gibhunter

You will always find some dumb and jealous people out there. The guy created something out of nothing here. The football program will for the first time in history make money for the school. About 3mill net. IF UConn was a losing team, there would be no sell-outs. There would be no interest from the media and we would be another Temple. Edsall built this program from nothing and he deserves everything he gets. Besides, there are 150 new faculty being hired as I write this so it isn't like the school doesn't care about academics. Ps. With the 150 new faculty, class size will go down from about 19 students per teacher to about 17. Pretty **** impressive if you ask me.

Once USF gets into the Big East, it would be smart to hire Bobby Gonzales from Manhattan. Maybe then, we'll be able to say in 20 years that it got lucky too.

Not quite true. Coach Calhoun was the head coach at NorthEastern. A mid-major program. Our AD at the time was looking for a coaching replacement as local papers were grumbling about bowing out of Big East which was too tough at the time when they got an unprecedented and never repeated 3 teams to the final four. Northeastern came in the mid-80s to a UConn hosted small time, 4-team tourney and basically wiped the floor with us. Our AD was so impressed with young coach Calhoun, that he lured him away from Northeastern in the offseason. Calhoun's first year was sub .500 season. In fact, UConn only won 9 games. That was Connecticuts last sub .500 season. Two years later, UConn won the NIT championship. The next year was the dream season where UConn, the Big East Champion, lost on a last second shot by Christian Laetner in the Elite 8. The rest, as they say is history. So, again, Jim Calhoun may have been a small timer, but he was certainly not an unknown. You could say that he was kind of like Bobby Gonzales of Manhattan or the coach of Nevada that got a job at Stanford after last year's tourney run.

In what sport? Track and Field? I know you're not talking about football. Ah, must be basketball. Either way, welcome to the Big East. We hope USF is the school everyone talks about when mentioning football powers from Florida.