Every game counts this year (literally)

[UConnDan97]

Well if you are confident how about we do this:

I'll give Bizlaw or Dan97 $1000.
You give Bizlaw or Dan97 $100.

If UConn goes 11-1 in the regular season you take my $1k.

If UConn is worse than 11-1 I'll take my 1k back and donate your $100 to the charity of their choice.


If you'd like to make a different financial wager on UConn going 11-1 next year please communicate your terms and I imagige I'll meet them.

This....this is the first time anyone in the world has ever trusted me with $1,100....ever...

 

[whaler11]

This....this is the first time anyone in the world has ever trusted me with $1,100....ever...

It would also be the first time I'd be happy losing $1,000 - but we know where to find you...

 

[Sportsman5]

Well if you are confident how about we do this:

I'll give Bizlaw or Dan97 $1000.
You give Bizlaw or Dan97 $100.

If UConn goes 11-1 in the regular season you take my $1k.

If UConn is worse than 11-1 I'll take my 1k back and donate your $100 to the charity of their choice.


If you'd like to make a different financial wager on UConn going 11-1 next year please communicate your terms and I imagige I'll meet them.

so I put up $100 and if uconn goes 11-1 I get $1000. that is 10:1 odds. You claimed uconn was 2,000:1. That is quite a drastic swing in odds. It went from me putting up $100 to win $200,000 to winning $1000. In other words, I would go from being able to bet 50 cents to win $1000 on a long shot to betting $100 on that same long shot for the same payout. Interesting, but I'll pass.

 

[whaler11]

so I put up $100 and if uconn goes 11-1 I get $1000. that is 10:1 odds. You claimed uconn was 2,000:1. That is quite a drastic swing in odds. It went from me putting up $100 to win $200,000 to winning $1000. In other words, I would go from being able to bet 50 cents to win $1000 on a long shot to betting $100 on that same long shot for the same payout. Interesting, but I'll pass.

Yeah there is a difference between what the real odds of something happening and what odds pay on bets.

Nobody could book the true odds of long shots. No one offers a billion to one on Coastal Carolina winning the NCAA tourney.

 

[Sportsman5]

Yeah there is a difference between what the real odds of something happening and what odds pay on bets.

Nobody could book the true odds of long shots. No one offers a billion to one on Coastal Carolina winning the NCAA tourney.

I agree. My original response to your post about 2000:1 was just to point out that there are some semi-longshot scenarios where the team (especially the offense) is extremely good and we would have a pretty good chance of winning most of our games that year. I also think Diaco will pull the defense together and be a solid unit.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

so I put up $100 and if uconn goes 11-1 I get $1000. that is 10:1 odds. You claimed uconn was 2,000:1. That is quite a drastic swing in odds. It went from me putting up $100 to win $200,000 to winning $1000. In other words, I would go from being able to bet 50 cents to win $1000 on a long shot to betting $100 on that same long shot for the same payout. Interesting, but I'll pass.

I'll give you the 2000:1 odds.

Name your amount.

 

[Sportsman5]

I'll give you the 2000:1 odds.

Name your amount.

10 cents to win $200

 

[Carl Spackler]

UConn trailed UCF 55-10 at the end of the third quarter. They got outgained 527-233, which is better on paper than it was in reality, and UCF went 8-13 on third down conversions...

but jeeze if they just played a little better... that one could have been a win.

UCF won a BCS game. UConn got blown out by Towson, Maryland, Buffalo,Louisville, SMU, UCF and Cincinnati.

2013 UConn/Cincinnati might be the least memorable game in program history. UConn lost by 25, I watched the game and literally don't remember a single thing about it.

The cincy game, like pretty much every other game was over by the 2nd quarter. Last year's team folded like cheap house of cards at any adversity. They gave every appearance of essentially haven given up on the game(s) as soon as they started from the defensive breakdowns and Whitmer INT in the 4th quarter of the Michigan game, until the 2nd half of the temple game.

The game is a mental battle of wills, and we were not mentally strong last year. We were pathetic. We finished strong, and Diaco's major battle, which he freely acknowledged and openly talked about, and probably didn't realize how much of a task it was going to be - was to rebuild this program's winning mentality.

How far he's been able to go with that, and how well the players themselves actually respond to adversity will go a long way as to whether or not we are bowling after the 2014 seasons.

I just want to go 1-0 on August 29. We either will or we won't. Sooner or later, we'll have a week where we go 0-1, and how we respond to that, is going to be the best determination of what direction the program is headed under DIaco. The rest of this gambling stuff doesn't concern me.