Now who is going to be the DC?

[UDann]

I'm expecting this DC hire to be someone on the FCS payscale to balance things out. And that guy at Army for Dline seemed intriguing.

Just called ticket office about BC game and they said they didn't know how they were going to handle the game as part of the package. I then asked if she knew who the new DC was, silence. I said its okay don't tell me but the choice has been made? It is confirmed. I guess they are waiting for the right time to announce.

 

[Jarhead_1775]

Just called ticket office about BC game and they said they didn't know how they were going to handle the game as part of the package. I then asked if she knew who the new DC was, silence. I said its okay don't tell me but the choice has been made? It is confirmed. I guess they are waiting for the right time to announce.

I know everyone in the ticket office and trust me they sell tickets. Not in the know to inner workings in the AD's office.

 

[Stinger92860]

So far we have hired 4/10 assistants and have $845K committed. We still need DC, ST, WR, OL, DL/DB (assuming DC is in charge of one or the other), and Strength. Using last year as a comp, those 6 positions took up roughly $1.4 of salary. That would put us about $200K over the pool.

Now obviously the allocation of salary for each assistant is going to be different this year than it has in the past. But if you go out and spend $350K on a DC, you're going to have to sacrifice on OL, WR, and STs. I think that would be a mistake, especially given the fact that HCRE is a defense guy.

Here's the break down so far and comp to 2016:
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Add in the HC salaries and we should have about another 500k. Though it may be needed as contingency for incentives.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I normally would say this is impossible because he made $550K at Minnesota, but after the Rhett hiring I can't use that one haha

He's unemployed. What other FBS DC openings exist?

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

While we are shooting for the moon and landing, lets go get Don Brown back!

Just after Brown re-upped with Michigan to the tune of $1 million+ per season?

 

[sportsart]

What are they doing? Why haven't they told us yet? It's obvious something is wrong....

You'd never see me write a post like this. Patience is a virtue my friend.

 

[tkaes]

Al Golden as DC would give Athletic Director Dave a true hat trick of successful hires!

Actually, Al Golden would be one of the two worst hires for DC Benedict could make. The other one just signed on last week to destroy the program on the defensive side of the ball at U of Houston. Al Golden comes from the Al Groh school of losing college defenses. He believes in a two-gap, 3-4 where the DL uses "arm violence" to play off the OL so they can read and react. By the time the DL reacts the runner has passed them and is trying to catch up to the LBs who lined up 7 yds off the ball at all times especially when the ball is within a couple of yds of their own goal line. He believes in a bend but don't break defensive strategy where the DBs line up 7-10 yds off the LOS and then back peddle before the ball is snapped to make sure they give up no more than 10-15 yds per play. Plan on UCONN giving up at least 500 yds of offense and more in most games routinely falling behind by 30 or more. Lashlee will have to score 50 per game if the Huskies are to win

 

[businesslawyer]

Actually, Al Golden would be one of the two worst hires for DC Benedict could make. The other one just signed on last week to destroy the program on the defensive side of the ball at U of Houston. Al Golden comes from the Al Groh school of losing college defenses. He believes in a two-gap, 3-4 where the DL uses "arm violence" to play off the OL so they can read and react. By the time the DL reacts the runner has passed them and is trying to catch up to the LBs who lined up 7 yds off the ball at all times especially when the ball is within a couple of yds of their own goal line. He believes in a bend but don't break defensive strategy where the DBs line up 7-10 yds off the LOS and then back peddle before the ball is snapped to make sure they give up no more than 10-15 yds per play. Plan on UCONN giving up at least 500 yds of offense and more in most games routinely falling behind by 30 or more. Lashlee will have to score 50 per game if the Huskies are to win

Sometimes I read these posts and feel like I must have missed the two years where we played defense under Brown and went undefeated both years, shutting everyone out.

 

[Hoophound]

Sometimes I read these posts and feel like I must have missed the two years where we played defense under Brown and went undefeated both years, shutting everyone out.

