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In dismissing him, UConn did Billy Crocker a favor (DiMauro @ The Day)

I thought we had no choice but to hire Edsall, given Diaco's thievery.
 
BlueDogs said:
I retain the view that losing Lashlee was a very destructive moment in UConn football. The AD was effectively undermined. Lashlee was brought here by the AD using his personal capital and relationships. Rather than get rid of a terrible DC that he hand picked, Randy made Lashlee’s life miserable and the AD had no leverage to deal with that problem. Randy also knew Lashlee could be his replacement if the offense continued to perform at high levels and the D sucked. With that single event, the AD lost all ability to build upon and bring in more SEC level coaching talent. That was squandered. Randy’s stubbornness and hubris remain his greatest downfalls. Having him return, in retrospect, turned out to be a very poor decision. Dunn is fine, but he is no Lashlee. Losing a guy like Grimes was a huge loss.
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...Or Lashlee just wanted to be at a place with better climate, access to top tier recruits and where his wife wanted to be
Just sayin
 
BlueDogs said:
I retain the view that losing Lashlee was a very destructive moment in UConn football. The AD was effectively undermined. Lashlee was brought here by the AD using his personal capital and relationships. Rather than get rid of a terrible DC that he hand picked, Randy made Lashlee’s life miserable and the AD had no leverage to deal with that problem. Randy also knew Lashlee could be his replacement if the offense continued to perform at high levels and the D sucked. With that single event, the AD lost all ability to build upon and bring in more SEC level coaching talent. That was squandered. Randy’s stubbornness and hubris remain his greatest downfalls. Having him return, in retrospect, turned out to be a very poor decision. Dunn is fine, but he is no Lashlee. Losing a guy like Grimes was a huge loss.
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It's amazing you have built up this narrative without any facts.
 
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Watching the Auburn game right now and all I can think is "imagine how many points they would have put on UConn?"

Crocker needed to go.
 
Anyone who knows anything knows Edsall blows but Benedict's hands were pretty much tied for a variety of reasons. His choice was to go with a no name/offensive coordinator at a mid level school or go back to Randy. Going back to Edsall turned out to be another terrible decision but it's not like Benedict had a ton of options.
 
BlueDogs said:
I retain the view that losing Lashlee was a very destructive moment in UConn football. The AD was effectively undermined. Lashlee was brought here by the AD using his personal capital and relationships. Rather than get rid of a terrible DC that he hand picked, Randy made Lashlee’s life miserable and the AD had no leverage to deal with that problem. Randy also knew Lashlee could be his replacement if the offense continued to perform at high levels and the D sucked. With that single event, the AD lost all ability to build upon and bring in more SEC level coaching talent. That was squandered. Randy’s stubbornness and hubris remain his greatest downfalls. Having him return, in retrospect, turned out to be a very poor decision. Dunn is fine, but he is no Lashlee. Losing a guy like Grimes was a huge loss.
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Interesting hypotheses, are there data to support them?

Lets say that Dunn for the most part was OK. But for significant stretches his play calling sucked. It was almost as if he made Pindell hand off so that the pups could get more experience in the run game for next year. The venting and gnashing of teeth in the game chat is something that still stands out vividly to me even now.
 
Diaco was a disaster, but the process that led to him was 100% the correct way to do it.
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
It's amazing you have built up this narrative without any facts.
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The facts are he was pulled out of Auburn by Benedict. The facts are the offensive line, the weakest part of the team, was transformed into a functional unit. The facts are the offense was more productive than it has been in years. The fact is the D failed miserably, and Randy put a choke hold on the O. Now, it takes little imagination to understand you don’t get rid your best assets absent unusual circumstances. Wives don’t dictate where coaches go. Every coach’s wife knows the drill. The wife didn’t like it line is known as a graceful explanation for exit, just like politicians who quit for family reasons. Reasonable minds know what likely happened.
 
