I think it's an overreaction...

[UConnDan97]

I'm not calling for his head either, even though he found a very creative way to ruin my undefeated prediction. And I know that some of my "uber-angst" after the loss is related to all this conference realignment crap.

But I will say this; would it kill the guy to own at least 1 mistake in his lifetime?? It has been one of my biggest criticisms of him throughout his tenure here. If he owned the damned blunder like he should, I'm confident that most on the board would have already forgiven him...

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

I've read and seen enough to know that the moment was clearly too big for him.

I'm not on the fire him bandwagon, but this is his third year as a head coach. This can't happen. If he's incapable of managing the game, he needs to either find someone on the staff who can handle that or hire someone that can.

He didn't even know what down it was.

 

[jbdphi]

I've read and seen enough to know that the moment was clearly too big for him.

I'm not on the fire him bandwagon, but this is his third year as a head coach. This can't happen. If he's incapable of managing the game, he needs to either find someone on the staff who can handle that or hire someone that can.

He didn't even know what down it was.

I think he gets too excited and it eliminates his ability to be clinical and "petri dish" as he described it in the press conference. A significant percentage of the times we end up burning time outs is after we've had a big gainer play and everybody is celebrating (including Diaco) - nobody is thinking about what needs to happen next and as a result, we don't get a play in and burn a time out.

He needs to separate himself from his emotions and I'm not sure he can do that in a timely fashion - he certainly hasn't yet. I don't think that means the "moment" itself was too big for him though (maybe a minor distinction) but if he can't learn to control his emotions, he may never get there.

You could tell from the interview he did how emotional he was and he struggled to contain those emotions and had to stop and collect himself on one occasion. There is no doubt in my mind that he knows he screwed up and he was feeling it there.

 

[ZooCougar]

Bob should own this. No other response is acceptable. He's responsible for every success and failure of this team.

 

[SonsOfNutmeg]

A coworker of mine put it best this morning... When you look at the top HC's in CFB (Saban, Miles, Meyer, etc.) one thing you notice is they're in control like a general would be- Diaco on the other hand gives the impression that he can't deligate responsibilities to his staff and that he has to have a hand in everything which pulls his attention from the overall game strategy portion of coaching at this level.

I have no real evidence that this is the case (just a feeling based on a few in-practice videos I've seen, and things hes siad) but it would make sense to why he's run into this issue managing the game.

 

[Calhoun's Court]

A lot of you above have summarized my feeling about HCBD.

He acts like he is overwhelmed in critical moments.

He made 3 critical mistakes at money time.

A lot had to go wrong for us to lose. And it did.

Needs to correct this now. These kids deserved that win with their effort in the 2nd half. Losing the game on proper play calling is one thing but to lose it on stupidity is another. That is the problem.

Too critical of a time for the university and the team for the HC and staff to not run basic football play calling or not know number of time outs in crunch time.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I have no other way to respond to your post: pure stupidity. Sure, Diaco's game management skills are questionable and yesterday showed that again. But, to call the Staff a mess is nothing short of stupid. Most reasonable observers of Diaco say he's got UConn headed in the right direction. You don't sound reasonable; idiot comes to mind.

How did Maine do Saturday?

 

[Huskygamble19]

I see his explanation and am not sold. why is there so much confusion? game awareness is important for a head coach to know and he is always messing up with clock mismanagement and he is going into his 3rd year!!! First year forgiveable..2nd year..work out the kinks of the 1st year mess ups...3rd year should be down pat or close to it. That performance Saturday is was straight out of 1st 3 games of coaching.