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Purdue fires defensive coordinator Bob Diaco after one season

Susie and Warde were a train wreck and it will take UConn years to fully recover, unfortunately
I am no fan of the current AD but he is light years more equipped for an AD position than Warde or Hathaway
 
No one should feel bad for him. He was a terrible HC and an even worse evaluator of talent. Schools should learn not to hire him after all his disasters.
 
I don't think his employers have been clear with him, and it has cost him dearly. The programs want guys who are focused on becoming great football players. He has dedicated his energy to finding guys who want to win breakfast. This has caused confusion and put him and his employers at odds.

I do imagine this is tough on his family, but no tougher than being a Military Brat. At least his children will inherit a lot of money. Screw Bobby Redpants.
 
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All that crazy is fine when you win. When things are not going well, it makes everyone associated with him look foolish.
 
JohnFSilver said:
Bob’s issue isn’t ability. His issue is personality.
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People will put up with a lot of "personality" when you are winning. Act like kook and lose? You just get shown the exit door with less pomp and circumstance.
 
Skiblets said:
I feel sorry for him now. He can’t hold a job and it’s gotta be tough on him and his family.
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He cant hold a job because he keeps taking jobs beyond his ability. (And fools keep giving it to him.) If he were more realistic in his abilities he could achieve some stability for himself and his family. Take a D2 or D3 job.
 
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JohnFSilver said:
The guy knows football and is meticulous. His issue is he is unflexible.
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Then he doesn't know football. A large part of knowing how to coach football and coach a game is knowing how to be flexible.

You're picking one helluva hill to die on.
 
JohnFSilver said:
The guy knows football and is meticulous. His issue is he is unflexible.
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Hey John, I always thought he lost some thing when his consigliere retired while he was here. Any truth in that in you think?
 
Waquoit said:
He was Assistant Coach of the Year.
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Yeah and I was employee of the month once.

His last 4 jobs have lasted 1 year. If he lowered his expectations he might have some success again.
And the original comment was about feeling sorry for his family. The instability is entirely a choice he is making. He doesnt need the $.
 
I personally think he was way ahead of his time. He mentioned AAC games being played on Nickolodean years ago. I am sure Roger Goodell heard what Diaco said, and stored it in his memory bank. Now with new NFL TV negotiations, what do you know. The NFL on Nickolodean.

With this idea, his great coaching strategy in Annapolis( plus all other games) and the Civil Conflict, he will go down as a football legend.

Bob Diaco, the gift that keeps on giving
 
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JohnFSilver said:
The guy knows football and is meticulous. His issue is he is unflexible.
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He may know football, but he doesn’t know how to head coach- see Navy game last 40 seconds. There’s not enough time to go over his inability to recruit.

This image is burned into my nightmares.
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Maybe a spot in the Booth doin college games, then he could spread his BS to the masses every Saturday
 
Bob Diaco is the Matt Millen of college football right now. Everything he says and does prior to actual games sounds great. Once the action finally starts, he's a disaster and shows his lack of knowledge and preparedness. Every coach has to make some guesses and some assumptions. And they are sometimes right and sometimes wrong. When you are as consistently wrong for as long as Diaco has been wrong, you know there are bad assumptions up front and a lack of ability to move off of initial instincts.
 
JohnFSilver said:
Nah. Bob didn’t listen to anyone. He is also a control freak. Also, his defense isn’t aggressive, and he won’t change.
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Where did BD come up with the stupid idea that returning a punt is too dangerous to try? You're saying a guy who comes to that conclusion is a meticulous, intelligent football coach?
 
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Palatine said:
Where did BD come up with the stupid idea that returning a punt is too dangerous to try? You're saying a guy who comes to that conclusion is a meticulous, intelligent football coach?
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Bob was weird. But you don't get to the level of football he was at and not know football. This is a dumb argument. He worked at Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Nebraska. He gets fired because he doesn't produce.

Bob is a smart guy, but he always thought he was the smartest guy in the room. He had these grand notions about going against the grain (No punt returns, nickelodeon, running oriented offense, defense that didn't give up big plays) and was inflexible.

All these coaches know football very well. It comes down to results, and Bob didn't get them and played a maddeningly boring brand of football.
 
LoyalFanCT said:
Interesting you mention Warde Manuel. Michigan is ranked 92 in football. The so-called rock star has not done so well there recently, and we all remember how he was in the Virgin Islands when UConn lost out to Louisville for the spot in the ACC.
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I said many times he was hired for one reason and one reason only. He had an award from the NCAA for correcting Buffalo’s APR problems. Susan and Larry were convinced that his hiring would convince the NCAA that UConn was serious about dealing with the issue and it would lift the post season ban. Otherwise he was an incompetent AD. He hired awful coaches for the 2 biggest sports. And now he is wrecking Michigan athletics too.
 
I’ve met Edsall, P and Diaco in kind of odd circumstances and spoken to them all. Randy when our kids were in high school at a track meet. He was a really decent guy and just like me cheering and encouraging his kid. When we chatted he even said something about missing his kids’ sports. But you could tell he really wanted to build something at UConn.
I met Pasqualoni in a grocery store about 10 o’clock at night. He was a real gentleman. But he seemed like he was out of his element at UConn. He kept talking about Syracuse.

Diaco was in a rest stop on the Jersey Turnpike. I had a UConn cap on and said hello. Asked him if we see going to be improved next season or some other small talk like that but he wasn’t nearly as friendly and was kind of defensive about it. I get it. He probably was on a recruiting mission or something and wasn’t looking to chat with a old alumnus but he was kind of obnoxious. Even said I was looking forward to the season.
 
Why do people feel sorry for him? He destroys any team he goes to and gets paid really handsomely for not even coaching at these schools. He has enough money that he never has to work another day in his life. He can choose not to work, to try and ruin another program, or a different path. Nobody should be feeling sorry for him.
 
And watch him end up at a place like Alabama with some sort of made up position while still living off our coin....smh
 
JohnFSilver said:
Bob was weird. But you don't get to the level of football he was at and not know football. This is a dumb argument. He worked at Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Nebraska. He gets fired because he doesn't produce.

Bob is a smart guy, but he always thought he was the smartest guy in the room. He had these grand notions about going against the grain (No punt returns, nickelodeon, running oriented offense, defense that didn't give up big plays) and was inflexible.

All these coaches know football very well. It comes down to results, and Bob didn't get them and played a maddeningly boring brand of football.
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I wondered if that was the reason behind Edsall's monetary scoring incentives. Diaco averaged less than 3 pts in the first quarter while he was here. There was literally no reason to be in the stadium until the 2nd quarter.
 
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