Then there's the question of where the money is coming from. SMU didn't get their ACC money from the state. As a CT taxpayer, I can think of 100's things I would prefer the state pay for besides assistant football coaches.
Chris Daily is worth every penny. Eleven National Championships should be rewarded and then some.
UConn’s salary pool is a joke. They don’t even have enough money to hire ANY Defensive Coordinator. If a normal salary pool is the size of my 40,000 gallon in ground, then UConn’s salary pool is around the size of my grandkids splash pool.
How much is Deion Sanders getting Colorado to pay Warren Sapp to be his Defensive Line Coach next season?
Look - there is absolutely no reason we can’t be playing competitive football with the salaries we currently pay. Hell, URI is playing better football than us with FCS money. The solution isn’t to throw more money at the problem it’s to fire the coaches who aren’t worth minimum wage and go out and make GOOD hires. Which is something we haven’t done for a decade (maybe minus HCJM). Maybe that means paying SLIGHTLY more but it’s obvious that other schools make it work with less.
Buffalo gave Leipold, a D3 coach a chance and nobody else did. Great hire, but how can Buffalo be our comp? One winning season from 1997 to 2012 and 5 winning seasons from 2013 to 2022 and 11-18 since he left. And, they play a much easier schedule. They play 1 P5 school per year. UConn is playing 3 to 4.
UConn needs to recruit, that’s what the program’s success boils down to. Our 2024 incoming class looks like Mora had some success too. He just needs to keep doing this for the next 3 or 4 years.
In the portal era, you have to expect fast improvement. That is why you hire a good OC who has QB contacts to run his proven offense. I just think it really is that simple. This is year 2 of Charlton and it's not working.
Do they just walk through the door? Don’t the coaches have to recruit kids in the portal? I’ll admit the portal makes things a lot quicker but selling the program is still important. The other reason I was never a fan of Charlton are his skills at recruiting FBS level kids, either portal or otherwise. A CT guy like Joe Moorhead would’ve had us rolling.
No, I'm saying Jim Mora was hired and agreed to a contract with the university. It's not like he was bamboozled into accepting the offer. It's no secret the program has been bleeding money for years. I am not privy to how much money may or may not be available, but I believe a successful, revenue-generating program can be built on Mora's leadership, and that as success is achieved it puts more money in the coffers. You are also leaving facilities out of the discussion, which many claim is an important part of the equation. If there is more money available for salaries, and a favorable ROI can be ensured, sure, spend it to get some better assistants if you really think that is truly what's needed. I'm just not convinced, that like education as a whole, that simply throwing more money at it is the answer.
Recruiting regions aren't remotely similar when comparing Temple to us. An hour drive (with traffic) in any direction from Temple's campus covers better recruiting territory than a four hour drive from Storrs (also with traffic).
The key to QB recruiting are relationships with coaches and offensive fit. In today's college football, QBs move and many times they follow coaches or move to teams with coaches that recruited them before. Some examples? Fagnano to UConn, Williams to USC, Sanders to Colorado, Plummer to Lousiville, Plumlee to UCF, Buchner to Notre Dame, Millen to Colorado St., ...
I disagree about the recruiting region. They all look to Florida, the mid-Atlantic, and elsewhere. Seriously, what school is more attractive, UConn or Temple? I'd say more pros in the NFL from UConn than Temple. That would be something I would stress recruiting. I think the difference is UConn has not put together a good coaching staff, top to bottom including recruiters in over ten years now. Every year I find it amazing that such a bad overall team has players drafted into the NFL...and sticking with teams.
Do you have any idea of how big HS football is in Pennsylvania? Southern NJ? In all candor Temple should have been a far better program than it was from the late 1970's until Rhule got there as the can put together a decent roster just by taking leftovers from local schools.
The notion of 'competitiveness' is entirely relative.
Not before they got into the Big 12. Those are post Big 12 numbers for the coordinators.
For the 2021 season when they were in the AAC, before Cincy was invited to the Big 12, their assistant coaching pool was $2.7 million and Fickell was making $3.4 million. Total coaching salary spending was $2.8 million more than UConn is spending this year.
Unfortunately, the MAC is on the record saying that they like what they have: one of the only sane, regionally-based conferences left in D1 Football. We have no reason to believe they'd have us.
Paying Pagano analyst money as a DC-Lite
I don’t disagree, but that true for all positions, not just QB’s. It’s why we need to give Mora time (a few years) to develop those relationships since he’s been out the game for a while now. He needs to get a DC but that takes money, and he needs to dump Charlton and put Marinelli in the drivers seat.
Good research. Good on you. We know CT fans don't show up for crappy opponents and losing football. Duke game kinda showed we ain't showing up for good opponents and crappy football. I don't know if the answer is to dumb down the schedule, but people are tired of the perpetual ineptitude. I could have gone to Duke, since my daughter's event got canceled. Didn't feel like wasting a day in the rain to watch what i suspected was going to be a non competitive performance.
FBS football will survive at UConn. Bottom line is we have enough money as a state and have done enough on the field since the beginning. BC has NEVER played in ANY bowl as big as the Fiesta despite their betrayal of the Big East. There are FBS teams that are performing at a high level on the field right now that can't say all that.