Paul Pasqualoni should just resign

[Husky25]

Sure, but first let me ask a question..Is it possible you latched onto the stigma of Penn State, without considering that I don't mean to imply scandal afoot at UConn? I only meant that Penn State was set back a few years due to their situation...

Firing the Head Coach midseason (or if even the mere announcement of an imminent firing) = goodbye recruiting class in both quantity and quality for multiple years. Going forward, a kid (or future coaching candidate, for that matter) will have a harder time believing that the school won't simply give up during the season. It opens the door for more negative recruiting, ala BC-Nebrich. Can't win games without the players, first and foremost.

To address your question more directly...UConn does not have fanbase, history, legacy or Whale Donors that a progrm like Penn State has. That horrific scandal hit Penn State and they lost 10,000 paying customers at Beaver Stadium, where 10,000 people is about 7% of capacity. UConn loses that many and the Rent is at 75% of total capacity, which is about where we are now. Do you really think it will get any better if the above happens?

I wrote in a diferent thread a couple weeks ago that:
BCS Bowl = Exposure = Recruits = Wins = BCS Tournement = happy alumni = $$$ = Funding for non-football and basketball sports. Rinse. Repeat.

Take off the "BCS Bowl = Exposure = (Which referred to the 2010 season)" and it's just as much a true statement, especially going forward...

 

[Husky25]

HCPP is one makeable field goal away from a 4-4 season.

HCPP is now in the Terrible Twenty at CoachesHotSeat.com and poised to finish in the Fiery 15 if he goes 1-3 down the stretch. Maybe even work his way into the Top 10 preaseason 2013 after the next round of head cuts

He was one makable field goal from winning a game he should have won by 27.

 

[Husky25]

BAZINGA! PP was almost totally disconnected from college football and almost HAD to keep Edsall's staff, that, or quickly hire a bunch of guys he really didn't know or waste valuable time interviewing a bunch of guys. The only guy he knew well with college experience was , . . . .uh, gag, uh . . . GDL. We caught a break that Don Brown became available. It would have been hard to gather a staff with better resumes than the one that was ready-made.
Yes, it was strange (and appalling) the way JH did this.

Didn't CBS trademark, "Bazinga". You're gonna have to wipe it off all your posts...

 

[huskymedic]

He will not be fired during the year, because:
(a) There is no available viable replacement.
(b) It will kill the rest of this season
(c) and will affect next season and beyond more than you can imgine...even further than how Penn State was affected.

Are you for real - Please, please, please explain letter (c)??????

Sure, but first let me ask a question..Is it possible you latched onto the stigma of Penn State, without considering that I don't mean to imply scandal afoot at UConn? I only meant that Penn State was set back a few years due to their situation...

Firing the Head Coach midseason (or if even the mere announcement of an imminent firing) = goodbye recruiting class in both quantity and quality for multiple years. Going forward, a kid (or future coaching candidate, for that matter) will have a harder time believing that the school won't simply give up during the season. It opens the door for more negative recruiting, ala BC-Nebrich. Can't win games without the players, first and foremost.

To address your question more directly...UConn does not have fanbase, history, legacy or Whale Donors that a progrm like Penn State has. That horrific scandal hit Penn State and they lost 10,000 paying customers at Beaver Stadium, where 10,000 people is about 7% of capacity. UConn loses that many and the Rent is at 75% of total capacity, which is about where we are now. Do you really think it will get any better if the above happens?

I wrote in a diferent thread a couple weeks ago that:
BCS Bowl = Exposure = Recruits = Wins = BCS Tournement = happy alumni = $$$ = Funding for non-football and basketball sports. Rinse. Repeat.

Take off the "BCS Bowl = Exposure = (Which referred to the 2010 season)" and it's just as much a true statement, especially going forward...

I had no clue what you were implying - that's why I asked before commenting any further. I still don't buy the comparison after your explanation (it's overstated quite a bit) but it's not worth parsing in detail. People bailed on PSU because they did not morally want to be associated with the University - not because their football coach/team sucked.

 

[sdhusky]

He was one makable field goal from winning a game he should have won by 27.

Really? We should beat Temple by 27?

If we deal with reality for a moment...

2010 - Loss to Temple 30-16
2008 - Won 12-9 in OT
2007 - Won 22-17 After a Temple TD was reversed with 40 seconds to go.

That track record hardly suggests we should have won by 27.

Now, it our kicker made a routine kick or two, we would have won 17-14 or 20-14.

 

[RMS25CT]

Really? We should beat Temple by 27?

If we deal with reality for a moment...

2010 - Loss to Temple 30-16
2008 - Won 12-9 in OT
2007 - Won 22-17 After a Temple TD was reversed with 40 seconds to go.

That track record hardly suggests we should have won by 27.

Now, it our kicker made a routine kick or two, we would have won 17-14 or 20-14.

