If you aren't thrilled with Edsall

[whaler11]

Let's go glass half full..

Diaco is gone.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Why was I expecting a punchline like "you kick puppies for laughs"?

 

[FDNY99]

Let's go glass half full..

Diaco is gone.

Well put...can't be put any better right now.

 

[CTMike]

Thrilled? No. Willing to get behind it since I have no alternative? Sure. If he puts a beat down on Holy Cross? I LOVE YOU RANDY!

 

[HuskyDogArt]

I guess we got an idiot for AD...I thought he would hire someone better, but as usual, I guess my school is run by moron and clueless people.

 

[sportsart]

Why do I get the feeling Randy will open the locker room to all his former players, especially to the NFL guys so they can explain how they built the program from trailers.

Ah shoot. That thought could have gone in my thread. Damn it.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Next year will be rough for the Boneyard. Most of us here will expect things to go straight back to 2010. And they absolutely will not.

 

[kris1]

I wasn't thrilled when Edsall was named a candidate, but given the alternative, I think he was the best option. I've come around to the hire and I'm curious to see what the staff will look like. To be honest if 7-5 is the ceiling with Edsall over the next three years and UConn wins a few bowl games, it's better then watching Captain Crimson lose winnable games. I just hope the head coach in waiting, is hired to be part of the staff.

 

[whaler11]

Why was I expecting a punchline like "you kick puppies for laughs"?

Well when I heard Adams was out I did call my bookie to ask what the max I could get down on Houston was....

 

[FDNY99]

I wasn't thrilled when Edsall was named a candidate, but given the alternative, I think he was the best option. I've come around to the hire and I'm curious to see what the staff will look like. To be honest if 7-5 is the ceiling with Edsall over the next three years and UConn wins a few bowl games, it's better then watching Captain Crimson lose winnable games. I just hope the head coach in waiting, is hired to be part of the staff.

Even if he isn't...with that kind of record when the job is open again and guys like Moorehead or Orlando..even a Rhett Lashlee are approached Benedict (if he is still here) won't hear dead air on the other end of the line.

 

[whaler11]

Thrilled? No. Willing to get behind it since I have no alternative? Sure. If he puts a beat down on Holy Cross? I LOVE YOU RANDY!

For all of Randy's faults. Burying FCS teams was never an issue.

 

[noeynox]

OP is spot on, for those that thought P was the worst thing to happen to UCONN, Diaco was 10 times as bad. P landed some decent players and could run a game day as if it was his 1st game ever every week.

Diaco being gone is good enough. On the road back to competency is good enough for now.

 

[whaler11]

I wasn't thrilled when Edsall was named a candidate, but given the alternative, I think he was the best option. I've come around to the hire and I'm curious to see what the staff will look like. To be honest if 7-5 is the ceiling with Edsall over the next three years and UConn wins a few bowl games, it's better then watching Captain Crimson lose winnable games. I just hope the head coach in waiting, is hired to be part of the staff.

Edsall will be really good for Arkeel.

 

[Ottomatic]

Nobody likes the way he left. I'm sure he knows that. But he spent 11 years bringing UConn from FCS (or whatever it was called then) to a BCS bowl faster than almost any program in the country. I'm just hoping he can turn this mess around. Starting from nothing and starting from a bad situation are two different things.

As far as his abrupt departure, I think we all have to just get over it.

 

[SonsOfNutmeg]

I'm def in the "not thrilled" camp. Mostly because I really thought we had a shot to get a proven guy in here to build on like a Schiano or Golden, or heck, even Miles (maybe a strech, but you get the idea...). What I'm most disappointed in is that this was the best we could do. Like I get why (if its true) that Moorhead and Orlando, if both offered, would have not been interested in the gig. Todd Orlando will have 10x the exposure for bigger P5 jobs in the future if he stays the course and rebuilds Texas w/ Tom Herman. And Moorhead- he's holding out for a stellar 2017 running the Penn State offense in the hopes a big P5 job comes calling. Can't blame either of them really.

I guess seeing a school like FAU get Lane Kiffin for the same amount as we got back Randy Edsall- which feels more like doing him a favor than us, just got my hopes up that UConn was a job guys would want. I know after PP and Diaco this place is more of a rebuild than even I sometimes see it.

On the bright side, we do have a guy who at one time brought us to 5 bowl games, including a NY6 bowl, and helped get 20+ kids to the NFL from little old Connecticut. If I remember Randy Edsall post the Notre Dame win, or after we won at South Florida (via Dave Taggerts leg) it does feel a little more "ok". Also, I like all the positive tweets I've seen from NFL alum and former players- we'll need them all big time in the future for recruiting and building tradition here at UConn- something I think Diaco didn't embrace because of Edsall and the program (and us fans) suffered.

It will be interesting to see what Friday's press conference will be like. That's for sure. I'll miss Diaco's pressers and rediculous swagger. What I won't miss is his game management and losing. I wish Coach Diaco the best- I'm sure he'll be back coaching defense for Brian Kelly at ND in 2017, but I'm glad we can get a fresh start again with a familiar face.

No one knows UConn and how to recruit at a place like this better than Randy. No one. Partially its because he was the architect that built the program. A lot has changed in college football at UConn in the last six years, and Randy will have to prepare himself for that. We haven't had a sell out since 2013 (Michigan) and before that it wasn't since he was coaching here. Conference realignment has screwed over UConn worse than any school in the country, and Randy will have to face recruiting challenges because of that too. Those are the scary parts to me. I think think given all that, and the hire, we'll have season ticket holders back renewing next year and some added wins and excitement breathed back into those steel bleacher at The Rent.

 

[Skiblets]

Freed of Jeff hathaways shackles I expect randy to fly like an eagle. To the sea. And we'll all embrace the randy first down dance like it was the nene. And we will dance. And sing.

 

[whaler11]

Sucks we couldn't get Jerry Kill to be Edsall's OC.

 

[UConnDan97]

Edsall will be really good for Arkeel.

1,000 yards in 2017. Bank on it...

 

[Skiblets]

I say 2000 in my best OJ voice

 

[SonsOfNutmeg]

No, but Diaco could have gotten him and saved his from getting fired!

Sucks we couldn't get Jerry Kill to be Edsall's OC.

 

[RSTuthill]

Gonna wait until the Blue-White game before I re-up on the tix. Might do hockey instead next year. But right now just waiting and seeing. If he brings in Dan-O to coach the QB's and a good staff, I will be fine with it. We will see.

Oh, and I forgot one little item. If he somehow manages to bring back the Block C, I will be even more favorably disposed.

 

[SonsOfNutmeg]

No, but Diaco could have gotten him and saved his from getting fired!

Sucks we couldn't get Jerry Kill to be Edsall's OC.

 

[shizzle787]

Well when I heard Adams was out I did call my bookie to ask what the max I could get down on Houston was....

Don't go Pete Rose on us.

 

[DAC17]

One thing nobody seems to get is that it would be really hard to recruit a big name to a non-P5 school.

 

[Frenchy]

Under the circumstances Edsall is a known commodity. He got us there once, he was a good recruter and a decent coach. He left because he didn't get along with the AD. Shortly after he left the AD was fired proving Edsall was right I look forward to see him in charge. I am back!