Say something nice about Bob Diaco

[tiger8mush]

- Husky Walk
- 5 hours tailgating
- Dairy Bar Ice Cream

 

[huskyrob1]

My contribution:

For Those About to Rock is a great song.

In his final meeting with DB and SH....

"Bob it was a pleasure knowing you, good luck in all your future endeavors. Here is your check for $2,000,000.".... Handshake

 

[HuskiesFan1014]

He taught us to love again.

Or to love Randy again.

 

[warbler1055]

He is a wonderful talker!!!

 

[EJHarrington]

He is a solid defensive coach and (for awhile) he was a breath of fresh air after the reign of the energy vampire. I wish him the best.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Without going through all the responses, he ran a clean program and made sure kids were getting an education.

Losing sucks for us fans but there is always a new batch of recruits and new hope. For the players, they still have a life to live beyond their college playing days.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

He was good about rewarding walk-ons with schollies. liked that, a lot. I tend to believe the poor culture within the facilities was reversed. Jim Rome liked having him on his show each year which was good national PR for the program...until all the on-field stupid stuff Trumped it.

 

[amory]

He came in with a lot of flash and hype, had some good ideas (the ConFLiCT is great, f the haters), and was very generous with his donation to the school

Ultimately though he was a lot of sizzle and no steak.

 

[storrsroars]

Using the 8 letters in "Bob Diaco", you can create the anagram "Acid Boob".

 

[polycom]

His car Lexus GS-F was a beautiful piece of machinery..

 

[chiller99.5]

He really fed the trolls big time at csnbbs aac message board to the point its unreadable

 

[CL82]

I'm sure he's great in an interview.

 

[pnow15]

Diaco is walking away with millions of your tax dollars.

 

[Redding Husky]

Bob wanted UConn to succeed. That's worth some points in my book.

He just couldn't make it happen.

 

[CTBasketball]

Some say he knows two facts about ducks. And both of them, are wrong.

 

[ibleedhuskyblue]

He wasn't PPGDL !

But in all sincerity, i really do think he tried hard, in his own way, to get us to a good place. Unfortunately his plan to get us there was bat-nuts crazy, and he refused to budge on it despite the fact that not only wasn't it working, but it was having the reverse effect on the scoreboard. His ego was so big that he just couldn't get out of his own way.

He will likely learn a lesson from this, as he is probably at one of his professional low-points right now. I hope, for his own sake, that he will "bend" the way our defense always did during his tenure.

 

[mauconnfan]

I wish him luck as an assistant somewhere, good guy who was in over his head. Not his fault you can only fault those who felt he was ready. Positive thinking guy who can't run a program, yet!

 

[chuck shick]

Serously?! I hope we play against him regularly as the coach of Rutgers, Syracuse, or BC!

It would be quite funny if he ended up as the Rutgers DC and Kill is the OC

 

[Palatine]

He beat Stoney Brook.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

He donated a good amount of cash to the university last year (I don't remember the details). He made an effort to visit fans in Fairfield County, Boston area and NYC. Following the bowl season a lot of us thought he would be the one to turn this program around-some even thinking we could be AAC contenders in 2017. I loved the guy's enthusiasm but it became way too much #fishcake

 

[TRest]

I still have never watched his introductory press conference, but I understand that it was quite exceptional.

 

[Milo65]

I believe he really wanted UConn to succeed. He brought in the alternate grey uniforms which players like and got rid of that ugly helmet.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

He donated a good amount of cash to the university last year (I don't remember the details). He made an effort to visit fans in Fairfield County, Boston area and NYC. Following the bowl season a lot of us thought he would be the one to turn this program around-some even thinking we could be AAC contenders in 2017. I loved the guy's enthusiasm but it became way too much #fishcake

If RE could acquire a small (very small) amount of BD's personality it would be great.

BD did realize the importance of cultivating a fan base and football culture (RE too often griped that we didn't have it here) and did a lot of the right things (more style than substance however) to begin building it. Unfortunately he was a bit detached from reality and once he was informed that results were necessary, he became completely unhinged.

 

[junglehusky]

I think Diaco will get another crack at being a head coach in the future, and if he can put his ego aside and be willing to delegate and work with assistants who might steal the spotlight once in a while, he'll probably be successful. If that's the case, the crazy press conferences and creative rivalries (or whatever else he comes up with) will become positives instead of negatives. Sadly, he tried to micromanage and couldn't delegate, and when it came time to revamp the staff he was too inflexible to work with Jerry Kill, and that killed Diaco's career.

I still think if he had hired an actual OC instead of a journeyman assistant like Verducci, and been willing to learn from in-game mistakes, he would have been on track to winning 7-8 games (which is now the expectation for Edsall). And if he had people on staff who could actually recruit kids with P5 offers, there would start to be a legitimate buzz in the media and all of the Civil ConFLiCT and the red pants and quotes would start tilting from national laughing stock to a success story, even snowballing nationally if - IF - he put UConn in a position to compete for a conference title.

 

[junglehusky]

Diaco is walking away with millions of your tax dollars.

He's walking away with millions of Bob Burton's donations.