There's no silver lining

[Exit 4]

I don't see Diaco coaching at UConn next season. It's not so much the record it's him.

You have inside scoop on that? It would be one hell of a thing for Warde to kill his 'signature hire' to borrow WestHartfordHusky's phrase.

 

[stephen Henry]

I don't see Diaco coaching at UConn next season. It's not so much the record it's him.

Hope you are right. Maybe we will get lucky and some struggling program in the P5 will be impressed enough with verbal gibberish and his rebuilding techniques and hire him away. Hopefully in that case, I doubt UCONN would try and enforce the buyout clause.

 

[Durks07]

You have inside scoop on that? It would be one hell of a thing for Warde to kill his 'signature hire' to borrow WestHartfordHusky's phrase.

Quite frankly, he does not. Never has. Never will. Don't engage him.

 

[noeynox]

Quite frankly, he does not. Never has. Never will. Don't engage him.

Quite frankly, how do you know that?

 

[Chief00]

Quite frankly, he does not. Never has. Never will. Don't engage him.

The reason won't be the scoreboard but of course that's almost always the true driver. No offense to anyone in that occupation - but he has a lot of the characteristics of a used car salesman. The BS will only take you so far if your cars are never like they were sold to be.

 

[Durks07]

The reason won't be the scoreboard but of course that's almost always the true driver. No offense to anyone in that occupation - but he has a lot of the characteristics of a used car salesman. The BS will only take you so far if your cars are never like they were sold to be.

The shtick is starting to wear thin, that much is unquestionable.

 

[Dove]

"Kick me out of the huddle will you?"

 

[RMoore1999]

Absolutely - on all counts.

You knew we had a complete dumpster fire right here.

Read those quotes and then find bourbon.

"The game plan is built by Mike Cummings and his staff all week so the offense goes to the game with a scripted plan then everyone has jobs to execute that plan," Diaco said. "For example, you're doing a speech and standing next to you is a sign language specialist. Is the sign language specialist doing the speech or are you doing the speech?

"Mike Cummings details out the game plan for the day and then he's giving jobs to his staff to accentuate assets and limit liabilities."

"He's a manager of a unit and the way we present that is that there are certain jobs that need to be done and he organizes and coordinates assets and liabilities to decide who should do the jobs," Diaco said. "From drawing cards, to writing scripts, to recruiting hand-written letters to marketing campaigns to video productions to running the copier and everywhere in between, and we also don't feel like any one job is more important than the other as it relates to calling the game."

So why was Cummings on the sideline?

"We need those four quarters of coaching," Diaco said. "We don't want to minimize those four quarters of coaching. We want to maximize those 3 ½ hours to get even more coaching done there. That's why I called him out of the [press] box and had him on the sideline."

We are so f---ed.

And according to DeLorenzo in WTIC's postgame interview, Diaco's postgame speech to the team continued to include references to the problems he inherited from the previous regime...

 

[Carl Spackler]

I can't believe we lost to SMU.

 

[uconnfan68]

I can't believe we ing lost to SMU.

They were better than we were. They looked like a coherent team for the most part. Spring will be interesting.

 

[Fishy]

Tom Mason quotes:

"I thought the momentum was going our way and I felt like we had the answers for them defensively. They weren't really throwing at all and once we got the run game shut down I felt pretty good..."

"We shifted the defense to wherever they were putting that wing. They did a good job of scheming us early on, but I changed our strategy and it was a lot better for us."

Translation:

"I took candy from a baby."

 

[whaler11]

Tom Mason quotes:

"I thought the momentum was going our way and I felt like we had the answers for them defensively. They weren't really throwing at all and once we got the run game shut down I felt pretty good..."

"We shifted the defense to wherever they were putting that wing. They did a good job of scheming us early on, but I changed our strategy and it was a lot better for us."

Translation:

"I took candy from a baby."

Thanks to SMU for being such a great partner today. We owe them a debt of gratitude.

 

[Carl Spackler]

I was very busy during the day today, with lots of stuff. I checked my phone throughout though. Was shocked, but not really so surprised at us being down 3-0. Then weirded, wondering what had happened to be at 6-6. Holy crap what fest of game. A while later 20-6 we were up. Good. Happy.

Checked back again after a long while on the phone. 27-20. Really?

I have no faith in Bob Diaco. Period. Lost it all. If it's going to be there, it's going to have to earned back, one week at a time, starting with Villanova in September, and given what I've seen through 2014, that won't be an easy task.

 

[Chief00]

Quite frankly, he does not. Never has. Never will. Don't engage him.

