If Edsall gets fired, who's on short list of potential HC?

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

We have FCS players why not an FCS coach?

 

[CL82]

The incredible overrating of Randy's first stint is endlessly amusing to me. He did a good job. But that's all. Some of you talk about it like he didn't get an incredible break by being in a weak, schizophrenic league that had an auto-bid to the BCS. They were 8-4. Basic analytical analysis pegged them as 58th out of 120 teams across FBS that year. Light years better than now, but hardly anything exceptional.

Maybe, but given that it looks questionable that Randy will win 8 games in his entire second tenure with the school, winning 8 games in a single season seems like nirvana.

 

[Purple Stein]

The Kennesaw State coach currently makes 500k per year.

And he's built the program from literally nothing. They started playing football in 2015 and, after a middling first two years, he's had them in the FCS quarterfinals twice with two Big South titles.

He makes 500K. He runs the triple option. He knows how to build a program (or at least works for a school that knows how to build a program). Brian Bohannon checks all the boxes if we could pry him from the state of Georgia -- which I'm just about 100% sure we can't.

 

[Milo65]

The flaw in this "Fire Edsall" theory is that it seeks to fix the problem by reaching for something that can be controlled. A new coach can't solve the underlying structural problems:

1. No conference.
2. No bowl affiliation.
3. No media exposure..
4. No money.
5. No support for football inside the administration.
6. No reasonable expectation this program will exist in five years.

A coach isn't coming to UConn to build UConn into greatness. He would come to leverage UConn into a better job elsewhere. That means there has to be a path forward for this prospective coach. Where is that visible path given the structural defects that surround the program? He isn't going to come to UConn just to sink with the ship.

The University won't pay enough to attract a quality coach. Any up and coming FCS coach with potential will avoid this situation like he would avoid cholera. You could hire a disgraced former coach looking to get back into coaching. You could take a flyer on an unknown who would with virtual certainty be worse than Edsall.

The problem isn't the coach. The problem is the administration. The administration knows all too well what it is doing. And why.

This and unlike PP and Diaco. Edsall is the athletic director’s hire. If he cans Edsall now, it’s on him.

 

[Hogoff]

Maybe we can hire the next Scott frost for 35 million and get beat by 30 to Minnesota?

I said competitive salary, not stupid salary.

 

[Tex-Lager93]

Jerry Kill. Built Northern Illinois and resurrected Minnesota. Almost had him join that time to save Diaco. At a minimum, he could stop the bleeding.

 

[huskyrob1]

Jerry Kill. Built Northern Illinois and resurrected Minnesota. Almost had him join that time to save Diaco. At a minimum, he could stop the bleeding.

He was my choice three years ago. Not sure if he'd leave VT, now if he wants a another challenge, maybe.

 

[Block C]

There is coaching talent out there. The last few hires tell me the administration dont know what they are doing

 

[junglehusky]

Scott Frost was the hottest coach a few years ago with tremendous success. Nebraska got killed yesterday by Minnesota and is doing poorly, Nebraska has an extremely high paid coaching staff and they are still losing,if frost gets fired maybe he would come here?

no

 

[06029]

Ok, so Tulane has dumb players. What school has the dumbest posters?

Rutgers! Duh!

 

[06029]

If UConn did slightly lower their standards for football recruiting, another benefit might be more interest from available head coach candidates. The big question is would the BOT and the new president go along with that?

Make the standards equal to what they were for MBB under Calhoun. If he was granted 3 reaches every year, apply that % to football. Create a few personal skills courses to keep them eligible and allow 1 or 2 in from the general student population to make it legit. So what if your grad rate drops to <90% if it results in your win rate going to over 80%?

 

[huskysupporter]

Make the standards equal to what they were for MBB under Calhoun. If he was granted 3 reaches every year, apply that % to football. Create a few personal skills courses to keep them eligible and allow 1 or 2 in from the general student population to make it legit. So what if your grad rate drops to <90% if it results in your win rate going to over 80%?

