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If you aren't thrilled with Edsall

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CTMike said:
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!
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A beat down on Holy Cross? How small time of you and your "liked" friends. A beat down on Missouri and BC next season and I'll be ok with Edsall.
 
MattMang23 said:
*As USF hires Charlie Strong, Cincinnati hires Luke Fickell, FAU hires Lane Kiffin and FIU hires Butch Davis...*
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Three out of four of those schools reside in Florida. Not impressed with the non Florida hire but at least he has a decent base to recruit from.
 
HuskyDogArt said:
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.
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I don't think Benedict had much of a choice. The folks that funded the buyout are likely behind this decision.
 
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Benedict wanted a coach to run all phases of the program and stick around a while. I think he got this with Randy. I now hope Benedict can work with the President to get kids into school that were not when Hathaway was spinning his wheels here. The offensive coordinator will reveal a lot as well.
 
jdb50 said:
Benedict wanted a coach to run all phases of the program and stick around a while. I think he got this with Randy. I now hope Benedict can work with the President to get kids into school that were not when Hathaway was spinning his wheels here. The offensive coordinator will reveal a lot as well.
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It's called settling. We settled the case.
 
Maybe Gars, we have not heard if there was any interest and due to the buyout pay was an issue. I hope our budget for assistants is at least as good as it was for the long winded one. I would like to hear what Warde thinks.:mad:
 
HuskyDogArt said:
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.
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"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"​
 
Can someone fill me in on the disagreements between Edsall and Hathaway during his run here?
 
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BUConn10 said:
Can someone fill me in on the disagreements between Edsall and Hathaway during his run here?
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Promised raises for assistants than didn't pay them since they would go against Jeffies own bonus
 
BUConn10 said:
Can someone fill me in on the disagreements between Edsall and Hathaway during his run here?
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Admissions standards changed, Edsall had a couple of kids he wanted that didn't get in. Went to Hathaway for help but Hathaway said no, I won"t help you. Randy went nuts and from then on thought his AD did not have his back in a way that would hurt the program.

Oddly enough, spoke with PP about this and we have lost kids to Temple who could not get into UCONN but Temple took with open arms.
 
MattMang23 said:
*As USF hires Charlie Strong, Cincinnati hires Luke Fickell, FAU hires Lane Kiffin and FIU hires Butch Davis...*
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Bigger names perhaps, but what says these guys would have been better choices for us?
 
whaler11 said:
Let's go glass half full..

Diaco is gone.
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This may not actually set in until the Spring game when we DON'T see "Mr. Abercrombie-Rouge pants" come flying out of the tunnel.
 
I'm in the not thrilled camp. I think he's a good coach and appreciate his track record with us. Like others hated the way he ran away. For that alone I wouldn't have hired him no matter the price.

But he is here and I think on the field he can get us back on track.

I'm behind him for the good of the program and from talking to other friends the 9 of us will be back in Section 103.
The only thing I can't believe is that this was supposed to be DB signature hire and he brings back HCRE.
 
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HuskyDogArt said:
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.
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Uh....hello.....McFly....even the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses aren't knocking on this door.
 
Calhoun's Court said:
I'm in the not thrilled camp. I think he's a good coach and appreciate his track record with us. Like others hated the way he ran away. For that alone I wouldn't have hired him no matter the price.

The only thing I can't believe is that this was supposed to be DB signature hire and he brings back HCRE.
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Agree. This is the best that Benedict and the state could come up with? Nothing screams small time like hiring back a guy that bailed on you then failed on the stage you are trying to get to. Very disappointing. :(
 
sportsart said:
Three out of four of those schools reside in Florida. Not impressed with the non Florida hire but at least he has a decent base to recruit from.
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And we have more $$$$ than all of them.
 
Nostical said:
Bigger names perhaps, but what says these guys would have been better choices for us?
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Nothing. But that wasn't the argument I was responding to. The post I responded to simply said it's hard for non-Power 5 schools to hire big names.
 
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Considering how severely hamstrung DB was, this was actually a reasonable outcome. Another year of Diaco, being fully aware that Diaco was not about to accept advice from a quality offensive mind would have been a bigger disaster than anything we've seen to date (not that we had been strangers to disastrous football seasons recently).

At the moment I'm looking at RE as a stepping stone coach. He can bring us to respectability and then we go after the guy who can kick it up a level or two.
 
SonsOfNutmeg said:
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...).
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Here's my view on this. Schiano and Golden are basically .500 coaches. So was Edsall. But he did what he did HERE, so we know he can do it HERE. You could argue that Schiano would be an upgrade, but I'm not sure Golden is. But I don't think it is obvious that they would do better than Randy would.
 
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J187Money said:
Here's my view on this. Schiano and Golden are basically .500 coaches. So was Edsall. But he did what he did HERE, so we know he can do it HERE. You could argue that Schiano would be an upgrade, but I'm not sure Golden is. But I don't think it is obvious that they would do better than Randy would.
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The only possible advantage to bringing in Schiano or Golden over Edsall is that either would be something new. There are no guarantees that something new would be better. Additionally, among the last things we need is for a coach who had built one of our geographic competitors into something solid (from a position as bad as, if not worse than where we are) to fail here and then state how difficult it is to succeed here.
 
Hope he gets more out of the likes of Carezolla and Stapleton. I liked Randy's DEs.
 
Skiblets said:
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.
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This is what I'm banking on... our AD Dept is in better shape now...we've developed some competency in that area when it comes to FBS football. UConn's a beautiful campus with plenty to offer to high level recruits.. even in football... Hopefully Coach Edsall knows what Diaco never did...play with a sense of urgency when it counts....it definitely counts behind the scenes, but from year to year, the scene has to show a light to greener pastures.. In Edsall, we trust (again)....
 
weyuo said:
Agree. This is the best that Benedict and the state could come up with? Nothing screams small time like hiring back a guy that bailed on you then failed on the stage you are trying to get to. Very disappointing. :(
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That's not demonstrably false. It screams small time far, far less than keeping a coach who failed as miserably as Diaco (or P before him) would have. Now please go away.
 
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