If you aren't thrilled with Edsall

[John Greene]

Bottom line is.

UCFB(-BD+FHCRE) = @PAWSARF

 

[Exit 4]

I woke up this morning excited for football. My god we have an adult running the program again. An actual adult. Can't wait to hear about the coaching staff he has assembled.

 

[FrostyNuggets]

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).

This is pretty much where I am. Given the buyout owed to Harold Hill, $1M/year to a guy who has won here is probably the best play available to DB. I accept why DB did it, but am not doing cartwheels.

 

[warbler1055]

UConn pays less and gets an upgrade. What possibly can be a better deal or hire? If RE is not a substantial upgrade over PP and BD then insanity is the norm. 6 years of FB hell. Get over the past and move on!!!! Enough with all the apologies BS!!!!

 

[pepband99]

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.

As opposed to losing to Towson, like your buddy PP? Or tepid wins over Villanova and Maine like Diaco?

 

[HuskyHawk]

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.

But those aren't the choices we are talking about here. I do not like this hire. But I am positive that Edsall will be better next year than Diaco would have been. Being competent on game day coaching alone would have have won even this year's team 2 more games. I think the players are there for him to win 6-7 games.

I don't believe that this was the best we could do. I don't think he was the best choice to lead this football program. If he was, if literally nobody else who was mentioned was a possibility, then it was the right move. But damn, that's sad as hell, and even more depressing. That said, I want him to prove me wrong and be fantastic.

 

[CL82]

We are a tough sale right now for a quality guy. We are a G5 program, in a poor recruiting area, with a smallish stadium a half hour away from campus that hasn't had a winning season in 6 years. We weren't going to hit a home run with this hire. Randy gets a runner on base and winning seasons advance the runner. We are getting his services dirt cheap in a time that we are tight on funds. The more I think about it the more I realize this was a smart hire by Benedict, if not an exciting one. After a few seasons of competent football we can revisit whether we need a upgrade, but job 1 is stopping the bleeding, and Randy does that.

 

[HuskyHawk]

We are a tough sale right now for a quality guy. We are a G5 program, in a poor recruiting area, with a smallish stadium a half hour away from campus that hasn't had a winning season in 6 years. We weren't going to hit a home run with this hire. Randy gets a runner a base and winning seasons advance the runner. We are getting his services dirt cheap in a time that we are tight on funds. The more I think about it the more I realize this was a smart hire by Benedict, if not an exciting one. After a few seasons of competent football we can revisit whether we need a upgrade, but job 1 is stopping the bleeding, and Randy does that.

I'm coming around to this, even if it does nothing to eliminate my disappointment that we couldn't land a bigger fish.

 

[RSTuthill]

Hopefully, the admissions standards will be loosened up a bit.

Not sure why there ARE admissions standards for football players. Are they not an anachronism? This is entertainment purely and simply and college ball is simply a farm league for the pros. If they want an education, let them get one for free. If they don't, why even force them to go to class or live on campus?

 

[SubbaBub]

The former players are thrilled and enough of the current squad seem excited about it. That should be enough for fans to let it go until the games are played.

I care more about UConn winning FB games than I do about rehashing RE's departure or whether he can do as well or better this time. My official position is to worry about the first thing and not think about the rest.

I am willing to fight anyone dissing the Block C though.