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Holy Cross is a well coached team. They were not a good program before they hired him. Coaching is a huge part of any program. Look at what BC is doing with their new coach. Get a young coach, hit the transfer portal and start beating the teams you should beat. They went from getting blown out by Clemson to nearly beating them last season. That’s the difference a coach can make. It’s not just calling the plays, it’s getting transfers as difference makers. 3 star recruits take 2-3 years to develop, transfers make an immediate impact.

The huge mistake was leaving the AAC. Having no conference makes it a difficult task attracting good coaches.
 
uconnfan68 said:
We’re effectively downgraded now. Butt of jokes nationwide. Are you one of those that thinks any publicity is good?
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Matching BYU as an independent is not a step down. It was a lateral move. Going independent is a step up with the AAC being poached now.

Gotta love BY logic.
 
Listen go to the games for the players, not the coaches;.
That is what I will be doing. UConn needs new blood as this isn't working.

yes I was a big Edsall fan and didn't mind him coming here unlike others. I liked Laslee and Dunn a lot. This coaching staff on offense is over matched to say the least and it doesn't help when you make the same mistakes over and over.

I do like some of the staff like Corey Edsall, Lou Spanos and Andy Blalock though he is just an honorary fundraiser and out reach.

Something needs to change as Purdue is good, big and tough. They are a middling Big Ten team.,
 
ConnHuskBask said:
Why is it so hard to believe they are a) stronger of b) more talented?

How many guys on our roster had majority FCS/service academy offers?

Why would guys who were unathletic and not strong, miraculously become world beaters. Other teams have
metsfan2323 said:
It's the scheme. We have many guys with other FBS offers. They out tricked us, out blitzed us, and out stunted us.

They out coached us..
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They were playing 8 vs 6 in the middle of the field. Turned Morrison into a DB covering the slot.
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cohenzone said:
BTW, am I the only one who finds the guy who tries to get the crowd going both annoying and bush league? The team is supposed to get the fans into it, not some guy shouting at you through an amplifier.
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They have had several versions of this and yes all of them are terrible.
 
Don't see why SK isn't played at QB....he showed skill playing for Colquitt in Georgia...my buddy from Colquitt and I were talking about him pre season...and he thought that he would be this season's QB....nothing to lose at this point..give him a shot...although playing Rutgers would be no be doing him no favor.
 
WestHartHusk said:
I am still trying to figure out what his duties are if he didnt pick the QB and doesn't call the plays. Seems like he got a raise to be Edsall's fall guy.
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TouchdownHusky said:
Have said this for years. Having said this, your post is well said. Totally right on the money. The only avenue back for UConn (sans a good conference, residing in a talent ladened hotbed, etc) is to hire an exciting coach who can recruite. He also needs to believe in offense first, offense second and offense third. Score, move the ball, score some more.
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Plus be willing to adapt. Edsall knows only one way and that was fine a decade plus ago. The whole idea to bring him back was considered short sighted and dumb when he was hired and looks significantly worse now.
 
I would hire the HS coach that never chooses to punt. He may not have any connection to the NE but it has to be more fun than this…
 
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metsfan2323 said:
It was disheartening watching Holy Cross beat us in the trenches today. I refuse to believe their guys are more talented or physically stronger so it has to be technique and scheme, another way to say it is it's the coaching.
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If you look at offer lists of UConn and Holy Cross there isn’t much if any talent gap
 
huskymedic said:
Figure out a way to read this article that talks about the impact to the athletic department as a whole:

Should UConn abandon big-time college football? The question is a complex one to answer.

The article is a trial ballon.
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When you have a specific problem (having to fire someone doing a poor job), let’s not make it a philosophical conceptual issue because the hiring manager screwed up. There are people who can do the job and do it well. Of course, there are various headwinds. We don’t have high expectations but modest ones.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
I think a part of the retread Randy decision was Benedict didn’t want UConn to be a stepping stone job.
However, when you look at what Temple, UCF, Houston, Cincinnati have done cycling through coaches every few years it was a terrible reason.
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I think Cincy is the example I always think of. They have hit on almost every hire they have had to make. They have been a stepping stone job for years now and have been able to land solid hires to follow up a coach leaving. They didn't shy away from it and now they are a solid program heading to the Big 12. They won't be a stepping stone anymore, unless a big time program comes calling, not a middling P5 school.

