Listent, this is simple. You people are all afraid that moving Coach Foley to TE and OT responsibility and putting Deleone in on the interior OL is going to make the offense in 2012 worse than it was in 2011, and/or moving coach foley is going to somehow motivate him to search elsewhere for job opportunities.
I'm afraid of neither situation.
I think our offense is going to be better in 2012, than it was in 2012, and this coachign move only strenghtens my view that will. I think that if Coach Foley, hasn't been actively involved in monitoring the job circuit, since at least January 2, 2011, he'd be a fool. I know he's not a fool, so to think he's going to be any more or less in tune with job opportunities other than UConn, because of this, is foolish.
I also know that by diversifying a resume, you strengthen it, so if he does have desires to be an OC or HC again, especially at this level of football, rather than going back to Ivy, he's only going to make that possibility come closer by doing a good job with the TE's. I also know that it's not unusual to divide up coaching responsibilities such that you've got one coach on the interior OL, and another coach on OT's and TE's.
I also know that Coach Foley has had run dominated offensive systems to work with for his entire career at UConn, and the way that you get people out of rut and growing, is to challenge them to do new and better things.
As for sack numbers, yup, we gave up way more in 2011 than we did in 2010. Yup, we did, with an offense that was you know, actually designed to throw the ball....., and send out multiple route options, rather than max protect with 2 or 3 routes maximum.......
I think i'll pack up my canned speeches for a while.