self awareness is pretty concerning.

His ability to focus in this stressful situation and compartmentalize his thoughts is impressive. No way he should tune into this slaughter house. He's aware, don't kid yourself. He's just not focusing on all the noise and negativity. He doesn't need you or me to tell him the problems. He has expressed that he knows what they are on Offense and he will fix them.

 

[huskymedic]

The lack of self awareness is pretty concerning.

Runs in the family tree...

Rhiannon Potkey@TennesseeBeat2 hours ago
#Vols coach Butch Jones said he doesn't understand why people don't get the progress made at Tennessee the last 4 years.

He's really no different than a lot of coaches.

 

[UConnNick]

The lack of self awareness is pretty concerning.

It's tough to be self aware when you openly acknowledge that you're not paying much attention to anything going on around you.

If the trash needs to be emptied at his house, I wonder if he gets away with telling his wife that he's not paying any attention to the accumulation of trash, so he's not responsible for knowing it needs to be emptied. Somehow I'll bet he's not getting away with that one.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Runs in the family tree...

Rhiannon Potkey@TennesseeBeat2 hours ago
#Vols coach Butch Jones said he doesn't understand why people don't get the progress made at Tennessee the last 4 years.

He's really no different than a lot of coaches.

Butch Jones is 29-20 as head coach at Tennessee in 4 years. Has had three consecutive winning seasons and won 2 bowl games. Very Randy Edsall success-ish.

Bob Diaco will need to win Saturday and go 12-0 in his 4th year to get to 24-24.

 

[huskymedic]

Butch Jones is 29-20 as head coach at Tennessee in 4 years. Has had three consecutive winning seasons and won 2 bowl games. Very Randy Edsall success-ish.

Bob Diaco will need to win Saturday and go 12-0 in his 4th year to get to 24-24.

... and people are calling for BJ's job. My only point is the coach speak that gets spewed by these guys. Brian Kelly's comments yesterday were tone deaf as well. I don't lose sleep over sound bytes - on field performance is what makes me want to stick an ice pick in my eye.

 

[UConnDan97]

He doesn't need you or me to tell him the problems. He has expressed that he knows what they are on Offense and he will fix them.

He has been saying that he knows what the problem is and how to fix it for three years. What's absolutely astounding at this point is that there is still someone out there who believes him!

Carl, I think you know that I'm a "glass half full" guy in most every situation. But even I am taken aback by your belief in what he's saying...

 

[huskysupporter]

His ability to focus in this stressful situation and compartmentalize his thoughts is impressive. No way he should tune into this slaughter house. He's aware, don't kid yourself. He's just not focusing on all the noise and negativity. He doesn't need you or me to tell him the problems. He has expressed that he knows what they are on Offense and he will fix them.

Not sure if this is a joke or not

 

[ZOOCONN]

Surprised you feel that way. He's big, fast, athletic, tough and smart. Sounds like a high end NFL draft pick visa vi Byron Jones. Interesting if he ends up starting next year, we might have three (Andrew Adams, Giants) UCONN db's in successive years starting on NFL teams. Add to them, Darius Butler, Colts, Dwayne Gratz, Jags and Tyvon Branch Raiders. Pretty impressive for UCONN.

yes he is a great athlete but he cant do the job, consistently gets beat in coverage and the only reason he hasn't been more exposed is because he is so athletically gifted.

 

[Colt house75]

His ability to focus in this stressful situation and compartmentalize his thoughts is impressive. No way he should tune into this slaughter house. He's aware, don't kid yourself. He's just not focusing on all the noise and negativity. He doesn't need you or me to tell him the problems. He has expressed that he knows what they are on Offense and he will fix them.

He has been saying that he knows what the problem is and how to fix it for three years. What's absolutely astounding at this point is that there is still someone out there who believes him!

Carl, I think you know that I'm a "glass half full" guy in most every situation. But even I am taken aback by your belief in what he's saying...

Not sure if this is a joke or not

Understand everyone's viewpoints,
No matter what, IMO, the $$$ impact of $5mm or $3.4 to us as a G5 school dictates and he gets the year (or part year) to correct. I have to believe between the entire staff's connections and multiple years in the game as well as Benedict's connections , I hope that an experienced Offensive Coordinator list and potential cure is in the works. If not, Benedict is gone as well as Diaco. Predicting we will know the new OC in less than 2-3 weeks, after Conferecne championship games.

 

[Confident Carl]

If it's easy to fix, then we should fire him for negligence.

If it's not easy to fix, we should fire him for fraud.

Either way...

Diaco is saying a car has a rear end, transmission and an engine. If one of those major components is bad, the entire car doesn't need to be junked. No question Diaco is the one who bought the faulty part. He holds himself responsible for being a poor purchasing agent. He believes he can put the car in proper working order with the right Offensive Coordinator. It won't be Corley, it can't be! Even though he said one day he will be great. Not yet, not enough experience! BD is fortunate that his renegotiated contract bought him a 3,400,000 warranty, otherwise he would not have an opportunity for correction and redemption as he seeks forgiveness for his sins.

