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New Head Coach Criteria/Wishes

Good Morning from "Old Guy" wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving. Yesterday's news of HC leaving has left a bitter taste in my mouth. I thought we had someone who displayed Loyalty to the Athletes, fan base, University and State. But was I ever wrong. Do I understand in this time of sports it's about the $$$$$$$$l$$$. Brian Kelly, left ND and now owed 50 million. Something wrong with this picture. I have lost respect for Mora. At least coach the bowl game and stay for the kids who played their hearts out for him. Never mind the portal...His so-called loyalty was a bamboozle. Time to turn the page.
Here is a thought: UConn has the Head Coach already on campus. His name is Joe Fagnano. Yup, Joe. Oh I know, that's a laugh for anyone reading my post. We want the guy who has coached a big time program. NOT COMING. Or a young guy, like at James Madison, who will build his resume at UConn and leave.
Listen, Listen, Joe is a leader, and would put UConn on the front page of sports news. 3 star athletes, many who are tired of sitting the Bench at the power schools would find this an interesting concept and some would find their way to UConn. Joe would hire the coaches who can coach them up.
Going to the NFL as a 7th round or just signed as a signing after the draft only to be cut late.
It's a new world. Young people want something new. I know nobody will agree with Old Guy, but sometime in the future when another coach has bailed on UConn for more money, someone will say, Maybe Old Guy was right, WE SHOULD HAVE GONE WITH JOE! RECREATED PT 109 STORY. Riding with JOE.....JOE IS A LEADER AND WOULD BE A GREAT COACH!!!!! Love you all OLD GUY
 
I think people are way overstating the need for a perfect regional fit or undying loyalty to UConn.

If we can hire another coach who stays for 3-4 years and leaves the program in a better state than he came in, that's a home run. Very few coaches stay in the same spot forever these days. At the end of the day, it's a job. They're not fans like us.

We should be lucky enough to hire another Mora.
 
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EdgewoodNHV said:
I think people are way overstating the need for a perfect regional fit or undying loyalty to UConn.

If we can hire another coach who stays for 4 years and leaves the program in a better state than he came in, that's a home run. Very few coaches stay in the same spot forever these days. At the end of the day, it's a job. They're not fans like us.

We should be lucky enough to hire another Mora.
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Whoever we get is here for 2-4 years. Either will be poached or retire.
 
Stinger92860 said:
According to a news report it appears that Brian Kelly must find a job in order to receive his 54 million buyout. Just sayin…

No idea if he is the right guy, or what he would cost, but a Kelly hire would get us to the top of a news cycle for sure. It would demonstrate that we are serious about football and maybe, just maybe he can bring some of the LSU 2nd or 3rd stringers with him for a year.

College football is not for the faint of heart and we need to act accordingly and capitalize on the limited success we have recently achieved.
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Didn’t Malzahn mentor Lashlee?
 
Malzahn could be an interesting hire, clearly not a long-term guy, but would be able to attract talent and has experience dealing with the new world.

Brian Kelly's deal just requires him to demonstrate he's actively seeking a job to mitigate the obligations with LSU, apparently, he's supposed to keep a record of interviews, applications/job contacts, etc

I don't love the FCS guys who've never really dealt with acquiring talent through the transfer portal. NFL guys have that kind of experience, as do some FBS assistants and obviously the head coaches.
 
I thought Malzahn because of ties to Auburn but apparently didn’t do well at UCF? He seems to know coaches from Auburn and Minnesota. Chip Kelley replaced fired Mora at UCLA. Who can succeed in the challenging situation of underdog UConn?
 
One thing we need to think about as the search for a new head coach begins. In college football, in general, the better resourced team wins. UConn has signed up to play ~4 P4 schools per year, all of them better resourced than UConn football. That is challenging. If I were thinking about taking the UConn job, I would demand more resources to try to compete against the P4's on the schedule.
 
