The View From Section 241

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Well, I can’t do this the regular way, because there is very little to say any more. UConn’s football game against Buffalo was the most pathetic, embarassing, and disgusting effort I have ever seen in a sporting contest. The team quit. Period. No more need be said. Now, is that all on the coaches? Maybe. Maybe not. But look — the part that is not about the coaches is just because they’ve given up, which is because the OL can’t play at this level, which, indirectly, comes back to the coaches. Look — am I giving a pass to the players, or the coaches, or anyone else involved in the program? No. But it’s not getting better with this staff here, and it’s not getting better without competent OL play, which won’t happen until there are new coaches here.

I am not a fan of firing a coach prior to late November. I don’t think you can make a change in the middle of the season that is going to improve your team. And I don’t believe in giving up on the players to please the fans. But given that the team has quit on the staff, that is no longer relevant. Even if no schemes, or techniques, can be changed (and while many here understand teaching and coaching football far better than I, I don’t think even a position coach as good as Mike Foley can undo all the harm done to the OL until spring), at this point just having someone else talk to the players can only help. So the only reason to delay the change is to let P retire with dignity at the end of the season, and be able to tell the new coach that we gave even the total disaster that was P three years before giving up. Well, f@@@ saving P’s feelings, and any new coach that is not a moron will understand why keeping P to the end of the year is counterproductive. So I have come around on this. Make the change and make it now. Give Hughes or Foley or Weist the con and see what happens. And then pray that Manual makes a good choice at the end of the season.

How long is the road out of this? I can’t tell. Other than the lack of a pass rush, is there anything that we’re sure is a problem if we could block on the OL? Would Whitmer really be this bad? Would the TBs? Would the D play better if the O could do something? Would everyone be better if they had confidence? I don’t know. Maybe our personnel has gone to hell in a handbasket and its a five year hole. But maybe not also. We just have to see.

But we won’t see anything until P and GDL are out the door. Now is the time.

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