Transfer portal - outbound

[RSTuthill]

Well, 5 recruiting classes actually means he gets three more years. Just sayin ....

What I am waiting for is not more portal entries but changes in the staff. I think that DB is gonna give Randy some help. Thus, to some extent, we are asking the wrong questions.

 

[huskysupporter]

Well, 5 recruiting classes actually means he gets three more years. Just sayin ....

What I am waiting for is not more portal entries but changes in the staff. I think that DB is gonna give Randy some help. Thus, to some extent, we are asking the wrong questions.

we all know HCRE has to go, even those defending him on here.

leaving the AAC for a basketball conference chasing the glory years was a slap in the face.

so what can we do now if we refuse to fire Edsall?

1. double the assistant salary pool
2. Lower academic standards for a percentage of the team.
3. Tell Edsall an offensive coordinator versed in modern offense is coming on board and he is not to interfere.
4. hire Mike Foley to be the O Line coach

 

[ktuck911]

i hear you, who cares if we are the worst team in FBS over those five years. No harm. Just want to make absolute certain the program is a dumpster fire.

Lol

 

[ktuck911]

The next coach, whenever that is will have it much easier because Randy is bringing in better players. I have no doubt that the roster was much better this past year. Some more good news today. Yes, I wish he did more with the guys he had. And yes, whatever was going on that caused all the transfers is not good, but the team is definitely trending up.

Looking forward to the thread that reads "Transfer Portal - Incoming"

 

[kris1]

He forgot to add....”because we can’t afford anyone better.”

 

[Husky68]

So you say you need 5 recruiting classes to truly evaluate HCRE2.0. If that is true, what are the 3 year bench marks on the way to the 5 year evaluation and how are well are they being meet?

 

[uconnbill]

But you're just posting on a message board also no?

Yes but I don't make it sound like I know what is going on with the team, unlike some who think they know it all. When an actually player says something, I tend to believe them over a fan.

 

[noeynox]

Yes but I don't make it sound like I know what is going on with the team, unlike some who think they know it all. When an actually player says something, I tend to believe them over a fan.

Who is an actual player? Rob Lunn? Jamar Summers?

I'm ready to move forward, but its a message board. People are unhappy with what this program has been the last 4 years, and this is where they discuss those frustrations.

 

[uconnbill]

Didn't even think about the Notre Dame post game speech. Was thinking how he was at Maryland and donated to the statue that sits in front of the scoreboard. How he was the guiding light after the tragedy and held everything together.

Eli Thomas couldn't play anymore and Randy kept his word by keeping him on scholarship. Team made him a captain. Happened many years ago with a Center he had recruited that couldn't play due to injury and Randy still kept him on scholarship.

We'll never know the truth about Sean Young because HIPPAA rules prevent the University to speak about it. If history is a teacher in this case, I will go with RE's track record over Sean Young's account every time.

By the way, Hoboken Husky, what should Randy have done in those circumstances since you didn't buy what he did?

You mean Joe Akers center from Maryland who had a narrowing of his spine and couldn't play. He had stalemated a five star defensive end in high school and was considered a huge steal. Sad he could never play but did help with the program as a student coach.

 

[Slick]

we all know HCRE has to go, even those defending him on here.

leaving the AAC for a basketball conference chasing the glory years was a slap in the face.

so what can we do now if we refuse to fire Edsall?

1. double the assistant salary pool
2. Lower academic standards for a percentage of the team.
3. Tell Edsall an offensive coordinator versed in modern offense is coming on board and he is not to interfere.
4. hire Mike Foley to be the O Line coach

Is foley still retired?

 

[huskymedic]

Amid transfers and ex-player criticism, UConn athletic director David Benedict voices support for Randy Edsall (Putterman)

 

[UConnDan97]

Amid transfers and ex-player criticism, UConn athletic director David Benedict voices support for Randy Edsall (Putterman)

Lots of goodies in there:

1) Benedict asking questions about why the kids are transferring (although stating full support for Edsall in the process).

2) UConn anticipating 16 - 17 new recruits will sign by the end of the recruiting period.

3) Linear tv deal still being worked on, and SNY looks to be a possible (if not likely, in my view) partner.

Hopefully the future gets brighter than the present...

 

[BNich]

Lots of goodies in there:

Hopefully the future gets brighter than the present...

