Looks like Coach Buggs is out

[uconndennis]

Kermit E. Buggs ‏@KBuggs4 Protected Tweets8m
Thanks to all the #UConnFootball family! It has been a great experience here. Best of luck to the great players and fans next year!

 

[DW4UCONN]

Just like with TJ's tweet, there is nothing to read here between the lines. While Weist left his options open, I agree it appears Buggs is saying goodbye. I wish him well.

 

[B1GEast]

He was a good recruiter, too bad.

 

[Dooley]

Best of luck Coach Buggs!

 

[NavinRJohnson]

Might be the best name is sports. Best of luck Coach Buggs.

 

[MattMang23]

If you consider auto racing a sport, Trickle, for me, is the best. If auto racing doesn't count, then Pole, formerly the pitching coach of the Cleveland Indians has to be at or near the top of the list.

 

[huskymedic]

If you consider auto racing a sport, Trickle, for me, is the best. If auto racing doesn't count, then Pole, formerly the pitching coach of the Cleveland Indians has to be at or near the top of the list.

Dude - ya gotta dump the PP/JH picture or at least make it a smaller. Please, pretty please?

 

[NavinRJohnson]

If you consider auto racing a sport, Trickle, for me, is the best. If auto racing doesn't count, then Pole, formerly the pitching coach of the Cleveland Indians has to be at or near the top of the list.

Dick Trickle is a good one. My favorite NASCAR name is Buckshot Jones. Just a fun name to yell out at a car race.

 

[Sean]

It ain't easy being green...

 

[huskypantz]

Wish Coach Buggs the best. TBH, I was less than enthralled with our ST play and RB was inconsistent when it wasn't bad. Change might be good for both parties.

 

[Mr Blueskin]

Wish Coach Buggs the best. TBH, I was less than enthralled with our ST play and RB was inconsistent when it wasn't bad. Change might be good for both parties.

I was just about to write this exactly...thanks huskypants for reading my mind at the same exact time...special teams were definately the worst I've seen at UConn in awhile...McCombs might as well have just let the ball go in the end zone as he rarely got past the 25 yd line on anything...definately want to see someone else or something different back there next year...kicking game was less than impressive as well, field goals and punts.

 

[Dove]

Kermit E Buggs...we hardly knew ye

 

[Jimdish255]

The guy was upbeat and excited to be here in his short tenure. Always pumping UConn and his players. On that level would have fit in well with our new HC. Wish we could have found a spot for him but best of luck.

 

[ibleedhuskyblue]

Agree with Huskypantz and Blue Whale. He seemed like a great guy, and someone who liked being here....

but his 2 areas (Specials and RB's), were just dreadful while he was here.

 

[huskyblooz]

Favorite name is former outfielder Rusty Kuntz.

 

[Chief00]

Buggs lost a big recruit to Coach D at the 11th hour when Buggs was at Penn State.

 

[UconnFamily]

Buggs lost a big recruit to Coach D at the 11th hour when Buggs was at Penn State.

Damn, he's a great recruiter too! Smh... wish he would have stayed. He was in charge of bringing Khairi Fortt, Silas Redd, and almost Ishaq Williams

 

[UConnDan97]

Here's a quick question (for which, the answer may not exist on this board): Am I to conclude that Diaco already has someone else in mind for ST / RB coach? Or is it just that the two don't share the same philosophy / vision for the future?

 

[UconnFamily]

Kermit E. Buggs ‏@KBuggs4 Protected Tweets8m
Thanks to all the #UConnFootball family! It has been a great experience here. Best of luck to the great players and fans next year!

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-football/hc-uconn-football-1218-20131217,0,2708772.story

 

[UConnDan97]

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-football/hc-uconn-football-1218-20131217,0,2708772.story

So it just sounds like Buggs was one of the two coaches that were previously rumored to be gone anyways, before the meetings took place. Or at least that's what I'm taking from it, based on this quote from that article:

"They went great," Diaco said of meetings with the 2013 staff. "There's a ton of people in the organization who love, love, love Husky football and UConn athletics. "Whether it worked or it didn't work it wasn't for a lack of trying all the way across the board. It looks like there's a great culture of hard work so that piece right there is really a great piece."

I guess I'll keep pressing "refresh" every 15 minutes...

 

[BNich]

Favorite name is former outfielder Rusty Kuntz.

Sort of off topic, but saw a name in the arrest blog here in Florida, Heavenly Comforter.

 

[RioDog]

Favorite name is former outfielder Rusty Kuntz.

Makes me think of the famous English jockey Harry Wragg.