Randy Edsall Is A Fraud

[uconnric]

Central Connecticut is 5-1 and probably can beat UConn. The Central coach is very good.

Wish we had their quarterback!

 

[NHRich]

Any rational reason for not trying to score at the end of the first half?

 

[billybud]

A bowl is more difficult...the only current spot for an "at large" is the Frisco Bowl vs the AAC.

Army, Liberty, UMass, New Mexico State, and UConn will have no bowl affiliation.

Army does have shots at the Military Bowl but has no guarantee.

 

[huskymedic]

A bowl is more difficult...the only current spot for an "at large" is the Frisco Bowl vs the AAC.

Army, Liberty, UMass, New Mexico State, and UConn will have no bowl affiliation.

Army does have shots at the Military Bowl but has no guarantee.

The list is shrinking..

>>Liberty announced Monday that ESPN can select the Flames to play in six bowl games for the 2020-to-2025 bowl cycle: the Boca Raton Bowl, Camellia Bowl, Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, Frisco Bowl, Myrtle Beach Bowl and New Mexico Bowl.<<

>>NM State athletics director Mario Moccia announced a contract with ESPN Events from 2020-2025 that will allow the network to match the Aggies within an ESPN bowl game should NM State be bowl eligible. "It gives us access not only to the New Mexico Bowl, but the other 16 bowl games ESPN owns," said Moccia, who said the deal was agreed to within the past two weeks. <<

 

[billybud]

Liberty kinda-sorta has bowl access....they CAN BE PLACED....if the conference tie ins don't have a bowl eligible team....and the CAN isn't the same as WILL.

The Flames can be placed in one of those bowl games if either conference tied into those bowls does not have enough teams to fill their respective bowl slots.

However.....bowl games may expand so that anyone winning 5 games plays in one.

 

[Husky68]

And I think that is doable (8-4). That could be reached.

Huh! Let's win a FBS game 1st before we start debating what bowl game UConn should go to.

 

[Pudge]

Edsall may be a caretaker coach for a program not wishing to invest more in football.

UConn was just not competitive in the AAC...and, while
maybe an independent schedule will allow program improvement, the jury is out on whether the Huskies will be more relevant nationally then ECU.

Rather than aggressively spend to improve the football program...maybe the administration is letting Edsall run. For better or worse...

The brand will be basketball.

The TRUTH is that football success is doable.

That wasn’t a mirage 2003-2010. But it is so damn hard for a New England / Northeastern University. Look at Temple ... fact is there are aspects of OUR Program that far laps their challenges. But you have slim margin of error. And then ... when down (see Buffalo, Temple, Rutgers, UCONN) it is so hard to climb back. It literally takes 3-5 recruiting classes. That’s with you doing 99 other things great.

There’s no magic in this sport. You need significant quality throughout the roster. And No ... magic salesmanship isn’t gonna get you 4 & 5 stars. Not in this region & not turning over rocks in FL or GA.

 

[Stinger92860]

The TRUTH is that football success is doable.

That wasn’t a mirage 2003-2010. But it is so damn hard for a New England / Northeastern University. Look at Temple ... fact is there are aspects of OUR Program that far laps their challenges. But you have slim margin of error. And then ... when down (see Buffalo, Temple, Rutgers, UCONN) it is so hard to climb back. It literally takes 3-5 recruiting classes. That’s with you doing 99 other things great.

There’s no magic in this sport. You need significant quality throughout the roster. And No ... magic salesmanship isn’t gonna get you 4 & 5 stars. Not in this region & not turning over rocks in FL or GA.

What is doable in your mind, 6-6 on average with 8-4 as the high end every few years? I’d sign up for that at this point.

 

[Carnac]

I’m not sure what they are doing but hiring bad coaches put us here and nothing else. This is a far easier problem to solve than most people seem to think.

As I said in my narrative, hire your coach first, then go from there. Leadership starts at the top. If you can’t hire a nationally known coach that can pull in recruits simply on his name, then find a seasoned up and coming assistant that wants to build his brand (and his name) by building a winner out of a third tier team.

He and his staff will be much more invested in the turn-a-round success of the program because he wants to move up to a major P5 program. He will not accept mediocrity. That would his progress and personal time line. Jucos and transfers could help him in year one.

 

[gtcam]

Unfortunately I don't think the new president is anxious to replace both the FBHC and AD at the same time. Especially going Indy in FB. If he does it would mean that he really is ready to kill FBS level FB.

