Actual the original *?AAC 2013 was
People like to crap on the American...and with good emotional reason. But from a conference standpoint every one of those teams is in the same or a better place now than they were 20 years ago. Every one of them except UConn.
Kind of obvious my man. The whole point of the American is using it as a stepping stone to something better. It's a layover conference...if you're doing it right you leave for someplace better. UConn is the only school that used it to go backwards.
Yeah yeah...as they say we're the winningest program that ever one things while winning...
It's kind of obvious because the American is a terrible conference to be a part of.
UConn's problem was it wasn't prepared to go from BCS to G5 status. USF tanked as well. Cincinnati had a track record of hiring successful coaches and when they hired a dud in Tuberville they quickly jettisoned him. They didn't let him run the thing further into the ground. People say Cincinnati sits in a more fertile recruiting than UConn and that is true, but USF is in an even better recruiting area and is near UConn in terms of futility the last 10 years. CFB will always be about hiring the right coach. As a kid, i remember reading that Pullman Washington was the most difficult place in the country to recruit to. Yet two coaches Mike Leach and Mike Price won big there. If a coach shows you he is the right guy you need to be competitive in trying to keep him.
Frustrating how quckly people and media change their views by simply adding a P status to a school.
I don't know if we can dump all that at the seat Edsall ver. 2, though he certainly contributed. Pasqualone and Diaco, had already hurt us significantly. I don't know that our current status is really "budget" driven. We made some bad coaching hires, but the biggest factor was the initial blackballing out of the ACC by Boston College, followed by FSU's decision to flex it's my against Tobacco Road. After that, it seems, that our fate was sealed.
What's infuriating about it to top it off is when you hear Bennedict and others talk about "we have to tell our story". The time for that came and went buddy.
We suck at it TBH.
Aresco was and continues to be right. That power 5 moniker should have never been allowed to exist. Everyone knows the Big East is in a different stratosphere from the Atlantic 10 in every sense. But in basketball they're just two different conferences.
Well, we really didn't limit ourselves money wise signing Diaco. He was one the worst D-1 hires ever and the buy-out was onerous.
That was brutal, he just keeps repeating himself. Should've been a 30 second video.
Not to mention the Ollie situation
Exactly....I skimmed it...tried to FF to the key spots and turn it into a 2 min experience.
Does this mean there may be a spot for UConn in the ACC even if they add Stanford, Cal and even SMU. Fla State, Clemson could leave..
One of the worst ever is harsh. Guy did make a bowl. USF just fired a guy who was way worse. Edsall 2.0 was exponentially worse.
