TJ Weist...

[ZooCougar]

The odds of us getting any of the big name coaches iut there are low. I dont really think narduzzi or lembo really want to cone to uconn to turn the tram around. Just a hunch. It is going to cone down to an older coach who has been arou d like the ucla guy or nutt. Or go for so eone up and coming. Wr can have weist for less than a million a year most likely and can give him three years to see if it works out. Nelson is right a football program takes time to turn around. Even olearu lost a full season when he started. What is to lose by giving this guy three years?

This post is another reason why we aren't allowed to have nice things. Why don't you just opine for PGDL to come back?

 

[freescooter]

Weist is not getting the head coaching job. Period. Stop. I'm skeptical that he'll even be back, although Warde might have made a deal with him when he took the Interim job to guarantee him a spot next season in some capacity. Not unheard of even when a new guy cleans house that the athletic department keeps one guy. As far as turning the program around, I don't buy that it can't be done reasonably quickly. This team was incredibly poorly coached and poorly prepared sometimes. Running back the missed field goal, for example. It is amazing what good coaching can do. Is it going to compete for a national championship? No of course not. But 6-6 is not unattainable. Army, Stony Brook and Temple(probably )on the schedule and winnable. Add a few of the others and 6 isn't impossible. I'd add that a number of programs have had that level of turnaround.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

After the miserable stretch post PGDL......beating Temple, Rutgers, and Memphis should not put you in position to be the HC. I like the guy. Hope he does well wherever he is. But if we hire Weist, that means we missed out on our top 10 targets and we have all other kinds of problems other than winning football games.

 

[kemba]

No chance. Courtesy interview and that's it. I think he should be allowed back to be the WR coach, and I'd take him back as offensive coordinator if the new coach wants him, but that he shouldn't be forced down anybody's throat. Guy was put in an impossible situation and if we win the last 2 I'd even say he did a good job as the interim. Maybe he could end up being a successful head coach some day. But he's nowhere near as qualified as some of the coordinators we've been hearing about, or guys who have been successful head coaches at lower levels. He might be a really nice guy, might have great energy, the players might love him, and that stuff matters, but not enough to hire a guy who hasn't even proved he's a successful offensive coordinator at this level.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I am not a Weist proponent at all, but when you say "he is nowhere near as qualified as some of the coordinators we've been hearing about", I have to ask, WTF are you talking about? UCLA's offensive coordinator is more qualified than Weist? He took a bunch of Southern California talent, where there are exactly 2 P5 programs within about 300 miles of about 5% of the country's population, and somehow managed to score 10 points against Stanford and 14 against Oregon. Am I supposed to be impressed by that?

I want to see a coordinator that is either very innovative or has put up big numbers with subpar talent. I am not interested in the OC of one of the perennially most underachieving programs in the country.

 

[businesslawyer]

Weist has no chance at the job and whomever our next coach is will have no immediate baring on an invitation to a P5 conference.

Weist was put in a terrible situation and I would think he would have a chance at being retained as a WR coach. I would like to think that Foley and Hughes have a shot at staying on as well, but I doubt it.

This will be a house cleaning and a lot of players will be gone as well. Make no doubt about it, P duckked this thing bad.

Weist will not be head coach. Hughes will be gone -- too senior and too much of a threat to the new guy. I would think any new coach who isn't tied at the hip to an OL coach to bring with him would have to seriously consider Foley.

 

[huskymedic]

Weist will not be head coach. Hughes will be gone -- too senior and too much of a threat to the new guy. I would think any new coach who isn't tied at the hip to an OL coach to bring with him would have to seriously consider Foley.

Don't disagree at all and I wonder about Wholley being retained as well for first year.

 

[kemba]

I am not a Weist proponent at all, but when you say "he is nowhere near as qualified as some of the coordinators we've been hearing about", I have to ask, WTF are you talking about? UCLA's offensive coordinator is more qualified than Weist? He took a bunch of Southern California talent, where there are exactly 2 P5 programs within about 300 miles of about 5% of the country's population, and somehow managed to score 10 points against Stanford and 14 against Oregon. Am I supposed to be impressed by that?

I want to see a coordinator that is either very innovative or has put up big numbers with subpar talent. I am not interested in the OC of one of the perennially most underachieving programs in the country.

Mazzone isn't my first choice but ummm yes he's way more qualified in Weist. Regardless there's been a bunch of guys who have been mentioned as possibilities, I didn't say all of them are amazing choices, so I don't get the point of your little rant

 

[SonsOfNutmeg]

I really think Warde just wants to clean house. Period. Start rebuilding this program with his own guys and no leftovers from the Edsall era. That's why I also don't think in the end Ambrose will be a legitimate selection as HC. #1 has to be Narduzzi right now, the dude's got one of the hottest D's in college, sets the right tone, players love playing for him. What we need here at UConn.

 

[cheech63]

Nope. Need to hire someone completely divorced from this program at the moment. Someone who can recruit and someone who can generate offense. Kind of nice the other day to see some "real touchdowns" even if they only came against a crappy opponent. The positive . . . . that's the blueprint in today's college football. You outscore the opposition, you don't shut them down.

unless your Alabama

 

[TouchdownHusky]

unless your Alabama

When UConn - or about 95% of the Power 5 programs - recruit like Alabama does, then you can look down your nose at "The blueprint in today's college football. You outscore the opposition, you don't shut them down".

UConn can't out recruit Buffalo and you want them to go with a boring, out-of-date, approach to the game that will be totally unappealing to the kind of players the Huskies will need to compete effectively at this level.