The new president is a snowflake
He's Suzy on steroids
This state is going down the sewer because there is no dissenting voices in the power system
The powers in place run everything with a unified voice that is leading CT into NY/California dumpster
Unfortunately our beloved state university is rampant with those types and they are destroying it's very soul.

 

[Pudge]

“you can’t hire a nationally known coach that can pull in recruits simply on his name, then find a seasoned up and coming assistant that wants to build his brand (and his name) by building a winner out of a third tier team.”

Pasqualoni was v1. Diaco was v2.

We tried

I know we are all butthurt now. The deficiencies are obvious. We are NOT gonna collapse the Program. Sell the real estate. Etc.

 

[BNich]

David Benedict need to wake up that’s what I can say. He needs to get fired also. The president needs to right this ship around. Football brings in money we need now to right this ship too

Has anyone heard anything from him all season?

 

[uconnell]

He's a great program builder. How you guys cannot see that amazes me. I mean Dan Orlovsky, FatWhiteGuy and a bunch of others always defend him on Twitter. Those guys you used to rip Diaco for his ineptness but defend this from Randy. They know better than all of us. Randy just needs a few more years and he will hand this off to Corey who we we are lucky to have. Give it time guys.

That was then, this is now. People change over the years. I wonder what they would say if they were playing for Edsall now ?

 

[buddy]

We all tend to look through our tinted glasses to the past...And current expectations are built on that past.

But, to an outsider, wearing a different tint...the past maybe looks a little different....the high points aren't as high...and more reachable.

Take 2010...the much referenced high point Fiesta Bowl season...

It was a good season...but was it that good?

The 8-4 (regular season) Huskies shared a BE Championship in a three way tie with Pitt and WVU. Three of an eight team league that year. UConn grabbed a share of the championship by hitting a field goal in the last minute of the last game to defeat USF.

UConn lost to 7-6 Michigan, 8-4 Temple, 4-8 Rutgers, and were shut out 0-26 by 7-6 Louisville...and lost by 28 points to Oklahoma in the Fiesta.

If you take apart the season (and lose the glow of making a BCS Bowl)...it doesn't seem as unrepeatable in the future.

An 8-4 UConn season won't get a NY6 Bowl...but a similar 8-4 season is certainly not out of the realm of possibility with better athletes and execution.

You failed to mention that UConn beat Louisville in Louisville under Paul Pasqualoni right before FSU decided to stab UConn in the back.

 

[billybud]

You failed to mention that UConn beat Louisville in Louisville under Paul Pasqualoni right before FSU decided to stab UConn in the back.

Yes Buddy...UConn did beat Louisville in 2012 (23-20)...but Louisville, in the bigger picture, went 11-2 that year while UConn had a losing season.

But who looked better if you aren't wearing blue tinted glasses...

UConn with a nice upset game but who went 5-7...or Louisville who went 11-2 and won the Sugar Bowl?

OK...now I have mentioned it...

 

[billybud]

Buddy...you did get me thinking...your comment, and the recent celebrations of UConn returning to the Big East.

UConn in the ACC would have made for great basketball...

Since 2003-04, seven schools have left the Big East for the ACC; Virginia Tech, Miami, Boston College, Syracuse, Pitt, Notre Dame (BE football only) and Louisville.

The conference now has its own Big East-ACC challenge on an almost nightly basis during season. If UConn had been added it would have been a true challenge to Tobacco Road.

UConn vs Duke, UNC, Virginia, FSU, and the old Big East teams like Notre Dame, Cuse, Louisville, and Miami would make for great competition.

 

[buddy]

I just feel that UConn would be in a very different place right now, had they been chosen to move forward. You are correct in many things that you say, I am sorry to say. The return to the Big East was unfortunately necessary at this point to keep UConn athletics afloat. Some powerful state authorities are even now trying to gut UConn even more, so the picture for UConn going forward is not a pretty one.

 

[billybud]

If UConn wasn't going to win the AAC in basketball nor be in the top third of the conference in football....the Big East was the only move.

UConn just got caught in the big shift in media contracts to football...where football was rewarded so much more than basketball.

What still surprises me is that even with the added costs that it takes to be competitive in the FBS...more teams have wanted in...teams like Charlotte, Coastal Carolina, Appalachian State, Old Dominion...

Schools still dream of moving up.....hang the price.