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Say something nice about Bob Diaco

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I'm sure he's great in an interview.
 
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.
 
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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
 
I still have never watched his introductory press conference, but I understand that it was quite exceptional.
 
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UConnTrumbull said:
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
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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.
 
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.
 
Like the chairman of the board used to sing, he did it his way.
 
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I liked him Sunday through Friday.
He's also leaving behind the RKG's.

RE doesn't have to clean up a program.
He's got a lot work to do, for us to get back to respectability, but the players seem like good kids.
 
I think the guy's heart was in the right place. At the very least, I think he brought in a good group of young men that he truly cares about. The donation was very generous. The press conferences were fun for a while. If it weren't for the on-field results, we would have loved his quirks. Unfortunately for him, the results matter (a lot).
 
He was a necessary first step after PPGDL. He got the players back in shape and had the needed enthusiasm. Unfortunately he brought nothing,nothing of use to the field on Saturday afternoons. Our best offense was BS running no huddle two minute drills and playing based off rooster and balls. His idea of exciting was two or three ill timed trick plays a game instead of a steady variety. RE's job is to get dudes playing football at a 7-9 win a year level and make the job desirable for a top young coach when he steps down.
 
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I come to bury Ceasar, not to praise him. This thread is three pages in a little over a day. You can go back three months and not find three pages of positive posts about HCBD.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
He ran a clean program. While he put an embarrassing product on the field, his players did not embarrass us off the field and by all accounts were solid in the classroom.
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Addition: It certainly helps that Randy doesn't have to walk in and change the culture of how the players behave on and off the field. He doesn't need to clear a lot of bad apples out of the locker room as he apparently did at MD. Diaco certainly had the players working hard in the classroom and on the practice field and dedicated to succeeding, unfortunately the path he put them on to achieve that success was so incredibly off base. But he didn't leave Randy a disaster that would require overhauling the current roster due to off-field or attitude issues.
 
UConnSportsGuy said:
He did not retain GDL on his coaching staff at UConn when hired. Does that count as a positive?
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Sorry if this has since been addressed, but I didn't read the rest of the thread to see if it was.

This can't count as a positive because FHCBD didn't have the option to retain him. GDL and PP were fired together.
 
He came he saw he gloated he did nothing he's gone
Good Luck FHCBD
 
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