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If you're a coordinator anywhere and you have visions of being a head coach, I think you take the job that is offered. One bad year and you can go from hot prospect to "who?" in a matter of a season. I also think you need to look at places like the MAC. Lembo at Ball state has a nice resume, I think. He isn't a "sexy" pick but he's coached in the northeast and won everywhere he has been. If I had a wishlist, I also thin james Franklin would be somewhere on it. He has done wonders at Vanderbilt. You have to wonder if he might look at least. Other wise he risks ending up as Jim Grobe. Good coach in a long term impossible situation. Grobe had some interest a few years ago but elected to stay at Wake, but winning at Wake is a long term hard situation. Same with Vandy. Huge possibility that you have reached your ceiling there and it is downhill going forward.

I think Warde will go the coordinator/lower level head coach route, but hte other way to go would be the reclamation project. Not sure who is out there right now, but I'd like to get a guy who was successful but not quite successful enough at a major program. The model for this is Stolich. Who was a very successful coach by most standards at Nebraska. Just not successful by Nebraska standards.

I also think you want to look at a guy who has had a good career as opposed to a great season. That was the issue with a guy like Turner Gill. He had 1 good season and suddenly he's Knute Rockne's second coming...By the way, I think a guy like Tom O'Brien has zero chance of being the head coach at Connecticut. After the Pasqualoni debacle, we are not hiring a guy with even less personality. Though in an odd way I think he would have solid success here. He was a steady if unspectacular guy at BC and continued that style at NC State. I know one thing. If he were hired as head coach, the first guy fired would be George DeLeone. O'Brien built lines very much like UConn did under Edsall. Recruit athletic kids who had the potential to develop and coach them up.
 
ZooCougar said:
Not like he hasn't had enough time to get a head start.
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Jimmy Serrano said:
This is the silver lining in the dark cloud. Warde began his search on 8/30.
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Those calling for P's head last year turned out to be correct, but it was reasonably defensible for the AD to allow him Year 3. It is indefensible if Warde was not monitoring the coaching market starting after the second W. Mich game.

The addition of Weist leads me to believe that he was "monitoring."
 
if you were looking at lower level guys, I like Ambrose over Moorehead. He's done more in a better conference. I'd also look at the guy at Stony Brook. another guy who has won everywhere he's been.
 
UConnJim said:
His last year at FIU and the train wreck that is happening this year, the year after he left are warning flags for me. I think he is a good recruiter and can be an asset to a coaching staff, but I am not sold on him as a head coach. Also, I don't think he will leave the Southeast.
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This is valid reason for concern but one thing that may have played a role in the wheels falling off as they had at FIU is that they had a new AD who very early on made it clear the he wanted Butch Jones to take over the program (he was deluded enough to believe that he could lure him from Cincinnati at season's end) and the wheels basically fell off from there. Some parallels can be made between what happened at FIU and Bellichick's last year in Cleveland.

This does not mean that Christobal will turn out to have Bellichick type success at his next HC job (who knows how he will fare) but there were extenuating circumstances that led to the train wreck at FIU and this needs to be added to the equation when cnsidering him as a possibility.
 
Pete Rossomondo deserves a look, and not just a cursory one in my opinion.

I was pooed pooed in a thread a couple weeks ago because he is a D2 coach. Rossomondo is a winner (2012 national D2 Coach of the Year, 3 time conference COY, over .700 winning percentage at a program that is 5 years old). D2 should not be disclaimer.

Just as many of his players from CT as are on the current UConn team. That tells me he can simultaneously has a teachable system and can coach his players up to a position of success.

Next step: Sell Burton on it.
 
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Scott Frost is an interesting choice, and he's coached and played both sides of the ball. He's never been a head coach, but that leaves me with less consternation than a previously fired retread.
 
Husky25 said:
Pete Rossomondo deserves a look, and not just a cursory one in my opinion.

I was pooed pooed in a thread a couple weeks ago because he is a D2 coach. Rossomondo is a winner (2012 national D2 Coach of the Year, 3 time conference COY, over .700 winning percentage at a program that is 5 years old). D2 should not be disclaimer.

Just as many of his players from CT as are on the current UConn team. That tells me he can simultaneously has a teachable system and can coach his players up to a position of success.

Next step: Sell Burton on it.
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I like winners, regardless of the level of play.

Can we all agree to a national search before we default to the two guys who just happened to spend time on staff.

You know, let's not do the oh-so-CT thing this time. Surprised no one has mentioned Skip.
 
Raheem Morris - Former TB coach - Defensive Coach
From NJ - Went to Hofstra - nice connections but has been out of college FB for a little while.
 
UConn07 said:
My top three choices are as follows:

Bobby Petrino
Bobby Petrino
Bobby Petrino
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If he's not available - Jim Tresel

If he's not available - Lane Kiffin

If he's not available - Charlie Weis

Need to make a splash with a guy that is a household name to picque the interest not only of fans, but players as well.
 
Pay big $'s for the right person. One thing uconn cant do is take another wrong turn on a head coach.
If that person exists, pay them and get this program headed in the right direction. Short money for whats at stake.
 
