The Q
Hoop’s Villain, Reality’s Hero
If they were hiring solely on the fact to bring more buzz to the football program, why hire a guy who was 4 games over .500 at UCONN who's in his early to mid 50's? Which gets me back to how poor of an AD Kevin Anderson is. James Franklin was an obvious choice.
Edsall basically UConn's D1 program from scratch and made a few bowl games (including a BCS bowl game) and 2 conference titles (2007, 2010) in their first 6/7 years in D1 while playing in a major, power conference.
Look at how a team like UMass (who was MUCH better at the 1AA level than UConn ever was) is doing in the MAC and then see how Edsall did in the BE and see why he might be a solid commodity.