I think that is a perfect ratio - and some of those kids will be successful in the classroom too. No need to mention names but we all know a few kids (all conference types and even an all American) who wanted to go to UCONN but had to go elsewhere because of the stupid standard set.

 

[RSTuthill]

If this happens and they go the cheap route, UConn football is almost certainly headed to FCS or termination. If so, this discussion is not worth having. It simply won't matter.

This discussion should focus on whom you would want if cost is no object. All in on a big name who got terminated and tarnished for one reason or other and wants to pull off a miracle as his latest rabbit out of the hat and thus obtain redemption, resurrection as a coach who walks on water, and a ticket back to the big time. Of course, if he pulls all that off, he WILL be back in the bigtime.

Now, who might such a coach be ....

 

[CTBballfan243]

The football program (and all athletic programs within the athletic department) need to be able to sustain themselves without relying on the CT tax payers or the students to subsidize the athletic department. That really is the bottom line. At some point the programs can either sustain themselves or the can’t. At that point someone is going to need to make a financial decision.

 

[Purple Stein]

This discussion should focus on whom you would want if cost is no object. All in on a big name who got terminated and tarnished for one reason or other and wants to pull off a miracle as his latest rabbit out of the hat and thus obtain redemption, resurrection as a coach who walks on water, and a ticket back to the big time. Of course, if he pulls all that off, he WILL be back in the bigtime.

Now, who might such a coach be ....

RE 3.0?

 

[Scrutineer]

If Kansas could get Les Miles, I say go for Urban Meyer. What bigger ego boost could there be for an accomplished coach then to MUGA, Make UConn Great Again................

 

[noeynox]

Where is KC Keeler?

 

[CTBballfan243]

I hear there’s a Gruden looking for work.

 

[Bongo Fury]

Where is KC Keeler?

Hanging out with Pete Lembo?

 

[CCSUblue]

Where is KC Keeler?

Sam Houston State

 

[noeynox]

Hanging out with Pete Lembo?

I wanted Clawson, but would have preferred Lembo to Diaco.

 

[UCFBFAN91]

I was all aboard on the Pat Narduzzi and Steve Addazio bandwagon...... in another world that would have worked out

 

[RSTuthill]

If Kansas could get Les Miles, I say go for Urban Meyer. What bigger ego boost could there be for an accomplished coach then to MUGA, Make UConn Great Again......

Why the heck not?? At least try. Go big or go home in this business. That much is obvious.

 

[oldanintheway]

Good head coaches you got to pay a minimum of $3.0M for starters. MBB assistants I think make between $275,000 and $325,000. A good football coordinator you should pay at least $450,000 at UConn.

Maybe off thread a bit, but down here in Charlottesville, 2 Athletic financial gifts of note. This year: One from an alum for $7 Million which is distributed among Student Health Services Center but also all athletic upgrades and an anonymous $5 Million gift strictly for athletics. UVA kicking off a 5 BILLION Dollar Fund raising Campaign. 2 major Private gifts to UVA just this year, 2019, one, the largest in School history, $120 Million for a Data Sciences Center and just 2 days ago a combo gift of $100 Million from a 1961 graduate alum from Rochester New York.
One other note, the ladies softball team is in the process of building an absolutely beautiful stadium/field. For those unfamiliar, the first class Baseball Stadium, the combo Soccer/Lacrosse Stadium, UVA Track Stadium, and now the Softball Stadium are all literally rubbing shoulders with each other right across the street from the 15,000 seat John Paul Jones BB area that opened in 2006 and the relatively new ladies Field Hockey facility. The 61,500 seat Scott Football Stadium is a leisurely half mile walk down a tree lined street. Yeah, UVA is loaded. Someone in the thread mentioned about academics and difficulty perhaps getting certain athletes, if an athletically minded qualified kid is looking at UConn and UVA..., well, they don't have to take a bus to the football stadium...Go Huskies.