Did you watch or listen to the game? The fact that UConn was up by 14 at the end of the first qtr and the opportunities they let get away that resulted in field goal tries instead of TDs clearly provides evidence that a 25 Point victory vs Temple was at least well within the realm of possibility and should have been the result.

 

[Husky25]

Really? We should beat Temple by 27?

If we deal with reality for a moment...

2010 - Loss to Temple 30-16
2008 - Won 12-9 in OT
2007 - Won 22-17 After a Temple TD was reversed with 40 seconds to go.

That track record hardly suggests we should have won by 27.

Now, it our kicker made a routine kick or two, we would have won 17-14 or 20-14.

Yup…My point is that the coaches should have never had the team in that position in the first place. 27 point may be slight hyperbole, but not by so much to be completely unreasonable.

In reality, 2007-2010 has nothing to do with this team. In fact, I’m pretty sure that no one who played in the 2007 or 2008 games were allowed to play on October 13.
In reality, football is not played in a vacuum where each play is independent of the play before or after.
In reality, UConn was leading 14-0 after the 1st Qtr. and in complete control.
In reality, while the Huskies moved the ball enough to get into field goal range on 4additional occasions, they inexplicably took their foot off the gas.

According to my sight test, some of those field goal attempts quite probably should have been PAT attempts with an adjustment or two. If they do that just once, it’s 21-7 with less than 3:00 left. If they hit one of those other field goals? Game over…Also remember, one of those misses came on the first drive of the game.

Of course that’s purely speculation. However in the scenario that you posited, UConn makes 2 out of the 3 field goals and UConn is still up by 13 with less than 3:00 left. In order for Temple to win, they still would have had to score 2 TDs with 2:56 left. They would have to come out 5 wide and throwing with a QB who had 85 yards at that point. I’ll take my chances with that…

 

[sdhusky]

Yup…My point is that the coaches should have never had the team in that position in the first place. 27 point may be slight hyperbole, but not by so much to be completely unreasonable.

In reality, 2007-2010 has nothing to do with this team. In fact, I’m pretty sure that no one who played in the 2007 or 2008 games were allowed to play on October 13.
In reality, football is not played in a vacuum where each play is independent of the play before or after.
In reality, UConn was leading 14-0 after the 1st Qtr. and in complete control.
In reality, while the Huskies moved the ball enough to get into field goal range on 4additional occasions, they inexplicably took their foot off the gas.

According to my sight test, some of those field goal attempts quite probably should have been PAT attempts with an adjustment or two. If they do that just once, it’s 21-7 with less than 3:00 left. If they hit one of those other field goals? Game over…Also remember, one of those misses came on the first drive of the game.

Of course that’s purely speculation. However in the scenario that you posited, UConn makes 2 out of the 3 field goals and UConn is still up by 13 with less than 3:00 left. In order for Temple to win, they still would have had to score 2 TDs with 2:56 left. They would have to come out 5 wide and throwing with a QB who had 85 yards at that point. I’ll take my chances with that…

We lost the game because our FG kicker had a terrible day. It happens.

The coaches put us in position to win that game. Period.

 

[Husky25]

UConn was in A position to win the game. IMO, the coaches on the offensive side of the ball had little to do with it after the 1st quarter.

 

[freescooter]

I agree with 25 on this. We really could have and should have had a big lead. If they scored a late touchdown, it wouldn't have mattered.

 

[huskyblue]

You mean just like the Idaho Vandals fans that thought Robb Akey was going to get FIRED MID-SEASON ???
What genius Fans they must have been for thinking a coach can get canned mid-season!!!...

Oh wait Idaho’s Robb Akey becomes this year’s first coaching casualty what???

OK seriously, I know the odds may be low that PP & co will be fired mid season, and it's only a little higher at the end of the season and a little more higher odds that it will occur after next season. But with every badly managed game those odds Increase. But don't call someone a genius just you don't agree. That just shows more about you than someone else.

One more thing, we don't know what Warde is thinking... hopefully he's already compiling a list of coaching candidates.

 

[huskyblue]

paul pasqualoni is a "retread." guy whose best years are 15 years in the rear view mirror. not a guy who could sit in a families living room and inspire a top player to come to UCONN over equal or better schools. I fault the hiring committee for recommending him, including the baseball coach: what the hell does he know about football - knew it was a mistake form the "get go"

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I only meant that Penn State was set back a few years due to their situation...

This is what is so infuriating. There is at the moment a vacuum in the northeast that nobody could have anticipated a few years ago. If there ever was a time where we could have capitalized greatly on a string of a few years of quality, exciting football this would be the time. Instead, while playing mediocre opponents we look like a JV team trying to go against the varsity.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

paul pasqualoni is a "retread." guy whose best years are 15 years in the rear view mirror. not a guy who could sit in a families living room and inspire a top player to come to UCONN over equal or better schools. I fault the hiring committee for recommending him, including the baseball coach: what the hell does he know about football - knew it was a mistake form the "get go"

And now UConn must undo their mistake. Just do it quickly so that PP doesn't set the program back any further than he already has.