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zls44 said:
Diaco was a disaster, but the process that led to him was 100% the correct way to do it.
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... AND WE are left crossing our fingers on Edsall's plan. We gave Diaco the going rate on coming in: we could have most anyone high in the market that point in time. Because we then renewed Diaco because of a spark of hope, and that was meager; therefore, we had few financial fixes that made sense other than HCRE. Would Lance Leipold today take $1m for AAC ball in the Northeast ... nope. Would anyone have had the foresight to hire him 3 years ago. But he was lower than the Wyoming guy and the new Kansas State guy; yet Champions at a time in lower ball. CAA>? That's essentially what ECU did. Paying far more than Edsall's deal.

Our best hope (and Benedict's) is for Edsall improvement into a solid group of younger guys climbing. I think we are stuck financially for awhile.
 
The funniest thing to remember is the principle behind giving Diaco that extension was to make it harder for a school to swoop in and hire him away as their head coach.

The literal definition of answering a question no one was going to ask.
 
Pudge said:
... AND WE are left crossing our fingers on Edsall's plan.
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We're at the crossing our fingers stage? Yes, but you should be telling us about the potential of our new recruits.
 
Hornet22 said:
...Or Lashlee just wanted to be at a place with better climate, access to top tier recruits and where his wife wanted to be
Just sayin
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The AD should have made Lashlee Head Coach. No RE2.0. Lashlee as the OC was doomed to failure, especially if he was successful. And that’s exactly what happened.
 
BlueDogs said:
The facts are he was pulled out of Auburn by Benedict. The facts are the offensive line, the weakest part of the team, was transformed into a functional unit. The facts are the offense was more productive than it has been in years. The fact is the D failed miserably, and Randy put a choke hold on the O. Now, it takes little imagination to understand you don’t get rid your best assets absent unusual circumstances. Wives don’t dictate where coaches go. Every coach’s wife knows the drill. The wife didn’t like it line is known as a graceful explanation for exit, just like politicians who quit for family reasons. Reasonable minds know what likely happened.
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Yeah....those aren't facts. There are some facts mixed in with your opinion. We don't know the whole story on what happened. I liked Lashlee and was not happy when he left...but putting the whole thing on Edsall without actual facts seems silly to me. Unless you have inside information....which you haven't said. You have assumptions and speculation.
 
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Idc if edsall stepped on Crocker’s toes big time. This years defense was the worst in history. Let that sink in. The worst in history. Idc if he was unable to get his guys in. This was a fully on the OC
 
Husk1881 said:
Idc if edsall stepped on Crocker’s toes big time. This years defense was the worst in history. Let that sink in. The worst in history. Idc if he was unable to get his guys in. This was a fully on the OC[/QUi
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I dont think people understand the type of schedule they faced. But when you are historically bad, someone had to go.
 
Duncan Idaho said:
I dont think people understand the type of schedule they faced. But when you are historically bad, someone had to go.
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True, they faced some very good teams. However, against the poor teams the results were poor too. The good teams substituted early 4td quarter.
 
zls44 said:
The funniest thing to remember is the principle behind giving Diaco that extension was to make it harder for a school to swoop in and hire him away as their head coach.

The literal definition of answering a question no one was going to ask.
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Same for Ollie, as it turns out. And same for every extension that goes awry.

This is why I'm currently pro-HCREv2. He's cheap, with proven success at this school. Buying a lottery ticket with an assistant from elsewhere might give us someone like Fleck, if we win. If we lose, Diaco.
 
Gotta love UConn Nation. We just witnessed the worst defensive season in the history of college football that followed an already God awful defensive season in the year prior, and firing the man partly responsible for it is even questioned...by anyone. It's really quite simple: when you suck at a historic level, you get replaced. If a coach can't handle that kind of simple and reasonable pressure, he/she shouldn't get into coaching.
 
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pepband99 said:
Same for Ollie, as it turns out. And same for every extension that goes awry.

This is why I'm currently pro-HCREv2. He's cheap, with proven success at this school. Buying a lottery ticket with an assistant from elsewhere might give us someone like Fleck, if we win. If we lose, Diaco.
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The problem isn't hiring a guy like Diaco, the problem is extending him!
 
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