Very true, but I think we can all agree that bend don't break has been very frustrating for us lately. Properly managed it is ok, but playing off everyone on 3rd down and basically handing them a first down has grown so tiresome that it literally gives me slight nausea.

 

[sdhusky]

Very true, but I think we can all agree that bend don't break has been very frustrating for us lately. Properly managed it is ok, but playing off everyone on 3rd down and basically handing them a first down has grown so tiresome that it literally gives me slight nausea.

losing has been frustrating.

 

[businesslawyer]

Very true, but I think we can all agree that bend don't break has been very frustrating for us lately. Properly managed it is ok, but playing off everyone on 3rd down and basically handing them a first down has grown so tiresome that it literally gives me slight nausea.

Sucky defense and passive defense are two entirely different things. Plenty of teams win playing reactive defense. We've won playing reactive defense. We need good athletes and good coaches and non-idiots running it.

 

[FDNY99]

So far we have hired 4/10 assistants and have $845K committed. We still need DC, ST, WR, OL, DL/DB (assuming DC is in charge of one or the other), and Strength. Using last year as a comp, those 6 positions took up roughly $1.4 of salary. That would put us about $200K over the pool.

Now obviously the allocation of salary for each assistant is going to be different this year than it has in the past. But if you go out and spend $350K on a DC, you're going to have to sacrifice on OL, WR, and STs. I think that would be a mistake, especially given the fact that HCRE is a defense guy.

Here's the break down so far and comp to 2016:
View attachment 18560

Don't forget that Edsall may have taken less salary to add to that Assistant pool.

 

[King Husky]

This guy Diaco was really good at Notre Dame and I hear he is available...

In all seriousness, it probably would work out great.

 

[businesslawyer]

In all seriousness, it probably would work out great.

No. There is no way Diaco could take a job under Edsall and not spend half his time wondering how much better things could be if he was the head coach.

I have nothing against Diaco -- I'm sure he's a nice and a good guy -- and I wouldn't be surprised if ten years from now he gets a shut at being head coach somewhere and this time succeeds. But he needs to restart his career somewhere else.

 

[#BleedBlueFam]

In all seriousness, it probably would work out great.

He may have a new gig pretty soon.

 

[King Husky]

No. There is no way Diaco could take a job under Edsall and not spend half his time wondering how much better things could be if he was the head coach.

I have nothing against Diaco -- I'm sure he's a nice and a good guy -- and I wouldn't be surprised if ten years from now he gets a shut at being head coach somewhere and this time succeeds. But he needs to restart his career somewhere else.

Let me rephrase that... In a vacuum, it would probably work out great.

 

[MASSconn]

Very true, but I think we can all agree that bend don't break has been very frustrating for us lately. Properly managed it is ok, but playing off everyone on 3rd down and basically handing them a first down has grown so tiresome that it literally gives me slight nausea.

It's worked pretty well for the Patriots.... just sayin

 

[Dove]

He may have a new gig pretty soon.

Speaking of Arkansas...who was the black coach that was there who was a hot name to maybe come to UCONN instead of Jocko? And where is he now?

 

[ktuck911]

Speaking of Arkansas...who was the black coach that was there who was a hot name to maybe come to UCONN instead of Jocko? And where is he now?

Garrick McGhee.. He's OC at Illinois right now... I think all that UConn chatter started and ended here though... Never thought he was truly interested...

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

He may have a new gig pretty soon.

Wasn't he teammates with Bielema for a year or 2?

 

[warbler1055]

He may have a new gig pretty soon.

Of course with his sterling record, who can resists!!!

 

[Exit 4]

Last night we got Lashlee, maybe tonight we get another announcement.

 

[TheDrifter75]

Alright, any minute now, annny minute...

 

[Sprague03]

My eyes are killing me today. I keep refreshing my twitter feed, but still nothing on the DC position. arghh...

 

[MASSconn]

Where the hell is this announcement?