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whaler11 said:
If you think it's miserable to beat an ACC team more power to you. If they punched in last week would it miserable at 3-0 too?

Would one yard make it not miserable play?
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I was pretty miserable when it was 10 to 3 and for f---king ever, and we couldn't do anything on the field.
 
noeynox said:
Eeking out a win against a horrible ACC team that hasn't won a road game in four years and has a first year coach, I thought we'd be further along in year 3.

I expected to compete for the division title, at least be in the mix. Doesn't look like we're there. Just get back to a bowl game and keep momentum going. Everyone knows this Coach ain't going anywhere even if we don't win another game.
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I thought we'd be further along than we were 3 weeks ago, when we played Maine. Now I know where we are.
 
uconnflyer88 said:
I don't think you know how contracts work....
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Lol...I wrote meat of bunch of corporate contracts and I am not even an attorney.

It will be costly to fire Diaco, but long term damage to UConn during this realignment period will be much bigger by keeping him around. He gonna take us to the gutter if he does not change soon.
 
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A look at Bob Diaco’s new contract

Buyouts: This is the concerning part for UConn fans. Assuming Diaco continues to succeed at UConn, it is only a matter of time before a bigger school comes calling. The bad news is that with this new contract, Diaco’s buyouts have actually dropped. His buyout between now and the end of this coming regular season remains at $700,000, but next year, it is just $350,000, down from $400,000 in his previous deal. The year after that, it’s $175,000 instead of $400,000. In 2019 and 2020 it will be $100,000 then $50,000.

Bad news? He made it cheaper for us!
 
Duncan Idaho said:
We are not recruiting at a BCS level anymore and overall coaching needs to mature.
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Do you believe that it's the recruiting? I don't. I think that the OLine isn't playing up to what they could be.

So what do I attribute the problem to, you might ask? Well, we haven't had a good run attack since 2011. Coincidentally, it was the same year as the last year that Mike Foley ran the OLine. I'm sure someone will tell me a little anecdote about Cummings coaching Erik Fisher for the 89th time. But my eyes aren't lying...

#whereisFoley
 
Excalibur said:
I didn't predict 8 wins. What I did expect is that, three years into the current regime, we would be better than a three point home win against one of the worst teams in the country, and needing a blown 20 yard field goal and a gift from the opposing coach to get that 3 point win.
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Virginia is far from being one of the worst teams in the country. Please get some perspective.
 
SeoulHuskyFan said:
Whaler11 is a rational, dispassionate fan. Whether or not you think that's an oxymoron, he's probably better off than a lot of us because of it. And, of course, he's right. For me, if I'm going to argue one week that the eye test was better than the score, I have to accept the next week when the opposite is true. I'll count the wins/losses when the season's over. For now, I just want to feel good watching them play. I've seen flashes so far but I really did think they were further along.
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If you post a thread on this board that you know is going to provoke responses that make you angry you are neither dispassionate or rational in that moment. Especially if you were having a good day prior to that.
 
Butch said:
From what I get, terminating him would cost 800K after this season.

Bob Diaco - NCAA D1 Football Coaching Contracts
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Butch said:
A look at Bob Diaco’s new contract

Buyouts: This is the concerning part for UConn fans. Assuming Diaco continues to succeed at UConn, it is only a matter of time before a bigger school comes calling. The bad news is that with this new contract, Diaco’s buyouts have actually dropped. His buyout between now and the end of this coming regular season remains at $700,000, but next year, it is just $350,000, down from $400,000 in his previous deal. The year after that, it’s $175,000 instead of $400,000. In 2019 and 2020 it will be $100,000 then $50,000.

Bad news? He made it cheaper for us!
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Page 16 10.2 @Butch - not even close... http://adimeback.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/diaco-contract.pdf
 
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If those termination clause is true, do you guys think Diaco is daring us to fire him? The way he is coaching I would not be surprised.

