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Skip Holz?????

Camon this place went all weak knee when he wore short sleeves during the game !
 
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Tdaley said:
UAB. Looks like they are playing on the same field that we beat South Carolina in our last bowl victory.
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I’m pretty sure they are playing in their brand new stadium.
 
Skip Holtz overall record this year is about to be 2-7 so far and Al Golden hasn’t been in College for about 6yrs, when he was coaching he was pretty average. I think we need to shut these names down. It’s ridiculous how some are even ok with these guys. I just don’t see Dave making these kinds of hires. Hurley was one of the hottest coaches out there when we were searching and Dave managed to hire him, there’s no way he’s going to do the opposite of that and hire a retread and almost retread. The way he sees UConn Athletics as a whole is not how some of you sees it.
 
jdb50 said:
We need a coach that when we take the field has the fierceness of Mel Gibson in Braveheart with 85 screaming maniacs behind him so that the other team's coach looks around and says "Who the hell scheduled these guys!?" We need energy and offense!
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You mean it was the wrong approach at Michigan for our guys to walk out slowly, arms linked together, while the Michigan guys stormed out of the locker room jumping and running like wild men?
 
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Yup! said:
Skip Holtz overall record this year is about to be 2-7 so far and Al Golden hasn’t been in College for about 6yrs, when he was coaching he was pretty average. I think we need to shut these names down. It’s ridiculous how some are even ok with these guys. I just don’t see Dave making these kinds of hires. Hurley was one of the hottest coaches out there when we were searching and Dave managed to hire him, there’s no way he’s going to do the opposite of that and hire a retread and almost retread. The way he sees UConn Athletics as a whole is not how some of you sees it.
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Hopefully Dave’s evaluation criteria differs from “oh yeah, I remember that name” as the prominent factor.
 
Yup! said:
Skip Holtz overall record this year is about to be 2-7 so far and Al Golden hasn’t been in College for about 6yrs, when he was coaching he was pretty average. I think we need to shut these names down. It’s ridiculous how some are even ok with these guys. I just don’t see Dave making these kinds of hires. Hurley was one of the hottest coaches out there when we were searching and Dave managed to hire him, there’s no way he’s going to do the opposite of that and hire a retread and almost retread. The way he sees UConn Athletics as a whole is not how some of you sees it.
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It's also ridiculous comparing hiring Hurley for basketball to hiring the next football coach. We can hope for a home run but I really think we need to temper our expectations of who would be willing to take this job.
 
Kolumbo said:
It's also ridiculous comparing hiring Hurley for basketball to hiring the next football coach. We can hope for a home run but I really think we need to temper our expectations of who would be willing to take this job.
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So Moorhead is a high expectation? I don’t see it how you see it. I’m sure most on here and Dave also sees it differently than the minority.
 
JM is not too high some others probably are since they likely don’t have interest in coming here.JM? Who knows? At least he knows what it is all about here.
 
Yup! said:
So Moorhead is a high expectation? I don’t see it how you see it. I’m sure most on here and Dave also sees it differently than the minority.
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I think the concensus is yes, Joe Moorhead is a very high expectation. I would consider UCONN Basketball a destination job just like Ohio State or Texas in Football.
 
Kolumbo said:
I think the concensus is yes, Joe Moorhead is a very high expectation. I would consider UCONN Basketball a destination job just like Ohio State or Texas in Football.
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We’ll see with the next hire. My point is, how many of those Texas and Ohio States are going to be available? Not many, so if these 10-15 coaches who are considered high value coaches ahead of Moorhead, what makes you think we don’t have a shot? I just named 10 coaches who are in a better position than Moorhead to land a P5 G5 job. Grinch who I named ahead Moorhead is already the front runner for the TTech job. UConn is not a bad job as some might think. Dave also sees us a a great job. But again we’ll see.
 
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Yup! said:
We’ll see with the next hire. My point is, how many of those Texas and Ohio States are going to be available? Not many, so if these 10-15 coaches who are considered high value coaches ahead of Moorhead, what makes you think we don’t have a shot? I just named 10 coaches who are in a better position than Moorhead to land a P5 G5 job. Grinch who I named ahead Moorhead is already the front runner for the TTech job. UConn is not a bad job as some might think. Dave also sees us a a great job. But again we’ll see.
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I think UCONN is a great job! My point is, hiring a great, hot coach for UCONN Basketball is kids-play compared to hiring our next football coach, given the situation we are in. This job is going to be a huge uphill challenge, high risk, unknown reward. I hope we find a great coach who is up to the task.
 
