UConn head coach Bob Diaco and #10 Chandler Whitmer celebrate after their 19-16 win on September 6, 2014 at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, CT.
It’s never been about UConn Huskies football coach Bob Diaco. It never has and never will be.
It’s all about the University of Connecticut, the students, the student-athletes, alumni,football alumni and fans to him.
When he was hired as the head football coach in December of 2013, he said what it was going to take to become a winner. He never made it about him.
And over the past 10 months, nothing has changed in that regard.
So it shouldn’t surprise you that he played down the fact of his win after Saturday’s 19-16 win over Stony Brook and made it about the University of Connecticut, the students, the student athletes, alumni, football alumni and fans.
Watch below as Diaco answers the question of how important it was to him to get his first win:
