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Purdue fires defensive coordinator Bob Diaco after one season

freescooter said:
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.
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This is about as accurate examinations of their personality as I can find. Paul is a really really nice man and knows football. He should have won here, but didn't. Just didn't want to deal with the college kids anymore.
 
JohnFSilver said:
This is about as accurate examinations of their personality as I can find. Paul is a really really nice man and knows football. He should have won here, but didn't. Just didn't want to deal with the college kids anymore.
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I interacted with all 3.
Randy was wound tight when he arrived (Version1) but really loosened up as the years went on. He is easily approachable and cares about the program.

Paul was a nice guy and had lots of recruiting connections and knew football. I think he the running of a program was past him at that point due to the fact he hired the wrong people.(See DeLeon, George).

The last guy knew football but decided he knew everything he wouldn't acknowledge UConn football before he got there. Thus we should all bow down to him and eat what he spewed. He was arrogant(extremely defensive) and surrounded himself with yes men.
 
JohnFSilver said:
Just didn't want to deal with the college kids anymore.
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Yet he pursued the job anyway. It was so clear he was done after the 2nd season, Warde should have pulled the trigger then.
 
JohnFSilver said:
The guy knows football and is meticulous. His issue is he is unflexible.
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if he knows football, why run the ball at the goal line, after burning the time out in the Navy game. That’s 2, back to back, idiotic decisions.
 
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freescooter said:
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.
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Shocking that somebody wouldn't want to talk to you. I'm guessing you get that a lot in life.
 
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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That just means you think all coaches at major universities are smart meticulous coaches -- they are NOT. Diaco never really knew how to manage the clock. Hell, he sometimes didn't know what down it was.

He rarely threw the ball between the numbers. Almost his entire passing offense was outside the numbers. The reason, too dangerous. He was timid. He coached afraid.

You don't coach smart when you are paralyzed by fear regardless of your I.Q.
 
Waquoit said:
Yet he pursued the job anyway. It was so clear he was done after the 2nd season, Warde should have pulled the trigger then.
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Probably. Team should have went 7-5, 7-5 and then 7-5 those first two years.
Palatine said:
That just means you think all coaches at major universities are smart meticulous coaches -- they are NOT. Diaco never really knew how to manage the clock. Hell, he sometimes didn't know what down it was.

He rarely threw the ball between the numbers. Almost his entire passing offense was outside the numbers. The reason, too dangerous. He was timid. He coached afraid.

You don't coach smart when you are paralyzed by fear regardless of your I.Q.
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I would say it was the opposite. He was such a control freak, he tried to run everything. That made it impossible in close games to make decisions. Sometimes, you need to empower your coordinators to take care of stuff. Bob was too involved with offense and defense.

It is about delegation and management. Look at Nick Saban. He gives his coaches room to make calls and then yells at them when it blows up. But, he empowers them because he knows he can't do eveyrthing. Ya gotta trust your staff. That's something Bob could never get around.

He used to get involved in everything. When I say that, EVERYTHING. Would argue about the media lunch, and what the school was serving with the SIDs. He also didn't want to do the Tuesday media and made the journalists in the main burton complex wear yellow tags and were always escorted. He even got into what snacks assistant coaches were eating. He criticized some coaches and staff for their figure. Not kidding here.
 
JohnFSilver said:
Probably. Team should have went 7-5, 7-5 and then 7-5 those first two years.

I would say it was the opposite. He was such a control freak, he tried to run everything. That made it impossible in close games to make decisions. Sometimes, you need to empower your coordinators to take care of stuff. Bob was too involved with offense and defense.

It is about delegation and management. Look at Nick Saban. He gives his coaches room to make calls and then yells at them when it blows up. But, he empowers them because he knows he can't do eveyrthing. Ya gotta trust your staff. That's something Bob could never get around.

He used to get involved in everything. When I say that, EVERYTHING. Would argue about the media lunch, and what the school was serving with the SIDs. He also didn't want to do the Tuesday media and made the journalists in the main burton complex wear yellow tags and were always escorted. He even got into what snacks assistant coaches were eating. He criticized some coaches and staff for their figure. Not kidding here.
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So, lots of words........................he isn't a good coach. He doesn't know how to manage a staff and doesn't know what is required to manage a game.

Big difference in life and work success between knowing things in your head, conveying that to others in your organization and being able to use that stuff in your head in your job requirements.
 