Amen to that!!

 

[BNich]

Amid transfers and ex-player criticism, UConn athletic director David Benedict voices support for Randy Edsall (Putterman)

This makes me think the state is hopeful of some transfers coming in if they only expect to sign 16-17 by the end of the signing period. Or is he referring just to the early signing period. Dec 18th?

 

[huskymedic]

This makes me think the state is hopeful of some transfers coming in if they only expect to sign 16-17 by the end of the signing period. Or is he referring just to the early signing period. Dec 18th?

>>Benedict said UConn was expecting to announce “16 or 17” commitments Dec. 18. on National Signing Day.<<

 

[Northbound]

So you say you need 5 recruiting classes to truly evaluate HCRE2.0. If that is true, what are the 3 year bench marks on the way to the 5 year evaluation and how are well are they being meet?

Don't ask that question because there are no answers. There should be stated way points from where the program started to where the ultimate destination is - there don't seem to be any it's absurd or at least any that the fan base can say "we hit that mark or we missed that mark".

We're getting better and have faith aren't lines that are fed to the fans of serious football programs. This tells you all that you need to know how the University views the program and the program's fans.

 

[BNich]

A year ago everyone blamed Crocker. This year, no one blames Spanos?

 

[bmayuc]

You guys are all lunatics. Benedict is 100% right for three reasons -

1. Football is not a priority. We switched conferences(checks watch) like 2 months ago to save our basketball teams, and the tradeoff was that this action may very well mean foreclosing our football program from success. And we were happy to do it. As far as UConn Football is concerned, the BOT and AD and new Prez were like:

2. Football has no money. This is related to #1 but is really important. Edsall is an actual bargain for a department with no money, and honestly, if they fire a 3rd consecutive coach 3 years into their tenure as they transition into D1A independence, there are literally no coaches that will want that job. None. So your choice to replace Edsall is to overpay some marginal prospect coach to start ALL OVER. Again.

3. He's actually just plain right about college football. This aint college hoops, and our cupboard wasn't just empty, but that thing had like black mold in there too. Particularly because we need to recruit underdeveloped diamonds in the rough types(this was the Edsall 1.0 model as well), it will legit take 4-5 years to cycle out the Diaco roster damage and cycle in and develop RE recruits, until you can even see if its working or not.

So, although we hate the fact that our team has been dumpster-fire bad for a decade, this is definitely the right thing to do for the football team, the athletic department, etc.

Also, a couple notes about the transfers since that is the latest thing to bring the guillotine back into favor this week.

1. Lots of bad NCAA football teams lose really good players that have lots of different aspirations. Some (eddie Hahn, Gilmartin? Carroll? Holmes?) will probably transfer down a level and play at FCS. I'd rather get 55 snaps a game at **fill in random 1AA school here** then 5 snaps for another 2-3 win 1A team.

2. Coyle and Leone will probably be picked up as grad transfers just like we will probably pick up 2-3 grad transfers. It Happens. It sucks to lose them, but they weren't taking us to the promised land next year. Happy for them, and now we need to plug some holes.

3. As far as roster impact, in summary the only concern today that I didn't have last week is figuring out our OL. I don't know about any of the Redshirt kids obviously, but looks like we have 2 or three pieces and need to hit the grad transfer and Juco market. I'm not worried about herring-wilson and carroll. We have lots of young DBs with upside. LBs we lost were marginal, no impact there.

 

[Buffett10]

A year ago everyone blamed Crocker. This year, no one blames Spanos?

Nope cause delusional fans think the defense got marginally better because of Spanos and not because the players were a yr older and stronger/faster.

 

[BlueDogs]

Benedict is a giant DB with no regard for fans who keep shoveling good money season over season. He doesn’t care because the admin doesn’t care, and Edsall doesn’t care because the DB just gave a free pass. Bottom line everybody is going through the motions. There is zero sense of urgency or desire to improve this continuing sheet show. Pathetic.

 

[Pudge]

Benedict is a giant DB with no regard for fans who keep shoveling good money season over season. He doesn’t care because the admin doesn’t care, and Edsall doesn’t care because the DB just gave a free pass. Bottom line everybody is going through the motions. There is zero sense of urgency or desire to improve this continuing sheet show. Pathetic.