UConn has always been afraid of being a stepping stone. PP and RE are prime examples. Diaco was a hope of success but that portion of this program should be wiped away....then again RE 2.0 might need to be as well.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
If you look at offer lists of UConn and Holy Cross there isn’t much if any talent gap
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Cant believe they have anywhere near the players with P5 offers. 5-6 DLinemen multiple LBs and at least 3 TEs catching passes yesterday...
 
The Huskies have had an opportunity to build a winner. Why not a Cincinnati?

Teams that have been in a slump can come roaring back.

Cincinnati in 2016 and 2017 were 4-7 both years...yet won 11 games in 2018 and 11 in 2019 and in 2020 went undefeated in conference and only lost by 3 to Georgia in the bowl game.

They hired Luke Fickel for 2017...and by 2018 were rolling. A historic turn around.
 
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Is this oversimplifying things? Hire the HC coach and increase his pay 50% with incentives.
Chief has been on the road, but the thing that was a big red flag in BL’s writeup was the lack of energy thing. First home game, that’s not a good sign. We already know about the coaching issues at multiple positions. A friend who went to the game text me the same thing. There just seems to be no energy or confidence.
 
Cincinnati's recruit class rankings...

2016....#75
2017....#63
2018....#47

2019....#89 (small class of 17)
2020....#39
 
SubbaBub said:
I don't think that is the case any longer. The BE will sustain the BB program up to and until the P4 take full control of the tournament. That may happen quickly, it may take a while, it may not happen at all but, our FB program will not be able to save us were that to occur and this is coming from a FB first fan.

If this is the permanent state of UConn FB then it should be shut down it won't help the university or it's other revenue sports which was the entire point of upgrading to D1.
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There is no question that basketball will suffer in the long term. The NBE is an edge case strong conference in a single sport competing against massively funded programs. It will never be better than a tough also ran. The theory is you can get by because they are inexpensive programs. It’s true but not when everything else is starved to death because there is no money. Let’s face it. The BoT effectively killed UConn sports beyond basketball.
 
Rugger36 said:
We are disgusting…I won’t be attending any games this season. There just isn’t anything else to say. This is coming from a former season ticket holder who started in 1999 and hung in there until the Pasqualoni era ended. I still went to 2-3 games a year. Not this year. I’ll keep my hoops and hockey tickets though.
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Gotta go see Yale game … it’s been a while
 
billybud said:
Cincinnati's recruit class rankings...

2016....#75
2017....#63
2018....#47

2019....#89 (small class of 17)
2020....#39
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They also have the benefit of being in a football hotbed of Southern Ohio, IN and Northern KY where there are some very good players. Not every kid makes the cut for Ohio State
We just don't have that local talent pool
 
Uconnalliance said:
Gotta go see Yale game … it’s been a while
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I couldn’t handle the embarrassment of losing to an Ivy League school in person. Which after yesterday is almost a given. I really wanted to believe things had changed. A convincing win yesterday would have partially convinced me of that. Oh well, one can dream.
 
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The players quit on Edsall. They do not believe. We need a PLAN for succession so the players have hope again.
 
We still have one advantage over the G5 - if you want maximum P5 exposure, you either go to a P5 team, Notre Dame, or UConn. Remains to be seen how much this matters.
 
BigTenFan said:
They also have the benefit of being in a football hotbed of Southern Ohio, IN and Northern KY where there are some very good players. Not every kid makes the cut for Ohio State
We just don't have that local talent pool
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How do you explain Boise State? Kansas State? Buffalo? Or SDSU?
 
Duncan Idaho said:
Cant believe they have anywhere near the players with P5 offers. 5-6 DLinemen multiple LBs and at least 3 TEs catching passes yesterday...
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Who cares about offers. The guy recruited Mensah at Assumption. They were a better team.
 
BlueandOG said:
The players quit on Edsall. They do not believe. We need a PLAN for succession so the players have hope again.
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Edsall talks a big game then has his "gun slinger" throwing 1 yd passes near the LOS hitting DL in their hands or helmets. The game plan doesn't exactly scream i have confidence in my guys. His conservative ass approach has neither won games, got fans excited, nor gotten his players to buy all in. That is 100 percent in him. It's the style he chose to implement as it gave them the "best chance to win". How has that worked out? Hope is not a plan.
 
I just don't see the benefit of RE coaching another game here.
A 56-3 loss to Purdue can be accomplished without him.
By letting him go now at least the few supporters left can at least pin their hopes on change coming for sure.
DB must have a list prepared already.
It's time.
 
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