One Year After Change Future of Football Program Is Bright: Matt Schonvisky

[History Geek]

I was going to put this in the One Year Ago Today thread but I thought it deserved a thread of it own. Good stuff from Matt.

One Year After Change, Future of Football Program Is Bright | This is UConn Country

 

[uconnphil2016]

Does he mention anywhere that he vehemently opposed the change at the time? Kinda necessary to address that in some way, right? His role is so weird. I think UConn likes it, though. They've clearly given him this platform. It's kinda like UConn was looking for a propaganda wing or something

 

[History Geek]

Does he mention anywhere that he vehemently opposed the change at the time? Kinda necessary to address that in some way, right? His role is so weird. I think UConn likes it, though. They've clearly given him this platform. It's kinda like UConn was looking for a propaganda wing or something

Yes, I do get the PRAVDA vibe from Matt often. I thought this was objective though. Having the Courant beat writer there for the “off the record” conversation as well makes me feel that what he is reporting here is accurate, even if it is shaped by HCRE and the athletic department.

 

[sportsart]

Great read.

Emily, Emily, Emily.

 

[UConnDan97]

So Cummings didn't find another football job??

I'm shocked, I tell you. Absolutely shocked...

 

[huskymedic]

His role is so weird. I think UConn likes it, though. They've clearly given him this platform. It's kinda like UConn was looking for a propaganda wing or something

His slant maybe more program leaning but not sure his access is any different than anyone else (i.e. the UConnBlog/StorrsCentral/A Dime Back folks) that I can tell...

 

[methodology]

His slant maybe more program leaning but not sure his access is any different than anyone else (i.e. the UConnBlog/StorrsCentral/A Dime Back folks) that I can tell...

Agreed. And now that uconnblog/storrscentral has a working relationship with Orlovsky they might get more info than the other outlets

 

[whaler11]

Does he mention anywhere that he vehemently opposed the change at the time? Kinda necessary to address that in some way, right? His role is so weird. I think UConn likes it, though. They've clearly given him this platform. It's kinda like UConn was looking for a propaganda wing or something

Not that anything he writes follows the rules of logic - but if it wasn’t Kill that killed Diaco... what was it?

 

[whaler11]

I’d really prefer Matt be down on UConn.

Stopped clocks are right more often.

 

[Adios]

Not that anything he writes follows the rules of logic - but if it wasn’t Kill that killed Diaco... what was it?

Diaco was absolutely deemed incompetent.

 

[Storrs South]

M-V-P @CTMike

 

[Kgun7]

I’d really prefer Matt be down on UConn.

Stopped clocks are right more often.

Stopped clocks may be more right than stadium play clocks ... according to Matt.

 

[CTMike]

M-V-P @CTMike

Lol was honestly curious.

 

[J187Money]

So Cummings didn't find another football job??

I'm shocked, I tell you. Absolutely shocked...

And the RB coach now coaches WRs at Army, which completes like 10 passes a year.

 

[Palatine]

And the RB coach now coaches WRs at Army, which completes like 10 passes a year.

That is a GREAT job. He's done for the week in an hour on Monday.

 

[Adios]

Lol was honestly curious.

He was probably hoping we'd become a Catholic program.

 

[Exit 4]

Not that anything he writes follows the rules of logic - but if it wasn’t Kill that killed Diaco... what was it?

Maybe that is the narrative AD David Benedict went with because it worked so well, but perhaps its closer to the truth to say that AD David Benedict just became convinced Diaco had to go during the course of December and decided to pull the trigger once he knew Edsall would take the job at a price the school could afford.

 

[whaler11]

Maybe that is the narrative AD David Benedict went with because it worked so well, but perhaps its closer to the truth to say that AD David Benedict just became convinced Diaco had to go during the course of December and decided to pull the trigger once he knew Edsall would take the job at a price the school could afford.

Maybe. Odd that he didn’t nail it down before the staff had their new contracts then.

 

[whaler11]

And the RB coach now coaches WRs at Army, which completes like 10 passes a year.

20 this season right? That was by far and away the second funniest thing.

The first was when @John ’s heartbroke on the Emily news.

 

[Nostical]

Emily, Emily, Emily.

Heartbroke on the Emily news.

 

[John]

20 this season right? That was by far and away the second funniest thing.

The first was when @John ’s heartbroke on the Emily news.

I wish Emily all the best, I've moved on to Andy Katz.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

Maybe. Odd that he didn’t nail it down before the staff had their new contracts then.

I agree. It still feels like some event happened that forced DB to pull the trigger. If it wasn’t specifically Kill, it had to be something else. Maybe something changed with the cash available for the buyout. Or....RE dropped his asking price.

But you don’t draw up contracts for the assistants if you knew all along BD was out. Some event happened or barrier was removed to enable the change.

Thankfully.

 

[RSTuthill]

She did some hockey stuff too ... and was great at it.

 

[uconnphil2016]

I agree. It still feels like some event happened that forced DB to pull the trigger. If it wasn’t specifically Kill, it had to be something else. Maybe something changed with the cash available for the buyout. Or....RE dropped his asking price.

But you don’t draw up contracts for the assistants if you knew all along BD was out. Some event happened or barrier was removed to enable the change.

Thankfully.

Can you imagine how brutal this season would have been with BD at the helm again? Would we even have any commits?

 

[SubbaBub]

I agree. It still feels like some event happened that forced DB to pull the trigger. If it wasn’t specifically Kill, it had to be something else. Maybe something changed with the cash available for the buyout. Or....RE dropped his asking price.

But you don’t draw up contracts for the assistants if you knew all along BD was out. Some event happened or barrier was removed to enable the change.

Thankfully.

My money is on delusional Bob, trying to convince him that everything was OK.