It’s time to replace Randy.

[glastonbury50]

RE made the choice to make a true frosh a starter knowing his first two starts would be on the road against a B1G team and a top 25 AAC team.

Most coaches try to find a soft spot to throw in a new starter.

like tua in the nat. championship?

 

[06029]

How does RE explain Boise who came up to FBS at about the same time as UConn. Must be the allure of Idaho to recruits and the powerful conference in which BSU competes.

You can’t make it up.

The university across the board screwed the football pooch

Boise has been FBS/D1 for a long time. Their recruiting success is called the CA Juco pipeline and a wide open style of play.

 

[bigAbruns]

I'd say edsall should be gone at the end of the year if there is no improvement. If he were a good coach he would have identified one of his QBs as the out right starter. He obviously is going to play each QB and then likely throw that player under the bus since he can't own up to the fact that he just sucks gameplanning/adjusting. He gets a pass tonight since UConn had no chance in hell of competing, but going forward there needs to be improvement, especially against a USF.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Boise has been FBS/D1 for a long time. Their recruiting success is called the CA Juco pipeline and a wide open style of play.

And a long history of football success going back to their jc days. The school was founded in order to field a football team.

 

[Bongo Fury]

Edsall isn’t going anywhere. And if you don’t think SK settled down, threw the ball better downfield than any of our other QB’s—and showed a growing command of the field—you weren’t watching. I get that UCF had subs in at the end but this game gave SK his sea legs. I want to see him named next weeks starter, take lots of reps with the 1’s and open the playbook for him vs USF.

Liked he showed mobility. Maybe he doesn’t practice well but seemed to get more comfortable as game progressed.

 

[crewbear742]

Replace Edsall with whom? Right now, UConn could get the guy who coaches the Fighting Schickeles from the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. UConn could perhaps find a disgraced former coach looking for a re-entry point. Otherwise UConn would have to essentially bribe someone to replace Edsall. And it would have to be a large bribe. But the point is moot because 1) UConn doesn't have the money and 2) UConn has already proven it won't spend money on football coaches anyways.

There is no present path for an upcoming coach to leverage success at UConn into a better job somewhere else. The barrier to being successful is just too high. That will severely restrict the pool of potential candidates.

 

[kemba]

I'd say edsall should be gone at the end of the year if there is no improvement. If he were a good coach he would have identified one of his QBs as the out right starter. He obviously is going to play each QB and then likely throw that player under the bus since he can't own up to the fact that he just sucks gameplanning/adjusting. He gets a pass tonight since UConn had no chance in hell of competing, but going forward there needs to be improvement, especially against a Shittu USF.

Can we just get a coach who remembers to tell the QB's to avoid throwing it right to the guys in the other color shirts? Or who will remind them to not just let the ball slip out of their hand and have the other team pick it up?

 

[TRest]

it was 56-0

fifty six to nothing

We ended up with a Nostical win, tho

 

[GridironGR8]

If nothing else, Randy Edsall is a survivor.

FACT: He is among a relative handful of current FBS head coaches who have been a head coach for 20 years or more.

FACT: Randy is the only one of those veteran head coaches to "boast" a lifetime losing record.

I suspect Coach Edsall will survive the 2019 season and will be welcoming his Class of 2020 to Storrs before you know it.

 

[ScottVib]

And a long history of football success going back to their jc days. The school was founded in order to field a football team.

They also built their team up taking guys who were partial-qualifiers (the old prop-48) that were talented but no other D1 school would touch. That's no longer the case, but helped them get the initial flow of talent in to get the ball rolling..

 

[Ldandy]

The time to replace Randy was before he was rehired. The program desperately needed a competent offensive coach who could bring an experienced staff along with him. They should have looked to The FCS for a rising coach winning games and putting points on the board. A coach accustomed to doing so with limited resources that would not be turned off by the challenge presented. Instead they looked to a guy a decade past his prime to recapture lightning in a bottle and appease a handful of fans. Clearly nobody is buying tickets to see Randy coach. You want asses in the seats? Put points on the board and occasionally win a game.

