Hartford Courant:
Analyst: Diaco, New Staff Have A Better Handle On Recruiting
"The old staff was a bit long in the tooth and they didn't understand recruiting the way these guys do it now," CBS's Lemming
said. "Recruiting has changed in the last five years mainly because of [Alabama coach] Nick Saban and [Ohio State coach]
Urban Meyer. If you don't work 24-7 on recruiting, 12 months out of the year, you're going to be in trouble. And Lemming said
the enthusiastic, 40-year-old Diaco and his staff arrived just in time to roll with new ideas.
"With respect to who suits our needs for that particular year we'll create a good working list of who those guys are and try
to get them to come to UConn," Diaco said. "[Recruiting sites are] for the people who follow that. There's no knock on it.
It's followed like it's its own competitive arena. We don't do our business that way. When you do your business that way
you make mistakes. We're trying to put the team together and if it creates storylines that are positive that's great. If it
doesn't that's fine, too."
This post was edited on 2/4 10:00 PM by the Blades
Analyst: Diaco, New Staff Have A Better Handle On Recruiting
"The old staff was a bit long in the tooth and they didn't understand recruiting the way these guys do it now," CBS's Lemming
said. "Recruiting has changed in the last five years mainly because of [Alabama coach] Nick Saban and [Ohio State coach]
Urban Meyer. If you don't work 24-7 on recruiting, 12 months out of the year, you're going to be in trouble. And Lemming said
the enthusiastic, 40-year-old Diaco and his staff arrived just in time to roll with new ideas.
"With respect to who suits our needs for that particular year we'll create a good working list of who those guys are and try
to get them to come to UConn," Diaco said. "[Recruiting sites are] for the people who follow that. There's no knock on it.
It's followed like it's its own competitive arena. We don't do our business that way. When you do your business that way
you make mistakes. We're trying to put the team together and if it creates storylines that are positive that's great. If it
doesn't that's fine, too."
This post was edited on 2/4 10:00 PM by the Blades