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UConn07 said:
If he's not available - Jim Tresel

If he's not available - Lane Kiffin

If he's not available - Charlie Weis

Need to make a splash with a guy that is a household name to picque the interest not only of fans, but players as well.
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Weiss? Hasnt worked at kansas... Why would uconn work?
 
UConn07 said:
If he's not available - Jim Tresel

If he's not available - Lane Kiffin

If he's not available - Charlie Weis

Need to make a splash with a guy that is a household name to picque the interest not only of fans, but players as well.
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PS - was screaming Mike Leach last go around - would be nice to have a program that can take out USC.....
 
UConn07 said:
Buzz Buzz Buzz
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He is going to get fired by Kansas. And he generated no buzz for them.

I went to their home opener against South Dakota. South Dakota just recently upgraded from DII to FCS. They would have lost to Towson by like 30-40.

Kansas struggled with them before getting a gap. And they went out and promptly lost to Rice this weekend.

No buzz there. He will be back in the NFL again next season.
 
Bonehead said:
Raheem Morris - Former TB coach - Defensive Coach
From NJ - Went to Hofstra - nice connections but has been out of college FB for a little while.
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As a Redskins fan (and if I had a vote) I will be the first person to veto that pick. If the young Washington secondary doesn't improve soon, he will be out of pro football for a while. The 'Skins got lit up by Aaron Rogers for over 400 yards and a 4TD's yesterday. They got lit up last week too vs. Michael Vick.

UConn07 said:
My top three choices are as follows:

Bobby Petrino
Bobby Petrino
Bobby Petrino
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I want no part of this man. Not for his transgressions off the field, but because of how he left the Atlanta Falcons. Sort of lets you see the heart and character of a man.
 
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Not to quote bill king, but hes correct. Get the hire right, everthing else falls into place.
 
UConn07 said:
If he's not available - Jim Tresel

If he's not available - Lane Kiffin

If he's not available - Charlie Weis

Need to make a splash with a guy that is a household name to picque the interest not only of fans, but players as well.
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I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.. at Kiffin and Weis anyway. Neither one has shown anything as a head coach. I agree with the sentiment though. I would love a splashy big name hire.
 
UConn07 said:
If he's not available - Jim Tresel

If he's not available - Lane Kiffin

If he's not available - Charlie Weis

Need to make a splash with a guy that is a household name to picque the interest not only of fans, but players as well.
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I am soooo happy you don't get to pick the new coach. Warde does not need to make a splash, he needs a coach that will win. Kiffin hasn't really done anything significant anywhere he's been. Tressel = scandal, Weis is poor college coach.

BTW, how was your good friend's wedding?
 
Husky25 said:
I am soooo happy you don't get to pick the new coach. Warde does not need to make a splash, he needs a coach that will win. Kiffin hasn't really done anything significant anywhere he's been. Tressel = scandal, Weis is poor college coach.

BTW, how was "Your good friend's" wedding?
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It was good thanks! Bond Ballroom is actually a pretty sick place for a reception in Hartford on the 13th floor of the Homewood Suites. Hartford really is a beautiful city, just too bad it can't be cleaned up a bit, but that's a story for another day.
 
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Cristobal was Pernetti's top target to replace Schiano at rutgers, and said no to them. HC and/or assistant salary may have been the issue, though that's only my guess.Maybe he didn't think rutgers would get the B1G invite. Despite his stubbing his toe that last year at FIU, I don't know if he'd be interested in UConn. Worth a phone call I guess.

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UConn07 said:
If he's not available - Jim Tresel

If he's not available - Lane Kiffin

If he's not available - Charlie Weis

Need to make a splash with a guy that is a household name to picque the interest not only of fans, but players as well.
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is this a serious post, or are you being sarcastic? i really can't tell. you just picked two coaches that underperformed by biblical proportions at relatively easy HC jobs and there's no way you actually think Jim Tressel would make a big splash. personally i don't have any great ideas either, but we struck out the last time we took a proven loser has-been. i think we need to go the proven winner at a lower level type guy.
 
mattp said:
i think we need to go the proven winner at a lower level type guy.
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Yup, go the Cincy route. Find a guy who has recent success building his own program as a head coach. It's no guarantee but you minimize your risk.

The last three guys Cincy has hired have been successful head coaches. Jim Calhoun was a successful head coach at a lower level when he was hired.
 
Only one name on my list, a Weslyan Grad named Bill. Has CT ties and has proven he can win fb games in the northeast.

10 years of BB could not only propel UConn into the B1G time, but would be a renascence for CT (and NE) high school football. Then when he's old and gray he can think how HE took not only UConn to glory but CT hs football to glory, whilst looking at Superbowl rings.
 
FDNY99 said:
Add Pat Narduzzi from Mich State, Bob Diaco of ND, Mark D'Onofrio of Miami, Brent Venables and Chad Morris of Clemson, John McNulty of Tampa Bay to that list. I'm gonna go with Venables and D'Onofrio.
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Narduzzi is a REALLY interesting name I haven't before seen on here. Would be nice to get a CT guy who hasn't been out of college football for 10 years. Get him, boost our Defensive side, keep TJW to run our Offense?
 
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