UConn Football Coach Guarantees a Perfect 2015 Season, Even Though His Team Went 2-10 Last Year

UCONN football head coach predicts a perfect 2015 team record after going 2-10 last year.

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To be a head coach, your job is to be optimistic at all times and keep your team's morale high. If not, well, you simply shouldn't be coaching. But it's just as important to be realistic when rallying your team in locker room pep talks and addressing the media about your team's play. Especially if you know your program is in the rebuilding stage like the UCONN football squad, which went 2-10 last season.

But there is an apparent blurry line between realism and idealism when it comes to UCONN football head coach Bob Diaco. He reacted to the unveiling of the American Athletic Conference preseason predictions that held his team to be dead-last in the East Division of the conference. In response, he made the ridiculous prediction that UCONN will win every game, including a national championship.

Perhaps he was channeling his inner-Kevin Ollie, who made a similar prediction of a national championship in 2013 when he first took the reins as head coach of the UCONN men's basketball team and delivered on his promise. There is, of course, one major difference: The UCONN's men's team didn't have a terrible record going into the 2013 campaign.

You can see the quote below by Neil Ostrout, the journalist who covers both UCONN's men's basketball and football teams:

And the reactions to this claim by Diaco may be justifiable, even if you don't follow sports:

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