It's not coach P.....

[upstater]

As I've said in my OP...it's not the coaches but the lack of good recruits in the area. You can have Saban coaching these kids and you guys would still lose games.

Is that why UConn is putting a lot of players in the NFL?

 

[MilliniumPrince]

As I've said in my OP...it's not the coaches but the lack of good recruits in the area. You can have Saban coaching these kids and you guys would still lose games.

Shouldn't you be busy with the Rutgers Spirit Committee deciding who gets stuck polishing all of the championship trophies in the Rutty trophy case? Must take hours to coordinate all the manpower required to complete that task.

 

[SubbaBub]

When your team looks like it was playing Hearts during the off season, I think the Coach bears a lot of responsibility.

There is no doubt we are starting over from square one. Does anyone know where they stored the trailers?

 

[huskyrob1]

In the last 5 years, your best recruiting class has been 2013 which was all coach P.

What I am saying is that you have no instate talent.....NJ is locked up by Rutgers/PennState/Michigan/OhioSt.....NY pretty much belongs to an array of teams. You have no where to recruit. This is starting to show on the field. Hell, if you have great talent even you would be able to win a few games here and there. Look at coach Flood, he's a rookie and he's still winning games. It's probably not due to his coaching skill either.

You could have made the same argument for the women's basketball program back in 1985 before they hired Geno. It's all about hiring the right coach for the job and also hiring the right AD. If the right guy is hired the recruits will come, IMO if Lew Perkins doesn't leave UCONN in 03, conference realignment goes much, much better for UCONN. Edsall probably stays here and recruiting sees an uptick. It's all about who's running the show, lack of talent instate is inconsequential. Coach P was a bad hire, hired by an even worse AD, and where we are now is the result.

 

[huskyrob1]

Is that why UConn is putting a lot of players in the NFL?

A lot of the UCONN kids in the NFL were not highly recruited, and that means they (the coaches) could recognize talent when others couldn't and knew how to teach the game.

 

[upstater]

A lot of the UCONN kids in the NFL were not highly recruited, and that means they (the coaches) could recognize talent when others couldn't and knew how to teach the game.

Same holds true though for Connecticut players in general. 11 of the 41 two star players in D1 over the last 5 years made the NFL. The rate is better than 25%. This leads me to believe Conn. is underrecruited.