The reason won't be the scoreboard but of course that's almost always the true driver. No offense to anyone in that occupation - but he has a lot of the characteristics of a used car salesman. The BS will only take you so far if your cars are never like they were sold to be.

Tom Mason quotes:

"I thought the momentum was going our way and I felt like we had the answers for them defensively. They weren't really throwing at all and once we got the run game shut down I felt pretty good..."

"We shifted the defense to wherever they were putting that wing. They did a good job of scheming us early on, but I changed our strategy and it was a lot better for us."

Translation:

"I took candy from a baby."

Quite frankly, that's why we don't need the OC in the press box - stick with the pre game plan script play by play and don't counter any adjustments the other team makes. True all that is how you get to be 2-10.

 

[Stinger92860]

And according to DeLorenzo in WTIC's postgame interview, Diaco's postgame speech to the team continued to include references to the problems he inherited from the previous regime...

Maybe he can be fired. This is not going to end well for anyone.

 

[Durks07]

Thanks to SMU for being such a great partner today. We owe them a debt of gratitude.

They helped us grow and get better. We learned a lot from them today.

 

[stephen Henry]

And according to DeLorenzo in WTIC's postgame interview, Diaco's postgame speech to the team continued to include references to the problems he inherited from the previous regime...

Apparently HCBD is one of those rare coaches that considers a 3 game win streak a problem. If so he certainly delt with that one effectively. In any event the problems he inherited from the previous coaching regime will pale in comparsion to the problems the next head coach inherits from him.

 

[stephen Henry]

They helped us grow and get better. We learned a lot from them today.

I wonder why there was no talk of a rivalry game today?

 

[Durks07]

I wonder why there was no talk of a rivalry game today?

Rivalries lead to hurt feelings. Dont' want to risk it.

 

[CTMike]

Diaco seems like too nice a guy to make a hard call like changing his staff. And he's genuine in his belief that we showed improvement.

 

[06029]

Diaco seems like too nice a guy to make a hard call like changing his staff. And he's genuine in his belief that we showed improvement.

Positivity, love and process. Clearly, you do not love football and refuse to acknowledge how bad and Mal-nourished this team was.

 

[stephen Henry]

Diaco seems like too nice a guy to make a hard call like changing his staff. And he's genuine in his belief that we showed improvement.

That lack of desire to make changes in the staff seems like an all too familiar refrain from the HCPP era.

Diaco does appear to be a nice guy, and I don't think anyone questions that fact that he is earnest in his desire to build a winning program. Many of us are just questioning whether or not he as the ability and know how to actually do it. Nice guys may not be a good fit for head coaches. And while we did show improvement, especially in the offensive line there was either no improvement or actual regression in other aspects of the team development such as penalties and turnovers.

Four years of failure in both football and CR is beginning to make the fan base jaded.

 

[Vuce]

September 5th we play Villanova who is one of the top teams in FCS then Army on September 12th both at home. We could lose both then head to Missouri. 0-3 start and I think HCBD could be history. That's how tenuous his time here might be. I talked to a guy who was in Puerto Rico for the hoops tourney and Ward addressed some Uconn fans at an event. The guy told me he was kind of surprised that Manuel did not sound overly supportive of HCBD. I was at every home game this year and boy was it depressing. We looked as bad in game 12 as we did earlier in the season.

 

[huskymedic]

And according to DeLorenzo in WTIC's postgame interview, Diaco's postgame speech to the team continued to include references to the problems he inherited from the previous regime...

What exactly did DelLorenzo say in that vein? I was listening but admittedly may have missed it.

I've seen a few quotes from Max post-game:

>>"It's painful, a lot more painful for these seniors obviously to end like this," said junior running back Max DeLorenzo. "We could have won at least five, six games where we beat ourselves. That's what it comes down to. We still have a little bit of a losing attitude and culture on this team from the past. We have to fix that for the future."<<

>>"People don't see it because we're losing," running back Max DeLorenzo said. "We're playing young guys; there are times that we could have and maybe should have won some games but we didn't. We have gotten better throughout the year. This one hurts and it sucks that it's the last one.

"The scoreboard is what counts but it's a lot within us, the coaches, the players, the trainers and all that in our complex every day. It really is a different atmosphere. Coach Diaco has brought in a players-coach-type mentality and same with the other coaches. I feel like all of our relationships have grown and been great so there's definitely been a lot since he's been here, good improvements but bottom line is the games and winning the games and we haven't done that."<<

 

[RMoore1999]

Diaco seems like too nice a guy to make a hard call like changing his staff. And he's genuine in his belief that we showed improvement.

"And he's genuine in his belief that we showed improvement" = DELUSIONAL.