Diaco and staff believed that a down hill running game lead by Frank Verducci, a guy who coached various positions (mostly OL, TE and run game coordinator) for a variety of NFL, Canadian and college teams (9 different jobs over like 14 years!Now that doesn't sound like a RKC to me! ) is hired as Offensive Coordinator. Diaco's Iowa and high school history had a lot to do with this hire. It was a near fatal decision to hire Verducci, especially at this critical stage of the rebuild. Of all the mistakes Diaco has made, this was by far the biggest. I understand the nepotism claim but it was more like blind loyalty to Verducci and his father. He got too close to be objective. One needs to hire the very best and it's obvious to me that Verducci knows football but certainly not enough to be an effective offensive coordinator. We haven't heard too much about this because Diaco wants to wait until the end of season. My guess is that Verducci and Cummings at the very minimum will be let go.

There are some excellent FCS coordinators and staffs out there who had high flying offenses last year. One of them in our parts, James Madison is the 4th seed in the FCS playoff. They finished with a 10-1 overall record and an 8-0 conference record. Their only loss was 56-28 to North Carolina. They finished 3rd in the NCAA with 5,742 yards, 7.05/play. Their Offensive Coordinator, Donnie Kirkpatrick is a veteran who spent ten years at ECU before coming to JMU. In 2015 they also had one of the most prolific offenses in the FCS. Ironically JMU offered Donovan Williams. ECU runs a combination spread type offense. I have no reason to believe Kirkpatrick is on the radar but I could see something like this happening. James Madison University Athletics - 2016 Football Coaching Staff

 

[whaler11]

And Carl what EVERYONE else in the world can see is that not one thing on the car works.

Offense
Defense
Special Teams
Coaching Decisions
Recruiting

Every last part of this car is busted - - and as I'm sure you know - problems don't get fixed unless you acknowledge there is a problem.

This is beyond stupid at this point.

 

[Confident Carl]

Not sure if this is a joke or not

In this context I was not emphasizing his coaching ability more his ability to get beyond what must be an agonizing and dark time in his career. He is close to have blown this gig. He either rebounds with lessons learned and corresponding proper adjustments or it's over. That's a lot of pressure. All I'm saying is his ability to focus his attention under those circumstances is impressive, not his performance to date by any means.

 

[Confident Carl]

And Carl what EVERYONE else in the world can see is that not one thing on the car works.

Offense
Defense
Special Teams
Coaching Decisions
Recruiting

Every last part of this car is busted - - and as I'm sure you know - problems don't get fixed unless you acknowledge there is a problem.

This is beyond stupid at this point.

I don't agree. Not saying any of the above is perfect but the offense put together by the WRONG offensive coordinator (Diaco's fault) made everything fall apart. If you look at most of the games for the most part the Defense fell apart in the second half both physically (out there too long) and mentally because they knew the team had no ability to come from behind. Diaco has excellent Defensive coaching skills and a motivator of players but he needs a really good Offensive coordinator to be successful. I am hoping he finds that person or he is done.

 

[Confident Carl]

He has been saying that he knows what the problem is and how to fix it for three years. What's absolutely astounding at this point is that there is still someone out there who believes him!

Carl, I think you know that I'm a "glass half full" guy in most every situation. But even I am taken aback by your belief in what he's saying...

Dan,

After a gut wrenching an agonizing first year which we all got through ( like a baby trying to lift a coffee table ). Diaco's second year was much improved and we went to a bowl. This year was gonna be a lot better with all the seniors and the strength and conditioning. Everyone is tremendously disappointed and angry. Diaco says the fans should be and is equally if not more angry. I know he has got to be disgusted with himself for the coach selection on the offensive side of the ball. He knows he made a collossal mistake. He just can't publicly talk about it now.
I believe the next key hire st OC if it's the right guy will turn things around. Tearing down everything now would be much much worse and possibly prolong the turn around.

 

[Carl Spackler]

I don't agree. Not saying any of the above is perfect but the offense put together by the WRONG offensive coordinator (Diaco's fault) made everything fall apart. If you look at most of the games for the most part the Defense fell apart in the second half both physically (out there too long) and mentally because they knew the team had no ability to come from behind. Diaco has excellent Defensive coaching skills and a motivator of players but he needs really good Offensive coordinator to be successful. I am hoping he finds that person or he is done.

Yeah, I'm calling BS on this right now. And you're giving my screen name a bad rep.

 

[huskysupporter]

I don't agree. Not saying any of the above is perfect but the offense put together by the WRONG offensive coordinator (Diaco's fault) made everything fall apart. If you look at most of the games for the most part the Defense fell apart in the second half both physically (out there too long) and mentally because they knew the team had no ability to come from behind. Diaco has excellent Defensive coaching skills and a motivator of players but he needs a really good Offensive coordinator to be successful. I am hoping he finds that person or he is done.