Kolumbo said:
I think UCONN is a great job! My point is, hiring a great, hot coach for UCONN Basketball is kids-play compared to hiring our next football coach, given the situation we are in. This job is going to be a huge uphill challenge, high risk, unknown reward. I hope we find a great coach who is up to the task.
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My point is that Moorhead is NOT the hottest or is even in the top 10 conversation of college coaches.
 
Kolumbo said:
I'll agree with that, and he would be an exceptional get for UCONN.
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And to do that, you might have to offer a Hurley-sized salary. Not what people are talking about so far.

And in my mind that would be appropriate. You don't always get what you pay for, but trying to cut corners greatly increases the chances that you do not.
 
RSTuthill said:
And to do that, you might have to offer a Hurley-sized salary. Not what people are talking about so far.

And in my mind that would be appropriate. You don't always get what you pay for, but trying to cut corners greatly increases the chances that you do not.
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UConn is talking $2m+, JM is currently making $900k what are you talking about? $2.5-$3m is good enough for Moorhead. That’s two times his current salary. Dave already stated that we’re all in.
 
Yup! said:
UConn is talking $2m+, JM is currently making $900k what are you talking about? $2.5-$3m is good enough for Moorhead. That’s two times his current salary. Dave already stated that we’re all in.
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Yup! We are in violent agreement. Hurley makes $2.9 million, right? All I said is that it might take that to get Moorhead who will have other options. Your range is spot on I would think.
 
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RSTuthill said:
Yup! We are in violent agreement. Hurley makes $2.9 million, right? All I said is that it might take that to get Moorhead who will have other options. Your range is spot on I would think.
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Ok we agree. JM is a proven coach I think he’s definitely worth that value. $2.5-$3m for Moorhead is just right.
 
Yup! said:
Skip Holtz overall record this year is about to be 2-7 so far and Al Golden hasn’t been in College for about 6yrs, when he was coaching he was pretty average. I think we need to shut these names down. It’s ridiculous how some are even ok with these guys. I just don’t see Dave making these kinds of hires. Hurley was one of the hottest coaches out there when we were searching and Dave managed to hire him, there’s no way he’s going to do the opposite of that and hire a retread and almost retread. The way he sees UConn Athletics as a whole is not how some of you sees it.
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If he is using UConn basketball as a model for what we want to accomplish for UConn football, he would be as clueless as many on this board. The football program could not get a Danny Hurley to come here.
 
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businesslawyer said:
If he is using UConn basketball as a model for what we want to accomplish for UCon football, he would be as clueless as many on this board. The football program could not get a Danny Hurley to come here.
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There’s plenty to sell UConn football not sure what you mean by model. Point is the way Dave views UConn is not the way some of you see it. He will sell the hell out of this brand cause he believes in UConn Athletics. Have you ever had a conversation with Dave? Maybe not. The championships women’s and men’s basketball brought to this program doesn’t hurt UConn as a whole it actually helps, on top of all the other benefits that has been listed on here.

There’s no reason why we should be settling for ridiculous coaches like Holtz who’s team is 2-7 right now and a retread in Golden that hasn’t coached college football in over 6yrs. Some of you are small minded individuals. A settle mentality vs pushing it to the limit mentality. The point about Hurley is that he’s the opposite of these coaches you guys are ok settling with, for him to make those kinds of hires would be the complete opposite of his Hurley hire. It wouldn’t make sense. Especially how he views UConn Athletics as a whole. He knows that this hire is more important than the basketball hire in terms of money generated. JM is not Saban I don’t see why UConn football isn’t able to hire an OC who isn’t even in the top 10 of hottest coaches right now. He’s probably between 10-15 best coach/coordinator in college football. We should shoot our shot with Moorhead, Herman, Entz, Lewis… etc if he wants to go with an up and comer from the FCS ranks who has their team winning I’m all for that too, but Holtz and Golden is laughable.
 
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