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So this thread has officially reached Cesspool worthiness. Did anyone actually listen to the entire interview? I had to shut it off after about four minutes. Gresh is unlistenable and it seemed like he was more interested in proving his knowledge of football rather than asking insightful questions. Any new ground?
 
Skiblets said:
So this thread has officially reached Cesspool worthiness. Did anyone actually listen to the entire interview? I had to shut it off after about four minutes. Gresh is unlistenable and it seemed like he was more interested in proving his knowledge of football rather than asking insightful questions. Any new ground?
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Gresh - "The way "we" play football now-a-days". Do they play in the TIC parking lot?
 
Was there anything worth listening to? Being in PA, I have never listened to the show. Sounds like only noteworthy tidbits were RE here tomorrow and wants to run the spread. Must be a great interviewer?
 
Season ticket holder from the beginning of the rent. Saw Edsalls teams several times at Storrs when they were in the YanCon. Very average coach and maybe it's foolish to think we can do better. I'm one of those who felt he hadn't shown we could be much better than his best teams, which is good but not special. He was fortunate Danny O was from CT and was willing to stay home. He made us more competitive right away than we had a reason to expect. RE never got another QB above very ordinary. Maybe this league is more his level, except it's wrong to see the league as downright horrible. There are some decent teams and almost all can score a lot. He tanked in MD Bend without break won't get us far if we can't score plenty.

Certainly not a hire to be doing cartwheels over. But BD had to go so I'll root for Edsall to be the right guy. Go Huskies.
 
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I listened online. Piece of cake, just go to radio.net and find WTIC 1080. No app needed.

The only thing of note he said was that he wanted to pressure the defense all over the field, side to side and vertically. That would sound exciting if Diaco hadn't said the same thing when he was hired. He also said personnel would dictate scheme and the opponent will dictate it as well. He won't pressure a QB that is great against pressure but he'll pressure one that can't handle it etc. Definitely sounded like he knows throwing is very important these days and continued to say offenses are "wide open".
 
Stairmaster said:
The BY, home of the most dedicated fans of the program and longtime season ticket holders, seems to be resoundingly okay with it.
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That's not saying much. Anyone here expressing anything but unequivocal love has been immediately attacked by a gang of deplorables. Who needs that hassle? I haven't met one non-BY fan that has expressed anything but WTF.
 
Waquoit said:
That's not saying much. Anyone here expressing anything but unequivocal love has been immediately attacked by a gang of deplorables. Who needs that hassle? I haven't met one non-BY fan that has expressed anything but WTF.
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This is true for me to.
 
king conn said:
For one, there were a lot here that were not okay with it.
Second, do you know how many of the 18,000 or so season ticket holders are actually members?
Lastly, there is that other nagging 22,000 seats that don't seem to fill on Saturdays. I will assume they will all be filled now with your take on the situation, correct?
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Firstly, a lot is such a crazy adjective - what percentage? I will bet the majority either like or are OK with RE vs those who don't like
Second, Do you know? and what difference does that make? I will guarantee more season ticket holders are happier that Diaco is gone and will most likely renew vs Diaco staying
Lastly - who ever said that RE is going to fill the stands from the start? - I will tell you as a season ticket holder since 1965, there was more seats filled and more passion when RE was coaching vs. when PP or BD were at the helm - I will guarantee that there will be more people at the 2017 Holy Cross game than were at the 2016 Maine opener (when the gave out over 7500 FREE tickets)
 
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Waquoit said:
That's not saying much. Anyone here expressing anything but unequivocal love has been immediately attacked by a gang of deplorables. Who needs that hassle? I haven't met one non-BY fan that has expressed anything but WTF.
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Not one?
I find that impossible - do live and work in an entirely I hate RE area?
 
CL82 said:
You know Subba, the more I think about it the more I don't think it is a WTF hire. It facilitates the end of the Diaco era. The price is right, given our circumstances, and I'm not sure we could do much better, again given our circumstances. He's the best game day coach we've had here in 6 years and his ability to get people to NFL is proven.

