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Rhett Lashlee Gone -- OC at SMU

UConnJim said:
And, Lashlee did not come to UConn at a large pay cut because he wanted to get away from Malzahn. He was pushed out because Malzahn was on the hot seat and Auburn needed to make offensive changes.
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Your perspective was shared by a colleague and big Auburn donor for 4 decades+, 4 posh club seat and 10 Auburn-side season tickets with a lot of access/insight. When I asked him about Lashlee, he said something polite about UConn and "... no one was closing the door on Rhett ...". Entirely separately, a neighbor who started on their Cam Newton-bought championship team, seemingly remains quite involved as a football alum and goes to all home and a few away games said something like "... don't think too many were disappointed ..." accompanied by a southern cheshire cat smile.
 
Waquoit said:
How does a comment like this get any likes? I know what you are going for but it doesn't make any sense, not even ironically.
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I found the guy who doesn't understand irony.
 
gwhuskyfan said:


LOL to anyone who bought the closer to home excuse
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Rutgers is looking to pay about $600,000-$700,000, NJAM has learned.
 
UConnNick said:
You make a very good point. Many years ago I got a business call at work from a man who worked at a major corp. in Fairfield Co. He had just moved to CT eight months earlier from Iowa. When I told him I had lived in CT, he proceeded to spend 45 minutes on the phone with a total stranger he'd never talked to before, telling me how miserable his wife and family were living there. They had made no friends and his wife wanted to go back to Iowa. I am not exaggerating when I say this guy was pouring his heart out to me.

I think I may have related this conversation to my mother around that time. We too moved to CT from another state when we were still kids. She proceeded to tell me that in all the time we'd lived there, which by then was well over 20 years, she had never felt welcomed or found it easy to make new friends with anybody. I wasn't at all shocked, but was somewhat surprised that she had never said anything about it to me before then. She complained that people from CT were very clannish and at least back then, most of them had a huge family living within close proximity of one another. All their time was taken up with family activities. It was probably easier for us kids to make new friends there than it was for adults at that time. It gets worse the further north you go in New England. Unless you're fifth generation born and raised from there, you don't fit in. Looking back on it, what she said made perfect sense. Most of my parents' close friends were people my father worked with who had all moved to CT from other states, just like we had, because the company my father worked for moved to CT.

I can totally understand anybody moving to CT from other states or parts of the country feeling the exact same way my parents and some others did. Times have changed but maybe not all that much.
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I was born and raised in Jersey and after UConn lived in Boston for 3 years before coming out West. One thing I was told that is very indicative of people from the Northeast is people from other (friendlier, sometimes literally warmer) parts of the country come visit or live in the Northeast and consistently notice that nobody makes eye contact walking down the street. Nobody says “hi, how are you?” for the sake of doing it.

From Philly, to NY, to Boston and everywhere in between, we really can be unpleasant people
 
Rocktheworld said:
I was born and raised in Jersey and after UConn lived in Boston for 3 years before coming out West. One thing I was told that is very indicative of people from the Northeast is people from other (friendlier, sometimes literally warmer) parts of the country come visit or live in the Northeast and consistently notice that nobody makes eye contact walking down the street. Nobody says “hi, how are you?” for the sake of doing it.

From Philly, to NY, to Boston and everywhere in between, we really can be unpleasant people
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Why would I want to say hi to people I don't know?
 
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Rocktheworld said:
I was born and raised in Jersey and after UConn lived in Boston for 3 years before coming out West. One thing I was told that is very indicative of people from the Northeast is people from other (friendlier, sometimes literally warmer) parts of the country come visit or live in the Northeast and consistently notice that nobody makes eye contact walking down the street. Nobody says “hi, how are you?” for the sake of doing it.

From Philly, to NY, to Boston and everywhere in between, we really can be unpleasant people
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No one on Boneyard says hi how are you, either!
 
huskyrob1 said:
Offensive philosophy is important but Edsall will stay focused on recruiting, that being said he will look for an OC who can get kids interested in UConn, especially in state and nearby states. HCRE has repeated many times "recruiting, recruiting, recruiting". Right now Edsall has a good class coming in with Krajewski, and several in state kids including the beast Travis Jones. Both Krajewski and Jones are listed as 3 star, but from everything Edsall and others have said about these two, they could very well be under the radar 4 stars. I'm encouraged by Edsall 2.0 making an effort (unlike Edsall 1.0) to build good relationships with some of the better known CT HS coaches. It is not beyond the relm of possibility that UCONN's next offensive coordinator might be a very very successful high school coach, especially if it's on the cheap. Recruiting recruiting recruiting!!!
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Whoever it is better know modern college football offense. Especially using offense to level the playing field with repect to talent discrepancies.
 
Even though I thought Lashlee did this as a favor for our AD.... I feel like this is Uconn

 
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jayfromfla said:
More to this story. Rutgers is hardly south of the Mason=Dixon Line
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Well, he had three choices:

1) Go after Rutgers and P5 money, which is still up north.
2) Go to SMU for about the same money as UConn, but get much closer to home.
3) Stay at UConn.

Rutgers wasn't possible, so that left #2 and #3.
 
Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
About 300 miles from University Park, TX or a 4 hour drive to home state Arkansas versus approx 1,200 from Storrs to AR, potentially more dinero, richer recruiting grounds, and kids growing up with "yes sir/ma'am" (albeit insincere for some folks) may make a difference, including for wives, coaches, and some others who actually do relocate to be closer to family.
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Correct. I live in Dallas and my family vacations in Arkansas. It's a five hour drive, which is very reasonable.

For those that don't know, western Arkansas looks like western New England (CT, MA, VT). It's beautiful.
 
I think hearing the weather people say it is literally colder in the northeast than on Mars was the last straw for RL.
 
Our fans crying over Lashlee leaving has proven we know FBS football. March forth.

Lashlee is probably getting twice as much as he was here. Let the man be. He at least bothered to come here and fix our offense and teach us. Randy knows the AAC is heavy on the spread.

The AAC and the "Gulf Coast offense"

The AAC has it's own culture going now. This is why Randy also wants the 3-3-5.
 
Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
While you may be pretty sure, it is an incorrect assumption.
Sales Tax: TX 8.0% (Dallas 8.25%) > IN 7.0% > CT 6.35%

Combined with Texas' relatively high property taxes and likely similar cost of living near Storrs versus highly affluent Highland Park (SMU) and nearby high-end north Dallas communities, Texas, you wouldn't be the first person to naively leap to an assumption no state income tax absolutely equates to paying lower total combined taxes. Regardless, Lashlee should fare OK with a possible income bump and potential overall COL decrease (depends on where he lived near Storrs). ;)
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There is no income tax in Texas and the property rate is lower than Connecticut.

He will be paid more at a private university
 
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Screw the whole program!!! Lets go back to boring run through the middle football. hey..We still have Crocker.. that is a plus!! I loved his style of offense, but of course we could only get 1 year of that. this pisses me off no end. i have nothing good to say about where we go from here. All the hope of turning this program around has been shot in the ass.
 
Huskygamble19 said:
Screw the whole program!!! Lets go back to boring run through the middle football. hey..We still have Crocker.. that is a plus!! I loved his style of offense, but of course we could only get 1 year of that. this pisses me off no end. i have nothing good to say about where we go from here. All the hope of turning this program around has been shot in the ass.
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If Lashlee was your only source of hope...you didn't read the situation correctly at all.
 
Stairmaster said:
If Lashlee was your only source of hope...you didn't read the situation correctly at all.
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He got the most out of what little he had to work with. i would have liked him to work with the new kids coming in that were more athletic than what Diaco blessed us with. No matter...I just had a miserable day and this was just the cherry on top of the whole F%*%^ing mess!!
 
I would like to point out that people from Texas are friendlier, but they are not any nicer. they reach out to strangers there whereas up here there is not the welcome handshake to a total stranger. it is just how we were taught. They are not any nicer than the folks up here though, you just have to get to know somebody up here to understand the reason for the difference. Gahhlly Y'all.
 
History Geek said:
I agree with Nelson and all of those who point out we desperately need some continuity. This has to be a home run hire that will continue our forward momentum on offense AND wants to stick around here in the Great White North for a while. Could be a needle in a haystack though.
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Do not underestimate the drop off in youth football participation around the state, and around the region. This is a bad recruiting area that is getting worse.

And it is -9 tonight.
 
In hindsight it seems he came here because he needed a job in 2016 and he never planned on being here a second longer than he needed to be.

Whatever - coordinators change. It would be nice if the team was actually good before we lost them but by no means is this guy irreplaceable.
 
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whaler11 said:
In hindsight it seems he came here because he needed a job in 2016 and he never planned on being here a second longer than he needed to be.

Whatever - coordinators change. It would be nice if the team was actually good before we lost them but by no means is this guy irreplaceable.
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Does seem that way now.

But with his presumed connection with ADDave through Auburn, I’m a little surprised that that’s how Lashlee thought he could treat the man and program who gave him said job
 
Rocktheworld said:
Does seem that way now.

But with his presumed connection with ADDave through Auburn, I’m a little surprised that that’s how Lashlee thought he could treat the man and program who gave him said job
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UConn fans need to understand that coaches moving is the way it is in college football. Laslee’s move is typical and not really a surprise. My guess there are no hard feelings between Lashlee and Benedict.
 
UConnJim said:
UConn fans need to understand that coaches moving is the way it is in college football. Laslee’s move is typical and not really a surprise. My guess there are no hard feelings between Lashlee and Benedict.
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How many coordinators left after 1 season this year? Name them if there are so many.

We all already know that this was not a “football” move.
 
Rocktheworld said:
How many coordinators left after 1 season this year? Name them if there are so many.

We all already know that this was not a “football” move.
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Yeah...this is not typical.

I think whaler is right...this was a filler job....his “waiting tables” job....until he found a better fit.

I think the reason why this raises concerns to UConn fans is that Lashlee was part of the reason why we bought into RE 2.0. RE 1.0 had a reputation of not giving his coordinators leash to do their job. RE seemed risk averse and very conservative. Bringing in Lashlee showed he could work with a high profile coordinator who ran an offense that was up tempo and fun to watch.

This gave UConn fans the hope of the best of both worlds. The stability and program building of RE, along with the hope of watching a contemporary offense.

Until we know who is hired as OC...and hear them talk about their strategy, the fear is the program will regress. I still have confidence that DB will play a key role in this decision and the program will continue to evolve.

But until then...Lashlee leaving is disconcerting.
 
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