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1. None of these guys are good. Our best defender on one of the worst defenses in history. Let them all go! A bunch of players that couldn’t crack the lineup for a terrible team. Bye! Do we think another year of lifting weights and playing time getting destroyed by better athletes is somehow going to transform these guys. No!

2. The loss of these guys will force one of two things to happen. Edsall will need to use the portal and get some grad transfers. Something he has been reluctant to do, but many of us have been begging for. OR This will trigger another change in coaching which IS also a good thing.

Let this play out.
 
Milo65 said:
1. None of these guys are good. Our best defender on one of the worst defenses in history. Let them all go! A bunch of players that couldn’t crack the lineup for a terrible team. Bye! Do we think another year of lifting weights and playing time getting destroyed by better athletes is somehow going to transform these guys. No!

2. The loss of these guys will force one of two things to happen. Edsall will need to use the portal and get some grad transfers. Something he has been reluctant to do, but many of us have been begging for. OR This will trigger another change in coaching which IS also a good thing.

Let this play out.
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They are better than Freshmen
 
Bongo Fury said:
They are better than Freshmen
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Grad transfers are they only way he keeps his job. Saying these guys are better than freshmen is like saying a root canal is better than getting kicked in the jewels. Both suck.
 
Milo65 said:
1. None of these guys are good. Our best defender on one of the worst defenses in history. Let them all go! A bunch of players that couldn’t crack the lineup for a terrible team. Bye! Do we think another year of lifting weights and playing time getting destroyed by better athletes is somehow going to transform these guys. No!

2. The loss of these guys will force one of two things to happen. Edsall will need to use the portal and get some grad transfers. Something he has been reluctant to do, but many of us have been begging for. OR This will trigger another change in coaching which IS also a good thing.

Let this play out.
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For point 1, while some of these guys won't hurt and it makes sense they are leaving, some of them will hurt. "A bunch of players that couldn't crack the lineup" just isn't accurate for some of them.

For point 2, we could fire Edsall, or Edsall could make more use of the portal without all these transfers. Neither of those things should require losing these guys
 
Milo65 said:
Grad transfers are they only way he keeps his job. Saying these guys are better than freshmen is like saying a root canal is better than getting kicked in the jewels. Both suck.
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Give me a root canal any day.
 
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How hard did Diaco massage these guys egos? Jeez.. I'm sure Edsall isn't a blast to play for but I guess they don't want to win anytime soon either? Because if it were up to them Diaco would've been in what his 7th losing season? That would've been better I guess to them.. as long as the coach is 'cool' losing is acceptable.

*I know I'll get flamed for this but whatever
 
kemba said:
For point 1, while some of these guys won't hurt and it makes sense they are leaving, some of them will hurt. "A bunch of players that couldn't crack the lineup" just isn't accurate for some of them.

For point 2, we could fire Edsall, or Edsall could make more use of the portal without all these transfers. Neither of those things should require losing these guys
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You’re right on both, but I have little faith in Edsall. He’s still trying to use the late 90’s blue print to turn around this team. The problem is, unlike RE 1.0, players have much more mobility, UConn is not a BCS school, and much of Edsall’s philosophy doesn’t quite fit in with today’s modern player.

So, either Edsall needs to change, which is a good thing or he goes which is a good thing.

If everyone stays, nothing changes and we still don’t win.
 
TheDoggPound said:
How hard did Diaco massage these guys egos? Jeez.. I'm sure Edsall isn't a blast to play for but I guess they don't want to win anytime soon either? Because if it were up to them Diaco would've been in what his 7th losing season? That would've been better I guess to them.. as long as the coach is 'cool' losing is acceptable.

*I know I'll get flamed for this but whatever
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When was the last Bowl game? Winning season?
 
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The sweet spot would have been to have 5 RS juniors and 9 or so other kids leave this December in order to put us in a position to have 25 free slots for 2020 which is the max turnover we can have while maintaining an 85 man scholarship roster. Now we are on a path to have more departures than we can replace (although we arent quite there yet, a few short at this hour) which is supremely frustrating.

That said, the biggest loss here is Coyle who was an enigma (but physically capable of getting better), followed perhaps by Hubbard, DeGeorge and Leone who were all really second stringers on winning programs but would have been great depth guys for us in 2020. Its also very disappointing to see guys like D Williams and Donaldson leave, two guys that it seemed Edsall respected. Yes Donaldson did disappear as a WR, but he also got his scholarship from Edsall as a WO, not Diaco and did manage to get this pretty awesome second act as a kick off guy (that tackles!). For whatever reason Taj never really developed at CB (maybe he should have been a WR like in HS) while several of the other dudes never really could get snaps here which says what you need to know about them.

What I dont want to see is the next round of transfers. There are some underclassman (true Edsall recruits) that might depart before we get a chance to see there capabilities. I hope that doesn't happen.

Of all the dudes leaving, Coyle is the only one that should/could land P5. I think the rest are bottom FBS (UMass/other independents), FCS or even DII.
 
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Exit 4 said:
If you look at the prior year list it was extensive.... guess we have to wait for bowl season to end to have a better benchmark.
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Sure but someone just claimed they had 23 in the portal. Seems inaccurate.
 
noeynox said:
Sure but someone just claimed they had 23 in the portal. Seems inaccurate.
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Oh, totally with you on that. Whomever seems to be looking at prior year data....certainly not current data.
 
Spidey said:
When was the last Bowl game? Winning season?
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My point being, it seems like the Diaco guys would be happy if he were still coach even though he was lousy.. did they ever intend on winning anything? Seems like they were content with going 2-10 indefinitely as long as the coach was 'cool' and now that he's not 'cool' they have a problem with the 'culture'.. rubs me the wrong way even though I'm not ecstatic about Edsall either.
 
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Summer is a Diaco. homer

"I remember it like it was yesterday.. Dec. 26, 2016 they got my dawg up outta there "

#Atleast11
 
TheDoggPound said:
My point being, it seems like the Diaco guys would be happy if he were still coach even though he was lousy.. did they ever intend on winning anything? Seems like they were content with going 2-10 indefinitely as long as the coach was 'cool' and now that he's not 'cool' they have a problem with the 'culture'.. rubs me the wrong way even though I'm not ecstatic about Edsall either.
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I think getting out of dodge shows how much they want to win. That certainly wasn’t happening here.
 
businesslawyer said:
If you're going to take on the mob with reasonable facts, good luck. On a board where multiple posters had no problem deciding without any evidence whatsoever that a 20 year old basketball player was a criminal a few nights ago. (And, by the way, they didn't even find it relevant to apologize when it became clear he wasn't.)

Non-starters transfer to get on the field. Players who graduate transfer for whatever reason they feel like. Fire Edsall because he hasn't performed well enough -- his performance the last three years certainly hasn't been worthy of anyone defending him -- but if you're going to fire someone for players entering the portal without even knowing what the average is for different types of programs, let's just give up.
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Take those numbers with a mountain of salt... they appear to be VASTLY overstated.
 
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