I never hated the Edsall hiring, but I'm warming up to it more and more as I think about the pros/cons.
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That was my conclusion as well. I wanted one of the winning FCS coaches. ODU, JMU, or WKU. I dobut any would have come here knowing that a losing season was likely. Head coaches careers depend a great deal on being in the right place at the right time with the right players. I fear the job isn't as attractive as it was when we landed Diaco.

There is also the fear of another miss on an unproven guy. If you want to say RE was hired a bit out of fear, that's not unfair.
 
JSM1970 said:
No, saying he had to have donors to come in and manage the whole process and now we have Randy Edsall back. Whoopie.

His B12 presentation was apparently awful, had no ability to articulate how UConn could become relevant in college football.
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You know absolutely nothing. On what authority do you have any facts regarding the hiring process. I have yet to see any real proof that any donors ponied up cash to help with the buy out. You can easily go back and review the B12 presentation, which from most accounts was considered a first class job. But, don't let the facts get in the way of your typical rant.
 
LIUCHusky said:
You know absolutely nothing. On what authority do you have any facts regarding the hiring process. I have yet to see any real proof that any donors ponied up cash to help with the buy out. You can easily go back and review the B12 presentation, which from most accounts was considered a first class job. But, don't let the facts get in the way of your typical rant.
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Didn't Benedict himself say that the buyout was "privately funded"??
 
gtcam said:
Firstly, a lot is such a crazy adjective - what percentage? I will bet the majority either like or are OK with RE vs those who don't like
Second, Do you know? and what difference does that make? I will guarantee more season ticket holders are happier that Diaco is gone and will most likely renew vs Diaco staying
Lastly - who ever said that RE is going to fill the stands from the start? - I will tell you as a season ticket holder since 1965, there was more seats filled and more passion when RE was coaching vs. when PP or BD were at the helm - I will guarantee that there will be more people at the 2017 Holy Cross game than were at the 2016 Maine opener (when the gave out over 7500 FREE tickets)
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Certainly sounded like half initially until they were beaten down. Go read the posts when the news broke.
Would that suffice for alot for you?

Second, you ask what difference it makes? He tried to imply that the majority of BYers were on board with this, therefore season ticket holders were. That's a big difference, unless he knew the percentage. Follow?

Lastly you backtrack. If the majority of fans are so overjoyed with his return then they will return to the Rent immediately. Why wouldn't they, they would have gotten what they wanted. Are you hedging? The fact is, that is the ultimate test of whether the fan base agrees with the decision.
 
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Key points of the interview:

1. Edsall is working on his staff. Will be flying to CT tomorrow but will split time between Lions/UConn.
2. Edsall said relationship with Benedict goes back to when Benedict was hired at UConn. After he was hired, DB reached out to Edsall to get a feel for what he did to be successful here. Two hit it off almost immediately.
3. Edsall has complete support of his former players - many of whom are in the NFL and make a point to go over and talk to him before games on the field. Said he is a like a "proud parent".
 
Waquoit said:
That's not saying much. Anyone here expressing anything but unequivocal love has been immediately attacked by a gang of deplorables. Who needs that hassle? I haven't met one non-BY fan that has expressed anything but WTF.
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That would be because they don't understand the circumstances of the change. Non BY followers don't understand the significance of the buyout and how difficult it probably was to secure the funding. If there was no concerns about the buyout, I think more boneyarders would have more questions about this move. But...making this change was complicated and I think most on here think this is the best move considering the circumstances that DB was operating under.

The casual fan doesn't get the complexity and looks at this at face value....therefore the WTF.

I am sure I will get a few WTFs at work tomorrow before I explain the circumstances.
 
Anyone who thinks UConn bombed on any sort of presentation is absolutely nuts. The presentation, which was released to the public about 2 minutes after the official "no expansion" announcement was made by Bowlsby, was spot-on and very professional. Unfortunately for us, no presentation in the world can mask a 3-9 football team that never scores touchdowns.
 
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This is the first and last time I read someone using the Dude of WV as a source. The UCONN presentation to the Big 12 was awesome. The ass hats had no intention of expanding and everyone got used.
 
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