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EdgewoodNHV said:
I think people are way overstating the need for a perfect regional fit or undying loyalty to UConn.

If we can hire another coach who stays for 3-4 years and leaves the program in a better state than he came in, that's a home run. Very few coaches stay in the same spot forever these days. At the end of the day, it's a job. They're not fans like us.

We should be lucky enough to hire another Mora.
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You would think at $2.5M a year you could at least get a guy to act like he wanted to be here.

Coach Transient was a great description. It was like he went into the Witness Protection Program each offseason.
 
UConnJim said:
One thing we need to think about as the search for a new head coach begins. In college football, in general, the better resourced team wins. UConn has signed up to play ~4 P4 schools per year, all of them better resourced than UConn football. That is challenging. If I were thinking about taking the UConn job, I would demand more resources to try to compete against the P4's on the schedule.
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If I am DB I would get to work on “fixing” next season’s schedule. It probably shouldn’t be that hard.
 
UConnJim said:
One thing we need to think about as the search for a new head coach begins. In college football, in general, the better resourced team wins. UConn has signed up to play ~4 P4 schools per year, all of them better resourced than UConn football. That is challenging. If I were thinking about taking the UConn job, I would demand more resources to try to compete against the P4's on the schedule.
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Demand more resources? Where are they coming from?
 
ZooCougar said:
You would think at $2.5M a year you could at least get a guy to act like he wanted to be here.

Coach Transient was a great description. It was like he went into the Witness Protection Program each offseason.
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Mora was like one of those guys in the old westerns. Retired gunslinger hired by the town mayor to handle the bad guys. Once they were beaten he rides off into the sunset.
And the townspeople are thankful but wonder what will happen next time. Duke Wayne type.

My guess in hindsight is this was the deal he had with AD Dave from the get go. Building the infrastructure. Get us back to a legitimate program. Then ride off into the sunset.
 
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The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of Pat Fitzgerald. I know things spiraled out at the end for him but coaching at Northwestern is really hard. He fits the mold of a guy looking to get back into coaching & would attack this UConn job hard. Sort of Mora-esque in the sense that he wants to get back & needs us like we’d need him. I’d sign up for that for sure.
 
I don’t get all the talk of the tough schedule next year. Cuse, NC, Duke, JMU (likely in transition) all beatable. MD less so given B10 size and speed, but should they kill us like 2 years ago? The rest are a gaggle of spares, with less resources. A highly competitive guy comes in expecting to win 8 and get right to work to do it. Otherwise, he’s not the guy. What made Belichick/UNC with their schedule and resources such a disappointment. The minute they saw they were paying lousy players to lose games badly, they started talking “70 new players” and “rebuild”. That’s why you need a guy and a guy - a coach and a GM (who don’t have to be a package deal). Spend wisely and have a perspective and plan on how you want to play complementary football. With our NIL/rev share and schedule, our floor remains a .500 bowl team.
 
Rdkid said:
I don’t get all the talk of the tough schedule next year.
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It is an extremely difficult schedule. If we make a bowl next season it will immediately be more impressive than anything Mora did.

The foundation for this two-year run we are on was 8 wins against weak G5 teams last year. We had the best QB-WR tandem in the country this year and still lost to Rice and Delaware and beat Buffalo by 3.
 
TBHreal said:
Get a damn grip. Good lord.

UConn football is a stepping stone for head coaches at this point in time and will continue to be for a very long time. Jim Mora resurrected us from the dead and deserves a statue. Literally saved our program as the movement to drop to FCS or get rid of it altogether started to gain some traction.

Our next coach has one goal: keep us nationally relevant/competitive so we can get into a P4 conference. That’s it. We aren’t going get a coach who stays here for forever like our basketball coaches. Nor should we want that until we are in a P4. We want a coach who wants to work their ass off for 3-4 years keeping UConn Football on this trajectory to get a better job.
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It's a good thing I asked you. Oh wait.
 
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