Analogies Wing? With me hanging around reading? LOL.
Diaco came in and had by any observable means outside the program, had a rotten program to clean up. You begin to peel away the layers of the onion. Only way to get rid of the rot. You peel away the layers and you keep going, and if you get to the core and it's still rotten, you got to throw the onion out. I have heard stories about what players were doing, and one that has been shared on this website is that players were having their own belongings stolen by other players inside the facilities - and couldn't leave something unlocked - fore example. The point that the entire program had degenerated to under Pasqualoni - that's just sad. For that - that is what I do not respect Paqualoni anymore, not anything to do with football - the game. what he let happen to the football players - the people that make up the program. He took a winning culture of players over in 2011, and by 2013 under his watch it had turned into a losing culture of players - mostly from neglect and poor leadership throughout the entire program top down, and by allowing a mean little Troll named Deleone to be the loudest in the room. He recruited new players in high volumes - Pasqualoni - and got as many as he could into UCONN uniforms, but other than building up the defense for big games - he didn't seem to care about much else other than recruiting and coaching the defense. Player development - lack thereof - in the past few seasons had nothing to do with talent level (which was inadequate anyway overall as a full team roster - at least inadequate talent to overcome poor behavior off the field) but with social development. Those 2, 3 star players that become NFL players - are the players that develop well off the field - which translates to development on the field. If your stocked with 85 racehorses, you don't need to concern yourself with that either - but UCONN doesn't have that kind of recruiting profile. In the NFL - you don't have to concern yourself with any of it as a coach. Pasqualoni came in and found a winning culture off the field. He let it deteriorate from neglect. No respect.
Maybe tearing down isn't the right phrase, I agree. I'd go with throwing the rotten onion cores out and picking a new ones from the barrel.
Sooner than later though, it's got to start translating to wins - for real - in games. That's where the actual skill of a coaching staff comes in. Strategy, tactics, game planning, and the ability to teach the players to properly execute with discipline.
That - strategy, tactics, game planning and the ability to teach the players to properly execute with discipline? This is where we need MAJOR improvement. Or it is all for naught.