There's a reason they say you can't go home again. It rarely works in sports. Different eras, players, circumstances, and support make the task completely different. It is proving to be well beyond Randy's capabilities at this point in his life. Its the same thing that all The Rutgers Fans clamoring for Schiano to come back will learn when he falls on his face during round two. Its amazing how truly bad football makes fans romanticize entirely mediocre football. Edsall and Schiano are both .500 coaches at best. However they're going to drop back in and suddenly get things rolling again?

Either kill the program entirely or get somebody in here who can generate some excitement around it. With independence looming this is needed more than ever. Randy is a slow road to nowhere. He's trying to prove he can still do something at Uconn's Expense. Spoiler: He can't. Two years from now he will simply reassess the program and claim things were far worse than he originally realized. The five year rebuild is really a 7 year one. In the mean time we'll watch coaches move to new programs and in short order put something that is at the very least competitive on the field. At this point with the way he is recruiting and the way the offense is coached do you see this team being even marginally better in relation to the competition 1, 3, 5 years from now? I don't.

 

[BugsyCT]

Can anything save UConn Football at this point? We're so far into the abyss below the abyss now. With every weekly blowout loss that piles up, the calls to fire the coach or drop to FCS or football altogether, it all looks bleaker by the day.

 

[John Greene]

I cant tell the future but few more years of this and it will all be over, one way or another. The school cant take this embarrassment on tv year after year. It's just embarrassing to the school

That's the beauty of going independent. No more embarrassments on TV.

Philosophical question: If you are embarrassed but no one sees it does it still count.

On a serious note being a UConn FB fan is getting to be really hard work.

 

[buddy]

The time to replace Randy was before he was rehired. The program desperately needed a competent offensive coach who could bring an experienced staff along with him. They should have looked to The FCS for a rising coach winning games and putting points on the board. A coach accustomed to doing so with limited resources that would not be turned off by the challenge presented. Instead they looked to a guy a decade past his prime to recapture lightning in a bottle and appease a handful of fans. Clearly nobody is buying tickets to see Randy coach. You want asses in the seats? Put points on the board and occasionally win a game.

There's a reason they say you can't go home again. It rarely works in sports. Different eras, players, circumstances, and support make the task completely different. It is proving to be well beyond Randy's capabilities at this point in his life. Its the same thing that all The Rutgers Fans clamoring for Schiano to come back will learn when he falls on his face during round two. Its amazing how truly bad football makes fans romanticize entirely mediocre football. Edsall and Schiano are both .500 coaches at best. However they're going to drop back in and suddenly get things rolling again?

Either kill the program entirely or get somebody in here who can generate some excitement around it. With independence looming this is needed more than ever. Randy is a slow road to nowhere. He's trying to prove he can still do something at Uconn's Expense. Spoiler: He can't. Two years from now he will simply reassess the program and claim things were far worse than he originally realized. The five year rebuild is really a 7 year one. In the mean time we'll watch coaches move to new programs and in short order put something that is at the very least competitive on the field. At this point with the way he is recruiting and the way the offense is coached do you see this team being even marginally better in relation to the competition 1, 3, 5 years from now? I don't.

Many of your points are truly valid. However, for UConn, if he hadn't run away to his dream job after the Fiesta Bowl, UConn football would be in a very different place today and he would be viewed in a much more positive light, Connecticut would support its football team as it would be in a P5 Conference and able to get more talented players. The day he left was the beginning of the downfall for UConn. Top that off with bad administrators and coaching hires and this is what happens.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

let’s just laugh at the fact temple has temple success even though they have a new coach every 90 days.

I wonder if they use that to draw in applicants? Come here, go 8-4 beating UConn, ECU, and USF and get a P5 job.

I think one reason we settled for Randy is we knew it wouldn’t be a stepping stone job. Dave was terrified of bringing someone in who would bounce in a couple years. If that guy is successful and you can bring in another rising coach WHO CARES

 

[superjohn]

I wonder if they use that to draw in applicants? Come here, go 8-4 beating UConn, ECU, and USF and get a P5 job.

I think one reason we settled for Randy is we knew it wouldn’t be a stepping stone job. Dave was terrified of bringing someone in who would bounce in a couple years. If that guy is successful and you can bring in another rising coach WHO CARES

So you think Benedict was terrified UConn football would turn into a winning program?

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

So you think Benedict was terrified UConn football would turn into a winning program?

