Uconn is FBS in name only. Most FCS schools would stomp them. Edsall did the kid a favor. The school is a dump and their fans are clueless wannabes.
Randy Edsall dumps New Jersey Recruit .
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Uconn is FBS in name only. Most FCS schools would stomp them. Edsall did the kid a favor. The school is a dump and their fans are clueless wannabes.
We are one to talk, UConn was on par with Rutgers when we were good. In fact, Uconn went to a BCS game, we didn't. So let's not act like Uconn never beat us or give us good games. UConn probably would've beat us last year.
sadly - a 3.9 does not distinguish you at top tier schools - and does not assure you of getting an academic scholarship - because of the additional GPA value that Advanced Placement classes and Honors classes provide - there are kids graduating High School with 4.5 - 4.6 GPA's ... and he is probably past the deadline for submission for many scholarship & for application at some schools.
It can also be a favor to the player to let him know now rather than him getting no playing time, transferring and having to sit out a year. The flip side to this is that another player may have gotten a phone call offering him a scholly.
If it was done up front than how it was reported to have happened, then I have no problem with it. Not honoring a scholarship as a new coach is the same as a player decommiting from a new coach after they are hired. Both are very well in their rights to do that.
But not honoring 3 days after saying it's safe is a typical Edsall move. While in the long run it's probably better for this kid, it doesn't look that way at the time.
Edsall and UConn deserve each other.
UCONN would not have beaten us last year. It would have been a scoreless tie.
UConn would've ended up 1-11 with our schedule last year and RU would've been a bowl team with theirs.
what's really odd about this is that UConn and every other group of Five is now mathematically eliminated from the national championship race, so you'd think they might run their programs a bit differently than as if they're competing against Bama.
True, but we do know that he has a history of pulling crap like this MANY times before. So, given that, I am more inclined to believe the kid.
We would have won, no way Ucan't was better than New Mexico... and New Mexico went to a bowl game.
Uconn was never on par with us. After Schiano righted the ship from the Schea error in 2005 we went 6 - 3 against them. Ucon backed in to their BCS game with an 8 - 4 record after West Virginia got upset by Pitt. That Uconn performance in the Fiesta Bowl had a lot to do with the downfall of the Big East football conference.
It was the final nail in the coffin. The Power 5 was looking to downgrade the Big East after that game.
I think they were looking to do it for a while prior to that. That game just reinforced the negative perception. What made the old Big East great was the balance. Any team could beat any other in any given week. The rest of the CFB world took that to be a weakness.
yeah, cept for that season ending crapshow to win the BE outright... 1 Tim Brown game ending miracle from being 5-4 vs. them.
I know the family, and the kid is a class act.No doubt, the ugly side of the recruiting game.Here, a kid would tear up his ACL, and Greg would still honor his offer. When you read these stories, you realize Rutgers will take the high road, but it surely will be the long road.
He seems to have the Ivy League pedigree. Play at Cornell....study Business...get rich.
There was also a last second gift from Tres Moses. The record is the record.
RU is 22-11 all time vs uconn. That sounds about right.
Hm. My initial thought was that it was a dick move. And it might be.
But the timing of the assistant coach visiting on the 12th followed three days later with pulling the kid's scholarship makes me wonder if something occurred in that visit that turned the coaching staff off to the kid.
Or it could just be that it was a dick move.
But the timing of the assistant coach visiting on the 12th followed three days later with pulling the kid's scholarship makes me wonder if something occurred in that visit that turned the coaching staff off to the kid.
Or it could just be that it was a dick move.
You're either a Ucon fan or you live in Connecticut and have a soft spot for them. Either way you're dead wrong.
I have no problem with a new staff evaluating recruits who have committed to the previous staff and decide that they may not want player A or B, because it can work the other way when a new is brought in and the committed player or players de-commit for obvious reasons. But what appears to have happen here is that Edsall mislead and lied to this young man and that is more than horrible, it is unethical in my opinion.
I have no ties to UConn. You're saying they should drop football and they are an FCS team. I'm just saying other teams say the same about us. We arent' that much better than UConn. They were ranked 114, we were ranked 123. How can you talk about Uconn losing to Oklahama 48-20 when we lost to Michigan 78-0. Talk about living in a glass house. We got worked by Illinois for christ sake.
Agree. It's tough for the kid but Edsall was hired to win FB games and if he feels this kid won't help him achieve that goal he has every right to cut bait.
You don't think Connie would not have suffered the same fate as us vs. OSU, PSU, Michigan and Washington if the schedules were reversed? UConn was getting housed at home by ECU.
Yes - he certainly has the right to cut bait -
- but the aspect that is ethically & morally offensive & that is proof positive of Edsall's total lack of integrity - is that right after Edsell took over - he & his new operation - reached out to this kid on two separate occasions (phone call January 1st & in person January 12th) to reassure the kid that he was wanted - that all was good & his scholarship was secure ... Then January 15th - "meh- we don't want you"
Yes, it is Edsell's prerogative to be just as classless and disingenuous as his dark little heart desires
- - and it is the prerogative of the rest of the world to view him with contempt.
If Edsell had ANY question about whether he wanted to hang on to this kid - he never should have made those firm reassuring contacts - hey, if Edsell was not sure - he should have said we are assessing everything - we appreciate your support & we will have things sorted out shortly -
Go to Google news and type in UConn. The story is now getting national press - not good for Randy, who already has credibility issues.
https://news.google.com
https://news.google.com
Not after two assurances to the kid. That then let a sure scholarship offer go that was filled instantly by another kid.
http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news...cholarship-from-nj-recruit/#incart_river_home
It was on ESPN today. I think Ash should offer the kid even if it's just for political reasons. Rutgers would be the hero.
It was on ESPN today. I think Ash should offer the kid even if it's just for political reasons. Rutgers would be the hero.
would feel really bad for the kid if URI didn't offer, but him not accepting that offer right away makes it harder for me to think he got totally shafted.
Edsall seems to have made a move only a scumbag would make, but the waiting to see if he gets a better offer than the one URI gave him makes it hard to feel like Dickens doesn't have a place to land.
I feel he got screwed by Edsall, but it looks like he still feels he has a chance for a better option than URI and is willing to wait for a better offer.
Edsall seems to have made a move only a scumbag would make, but the waiting to see if he gets a better offer than the one URI gave him makes it hard to feel like Dickens doesn't have a place to land.
I feel he got screwed by Edsall, but it looks like he still feels he has a chance for a better option than URI and is willing to wait for a better offer.
SERIOUSLY?
you're saying that because he did not instantly & impulsively commit to this 48 hour old offer without even visiting - it makes it harder for you to think he got totally shafted?
It is great that he may have a possible option - but it would be good if it was some sort of a match - if it actually was a place where he wanted to go - a kid with a 3.9 GPA and strong credentials does deserve to try to find a good match - not simply grab whatever becomes available.
.....just think of the number of options that got burned because Edsell & Co lied to him twice in the past two weeks.
Honest to God, until I read Politi's/Finebaum's take on this story, I had no idea Edsall was back at UConn.
That gave me a good laugh.
Yet another indication the college football season/postseason is too damn long.
That gave me a good laugh.
Yet another indication the college football season/postseason is too damn long.
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