Defense fell apart for three reasons: (1) having to be on field often due to offenses 3 and out style (2) not having a lot of talent (3) coaches absolute inability to make adjustments.

 

[Confident Carl]

Yeah, I'm calling BS on this right now. And you're giving my screen name a bad rep.

Funny thing is Diaco would probably agree with you and say after watching this bowl of snow nobody should be saying anything nice about him.

I stand by my premis that he really Pucked up big time when he hired Verducci. Carl he's made other mistakes as well but that was the Puck up of the year! Lucky for him the buy out is so high or he would be history.

 

[whaler11]

I don't agree. Not saying any of the above is perfect but the offense put together by the WRONG offensive coordinator (Diaco's fault) made everything fall apart. If you look at most of the games for the most part the Defense fell apart in the second half both physically (out there too long) and mentally because they knew the team had no ability to come from behind. Diaco has excellent Defensive coaching skills and a motivator of players but he needs a really good Offensive coordinator to be successful. I am hoping he finds that person or he is done.

You can say that but the defense stinks and nobody looks particularly motivated.

 

[huskysupporter]

Dan,

After a gut wrenching an agonizing first year which we all got through ( like a baby trying to lift a coffee table ). Diaco's second year was much improved and we went to a bowl. This year was gonna be a lot better with all the seniors and the strength and conditioning. Everyone is tremendously disappointed and angry. Diaco says the fans should be and is equally if not more angry. I know he has got to be disgusted with himself for the coach selection on the offensive side of the ball. He knows he made a collossal mistake. He just can't publicly talk about it now.
I believe the next key hire st OC if it's the right guy will turn things around. Tearing down everything now would be much much worse and possibly prolong the turn around.

How would you explain HCBDs atrocious in game coaching?

 

[Confident Carl]

You can say that but the defense stinks and nobody looks particularly motivated.

The offense more than stunk but the defense was okay and no where near good enough to make up for the sheety putrid pucked up offense

 

[Confident Carl]

How would you explain HCBDs atrocious in game coaching?

He made mistakes, every coach does but when you are always in a nail biter those mistakes are magnified. The last seconds of the Navy game were inexcusable but Bronco Mendenhall did a similar thing against us in the VA game and blew the game. By the way he will probably finish 2-10
this year. He had a 99-44 record at BYU and is 6-4 in bowl games. I doubt that all of the sudden he became a lousy coach.

 

[Carl Spackler]

He made mistakes, every coach does but when you are always in a nail biter those mistakes are magnified. The last seconds of the Navy game were inexcusable but Bronco Mendenhall did a similar thing against us in the VA game and blew the game. By the way he will probably finish 2-10
this year. He had a 99-44 record at BYU and is 6-4 in bowl games. I doubt that all of the sudden he became a lousy coach.

You're delusional too. You have a friend in coach Booby. We're two last second kicks away from 1-10 in year 3, with the best players on the roster all having been recruited 4 and 5 years ago.

 

[Confident Carl]

yes he is a great athlete but he cant do the job, consistently gets beat in coverage and the only reason he hasn't been more exposed is because he is so athletically gifted.

Let's see what the NFL draft has to say.

 

[Confident Carl]

You're delusional too. You have a friend in coach Booby. We're two last second kicks away from 1-10 in year 3, with the best players on the roster all having been recruited 4 and 5 years ago.

Do you watch much NFL football? They usually call a win a win, style points don't matter

 

[Stainmaster]

Do you watch much NFL football? They usually call a win a win, style points don't matter

From my outside vantage point, you're doing an atrocious job defending Diaco.

 

[whaler11]

The offense more than stunk but the defense was okay and no where near good enough to make up for the sheety putrid pucked up offense

The defense is AWFUL. You've lost your mind.

 

[UConnDan97]

The defense is AWFUL. You've lost your mind.

It really is bad. Hard to defend. The worst part of their suckage is that I think the coaching is the major reason why.

We consistently rush 4 or less, we leave 12 years cushions on their WR's, and we get gashed for a minimum of 10 yards a clip. No aggression as a philosophy had killed this D, and that is absolutely on the coaches...

 

[CTMike]

Not a single phase is played aggressively. It's a complete abomination.

 

[Confident Carl]

The defense is AWFUL. You've lost your mind.

According to NCAA stats UCONN'S defense ranked 68 out of 125 in the country in Total Defense while they were 122 out of 125 in Total offense. I said the offense stunk and the defense was okay. The numbers bear that out. They were close to the middle in Total defense and almost dead last in Total offense. That's losing my mind?

 

[whaler11]

According to NCAA stats UCONN'S defense ranked 68 out of 125 in the country in Total Defense while they were 122 out of 125 in Total offense. I said the offense stunk and the defense was okay. The numbers bear that out. They were close to the middle in Total defense and almost dead last in Total offense. That's losing my mind?

If this is your idea of an argument it's not worth discussing any further. Next year when they are trying to come up with 3.5 million to fire your boy after another 2-10 debacle you can tell us just how darn great things are going to be.