Jim Calhoun was 100% correct ...

[CallMeBruce]

I don't get the pessimism of some.

It's not pessimism. It's a frank appraisal of the landscape of college football. UConn isn't a destination job, or close to it, for any good coach. If Diaco has three strong years and puts us back on the map, there's almost no chance he sticks around longer than that. He has no ties to CT, UConn is in a third-rate league, and CT isn't exactly a football hotbed. And that's fine, as long as we continue to hire good coaches. Hathaway really screwed the pooch when he hired Pasqualoni, which may have cost us an ACC spot. Perhaps someday UConn will be a good enough job that someone will stick around for a while, but we're probably two or three good coaching hires away from even having that conversation.

 

[60'sfan]

I remember sitting behind the Northeastern bench in December 1985(I believe) for the Connecticut Mutual Classic and see THEIR coach work the officials, fight for every call and really get into his players -willing them to play better. Oh by the way we got beat badly by NU that day.

I looked over at my soon to be brother in law and said looking at Dom Perno" wish our coach was like that" .

Little did I know at the time that the NU Coach would become my Coach. And the rest is History !!!!

I was at that game too. It seems like we all were. It must have been a sell-out.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Hathaway really screwed the pooch when he hired Pasqualoni, which may have likely cost us an ACC spot.

ftfy

The Pasqualoni hire was the single most damaging move we made in the run-up to conference realignment. It basically shouted through a megaphone that we had no interest in becoming a big-time college football program.