For what its worth I also think some people are underestimating the value of the UConn job. It is a better job than several and assuming there is a willingness to pay well, I think it will be attractive. Beyond that, there are only so many opportunities, and if you get offered a head coaching job at the D1A level, most guys are going to think long and hard before turning something like that down. If you get offered UConn and Iowa or USC, that's one thing, but guys who turn down head coaching jobs in hopes that a better one will come along in a year or so are taking a pretty big risk. You have a couple of average years at a big name program and suddenly you discover that some new guy is the hot coordinator and you're pigeon holed as a permanent coordinator. It is why a guy like Ron English took the Eastern Michigan job, for example, when that is a death trap for your career. UConn has excellent facilities, decent fan support that could become very good with success, and general university support all of which means you have a chance to be successful. Not os sure that is true of half the ACC, the Big or the B-12. Duke, Indiana, Iowa State and Kansas are always going to struggle more than we are to be successful.
