UConn Football 2014 AAC Summer Kickoff Guide

It’s getting closer!  The UConn AAC Summer kickoff guide was tweeted out early this morning and is packed with information about the team, coaches, and the upcoming season.  If you’d like to read and go through it yourself here is a link:

UConn Football 2014 AAC Summer Kickoff Guide

Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s inside along with a few thoughts of my own:

• Starts out with a schedule and a quick fact about each game.  FYI, we’re Tulane’s third ever game at their new stadium! Take that P5 schools!
• Provides “fast facts” about the university and its’ coaching staff.  Even includes a phone number to the athletic office for those posters on the Boneyard who will want to ring Diaco’s neck after we give up the first TD of the season.
• Gives you the updated roster both numerically and alphabetically.  All updated heights, weights, and numbers are on these pages.  The best part of this is they unclude a pronunciation guide for certain players’ names.  Paul Nwokeji (pronounced WHO-CAGE-E) must be thrilled.
• Then gives a roster breakdown of who’s returning and who we lost.
• Spring Depth Chart – I don’t remember ever seeing this after spring practice.  It may have been out there somewhere, but a few things I found interesting.
  • Levy, Mateas, & Knappe are monsters all over 300lbs.  Gifford and Hopkins are also very large men and are quite young, so they still have time to keep growing and developing.
  • Thomas Lucas made the two-deep as a receiver.  I don’t know much about him, honestly thought he was on the defensive side of the ball.
  • DeShon Foxx right now will be handling the kickoff and punt returns.  The guy has explosive speed, and I hope this allows him to showcase his talents. He’s one of my guys that has to be a difference maker if we want to have success this year.
• FOUR FULL PAGES of Bob Diaco.  Everything you didn’t know about the guy, you will learn in this guide.
• Bio’s on Geremy Davis & Byron Jones including stats and awards received.
• A last look at the 2014 schedule.

32 days!

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