I'm not one for dragging up Edsall stuff but...

[NutmegState]

This is a fair post. And I borderline hated Edsall, and most certainly wanted him gone.

 

[ZooCougar]

Of course, it's not like Edsall didn't have any help. The program was well supported by the institution and the state. 90% of what you are talking about would have happened even if RutgersAl was our coach.

Beating Top 25 teams? How many times did that actually happen? With Edsall I learned to never expect that to happen. Most of us grew accustomed to being dissappointed whenever we were on the big stage.

Realize that he was the coach in a period where we basically had unconstrained resources. How many other schools upgrade almost directly into a BCS conference? You don't think that gave us more advantages and cards to play with as opposed to some of the other upgrades that have occured.

There have been upgrades that have actually achieved indisputable success. Not shared championships, not BCS game(s) where the fans had to argue to justify their teams' presence.

Is he f6cking idiot? Yeah maybe not, maybe that word was harsh in general terms.

But was he a f6cking idiot when it came to developing QBs in a sport where it's no secret that that position is the most important and vital on the whole roster.

Definitely. F6cking. Idiot.

 

[jpm25]

Not to nitpick, but USF went from D1-AA to ranked faster than UConn.

I personally don't think any coach could have done what you list above, but a lot, if not most BCS coaches, could have.

 

[uconnell]

My god Edsall is like Dracula he just won't die! Anybody got garlic?

What you really need is a wooden stake!

 

[jpm25]

USF did it faster - they count their transitional years... "On September 16, 2007, a week after defeating Auburn, USF was nationally ranked for the first time in the young program's history. The AP poll listed USF at #23, while the USA Today coaches poll had the Bulls at #24. This is an NCAA record, as USF achieved its first Top 25 ranking faster than any other Division I-A school in the modern era"

Your second is an opinion and we can agree to disagree, but the question was could a lot of coaches achieve that at UConn. My answer is yes. I would take most (the top half of BCS coaches) and give them similar resources and I bet they could duplicate the result. If UConn was competing in a different conference I may have a different answer, but out of the 8 BE programs, 4 others were also conference champions in UConn's two championship years. Louisville, WVU and Cincy were champions this year. Very few BE programs have not had or shared a championship in the post "split 1" era.

 

[huskysupporter]

Of course, it's not like Edsall didn't have any help. The program was well supported by the institution and the state. 90% of what you are talking about would have happened even if RutgersAl was our coach.

Beating Top 25 teams? How many times did that actually happen? With Edsall I learned to never expect that to happen. Most of us grew accustomed to being dissappointed whenever we were on the big stage.

Realize that he was the coach in a period where we basically had unconstrained resources. How many other schools upgrade almost directly into a BCS conference? You don't think that gave us more advantages and cards to play with as opposed to some of the other upgrades that have occured.

There have been upgrades that have actually achieved indisputable success. Not shared championships, not BCS game(s) where the fans had to argue to justify their teams' presence.

Is he f6cking idiot? Yeah maybe not, maybe that word was harsh in general terms.

But was he a f6cking idiot when it came to developing QBs in a sport where it's no secret that that position is the most important and vital on the whole roster.

Definitely. F6cking. Idiot.

You sound like a jilted lover. Let it go, you will feel a lot better.

 

[jpm25]

USF was a full d1 member in 2003 and joined CUSA the same year. That would be 4 years.

I hear you on the discrediting thing and not trying to do that. Edsall is a bad coach, though.

 

[Carl Spackler]

THere was no transition for USF. There was no USF football program until 1995. The frist recruiting class was signed in 1996. They played their first EVER football game in september 1997. By September 2007, they had a top 10 in the country ranking. They went from no football team at all to a top 10 in the country in a decade.

UConn, can not, unfortunately, make any similar kinds of claims. In 1997, when USF was playing it's first game ever, the currnet USF head coach, was working on leading UConn toward a season where we would win the most regular season wins we've had in our entire 112 years and counting.

But I'm looking forward to being in the top 10 now, because it's realistic now.