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I have no problem with Edsall’s recruiting. I actually think we have talent. We are outschemed terribly, I’m not sure we are outmanned that much anymore. We have a very young team. Someone needs to put them in position to win.
 
the thing that I don't get is that Edsall teams of the past were disciplined and smart. no turnovers and no penalties. good special teams. and then you'd run the ball behind a always decent line and have some successes.

This team in its current state, after waiting almost two years to play, is none of those things. there is no reason to see anymore. if theya re not going to fire him then its a message that the plan is to shut it down. Because keeping him is giving up
 
Blue Idiaco said:
the thing that I don't get is that Edsall teams of the past were disciplined and smart. no turnovers and no penalties. good special teams. and then you'd run the ball behind a always decent line and have some successes.

This team in its current state, after waiting almost two years to play, is none of those things. there is no reason to see anymore. if theya re not going to fire him then its a message that the plan is to shut it down. Because keeping him is giving up
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I think it is just what you said, Edsall played smart football with big, competent lines. He doesn’t yet have the experience and size he needs to play that way. So, they wait.

I see it differently, even if he had those lines, he’d suck. Nobody plays that way anymore.
 
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Hoophound said:
I think it is just what you said, Edsall played smart football with big, competent lines. He doesn’t yet have the experience and size he needs to play that way. So, they wait.

I see it differently, even if he had those lines, he’d suck. Nobody plays that way anymore.
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He's was mediocre at best when he had those lines, he's never been a great coach just average. His failure to adjust to today's game is showing and I agree even if he was able to build back to what he had they'd be at best a 5 to 7 win team lucking into a bottom feeder bowl at best.
 
UCFBfan said:
If they want to keep dirt cheap Randy so be it.....but can we PLEASE hire a real Offensive Coordinator!!! How we still have a coach who was hired to be an O-Line coach and then moved up to an OC is beyond me.....
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Randy is the OC and that’s how he wants it. As Chief said in earlier this summer, when you hear the BS about competition at QB, it means you don’t have one (freshmen excluded).
 
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blue93 said:
OC should be the first one gone. I was skeptical about him long before today, but this game confirmed that he doesn’t have a clue. And the offensive line being the worst unit is the cherry on top.
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Demote him from OC, he should be 100% OL it's the only thing he is any good at, but if he's prepping for play calling, he isn't coaching the line. Let Moyseenko call the plays.
 
I think the question is, who would want to come and coach UConn Football? I understand theres always going to be somebody that will take a head coaching job, but would one of the top assistants around the country want to take on this particular challenge? Or would they wait it out to go elsewhere that is more of a stable situation?

Diaco ended up being a disaster, but at the time everyone loved the hire since he was one of the best young coordinators out there coming off winning the Broyles award. Are we in a position right now where somebody with those credentials is a realistic option?
 
Ts5034 said:
I think the question is, who would want to come and coach UConn Football? I understand theres always going to be somebody that will take a head coaching job, but would one of the top assistants around the country want to take on this particular challenge? Or would they wait it out to go elsewhere that is more of a stable situation?

Diaco ended up being a disaster, but at the time everyone loved the hire since he was one of the best young coordinators out there coming off winning the Broyles award. Are we in a position right now where somebody with those credentials is a realistic option?
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Go with a winner at a lower level. FCS or even D2. A guy with a modern offense concept. Go do what Buffalo did when they hired Leopold. Why over pay for a fancy P5 coordinator that may be looking for his next job day or is simply incapable of running a program? I look at Leopold, I look at Bohl at Wyoming, that should be the type of guy we target. Guys who have won as HCs and have shown they know how to run a program top to bottom.
 
Hoophound said:
I have no problem with Edsall’s recruiting. I actually think we have talent. We are outschemed terribly, I’m not sure we are outmanned that much anymore. We have a very young team. Someone needs to put them in position to win.
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Really? You digging the QB recruiting?
 
Ts5034 said:
I think the question is, who would want to come and coach UConn Football? I understand theres always going to be somebody that will take a head coaching job, but would one of the top assistants around the country want to take on this particular challenge? Or would they wait it out to go elsewhere that is more of a stable situation?

Diaco ended up being a disaster, but at the time everyone loved the hire since he was one of the best young coordinators out there coming off winning the Broyles award. Are we in a position right now where somebody with those credentials is a realistic option?
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At this point, no. Especially when you consider that recent winners are making more as coordinators than they could at UConn. You want a coordinator fine, but look at realistic options now.
 
