Coach Diaco & his wife donate $250,000 for Uconn's non-FB Athletic Facilities

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Mad props and respect to Coach Diaco and his wife for stepping up in a big way for Uconn Athletics...
The Diaco's gift will be used to help build new facilities for the UConn men’s and women’s soccer, baseball and softball teams.

“Our UConn football family is very fortunate to call The Burton Family Football Complex and Mark R. Shenkman Training Center our home,” said Diaco. “These facilities are among the finest in the nation and fully serve the needs of our football student-athletes. I want all Husky student-athletes and my fellow coaches to be able to enjoy the same caliber of facilities, which they richly deserve.”

Bob And Julia Diaco Announce Donation For Athletic Facilities
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and from:
The Uconn Blog- Bob Diaco Donates $250K for On-Campus Facilities
excerpts:
"UConn’s new soccer stadium will begin construction in December while baseball and softball were long overdue for upgrades."
Bob has been traveling the Northeast hyping up UConn Football and the process that he started over two years ago to rebuild the program after the previous regime tore it down. He has visited bars across Connecticut and in New York City, and will be making a trip to Boston on June 23. He has also been hitting the airwaves nationally, appearing on sports radio shows in Knoxville, Tennessee and Iowa City, Iowa on Wednesday morning.

Diaco spent some time extolling the Huskies’ national brand, not shying away from the fact that it was built on basketball success.“The strength of the UConn brand is coast-to-coast,” Diaco told WNML Knoxville. “And it’s because of that success,” he added. "It’s a successful athletic program overall.

more from this story... I also heard this from Diaco this week in his TN radio interview. They had asked about Williams since he is from Tenn, it sounded like it was a very uncomfortable question for HCBD....
" The most interesting piece to come out of it from a roster standpoint was a few words on Billy Williams, the transfer from Northern Iowa who happened to be a Knoxville native. Diaco said he is uncertain of his future with the program due to a “life phase transition.”

Also interesting tidbits from the Iowa interview was that the radio guys remember Diaco as a 2 time All- Big Ten player, they said he once had 26 tackles in a game....Diaco LOL that "back then you had to make a true tackle, no jumping on the pile" for an assist to pad your totals ...Diaco led Iowa in tackles in 1994 and 1995. He had 334 career tackles....The radio hosts also said he was about 60 lbs heavier during his playing days.....And Diaco finishes with "you have a Husky ( Uconn LB Kirk Ferentz ) running the Hawkeye FB team and a Hawkeye running the Huskies"