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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 1014325, member: 652"]
Recruiting 13 scholarship players is a lot different than recruiting 85 scholarship players.

Diaco may be a decent coach, but Kelly wasn't getting the same athletes at Cincinnati that he is getting at Notre Dame. Kelly at Cincinnati recruited offensive talent and outscored teams with a dominant offense and hoped to scotch tape enough talent on defense to be able to stop Big East offenses. Kelly at ND got the Tuitt's, Williams's Nix's of the world.

Ollie can recruit the 1 or 2 players he needs to be competitive in basketball as you only need a rotation of 9-10 players and UConn's basketball brand is top 10. Diaco recruiting football players to play in the AAC without automatic access to a BCS bowl will be tough. Diaco's energy level is the same as Ollie's? Okay.

Listen I get your a UConn fan and have to be optimistic, but UConn football has been given a death nail sentence. Syracuse, Boston College, Rutgers are all in power 4 leagues and they are behind Central Florida, South Florida, Cincinnati within their own conference for recruiting grounds and success. If UConn was in a power 4 conference I am sure Diaco could be decent, but playing in the AAC basically means you 10-2 record or bust and you can't play a cream puff non-conference schedule anymore.
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