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noeynox said:
Go with a winner at a lower level. FCS or even D2. A guy with a modern offense concept. Go do what Buffalo did when they hired Leopold. Why over pay for a fancy P5 coordinator that may be looking for his next job day or is simply incapable of running a program? I look at Leopold, I look at Bohl at Wyoming, that should be the type of guy we target. Guys who have won as HCs and have shown they know how to run a program top to bottom.
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I'd like us to keep an eye on Aaron Best from Eastern Washington
 
Basketball School....Soccer School....Baseball School....Field Hockey School....Ed School....Ag School....Nursing School....Finance School.... Engineering School....Pharmacy School.................ANTYB (Anything But) Football School.
 
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JMick said:
Dave figured randy couldn't be as bad as red pants and got donors to pony up for the buyout to get rid of him. Randy is only employed because people with money wanted him employed
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True, but Dave is now the front person owner of Randy’s 2.0 record. Dave was brought here for football to be respectable and take us out of the conference wilderness. Basketball to the Big East is liked by many Casual Fans and has assisted MBB recruiting. But, ironically football has been dismal despite Corey being receptive to advice about how to successfully update recruiting the past couple years. Unfortunately, his dad is the one who needs to update the on field stuff. What the Lashlee experiment told us was that Randy isn’t a CEO type coach, who can effectively delegate to talented people. Bear Bryant barely knew some players names for years. Randy is a control freak but his offensive concepts are ancient. When you have an OL of NFL players in Beatty, Thomas and Griffin (TE) and an NFL RB (Donald Brown) it can work, but unless you have that physically dominant talent it’s destine for failure. Things need to start at QB and Randy has not made getting a good one a priority for this season. The recruiting changes did land us one that Chief believes in but as a freshman he needs to leap over the guys who Randy brought in.
 
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Ts5034 said:
I think the question is, who would want to come and coach UConn Football? I understand theres always going to be somebody that will take a head coaching job, but would one of the top assistants around the country want to take on this particular challenge? Or would they wait it out to go elsewhere that is more of a stable situation?

Diaco ended up being a disaster, but at the time everyone loved the hire since he was one of the best young coordinators out there coming off winning the Broyles award. Are we in a position right now where somebody with those credentials is a realistic option?
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I don't know how you can interest anyone in this job. Not being in a league means you had better have something unique about your program that can lure talented players there. That condition just doesn't exist and I can't imagine any coach with other options wanting to somehow try and recruit here. Edsall definitely seems behind the times style wise, and I think the team should look better than it did, but this thing is a black hole right now, and needs talent badly.
 
CCSUblue said:
Sean Lewis HC at Kent State would be my number one choice. Really seems to have something great growing over there.

I'd be cool with Jason Candle at Toledo too.

Tyler Bowen who may be out of reach now, was the co-offensive coordinator/recruiting coordinator but is now an analyst for Jacksonville. Bowen also had stops at Towson, Fordham, and Maryland. He will be a head coach some day

Let's see what Nick Charlton at Maine does this year, hire that kid. Or his predecessor Joe Harasymiak who is co-DC at Minnesota. Had success at Maine, learned under PJ.

If Central wins the Northeast, let's talk to McCarthy. It's a damn shame that Pete was allowed to leave the area.

If Connecticut ever wants to get it right, they need to hire a young head coach that has won at a lower level or the MAC. Or an FBS coordinator that was a lower level HC. There are FCS schools that time and time again hire, have success, HC gets hired by FBS.

No retreads, unless that retread got their shot young and had growing success as a coordinator. Needs to be someone that is young enough to have the fire and passion, but isn't learning how to run a program.
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Tyler Bowen was TE Coach and Offensive Recruiting Coordinator At PSU. He did call plays for The 2019 Cotton Bowl, as well as when Breiner was HC at Fordham. All indications are that he is the goods and a future HC.
 
CCSUblue said:
If Connecticut ever wants to get it right, they need to hire a young head coach that has won at a lower level or the MAC. Or an FBS coordinator that was a lower level HC. There are FCS schools that time and time again hire, have success, HC gets hired by FBS.
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This is the only path we have not tried. All of the other choices have sucked. This should be the next plan. What do we have to lose at this point.

Also, is there a retired or unemployed Offensive coordinator we can bring in mid-season? I cannot take another inside handoff.
 
bigAbruns said:
He's was mediocre at best when he had those lines, he's never been a great coach just average. His failure to adjust to today's game is showing and I agree even if he was able to build back to what he had they'd be at best a 5 to 7 win team lucking into a bottom feeder bowl at best.
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Sign me up for that. It sounds like heaven this morning.

I actually think that was the plan and Randy took this gig to build us up to the point where we had FBS level players. At that point you can bring in a young promising head coach take the program for the next level.
 
CL82 said:
Sign me up for that. It sounds like heaven this morning.

I actually think that was the plan and Randy took this gig to build us up to the point where we had FBS level players. At that point you can bring in a young promising head coach take the program for the next level.
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In RE's mind- that would be Corey- good recruiter watching his Dad build a program
 
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