Love Diaco...

[minidarren]

But just mentioned Tulsa and Tulane as great additions to a fantastic AAC. We need to do UCONN and no one else. Stop pimping this show.

 

[Jerry27]

You can't S hit where you eat! You want to change the perception of the conference so the perception of the program can change as well. What you think we're going to be considered a legit program in a crap conference? The AAC has to be raised to the level that we are without a doubt the best conference of the rest, you can't do that by turning your back on the others in your league, they have to be deemed as relevant. Take the talking head approach; tell'em what you want them to think, say over and over again and the public will begin to believe it eventually.

 

[MidTown Husky]

But just mentioned Tulsa and Tulane as great additions to a fantastic AAC. We need to do UCONN and no one else. Stop pimping this show.

Dumb...what do you expect him to say, "Man, our conference is so bad, so even if we go 12-0 it doesn't really mean anything because the rest of the programs suck."

Don't understand why it's not a POSITIVE that he is trying to pump up the AAC.

Do you enjoy reveling in negative perception?

 

[MidTown Husky]

You can't S hit where you eat!

lol exactly

 

[BlueDogs]

Dumb...what do you expect him to say, "Man, our conference is so bad, so even if we go 12-0 it doesn't really mean anything because the rest of the programs suck."

Don't understand why it's not a POSITIVE that he is trying to pump up the AAC.

Do you enjoy reveling in negative perception?

Because you shouldn't spin in the face of obvious truths - kind of like Carney and Obamacare... no cred

 

[John]

But just mentioned Tulsa and Tulane as great additions to a fantastic AAC. We need to do UCONN and no one else. Stop pimping this show.

no way, you have to be like Bagdad Bob with the quotes. I don't care if Tunxis Community College was joining, you need to pump them up like they were the Crimson Tide.

Here's his Greatest Hits:

"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"

"My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all"

"Our initial assessment is that they will all die"

"I blame Al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans!"

"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis."

'We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters and their shovels - We have driven them back."

"Surrender or be burned in their tanks."

"No I am not scared and neither should you be!"

"We have them surrounded in their tanks"

Britain "is not worth an old shoe."

Of U.S. troops: "They are most welcome. We will butcher them."

"We will welcome them with bullets and shoes."

"Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire"

"These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying"

"They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."

"They do not even have control over themselves! Do not believe them!"

"Faltering forces of infidels cannot just enter a country of 26 million people and lay besiege to them! They are the ones who will find themselves under siege. Therefore, in reality whatever this miserable Rumsfeld has been saying, he was talking about his own forces. Now even the American command is under siege."

"They tried to bring a small number of tanks and personnel carriers in through al-Durah but they were surrounded and most of their infidels had their throats cut."

"We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly."

"On this occasion, I am not going to mention the number of the infidels who were killed and the number of destroyed vehicles. The operation continues"

"We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted."

"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly."

"Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad. Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected."

"NO", snapped Mr al-Sahaf, "We have retaken the airport. There are NO Americans there. I will take you there and show you. IN ONE HOUR!"

"We defeated them yesterday. God willing, I will provide you with more information. I swear by God, I swear by God, those who are staying in Washington and London have thrown these mercenaries in a crematorium."

"Please, please! The Americans are relying on what I called yesterday a desperate and stupid method."

"They will be burnt. We are going to tackle them"

"We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked"

"Desperate Americans"

"Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport. The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed."

"Their casualties and bodies are many."

[On surrenders] "Those are not Iraqi soldiers at all. Where did they bring them from?"

"Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame Al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role."

"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport."

"You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay."

"This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra....Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there."

"By God, I think this is rather very unlikely. This is merely a prattle. The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them....Wherever they go they will find themselves encircled."

"Listen, this explosion does not frighten us any longer. The cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target."

"Blair...is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured."

"They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really is the cowardice of the American soldiers. we had not anticipated this."

"The louts of colonialism."

"It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait."

"W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial"

"I think the British nation has never been faced with a tragedy like this fellow [Blair]."

"The United Nations....[is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans."

"They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind."

"They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone."

"Iraqi fighters in Umm Qasr are giving the hordes of American and Brtish mercenaries the taste of definite death. We have drawn them into a quagmire and they will never get out of it."

"What they say about a breakthrough [in Najaf] is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places . . . they are trying to crack the buildings by flying low over them."