The only other prayer is some other team will hire him away. I hope there is another dumb team like Maryland out there when they hired Edsall.

We are screwed.
 
WestCoastHusky said:
We only won cause UVA kicker and coach handed us the game in the end. We had no business winning today's game coaching like that.

Why wait on Diaco? Why keep paying him learning how to be a HC on our dime? He is a great cheerleader but clearly over his head as a HC.

Both Maryland and UCF have new coaches with both looking much improved. We need to do the same ASAP. Diaco is not getting any better anytime soon. Maybe in 10 years but not now. Let him learn how to coach at a FCS school. We need a coach like Frost badly.
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Hey, West Coast Husky, how much are you pledging to pay off the buy out of our present coach? Perhaps you and Butch can spearhead this effort. Shouldn't take more than a week or two raise the necessary funds.
 
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LIUCHusky said:
Hey, West Coast Husky, how much are you pledging to pay off the buy out of our present coach? Perhaps you and Butch can spearhead this effort. Shouldn't take more than a week or two raise the necessary funds.
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You're willing to contribute? I already backed off. Good luck with spearheading.
 
LIUCHusky said:
Hey, West Coast Husky, how much are you pledging to pay off the buy out of our present coach? Perhaps you and Butch can spearhead this effort. Shouldn't take more than a week or two raise the necessary funds.
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How much are you planning to pledge?

I just read the contract. The only other way is if he is hired away, declared incapable by a physician, or committed some kind of crime. The only realistic way is if someone is dumb enough to hire him away. RU?

There are other ways. We can fire the OC. Benedict can hire a new OC thats not related to Diaco and take the offense play calling away from Diaco.
 
RU fans speak of him so highly. Let's get them on the bandwagon!

We must speak highly of him from here on.
 
I think I'm flashing back to the same bull dung arguments with PP. The football product is undeniably poor to anyone with an objective eye. The excuses and rationalizations are ridiculous in year 3. My only hope is they flip a switch and get markedly better with these game reps. Crush the fruit.
 
BlueDogs said:
I think I'm flashing back to the same bull dung arguments with PP. The football product is undeniably poor to anyone with an objective eye. The excuses and rationalizations are ridiculous in year 3. My only hope is they flip a switch and get markedly better with these game reps. Crush the fruit.
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I'll give Diaco credit for eliminating the poisonous culture that existed during the P years and getting strength and conditioning on track.

He's bad a just about everything else, and showing no signs of getting better.
 
Jimdish255 said:
If you post a thread on this board that you know is going to provoke responses that make you angry you are neither dispassionate or rational in that moment. Especially if you were having a good day prior to that.
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Well, there is that. Maybe he's 'rabidly' rational and dispassionate?
 
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If one more person says "hey we just beat an ACC team" my head is going to explode. Conferences mean jack 2h1t in terms of how a particular team is in any given year and you're just playing into the mythical P5/G5 divide.
 
There has been anger directed at the coaching staff because occasionally it appears most of us could do a better job than they do in certain isolated situations.

But we're making progress. All is well.

I still think Diaco needs to hire a regular fan to follow him around and give him advice in the last two minutes of each half.
 
What I would ask after a game like that is, would people feel differently if we had won 42-38? Because it seems like there is a sharp lean towards offense on this board, which, while understandable, doesn't actually amount to anything other than a preference...and I think that, while the results have been mixed, at best, there is an entertainment and aesthetics component that I think is causing people to overstate how disappointing the results have been.

You also have to keep things like regression in mind. Virginia was -6 in their first two and a +1 today. UConn, IIRC, had sort of an unsustainable turnover differential last year and it has come back to the middle this season (they are a -3, I believe). Those things are part of football, but when you take a handful of plays that swing the win expectancy to such an extreme and concentrate them in one direction over a short period of time, it can skew progress.

