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Fishy said:
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.
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Was going to press "Like" but these quotes are so silly as to be absurd. This does not sound like a football head coach. This sounds like one of those corporate team-building retreat counselors.
 
Jimdish255 said:
Was going to press "Like" but these quotes are so silly as to be absurd. This does not sound like a football head coach. This sounds like one of those corporate team-building retreat counselors.
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''We would have liked to win more games, but not compromising the foundation that we've built and laid,'' Diaco said. ''It is strong. It is here to stay forever and we are putting and prepared to put layers on it.
 
upstater said:
You can't worry about the coach's contract here. You worry more about the perception of firing a coach after his first year. Who's going to take the job? You'll have to dip into 1-AA because a really good D1 coordinator isn't going to risk coming into a situation like this.

as for the contract, it is more than offset by the lack of interest and the empty seats. You lose as much money there, so it's a wash.
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If we have another year like this one we deserve a refund not a buyout.
 
John said:
''We would have liked to win more games, but not compromising the foundation that we've built and laid,'' Diaco said. ''It is strong. It is here to stay forever and we are putting and prepared to put layers on it.
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I hate this more than anything I've ever heard after the mediocrity we've been subjected to. How exactly would more winning have compromised this awesome foundation?
 
RMoore1999 said:
Yep, that was the general theme. Its bad enough for the players to still be thinking that way; its completely another for the HC to be incorporating that crutch into the last game speech of the year to his team. PP was obviously a train wreck, and I don't doubt the truth of the premise for a moment, but for the LEADER, to repeatedly verbalize that in the locker room, especially now, exhibits a sincere lack of accountability and judgment.

Who knows; maybe Max (or I) misunderstood the message...we can only hope.
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Get your point but not hearing the context makes it hard to judge. Hopefully it was a "put the past beyond and move on" type of transitioning comment. In my mind - Max gets some latitude because he's lived it... I'd be more concerned if the true frosh were the one's making the comments.
 
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I've come to a different conclusion. However, due to the many hurt feelings that would inevitably spring up and my newbie status, I'll refrain from enlightening all of you with it.
 
Fishy said:
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."
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I feel like emailing this to Warde Manuel. If I wake up from my fetal position sleep tonight I hope I remember to.
 
TJ Weist is small potatoes. Maybe he'll get a HC job at the FCS level and build his resume but until he does that he's not worth pining over like a heartbroken teenager.
 
Exit 4 said:
Quotes from the article "assets and liabilities" and "chain of custody" and "no one job is more important than the other?"
Holy F. This is wacky biz consulting speak - straight out of Dilbert.

I don't know. I'm beginning to think there is a real possibility Diaco is tossed.

These quotes are completely baffling. Its clear that Diaco places too much weight in "process" which can be unproductive and well, lead to 2 win seasons.

You need to be able to divide needs from wants and these quotes indicate he is confused as about this.
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"Activity without accomplishment." - John Wooden
 
junglehusky said:
TJ Weist is small potatoes. Maybe he'll get a HC job at the FCS level and build his resume but until he does that he's not worth pining over like a heartbroken teenager.
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That was me in September.

On December 6th? I'm offering to drive to his house and bring him to Storrs.
 
Fishy said:
That was me in September.

On December 6th? I'm offering to drive to his house and bring him to Storrs.
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Fuggin A yes. And roll down the windows, dude can take the cold.
Much better on field product those last 3 games than all 12 of season '14
 
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UCFBfan said:
They can't fire Diaco. That would be two straight years of lost recruiting classes. That alone would set this program back multiple years. There's no easy answer here but Diaco is gonna be here next season. I agree that he will have a very hot seat from game one and I wouldn't be shocked if he was fired mid season due to continued failure. However, it doesn't help make our already horribly perceived program attractive to any coach should we fire Diaco after one year.
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We need to replace Cummings and give the new OC control of the offense. We must pick a guy who can be interim or the next HC.

This is a tough spot. We cannot give Bob 3 years. For me his body of work and the crazy baths!t things he says sre grounds for dismissal. As stated above, you can't kill 2 recruiting classes, so we may need some major tweaks, but keep Bob and hope he learns.
 
I woke up hoping that BD knew he was in over his head and stepped down. Oh well.

If you have a head coach who looks back on a brutal season and says he is still working on laying the foundation for winning then you don't have a head coach.

If you have a head coach who still blames the old regime for a bad culture after he's had the team for nearly a year then you don't have a head coach.

Bob Diaco is a charlatan. When I hear talk of "processes" I hear Richie Kotite. You say that kind of stuff when you have lost control and don't know how to get it back. In football, if you want to develop a wining culture, YOU WIN GAMES. You do not sacrifice the concept of winning today so you can win tomorrow. You send your guys out thinking "Let's win this game!", not "Let's advance the process." The head coach sets the tone. His coaches and his players follow it. If the head coach is lost, so is everyone else. Make the change now. Find a head coach who has a burning desire to win games not develop processes.
 
When I heard his post game I assessed his speech pattern as a kid who was making up as he spoke because he knew what he wanted to say but didn't know how to say it. During the post-hire speech he nailed his message because he wrote it on the plane. Here, he basically wants to sound encouraging and positive but he lacks the spontaneity needed to win us over.

It's like he wants to say 'we sucked and will get better' but he ends up delivering a meandering patchwork of words that sounds very "uncoach-like".
 
It's just so different from the business world. There, if it's broken, you identify the problems, the solutions, the timeline. Then you execute. It works you get to stay. It does't, you move on.

You almost never hear anyone say I'm going to completely break it down, bottom line be damned.

This guy is scaring the hell out of me.
 
uconndogs said:
It's just so different from the business world. There, if it's broken, you identify the problems, the solutions, the timeline. Then you execute. It works you get to stay. It does't, you move on.

You almost never hear anyone say I'm going to completely break it down, bottom line be damned.

This guy is scaring the hell out of me.
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I'm no longer in the business world, but it seems quite different from a world where you hire your own staff, get about 6 months to plan and prepare, then 3 months to perform and show progress, then have a bunch of people say it's too soon to make any judgements about what we just saw.
 
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Chief00 said:
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.
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So these were my observation 2 years ago before it became consensus.
 
Chief00 said:
So these were my observation 2 years ago before it became consensus.
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You're just like Diaco. break your arm parting yourself on the back. Did you read the thread? we ALL knew we were effed.
 
Fun to read your old quotes but the reason to bump this thread is that it should be linked and sent to our AD's e-mail. Just in case he thinks this year was some kind of aberration.
 
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Stunning to read our disdain for the guy after season 1....and here we are two years later (three years in) with all the same observations.

He really doesn't know how to fix this...no clue at all.
 
UConnDan97 said:
I'm thinking exactly this ^^^.

Only a few days ago, I was saying that nobody was calling for Diaco to lose his job. I can safely say that the number of people calling for his job is at least 1 person and likely more. I would literally be ecstatic if we could buy him out now and hire TJ Weist, and I'm not kidding about that. He snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. Today was literally depressing to the point where I didn't even want to drink, because the liquor was too far away from where I was sitting. And I don't want to hear about talent. We have 100x more talent than the team that lined up across from us today, and we still couldn't beat them.

God, he makes me wish for Pasqualoni back, and that's saying something...
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I remember typing this as if it was yesterday. Hard to believe 2 years have gone by.

Boneyard rule #76: if you even lose MY support in year one, you probably don't deserve a year two...
 
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