Babers to Arizona OC/QB Coach

[SanDiegoCuse]

Dino thought he was heading West after 2018, it never materialized and he was never the same.

 

[djorange1989]

Dino thought he was heading West after 2018, it never materialized and he was never the same.

And we literally and figuratively paid for that true story

 

[GoSU96]

Any shred of Dino success = DUNGEY

Was Dungey part of the 6-0 and 4-0 starts his last two years?

Just like every other football coach, high level success is ALWAYS dependent on how your Qb plays, and how many starts he makes.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Dino thought he was heading West after 2018, it never materialized and he was never the same.

That's what I've come to believe, too.

 

[tep624]

I hear almost every alumni contributor say how glad they are to be welcomed back into the fold of the program after being given the cold shoulder for so long.

I feel like Dino never embraced recruiting locally, and after 2019, recruiting fell off and never recovered. We had California targets and Hawaiian recruits. Many of those recruits that everyone is saying were contributors last season were area recruits. Also, he seemed to ignore the trenches.

You take Eric Dungey out of the equation and Dino probably has a losing season in 2018. The most consequential player of his entire tenure wasn’t even recruited by him or his staff. Flash forward to Fran and the most consequential player was recruited by him personally in year one (McCord).

I think there’s some middle ground here, but this messaging that if you criticize Dino you’re treating him like GRob is a joke. He definitely didn’t seem as energized or invested after the Covid season, the recruiting fell off a cliff, and he chose to complain about the portal (even when it really wasn’t affecting us all that negatively) rather than proactively embrace it. He left a QB depth chart worse than what he inherited and that’s saying something.