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.
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.