Ask any head coach in the country about recruiting, they will all tell you...you build a fence around your state first. The natives are the ones who are going to have their fannies in the seats. Out-of-state families don't make up the majority of the fan base. We not a national draw.....YET.
I agree. You need to identify your home turf.
have no issues with anything that Diaco has done as a program leader when it comes to recruiting, when it comes to individual player development, and identifying the profile of player he wants and what his recruiting plan is, and where we intend to, are, and will continue to recruit. It's not limited to CT.
He established relationships in state with every single high school program in the state and made it clear what kind of player he is looking for as the leader of this program. If there is a player that fits the profile, they will be recruited in state, and hopefully the kinds of issues about communication that showed up with Randy Edsall's program, will not be repeated. Not every player that a CT program produces will fit with the UCONN program, and not every player that the UCONN program may want from CT, will be interested in being recruited and come to UCONN. But people need to communicate as allowed within the rules.
(My personal feeling on that is that Edsall was so paranoid about rules, that he simply to chose to ignore everybody). Pasqualoni, well, he knew everybody already and everybody knew him. (Still wonder what could have happened if we had anybody with the wisdom to tell the old coot, that Deleone was not invited.) Water under the bridge.
Now - none of that, finding players, and what he's doing with the program to develop them on campus once they're in the program, is a problem for UCONN.
You want to talk about game planning and game time? Now we got some question marks that I can write volumes on. Nothing to do but hope that this year really was a prolonged scrimmage, and that next year we do actually start playing real, game time, football.