"Their forces committed suicide by the hundreds. ... The battle is very fierce and God made us victorious. The fighting continues."

"Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them."

"We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp"

"When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfathers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves"

About Bush: "the leader of the international criminal gang of bastards."

About Bush and Rumsfeld: "Those only deserve to be hit with shoes."

 

[minidarren]

Interviewer: So Bob, many people consider the UCONN job to be undesirable. What made you want to come here?
Diaco: Well, there are 25 million people, football tradition in the northeast, blah blah blah. Oh, and we are in the American, this is a great and exciting conference. With Temple, USF, Cincy, Tulsa, and Tulane. Really really exciting.

Bullshyt. Comment on the school, but dont go out of your way to justify this crap hole.

 

[John]

Interviewer: So Bob, many people consider the UCONN job to be undesirable. What made you want to come here?
Diaco: Well, there are 25 million people, football tradition in the northeast, blah blah blah. Oh, and we are in the American, this is a great and exciting conference. With Temple, USF, Cincy, Tulsa, and Tulane. Really really exciting.

Bullshyt. Comment on the school, but dont go out of your way to justify this crap hole.

""We will welcome them with bullets and shoes."

 

[Carl Spackler]

You know what I just did? I went to look at the final regular season standings the past couple years.

IN 2013, the American Conference finished with 2 AP top 25 ranked teams.
In 2012, the Big East finished with 1 AP top 25 team.
In 2011, the Big East finished with 2 AP top 25 teams. (Houston was ranked)
In 2010, the Big East finished with ZERO AP top 25 teams (Tulsa and UCF were ranked though)
In 2009, the Big East finished with 3 AP top 25 teams (Diaco had a hand in the Cincy team if I'm not mistaken)
In 2008, the Big East finished with 2 AP top 25 teams
In 2007, the Big East finished with 2 AP top 25 teams

I stopped there.

DIaco is a football coach. He isn't a basketball coach. The American Conference, there is absolutely no reason to think that this conference will not be at least equally as competitive as the Big East conference was for FOOTBALL. There is plenty to indicate that it will be MORE competitive than the Big East conference. How many people around here, lauded the strength of the Big East conference in football, when the media forces liked to black sheep the conference?

I LIKE that Bob Diaco is up the podium from day 1, taking the name he's built, and came from, and saying the these things.

The American Conference in football, cannot let the media treat it the same way that Big EAst conference was treated. LIke it or not - media matters in football.

Basketball? American Conference - much different dialogue. BUt when this guy is up on the podium talking about the American conference - he is talking about football, and he's not wrong.

We'll need to replace Louisville's place in the rankings regularly, and it would be nice if we step up to the plate to do that, but somebody in the conference will. We replaced West Virginia pretty easily in the rankings regularly, and Cincinatti regularly is a borderline top 25 program, or is in the top 25.

 

[Carl Spackler]

ALSO: THis is the last BCS year, and we'll see how UCF does. But does anyone need to be reminded of what the Big East football post season record was vs. say.....the ACC in the BCS era?

We'll see how the American does moving forward, but again, no reason to think it will be any worse than the Big East in the college football post season.

BTW: I really want to play all sports in the Big 10. Really. A lot.

But I, for one, have absolutely no control over that, and we're in the American now, so be it....win......let's go.

 

[rich1122]

We can't be relevant in ANY conference unless we get more get more fans in the seats. We have struggled the last 5 years. It has to be the MI game almost every week or just get used to this.

 

[Carl Spackler]

Disagree with that. Being relevant in any conference is about winning conference titles. The number of fans in the seats has everything to do with the public support of the athletic programs, and the revenue streams of the athletic department.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

We can't be relevant in ANY conference unless we get more get more fans in the seats. We have struggled the last 5 years. It has to be the MI game almost every week or just get used to this.

You left out the part about our 20k seat stadium. You're off your game. Oh, and.......Maryland.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

Disagree with that. Being relevant in any conference is about winning conference titles. The number of fans in the seats has everything to do with the public support of the athletic programs, and the revenue streams of the athletic department.

Nice avatar. LOL.

 

[sportsart]

All we need is 2-3 teams playing well and beating OOC teams. A top 15 team and a top 25 team in the same year and what you have is the Big East 2.0

There is no reason that Cincy, UCF, UConn and one of Houston or even ECU can't get it done.

It is what it is.

 

[Waquoit]

Nice avatar. LOL.

I gave him the idea