It’s time to replace Randy.

[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 Jack Zergiotis? Hmm

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

 

[BlueDogs]

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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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using that logic, fold all sports. Basketball doesn’t recruit solely in CT. A small state has little to do with anything. It’s a national university that should draw talent and has been systematically mismanaged for over a decade. The true love of CT fans is winning. End of story.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

5 year plans...
UCF went from 0-12 to 6-7 to 13-0

 

[TouchdownHusky]

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 chose to play an exciting brand of football - particularly on offense. UConn? Choose boring 1960's football: run the ball left, run the ball right, run up the middle and . . . punt. Then pray that the defense can hold the score down. Boise model fits with the contemporary college game. UConn? Not even close.

 

[champs99and04]

Granted my bar is low, but if you compare last night's game to the Boise game from last year, they're noticeably more competitive in every phase of the game. The total yardage last night ended up 607-426 in UCF's favor. Sure a lot of those were garbage yards, but even in the first half they closed with drives of 33, 53, and 62 yards. The defense also forced them to turn it over on downs twice, punt once, and fumble on another occasion during that same span. UCF plays fast and UConn was loose with the ball, so there were more drives and theforemore more points, but this was nothing compared to Boise outgaining us 818 to 193 last year.

What Randy is attempting to do now isn't so different than what he did the first time around:

'99 - 4-7
'00 - 3-8
'01 - 2-9
'02 - 6-6
'03 - 9-3

The progression isn't always linear when you're dealing with graduations and transfers and redshirts and all that. Year three was actually the low point the first time around, so it shouldn't shock us if that's the case now as well.

Does this mean I'm optimistic about the future of the program? Obviously not. But you can't can Edsall three years into a five year project.

 

[glastonbury50]

5 year plans...
UCF went from 0-12 to 6-7 to 13-0

True, but they were on the three year plan.