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06029 said:
So then BC earned it when Flutie won the Heisman, or Matt Ryan was drafted #2 by the Falcons, or when they upset VT on the road or beat ND 6 straight times. That is your logic, right? How about when Pitt when to the Fiesta Bowl? That was earning it? Or Louisville going to and winning BCS bowl games? Thanks . . . for making my point. These programs are all in Power 5 conferences (or soon will be). THEREFORE . . . if that's a tried and true formula (and you just claim it to be so), then UConn should be in, period.

What earned these schools conference invites was somebody's very detailed and likely factually based study that showed team X provided more incremental revenue to the conference than team U. I'm sure they had full access to every possible TV rating/demographic slice they wanted and they relied on that way more than anything else. BC football is an after thought in a professional sports town that considers college ice hockey to be a bigger sport than football. So unless by "more incremental revenue to the conference" you really mean they make money off televisions not tuned in to BC football then that's a bullship piece of illogic. So continue to be in the victim mentality and blame everyone else because that will work real well. Hiring Petrino, since he probably blames his problems on everyone else, would fit your perspective really well.
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But I'll agree with you on two points: 1.) UConn has been a victim and 2.) there are lots of parties to blame at the ACC, BiG and television end.
 
WingU-Conn said:
We won a lot of games under Edsall and all you did was bitch and moan about how the games weren't exciting enough, and that we can't recruit QBs and WRs if we don't throw the ball.

Statistically, we have the best passing offense we've had since Dan Orlovsky and we haven't won a game. We're throwing the ball more, doing it more successfully, and we haven't won a game. Love the passing, however, didn't count on zero running game, an O-line that can't protect the QB, a defense that is as poor as any at UConn in the past 11 seasons. Oh, and can't get a punt return or maybe run a kick out beyond the 18 yard line?

You actually said you want a defense that gives up lots of points. Every season you get a little bit crazier, even by boneyard standards. Speaking of crazy . . . how crazy are you to not have figured out that having a defense that gives up a "lot of points" would require an offense that score a whole lot of points?[/quote]

You do understand those facts, right? What I didn't count on was them firing a boring offensive coach who had trouble recruiting a better level of talent and replacing him with a geriatric, past-prime, conservative, boring offensive coach who didn't recruit much better.
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What genius actually says he wants a defense that gives up a lot of points? I hope you don't really think people take what you post seriously.

I want to win. I'm happy winning 17-10, or 47-42. We should be trying to field the best offense and the best defense. Only on the internet does someone actually think he's making a good point by saying let's suck at defense and be really good on offense.
 
Three months from now Manuel and Herbst will hire some upbeat young coach who will take the then 2-10 Huskies to a 4-8 season. Then people will say its an improvement and he's back for another year. Next thing you know we're back at another coaching change. And then we'll be stuck in this godforsaken conference for the next 30 eons.

We need to win not 2 years from now, not 3. We can't have a rebuilding year. We need to win starting now. And if anyone, including Petrino, can do that, sign em' up.
 
I am all for a win at all cost, rules what rules, approach to winning FB and have no problem hiring a scoundrel.

I do demand he be good at it, as in not get tripped up or caught doing stupid things. For that reason Petrino is out.
 
CTBasketball said:
Three months from now Manuel and Herbst will hire some upbeat young coach who will take the then 2-10 Huskies to a 4-8 season. Then people will say its an improvement and he's back for another year. Next thing you know we're back at another coaching change. And then we'll be stuck in this godforsaken conference for the next 30 eons.

We need to win not 2 years from now, not 3. We can't have a rebuilding year. We need to win starting now. And if anyone, including Petrino, can do that, sign em' up.
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Can I get an amen!! Correct and on target.
 
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WingU-Conn said:
What genius actually says he wants a defense that gives up a lot of points? I hope you don't really think people take what you post seriously.

I want to win. I'm happy winning 17-10, or 47-42. We should be trying to field the best offense and the best defense. Only on the internet does someone actually think he's making a good point by saying let's suck at defense and be really good on offense.
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Newsflash Wing . . . . . UConn is 0-6, definitely not winning. However there are a whole bunch of teams that are winning by scores that approximate 47-42. I want to win too, but unlike you (or so it seems), I want UConn to starting acting like those schools. Offense, offense, offence. I'll take a defense that gives up 42 points any day of the week that has my team scoring 43 points or better.
 
I think Petrino MIGHT get an interview or call, but that's as far as it would go.
 
He has too many character issues. Period. If you think that won't be a factor in the hire, it's simply naive.
 
SonsOfNutmeg said:
I think Petrino MIGHT get an interview or call, but that's as far as it would go.
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Doubtful. Why would you call someone you are positive you will not hire? How do I know UConn will not hire him? Among other things, he just signed a 4 year deal where he has to pay WKU $1.2 Mil if he leaves for any reason of his own doing. The obtaining institution typically pays these buyouts and UConn would have buyout fees (i.e. dead money) approaching $2 Mil for 2013/2014. I'm almost positive that is not what Mr. Manuel meant when he said that the purse strings wouldn't be tied for the next coach.
 
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