Under Pasqualoni, we beat a top 25 ranked opponent on the road, and we were up by 2 TD's vs. Michigan at home until the 4th Q. We took teams to the brink of bowl eligibility twice, with the 6-6 finish possible in the last game of the season, and then the wheels came off after the loss to Michigan at home. The program was also completely dysfunctional physically and mentally. Those are facts.
My opinion is that because of his coaching style, he didn't care anything else happening around him, other than trying to win games, and that coaching style in college doesn't work in the 21st century. Once the common goal of competing against Michigan at home in front of the biggest crowd in Rentschler history was over, the team fell apart at the seams, and Warde Manuel, correctly I think, pulled the trigger and fired him and his monkey George.
I wonder what Pasqualoni would have been able to accomplish had he not brought George Deleone on board and managed to connect and build a healthy team mentally. He let the program degenerate to what it became under his watch though off the field and on, and that's that. You are what your record says you are - so the old saying goes, and he was 10-18 at UCONN in 28 games as a head coach.
For the record, we're going to the field this year primarily with players that Pasqualoni brought in.
