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Alum86 said:
There was a statement issued by him directly after the report of firing. "Thanking UConn for the opportunity.....niceties, etc "
It was fine. Boilerplate, probably had it in the holster at the ready.

Chin is right about the lazy CT press corp and their moving on without contacting BD wherever he is.
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Stairmaster said:
I chatted with a member of the Courant staff about Diaco the other day, and they were very clear about how livid he was with the local media over the past few months. I don't think he's talking to anyone here ever again.
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31GuardTrap said:
Thin skinned.
The local media is small time compared to that of big time media.
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You guys are saying it better than me.

My point was that when a coach gets fired he usually has at least one friendly reporter he can give an interview and start the rehab project, OR, at least one reporter knows they can get the juicy first scoop on the fired coach's perspective.

In this case, it literally wasn't worth the effort by anyone to reach out to him. Good or bad.

Indifference. A fitting end to Diaco's time. Just go away.
 
He's in Florida. He got fired over the phone. THE END!

He doesn't have to say anyhing.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
Oh please. It comes with the job. If Diaco doesn't want people taking potshots at his miserable job performance he should go work in a cubicle farm where he won't see anything near a $3.4 million severance package.
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I didn't say anything about what to expect from the job, just about folks like you who seem to have the need to pile on.

Carry on..........................
 
He is slinking away which is his best move. Nothing good can come from opening his mouth. He failed spectacularly. He's a con job and I doubt he would have anything useful to say.
 
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Coach, I'm sorry things didnt work out better for you, Why couldn't you have just concentrated on, and figured out, how to put points on the scoreboard. Give it time, howevrt, and you won't look so bad after this latest administration blunder. Your sucessor knows little about offense eitber.
 
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Butch said:
Before the OC posting, Benedict knew very well he was incompetent and was aware of the damage he was inflicting on the program.
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I would hope so, or else Benedict needs to get his skull examined as well. If nothing else, this week showed that Benedict is rather Machiavellian
 
Stairmaster said:
I chatted with a member of the Courant staff about Diaco the other day, and they were very clear about how livid he was with the local media over the past few months. I don't think he's talking to anyone here ever again.
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How could he possibly be? I thought he told us all he was "spectacularly insulated" from all of the negative press content and fandom critics. He should be like this guy:

 
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I don't see how the buyout was negotiated downward given the over the phone firing, the day after Christmas timing and the revelation in the press by 10:30 that same day.
 
In retrospective, Diaco really wasn't "liked" and was a loose cannon. The national media I've heard since the firing and Edsall hire have been pretty harsh on Diaco to say the least. I think he thought he was coaching in the Big Ten, not the American, and with a sub-.500 team at best. I'll admit I was one of the biggest Diaco guys on here, and was up until the very end. But its clear now, the guy was so in over his head it almost had to come down to this. Benedict made the right more, and given the situation- I think Randy may have been the best (or only) option we even had here.
 
I think the timing was terrible. No one wants to get news they lost their job at this time of the year. I acknowledge it was probably the only decision and he was a failure. But that's still terrible news to get on the day after Christmas.
 
businesslawyer said:
You'll hear it when he lands his new job and someone asks him. But he failed miserably here, and he knows it. No one but a potential employer and a UConn fan really cares why.
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I agree with most of your posts in this thread but I question if Diaco has the self awareness to realize he failed miserably? If reports are true that the tipping point was his inability to take coaching himself on making changes - then I don't think he believes he failed.
 
DoctorWho85 said:
I think the timing was terrible. No one wants to get news they lost their job at this time of the year. I acknowledge it was probably the only decision and he was a failure. But that's still terrible news to get on the day after Christmas.
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100% his fault.

When you walk away with 3 million after going 8-24 against the FBS in the frigging American..

He thought he had the leverage. He didn't. I love Benedict.
 
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whaler11 said:
100% his fault.

When you walk away with 3 million after going 8-24 against the FBS in the frigging American..

He thought he had the leverage. He didn't. I love Benedict.
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I totally agree. It looks like he opened his mouth and continued down the path of square peg round hole. Even with the money, I'm just saying sucks losing your job during the holidays. I just wish DB forced the issues sooner.
 
DoctorWho85 said:
I totally agree. It looks like he opened his mouth and continued down the path of square peg round hole. Even with the money, I'm just saying sucks losing your job during the holidays. I just wish DB forced the issues sooner.
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That's my point. DB set the Kill trap and Diaco stepped in it. The timing is Diaco's fault.
 
The guy is so arrogant, egotistical and delusional that he thought he was "spectacularly insulated" from getting the rug pulled out from under him. He obviously misread the fact that buyout money was just a phone call or two away. His public comments at season's end proved he had no clue what position he was in, or he was in total denial. Then he arrogantly refused to go along with the Kill hire, sealing his own fate.

While my first inclination was to think the administration deliberately timed it the way they did for effect, thinking about it now, whether they did or they didn't, my thought is if they really did he deserved every bit of it.

The guy has some serious psychological issues to sort out. Hopefully he'll do something about it someday. Thankfully that's going to be somebody else's problem.
 
DoctorWho85 said:
I think the timing was terrible. No one wants to get news they lost their job at this time of the year. I acknowledge it was probably the only decision and he was a failure. But that's still terrible news to get on the day after Christmas.
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Football coaches don't get fired in August -- they get fired in December. I don't think the search for the OC had anything to do with this. I think DB would have fired him the day after the season but he didn't have the money to do it or the authority to do it without the money, and he fired him as soon as he had raised the money. Given recruiting reopens on 1/12 (I think), had he not raised the money for another 10 days he would have been stuck with diaco for another year.

But he can't say "I fired him as soon as I raised the money" because it makes us look small time.
 
whaler11 said:
There is plenty of evidence that Diaco isn't as great a guy as many people claim.

Plenty.
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YES. Unfortunately, this is now coming out ... in leaks here and there. He apparently wasn't nice amongst other UConn coaches; and given the lack of years in his HC career, that is amazing. UConn - for all purposes - has lifers in their roles in Stevens and Tsantiris and Reid and Auriemma and Daley etc etc. It was interesting that the Diaco family put $250k to the facilities and then you hear these things.

then ... the media. We have a bunch of squeaky wheels. They squeal some when they cover the Team; Calhoun often was a target. But ... they have a sense of entitlement that they hide because they are needy and can't get cut off.
 
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