UConnDan97
predicting undefeated seasons since 1983
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Dan come on. His last few teams at Syracuse sucked. He floated around the NFL as a coordinator with bad units. He stunk to holy hell at UConn. He got blown out with yet another staff and somehow ended up with a job as a position coach.
The defense was pretty good his first two years with players that were already here.
There isn't any gray here. He ran the program into the ground. That the players rose up to beat Maryland before losing to WMU is great and all but it happened in spite of him.
Again, you fail to understand what I wrote.
Nobody is arguing against the fact that he was a poor head coach. Even with his last few teams at Syracuse. Yes, as a head coach, he sucked.
What does that have to do with him being a positions coach??? The answer is, "Very little." And what little it had to do with him as a positions coach should be reflected both by the hire he made at DC and by the way that our defense performed as a whole throughout his years here. We sent far more people on the defensive side of the ball to the NFL than the offensive side during his years. I don't care who recruited them. They all improved. Each and every one of the players I mentioned improved (oh, and by the way, Smallwood was his recruit).
So in summary: poor head coach, good defensive guy...
EDIT: Smallwood was still Edsall's recruit, but played the majority of his career for PP.
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