 

[uconnell]

Maybe off thread a bit, but down here in Charlottesville, 2 Athletic financial gifts of note. This year: One from an alum for $7 Million which is distributed among Student Health Services Center but also all athletic upgrades and an anonymous $5 Million gift strictly for athletics. UVA kicking off a 5 BILLION Dollar Fund raising Campaign. 2 major Private gifts to UVA just this year, 2019, one, the largest in School history, $120 Million for a Data Sciences Center and just 2 days ago a combo gift of $100 Million from a 1961 graduate alum from Rochester New York.
One other note, the ladies softball team is in the process of building an absolutely beautiful stadium/field. For those unfamiliar, the first class Baseball Stadium, the combo Soccer/Lacrosse Stadium, UVA Track Stadium, and now the Softball Stadium are all literally rubbing shoulders with each other right across the street from the 15,000 seat John Paul Jones BB area that opened in 2006 and the relatively new ladies Field Hockey facility. The 61,500 seat Scott Football Stadium is a leisurely half mile walk down a tree lined street. Yeah, UVA is loaded. Someone in the thread mentioned about academics and difficulty perhaps getting certain athletes, if an athletically minded qualified kid is looking at UConn and UVA..., well, they don't have to take a bus to the football stadium...Go Huskies.

Does the UVA fb team walk the half a mile to the stadium?

 

[uconnell]

The “ blue blood teams’ fans who believe their coach doesn’t cheat!

 

[uconnell]

Good athletics make a school more attractive to all students. UConn's incoming classes improved greatly when BB started getting good. I don't buy the "lowering standards for football would be a huge mistake" argument. If big time football can work at state universities across the country, it can work for UConn. It is a shame that New England - and Connecticut, in particular - have such a snobbish attitude when it comes to D1 sports.

Th@nk you, thank you, thank you. I was thinking the same thing but you wrote it much better.

 

[uconnell]

Maybe off thread a bit, but down here in Charlottesville, 2 Athletic financial gifts of note. This year: One from an alum for $7 Million which is distributed among Student Health Services Center but also all athletic upgrades and an anonymous $5 Million gift strictly for athletics. UVA kicking off a 5 BILLION Dollar Fund raising Campaign. 2 major Private gifts to UVA just this year, 2019, one, the largest in School history, $120 Million for a Data Sciences Center and just 2 days ago a combo gift of $100 Million from a 1961 graduate alum from Rochester New York.
One other note, the ladies softball team is in the process of building an absolutely beautiful stadium/field. For those unfamiliar, the first class Baseball Stadium, the combo Soccer/Lacrosse Stadium, UVA Track Stadium, and now the Softball Stadium are all literally rubbing shoulders with each other right across the street from the 15,000 seat John Paul Jones BB area that opened in 2006 and the relatively new ladies Field Hockey facility. The 61,500 seat Scott Football Stadium is a leisurely half mile walk down a tree lined street. Yeah, UVA is loaded. Someone in the thread mentioned about academics and difficulty perhaps getting certain athletes, if an athletically minded qualified kid is looking at UConn and UVA..., well, they don't have to take a bus to the football stadium...Go Huskies.

Jjeeze do you have to rub it in?

 

[uconnell]

Schedule? What schedule? UConn has no schedule.

You are completely missing the point. Randy Edsall was hired to be the problem. The Administration made a strategic decision to sacrifice football for the sake of the basketball brand. Having made that strategic decision, the Administration reached the quite obvious corollary that the most logical football future is no football at all. That is what is going on. The pieces are being arranged to shut the program down with as little angst as possible. It's like a real-life NCAA version of the movie Major League.

Why would any coach stick his head into that noose?

Has anyone noticed how much our non revenue Olympic sports m&w soccer,etc has gone downhill since all this killing of the fb team? Even field hockey .

 

[CCSUblue]

Has anyone noticed how much our non revenue Olympic sports m&w soccer,etc has gone downhill since all this killing of the fb team? Even field hockey .

Field Hockey is 10-2 and ranked 4th in the nation currently. But otherwise, yes, looks like the soccer teams are middling, mens even struggling a bit.