What I want to know is . . . How is Rich Rod good enough for Arizona to hire, but UConn (the fans anyway) seemed to thumb their noses at him. We needed a Rich Rod or a Mike Leach once Randy left for TerpTown . . . not Paul PasqualoZZzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!
I'm so tired of this kind of garbage. It shows so little understanding of what a football program is about thatit makes me ill. I'm singling this out, because it's just the latest garbage I"ve read about it.
The guy is a majorly successful college head coach, not one year, not a couple of mediocre years. A consistently successful HEAD COACH!!! Most of you haven't seen one before, unless you go back before 1998.
We can't be a top 25 program. IF our head coach is of the mold of constantly coaching up players and buried in the minutiae of running a football program. Running a D-1 footbal program with over 100 athletes in your charge, over 80 of which you are also responsible for making sure they are getting an education, and managing all the staff and meetings and organization and planning is no frigging joke.
The other thing a head coach needs to do is be able to frigging recruit. Pasqualoni is the best possible hire that this program could have gotten in that respect. THe guy knows EVERYBODY in the northeast. He successfully recruited for football in the northeast for decades.
WE are frigging lucky to have a coach like this to be able to crank up the level of athlete we're putting on the field for UConn, if only for a few years.
Because the bottom line, is that if we're going to continue to rise, the level of athlete on the field needs to improve.
I'm tired of tippy toeing around it, because I know there are people that read and write around here with personal connections to athletes. But if you don't have tough enough skin to realize that all athletes are not created equal, then I"m not sure what to say. EVery parent that has watched long enough, ad every athlete that has been on the field knows what I'mtalking about. You want to see kids succeed, but sometimes they're not the best athlete on the field. And there are 120 d-1 prorams, 85 scholarships apiece, do the math, in a country of 300+ million people.
THe legacy he will leave, is in training younger guys in knowing the territory, knowing the people, knowing the culture and showing them how to get the job done to build a program in the northeast - a TOP 25 program.
Rich Rod? I wasnt' against going after that guy, because he can recruit too.
Recruiting.
We've got a game against Rutgers on Saturday, and the players, I hope realize how special this opportunity is, a senior day, for division 1-A football program, and go out and kick ass.
Pasqualoni is not a tactician, he's not an x's and o's guy, he's not a guy that's all about developing players. HE's got people all around him, and is building an organization for that.
Pasqualoni is a head coach, and his job is to manage the organization properly, make sure it's humming, and go out and recruit.
I'm so tired of small time thinking. Anybody that can't see what's going on with this program right now, open your frigging eyes.
We built to a plateau up through 2010, we're laying bricks right now to build higher, and in the meantime, we've managed to go 4-6 with a shot, long shot, at still a post season.
Players play. Coaches coach. Ugg, so tired of the nonsense.
If pasqualoni chokes at takign the talent level of this program several notches up over the next few years, then he failed in his job. If the offense nd defensive and special teams coaches can't put the players in position to succeed, then they've failed at their jobs.
I don't see anything failing yet. WHen you run a system that's meant to take advantage of every possible thing you can do on the field, you run your system.
all right, done venting. So tired though, of seeing crap like that.
