You shouldn’t read the paper or watch another game.
My take on leaving the AAC and going independent is DB & BOT will be more lenient and flexible through this transition. A solid hard schedule this year. Then two + years of creating a better Mousetrap. They’re not going to scrape the current path for some young dude.
The Correct answer is ... Lance Leipold at Buffalo (after Wisconsin Whitewater) or Chris Creighton Eastern Michigan (after Drake). Both would pull us to a far higher plane. Having said that ... Edsall with Spanos. A better offensive scheme. Development. We aren’t that far in variance -imho - with any replacement. That’s my opinion.
Stop you're being silly at this point by defending him - you are what your record says you are and RE's record is one of a losing head man and no matter what you or anyone else says - you simply can't erase that fact. My dislike for him is much less about on-field performance and more about his inability to own his role in it - that is infuriating to me.
I don't care about NFL or CFL guys - it's good for them, but I care more about winning games - with all that NFL and CFL talent he still only had 2 conference winning seasons - jesus that should tell you something, but it won't.
I can easily show you a school or two that went FBS at the same time as UConn and have had more success - so RE1.0 wasn't some miracle worker - better than this time for sure, but let's not make him out to be Woody Hayes for his first performance.
They have to make a change if they want to continue to have a FBS football program. They have to get someone in here that has a more dynamic philosophy and has had recent SUCCESS as a HEAD man running a program. No assistant - you could get Kirby Smart or you could get Jeremy Pruitt - it's a big crap shoot, unless you're staying at the same school then I believe you have a better chance for success.
Have to find a guy that has has been successful at a FCS school like like NDSU, Montana, JMU, etc. or a lesser FBS conference like the MAC, but I'm not sure that's lesser based on where the program is going conference wise.
You are correct that Hoston, Klieman, Fleck - is the profile - if you want to win the university has to pay the money that's just the way it goes and if the university wasn't prepared or can't spend the money to at least be realistically considered by good coaches the program should move to FCS and try and be a consistent playoff participant at that level - that's ok.
I'm around 100's of HS coaches a year (it's my business) and watch more film in a weekend than you probably do all year, the conversations around the program aren't necessarily positive. They all realize that it's a very difficult job and they sympathize with the challenge, but there's not a lot of positive buzz that's for sure and continuing this type of performance won't change the narrative and that is not a good thing - sorry to disappoint you.
It's a lot different than it was 20 years ago, A LOT in every way.