Chin Diesel said:
So, lots of words........................he isn't a good coach. He doesn't know how to manage a staff and doesn't know what is required to manage a game.

Big difference in life and work success between knowing things in your head, conveying that to others in your organization and being able to use that stuff in your head in your job requirements.
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Yes. Not a good head coach. But he knows football. He was a micromanager.
 
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He might be worth taking a look at if St. Joe's starts up FB.
 
Diaco smart? When you hear Belichick or Judge talk about putting players in positions to succeed, then consider what a fake-fake field goal does to the kicker's chance of success, its just terrible coaching. It was about him and not his players.
 
Bubba1957 said:
Diaco smart? When you hear Belichick or Judge talk about putting players in positions to succeed, then consider what a fake-fake field goal does to the kicker's chance of success, its just terrible coaching. It was about him and not his players.
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I'd say Disco was brilliant... He made $$$ doing whatever he wanted to do. Got paid to go away for it... Seems to be working out for he and his family quite well... still getting a check year in and year out, even though he keeps getting fired...
 
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ktuck911 said:
I'd say Disco was brilliant... He made $$$ doing whatever he wanted to do. Got paid to go away for it... Seems to be working out for he and his family quite well... still getting a check year in and year out, even though he keeps getting fired...
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You are assuming that was his goal....make as much money as possible without earning it. I would think he also wanted to win... which he didn't.

Not brilliant.
 
Not sure if anyone listens to ESPN Daily, a podcast that ESPN’s Pablo Torre does each morning about a random sports topic. It’s always well done.

Yesterday’s episode chronicled the Manti Teo fake girlfriend saga. Of course everyone’s favorite historically terrible coach makes a very brief cameo. Because why wouldn’t he be involved in another fraud job.

Don’t know how to link the podcast so screenshotted the image 🤷‍♂️

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ShakyTheMohel said:
You are assuming that was his goal....make as much money as possible without earning it. I would think he also wanted to win... which he didn't.

Not brilliant.
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I believe he wants to win too, but I hate the fact that we were his guinea pig that set us back a few more years from becoming something more.
 
ktuck911 said:
I believe he wants to win too, but I hate the fact that we were his guinea pig that set us back a few more years from becoming something more.
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He wanted to win, but wanted to do it by implementing a very flawed system. Bend but don’t break defense and 3 yards and a cloud of dust offense. He would gamble on fake field goals, but wouldn’t allow players to return kicks. He had terrible clock management. His recruiting was horrific, big slow guys with FCS skills. Once PP’s guys graduated, the program was effectively gutted. The only thing I will give him credit for was the win against Houston and the Grey Uniforms. Other than that, he was a a complete disaster!
 
JohnFSilver said:
Yes. Not a good head coach. But he knows football. He was a micromanager.
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I'm assuming that his knowledge of football is what gets him these jobs at high level football schools. Though I'm wondering to things. One, why he can't last in a position coaching job? Micromanagement can't be a big issue, so what do you think it might be? Secondly, why does he continue to get opportunities at good schools after he's failed in very comparable jobs at similar schools? Salesmanship aside, he's a known commodity at this point.
 
To be fair I believe he left his last job for a better one at Purdue. Also when teams aren’t successful somebody has to go. If you are a head coach you make changes to buy another year.
 
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I took a brief hiatus from the board (apologies all), and upon returning, I find folks that I respect actually defending Bob Diaco's knowledge of football. Bob Diaco. The man that accidentally invented the "fake-fake field goal". The man who had named a #1 QB and a #1A QB. The man who hired an offensive line coach who didn't believe in stretching.

The list goes on and on folks. Did his personality suck? Yes. Did his football knowledge suck? Also yes...
 
I can see how he keeps getting fired. How does he keep getting hired?

Nickelodeon should hire him for a kid's football show. He came up with that idea first.

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I don’t relish his ongoing professional failure, though I do greatly resent what he did to put a huge dagger in our program.
 
BlueDogs said:
I don’t relish his ongoing professional failure, though I do greatly resent what he did to put a huge dagger in our program.
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Same. I'm upset at him for how he handle the program, but I hate to see him continually trying to get back on track and constantly being forced to change jobs. I think his best bet is to DC at a smaller program for a few years, get some time away from the last 3 or 4 years and see where it takes him. Honestly, his defenses are still pretty good and weren't terrible here and I think he just needs stability to get his career trajectory back on track.
 
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