Once again. dog. At 2am

 

[BNich]

Benedict is a giant DB with no regard for fans who keep shoveling good money season over season. He doesn’t care because the admin doesn’t care, and Edsall doesn’t care because the DB just gave a free pass. Bottom line everybody is going through the motions. There is zero sense of urgency or desire to improve this continuing sheet show. Pathetic.

So what do you suggest be done? What would show urgency in your eyes? Staff turnover AGAIN?

 

[Brochacho]

Nope cause delusional fans think the defense got marginally better because of Spanos and not because the players were a yr older and stronger/faster.

"Marginal" lol what a clown. UConn allowed 19.6% fewer points this year and 24.4% fewer yards per game this year than last year. The defense got 10 points and 150 yards a game better because freshmen are now sophomores and NOTHING to do with Spanos. Yeah right.

 

[huskymedic]

it’s like someone @ Hearst told Jacobs to write something:

Jacobs: Benedict believes Randy Edsall is “right guy” to lead UConn football:

 

[Palatine]

"Marginal" lol what a clown. UConn allowed 19.6% fewer points this year and 24.4% fewer yards per game this year than last year. The defense got 10 points and 150 yards a game better because freshmen are now sophomores and NOTHING to do with Spanos. Yeah right.

That like the temperature at he South Pole going from minus 40 to minus 30. It makes very little difference.

 

[UConnJim]

It is going to be very hard for kids to find P5 schools or top G5 schools to transfer to. If you have immediate eligibility, that seems to help, but if you don't, you will need top level talent for a school to give you a scholarship and let you sit for a year.

Right now, there are 421 kids in the transfer portal although some have already committed to schools. (Some back to the same school.) Plus, we will see more entries as the bowl season comes to a close. Last year, the P5 took 219 kids with the vast majority being P5 to P5 transfers.

 

[Brochacho]

That like the temperature at he South Pole going from minus 40 to minus 30. It makes very little difference.

So... what did you expect? Spanos to show up at turn the worst defense in the history of college football into a top 25 unit?

 

[HuskyHawk]

Lots of goodies in there:

1) Benedict asking questions about why the kids are transferring (although stating full support for Edsall in the process).

2) UConn anticipating 16 - 17 new recruits will sign by the end of the recruiting period.

3) Linear tv deal still being worked on, and SNY looks to be a possible (if not likely, in my view) partner.

Hopefully the future gets brighter than the present...

The real challenge is that Randy keeps talking about how you can't win with freshmen or sophomores. They we lose a bunch of players to transfers, and the solution is "hey we have a big recruiting class coming in". That's a ticket to relying on players the coach says you can't rely upon.

If Randy doesn't focus most of his energy right now on getting transfers in and JUCOs, he's not competent. It's as simple as that.

Meanwhile Benedict needs to do what he did to Bobby D, tell him he's getting an offensive coordinator and has to listen to him.

 

[RSTuthill]

"Marginal" lol what a clown. UConn allowed 19.6% fewer points this year and 24.4% fewer yards per game this year than last year. The defense got 10 points and 150 yards a game better because freshmen are now sophomores and NOTHING to do with Spanos. Yeah right.

Actually unknowable by the rank and file fan. And an argument can be made that this is a distinction without a difference since they were so gawd awful last year. But we could definitely spend a few months analyzing the hypothesis....

 

[UConnJim]

One thing that hasn't been discussed is how big the recruiting class would have been if there was no roster turnover. It appears UConn lost only 5 players who used up their eligibility this year: Thompkins, Peart, Thomas, Brown, and O'Reilly. I think there may have been 5 empty roster spots (I could be off here by 1 or 2), so you were looking at a recruiting class of 10 without roster turnover. A 10 person recruiting class, which includes grad transfers would not be appropriate as we know that UConn needs to improve the roster talent given the performance over the past few years. I would have expected UConn to target a recruiting class plus grad transfers of close to 25 players.

Six 4th year juniors announced their intention to leave on senior day, which would have brought the class size to 16. Thus, it was clear some attrition would happen. I would think a few of the kids leaving were players that UConn did not want to lose, but most were not projected to be starters.

Most of the players leaving are from the class of 2016, Diaco's last class. They have experienced a difficult 4 years on the field and now they are seeing their friends move on. It must be difficult and some players that would have played a significant role in 2020 have decided to move on as well.