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Randy Edsall to retire @ end of season

Sea Goat said:
It is a hot mess and this is best solution for the near term disaster.
Unfortunately, the confluence of deleterious events starting 10 years ago has caused the current UConn football situation.

The precipitating cause of the conference shake up in 2011 was a huge factor. When we were snubbed in 11 and again in 12 our goose was cooked. I have pointed out the needless bitterness created with our AG's stupidly pursued litigation. That was and has continued to be a serious impediment to our conference improvement because some of defendants never forgot or forgave.

Suffice it to say, we are stuck in limited conference of dubious quality. The future of the orphan football program is bleak. Re: Edsall - Act 1 was a decent success, although it closed on a very sour note. Act 2 has been an unmitigated disaster and the prospects for being anything other than a bump along independent program playing in $90mm stadium are nil.
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No matter how many times you state that sophisticated business people blame lawyers and not their clients for litigation, it doesn't get less unrealistic.
 
McLovin said:
Randy Edsall is playing UConn football god. He knows he built this program from the ground up, now it’s his choice to stick around and make sure to destroy as much of it as possible. If he had any dignity he’d walk away today. This is his ego at its finest.
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You are nuts. You certainly don’t know Randy or have talked to the guys who played for him during our glory days. He knows his best days are behind him and the program needs new leadership. It’s now up to Benedict to bring in the new Randy.
 
JMick said:
maybe some of these boosters and NFL guys that get on twitter and act dumbfounded can help make that happen.

financial support has always been one of our biggest issues. other schools have guys dropping bags to keep their programs competitive. we really don't outside of a few guys.
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These other schools also have alumni bases that would donate the last dollar in their bank account to football, even if it meant they would starve. We will never be able to match that
 
Dan O is an obsessive enough FB guy to have the vision, but zero coaching/management experience. I would definitely run any potential lists by him. He and the 1.0 guys are stakeholders and the best program ambassadors we have. Dan is connected enough to help vet guys.

I'm hoping for someone who can get it done. I don't need a name nor should we as a hive be putting names out there. We have no clue and it can only get our hopes up.
 
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CL82 said:
No reason in the world not to do it this way. I’m glad both for Randy and for us.
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Even Randy knows you don't come back from losing to an FCS team at home, by 10, and it wasn't that close.
 
JMick said:
is this true though? look at the staff and their resumes.
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Yes. I don't care about their resumes. Edsall is a dinosaur and is killing the program by the day. The first step towards improvement would be to get grandpa out of the program, immediately.
 
McLovin said:
Randy Edsall is playing UConn football god. He knows he built this program from the ground up, now it’s his choice to stick around and make sure to destroy as much of it as possible. If he had any dignity he’d walk away today. This is his ego at its finest.
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He may be smart enough to go with Stevie K…..!
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Yes. I don't care about their resumes. Edsall is a dinosaur and is killing the program by the day. The first step towards improvement would be to get grandpa out of the program, immediately.
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Who would you have named interim? Eddie Allen? Corey?
 
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brasssbonanzaa said:
If your statement has to clarify that the decision to retire was made by the coach, the decision to retire was not made by the coach.

This was a 100% orchestrated "retirement" by AD Dave. I'm not unhappy with this instead of immediate firing. Regardless of the last four seasons, Randy did make immeasurable contributions to the program over his time and deserves a bit of dignity in going out. This season is a total lost cause anyway and we would not make a permanent new hire now. There's no harm in letting the season play out when the only other option is some random coordinator is acting HC and we go 1-9 at best the rest of the way.
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Dignity? I don't know. After the way he left the Fiesta Bowl for MD he used that token.
 
kemba said:
Moving on from a coach who has failed this badly and doesn't even have a buyout isn't exactly a tough decision.

I think his hands were tied last coaching search so I don't blame him too much for Edsall, but finding the right coach now is where he proves himself.
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He seems to have a lot of connections
 
So what’s everyone’s early bets on the next guy. Feeling it’ll be a Connecticut guy who coaches hard. Who fills that mold?
 
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I think this a BS move all around. He and the coaches will not be recruiting at all or if they are with no chance success. Come play for the next guy at UConn. We will let you know who he is sometime.

He should have been fired. The team will be no better with him versus an interim head coach until the end of the year. If DB sacked up and fired him, an interim coach and remain8ng staff would be on an audition And could have had a chance recruiting and build a reason to be retained. The next coach will not be named until the end of their season so that is about 90 days of no recruiting. That is a pretty big hole.
 
metsfan2323 said:
Amen to that. Moorhead would be a slam dunk if we can get him.
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The more realistic person who was once on our staff would be Todd Orlando, still waiting for his first chance to be a head coach. I doubt we could get Morehead.

But I'm fine getting away from the Edsall tree entirely if I'm the AD. Hire from the outside, and just suggest they give Corey a chance given how well he seems to relate to young men in recruiting.
 
businesslawyer said:
The more realistic person who was once on our staff would be Todd Orlando, still waiting for his first chance to be a head coach. I doubt we could get Morehead.

But I'm fine getting away from the Edsall tree entirely if I'm the AD. Hire from the outside, and just suggest they give Corey a chance given how well he seems to relate to young men in recruiting.
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I agree that the next coach would be smart to want to keep Corey around.

I too was wondering if Orlovsky might be thinking of Orlando.
 
SubbaBub said:
There is no one on the staff to take over. At least Randy can try to hold his creation together for the next guy if he is so inclined. I also suspect you will see a bunch of the old guys stopping in to say goodbye. That might be worth something to the current team.
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Maybe this is a way to give Corey a chance to stay on with next staff.

He is the only coach I would want to see held over- if it's possible.

I realize it's beyond awkward to have ex-coach's son on your staff but Corey has been such a clutch recruiter, including many of this upcoming class's top players.
 
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Ajs120102 said:
So what’s everyone’s early bets on the next guy. Feeling it’ll be a Connecticut guy who coaches hard. Who fills that mold?
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First call is Bill O'Brien imo. He will decline the offer, and I doubt we could afford him. But he's a NE guy who knows offense and is currently in the Nick Saban rehab program - so an attractive target.
 
metsfan2323 said:
I agree that the next coach would be smart to want to keep Corey around.

I too was wondering if Orlovsky might be thinking of Orlando.
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I like him just I'd really like an offensive coach this time. If you make the right coordinator hires it doesn't really matter, but unless we are going to spend more on the staff its going to be tough.
 
Drew said:
Need to double their existing financial commitment if we want to be taken seriously. $2M for a HC and $2-$2.5 for an assistant pool
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To be serious as a mid-tier FBS team, you need to add $500k-$1M to HC and also to asst coach pool. Good coordinators are $750k each.
 
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