Not necessarily that. He was probably worried about the optics of being unable to hang onto a successful coach though.

 

[Bongo Fury]

let’s just laugh at the fact temple has temple success even though they have a new coach every 90 days.

Not necessarily that. He was probably worried about the optics of being unable to hang onto a successful coach though.

Or hiring another Diaco who shows promise year 2 then implodes and getting paid 5 million buyout of that 40 million AD deficit

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Pitt beat UCF last week.
Delaware almost beat Pitt today.
Coaching matters.
A lot.

Sure, but perhaps examples of players motivating themselves to play well versus more talented opponents than coaching alone, e.g. 3-2 Blue Hens now with -0- impressive wins.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Boise has been FBS/D1 for a long time. Their recruiting success is called the CA Juco pipeline and a wide open style of play.

To inject additional facts, Boise State was a frequent 1AA playoff participant before moving to 1A in 1996. Yes, then and now pretty darn remotely recruiting heavily from JCs and California and leveraging an aggressive O. UConn, transitional 1AA to 1A in 2000; full 1A in 2002; then and now a 1950s O.

 

[CL82]

I hear Chris Ash is available.

 

[CL82]

No conference.
No bowl tie ins.
Season ticket base of roughly 10,000.
No built in state grown talent (the best talent heads to the B1G and the ACC)
No budget for assistants/coordinators
Future schedule featuring NM State an LA Tech plus sacrificial Road/pay me so I don’t lose as much money games

If you are lucky, you get a step up coach from a mid level FCS team that has moved from perpetual doormat to a winn8ng percentage,

Don’t forget that the existing personnel will make it tough to win early on in their tenure. We have to be crazy to make a move now. That would be one for coaches in nine years? Who would take the job?

 

[kemba]

This idea that Edsall can't be replaced is silly. You aren't going to get the up and comer that everyone wants or someone with a resume that blows everyone away, but that doesn't mean you can't find someone whos been successful at the lower levels, or jump on a coordinator who maybe hasn't reached "hot name" status but who has the qualities you're looking for. Just because we made a monumental mistake with Diaco doesn't mean you can be afraid to try again.

If the year ends and we've shown little improvement, the team quits, and guys are racing for the transfer portal its time to make a change. That said, its still early, we are a ways off from any of those things being true, if you're using a performance on the road at ucf to judge growth that's a you problem.

 

[RSTuthill]

How does RE explain Boise who came up to FBS at about the same time as UConn. Must be the allure of Idaho to recruits and the powerful conference in which BSU competes.

You can’t make it up.

The university across the board screwed the football pooch

Boise has no pretentions to academic excellence.

 

[UConnDan97]

The reality is this: if you aren't willing to pay the next program-changing coach the requisite program-changing money, you're going to have to do it the old fashioned way (slowly, with redshirt juniors and redshirt seniors who have been in your system for 3 years). Under that model, you're probably not going to find someone much better than Edsall.

The defense is getting better. Running backs and wide receivers all look competent. But all three QBs are first year players. And they've played like it. This is a team built to win more games in 2020 than they are in 2019, and we've all known that since 2018. Gotta stick with him unless it really goes into the toilet by the end if the year...

 

[Steelerone]

Randy Edsall is not the problem. The problem is the problems. To begin with, Ct. is a small state with only minor interest in high school football so there no real "farm system" for the largest school in the state. Additionally, we have no real rivals other than the other New England states and how many fans do you think you are going to get at Uconn vs Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont or New Hampshire? Then think about tthe economic cost of "Big Time Football". Finally, look at your GPS and travel back to reality and try to be satisfied with the true love of Connecticut fans - basketball.
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[DAC17]

To the OP... Tell me who would come to this program that would be any better?

 

[Caronimo]

This is totally embarrassing.

No it’s not time but it is embarrassing. He gets another year. His recruits are all freshman and sophomores. He came in late. We have no money. Ride it out. Complain all you want next year but you have to let this season play out. Bye

 

[Caronimo]

It's time to replace David Benedict.

Not at all. He’s a step up from our last two incompetent AD’s

 

[Caronimo]

So he hands the ball off and then pretends to throw it well? That makes him head and shoulders above JZ? Hmm

Our running backs and o line are that of the Glastonbury pee wee squad