Edsall coming back to UCONN?
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He may have gotten that from my post here: https://rutgers.forums.rivals.com/threads/ot-bob-diacco-fired-from-uconn.116075/page-3#post-2542063
I'm pretty sure I saw something about it on ESPN's scroll during the 1st half of the holiday bowl.
http://www.metro.us/new-york/randy-...or-uconn-football-job/zsJplA---MlJ31SpaEW98Y/
Randy Edsall, Joe Moorhead, Greg Schiano favorites for UConn football job
" ... Edsall is seen as damaged goods across the college football landscape. He had just two winning seasons in five years at Maryland and went 22-34 overall."
real ringing endorsement ...
Randy Edsall, Joe Moorhead, Greg Schiano favorites for UConn football job
" ... Edsall is seen as damaged goods across the college football landscape. He had just two winning seasons in five years at Maryland and went 22-34 overall."
real ringing endorsement ...
Greg's ego would never allow him to take that job. A basketball school, no in-state talent in FB and in a bad conference.
If they're re-circulating old bEast coaches, clearly, only one choice:
BTW - am I the only person who finds the prospects of HCRE going BACK to Yuke-On hysterical?
Not his ego but brain, UConn is a career killer now and one more season at OSU will put him in line for better schools to make his return to the college HC ranks.
As for UConn hiring Edsall, they would have to eat a lot of pride showing just how desperate they are to get someone to take the job if they go after Randy the way he left them.
He used everything he could to his advantage:
- the clock
- very good D's filled with guys who had "chips" on their shoulders
- a QB in Dan-O who didn't make many mistakes let alone ones at important times; never asking "too much" from his O's
- solid ST's
- very good at taking advantage of opponent's mistakes
- one of the worst grass fields in the nation that, following or during rain, were even worse
- an atmosphere that, IMHO, led better opponents to play uninspired early in games (see: WVU/Pitt)
Edsall was a perfect fit for the UConn program as it was then. He would be little better than Diaco now. The only kinds of coaches that can win at a place like that are the ones that would never, ever go to a place like that.
The problem with AAC is it will be a step up conference. Do well there for 3 yrs and your getting a P5 job
The big problem for them is money. We were all making about $10mm per school from the Big East football TV deal, and the AAC is pulling in $2mm per school. Basically, the old CUSA contract. How can they even hire a decent coach with that kind of money?
No staying power. Hopefully Kill ends our OC streak. DO NOT want to see a new OC for at least 5 yrs...I'd like to see how we do with continuity
It's sad what happened to the old B1G East teams. I remember when UConn, South Florida and Cincinnati were good. Cincinnati went to a BCS game for christ sake.
The Big East was doomed and ruined by the CYO schools. They just held everything back and yet we all recognized that it was a solid BB conference. Unfortunately the BE was undermined by the AD at the BC who should burn in hell for what did and orchestrated. And yet in thea the end Rutgers will be better off in the B1G including not only athletically but equally important the academic consortiums and relationships involved.
I don't blame BC for being proactive about the Big East being a dysfunctional conference. They had the real risk of ending up where UConn is now.
What killed the Big East is the same thing that caused the eventual demise of the Big12, the inability to make trans-formative moves because certain factions in your conference are too comfortable with the status quo. In the Big 12 it was doing things like having a commissioner who came up with the idea of a conference cable network before everyone else getting shot down, deciding on West Va OR Louisville when you should have taken both + a 3rd team to solidify your conference, etc. In the BE it was finding out about disgruntled ACC football schools before the first raid and instead of grabbing them while you had the power, sitting by while your football strength ends up leaving because you care more about basketball.
So do I . Over achiever and his record at Maryland wasn't that bad at all. Bit of a raw deal.
And put the final nail in the Big East coffin when they got blown away 48 - 20 in front of about 1500 Ucon fans after backing in to a conference championship with an 8 - 4 record. After that game Randy Edsall didn't even accompany the team back to Storz choosing instead to fly to Maryland LOL.
It makes sense...he won there...given where they are now I don't see it as really a diss.
Can Rockin' Randy (who NEVER gets blown out, as per some here) beat Tulane, et al...why not
Can Rockin' Randy (who NEVER gets blown out, as per some here) beat Tulane, et al...why not
I am laughing so hard at this...as I've said before he was worse than Flood. Remember he lost to Flood, and had far more to work with than Flood ever did.
A big knock against Edsall at Maryland and UConn was his tendency to throw players under the bus. When the team won it was because of the superior game plan he came up with. When the team lost it was because the players failed to execute the superior game plan he came up with.
Spot on! although I would say there are two types of coaches that could win at a place like UConn. 1) A top Shelf coach like an urban meyer, Saban, etc. As you said, the kind of coach that will never go to a place like that. 2) The second type of coach is one who is a successful coach in a Div II program who wants to make the jump to Div I. There are a few outstanding coaches in the Div II Ranks who may want to make the jump to Div 1. The Big hurdle is recruiting. A Flagship coach will be able to recruit anywhere, a Make a name for himself coach is going to have a much tougher time but If they were able to turn the program around the recruiting would get easier but by then that coach will have moved on and up!
We'll they got him back. And now they are gonna rule northeast recruiting, while throwing players under a brutal bus.
Its official - Randy is returning to save the sinking ship:
http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn...uconn-football-coach-1229-20161228-story.html
http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn...uconn-football-coach-1229-20161228-story.html
Randy is 58 years old. He may not see a shot at a big program now. With about 7 to 10 years left in his career he may feel comfy at UConn where he can earn a 7 figure salary and not have crazy expectations. If he can go 2-2 OOC each year and then 5-3 in conference each year then he will have a long career.
As long as he respects the tradition and lore of the Civil CONFLict, I am ok with this.
the CYO schools didn't want to be part of a football dominant conference. So they made sure that they had a commissioner who would look out for their interests first.
What should have happened is that the football schools like Miami, Pitt, Boston College, WV, Rutgers, Syracuse and VT should have broken away and formed their own conference. add UConn, USF, and UCF and you have a viable conference.
What happened instead, was the big east football schools did nothing due to NCAA credits, whatever nonsense that was, which they ended giving up anyway.
Miami actually orchestrated the first big east exodus, and for good reason, they had trouble balancing their books in a season they won the National Championship, so they started investigating alternatives. When you have to cut diving programs which previously produced Olympic Champions, you know your AD is in trouble. opportunity knocked when the ACC made their offer. Miami took it because it would ensure their athletic department could run in the black. BC did the same and Syracuse was supposed to come along too, till the Va governor stepped in. So VT went to the ACC instead of Syracuse.
Years later Rutgers would pretty much undertake the same action to join the B1G. Nothing personal, just business.