The first three games taken collectively can and should be characterized as disappointing. But progress isn't linear, and perhaps, the fact that a few fluky plays here and there last season vaulted us ahead of schedule blinded some of you to how much work still had to be done. Add a couple crazy plays - maybe a special teams touchdown, a defensive touchdown, an onside kick... - to the mix a couple weeks from now in Houston, and it doesn't necessarily make us a drastically better team than we are now.

Last thing: we're UConn. Maybe that's a defeatist mentality, but it is what it is...we're a New England school trying compete in a sport that makes few inroads in this part of the country. Look at Syracuse, look at Rutgers, look at BC, just look at the entire ACC team in general - one half of the conference plays like the SEC and the other like the old Big East. It's fine to boast big dreams, but that doesn't change the bar...and the way the bar has been set at UConn, if you consistently get to bowl games and occasionally contend for the AAC division title, that's good enough.

Right now, they're on that track. And with a lot of guys hopefully returning, who knows what next season could bring? If you show up to the Rent expecting to see UConn basketball, you're going to leave disappointed. The rest will be content with grind-it-out wins over similarly handicapped teams from the north, because, hey, even if we used that once-in-a-lifetime lottery ticket already on Calhoun, it's still a lot of fun to watch a group of kids that work their ass off and proudly wear the jersey compete against peer institutions like UVA, Syracuse, BC, etc.
 
JMick said:
If one more person says "hey we just beat an ACC team" my head is going to explode. Conferences mean jack 2h1t in terms of how a particular team is in any given year and you're just playing into the mythical P5/G5 divide.
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The ACC is nothing special talent-wise. But it's fun to beat them because I hate them.
 
champs99and04 said:
What I would ask after a game like that is, would people feel differently if we had won 42-38? Because it seems like there is a sharp lean towards offense on this board, which, while understandable, doesn't actually amount to anything other than a preference...and I think that, while the results have been mixed, at best, there is an entertainment and aesthetics component that I think is causing people to overstate how disappointing the results have been.

You also have to keep things like regression in mind. Virginia was -6 in their first two and a +1 today. UConn, IIRC, had sort of an unsustainable turnover differential last year and it has come back to the middle this season (they are a -3, I believe). Those things are part of football, but when you take a handful of plays that swing the win expectancy to such an extreme and concentrate them in one direction over a short period of time, it can skew progress.

The first three games taken collectively can and should be characterized as disappointing. But progress isn't linear, and perhaps, the fact that a few fluky plays here and there last season vaulted us ahead of schedule blinded some of you to how much work still had to be done. Add a couple crazy plays - maybe a special teams touchdown, a defensive touchdown, an onside kick... - to the mix a couple weeks from now in Houston, and it doesn't necessarily make us a drastically better team than we are now.

Last thing: we're UConn. Maybe that's a defeatist mentality, but it is what it is...we're a New England school trying compete in a sport that makes few inroads in this part of the country. Look at Syracuse, look at Rutgers, look at BC, just look at the entire ACC team in general - one half of the conference plays like the SEC and the other like the old Big East. It's fine to boast big dreams, but that doesn't change the bar...and the way the bar has been set at UConn, if you consistently get to bowl games and occasionally contend for the AAC division title, that's good enough.

Right now, they're on that track. And with a lot of guys hopefully returning, who knows what next season could bring? If you show up to the Rent expecting to see UConn basketball, you're going to leave disappointed. The rest will be content with grind-it-out wins over similarly handicapped teams from the north, because, hey, even if we used that once-in-a-lifetime lottery ticket already on Calhoun, it's still a lot of fun to watch a group of kids that work their ass off and proudly wear the jersey compete against peer institutions like UVA, Syracuse, BC, etc.
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Competent football. That's all. That is what we can build on. Not Diaco's stupid exoticisms.

People say we can't aim high? What the heck was Oregon not too long ago?
 
Cal 35 Texas 33 at the half. It is a fun game to watch. Will it happen at UConn? Not with Diaco as the HC. All we are looking for is competent coaching and football. We are not getting either.
 
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