Recent content by freescooter

UCLA is UCONN, UNC on the west coast. It is a basketball school at heart.

I think a lot of these guys who are successful don’t quite get how tough it is to succeed at a mid-level P4 program where there is already a pretty well established hierarchy. Wisconsin is one of the B list Big 10 programs. They can have pretty good teams but they need to climb over too many...

I wanted him when we hired Diaco. I thought he checked lots of boxes. Northeastern guy, had some success with a program that hadn’t won much. Good guy. Good coach

Maybe fake injuries are allowed in Canadian football.

He completed 60% of his passes and had at least 2 drops that hit guys in the numbers. Zero interceptions. 1 td pass. He tends to put the football where his receiver is the only guy who can get it when he does throw into coverage. For the season he has 6 touchdowns an 0 interceptions and...

I noticed this tendency at Delaware. Though On the first Cam run vs Ball St the line did a really good job opening, too.

Delaware is a good academic school. They probably are willing to accept guys who wouldn’t be in regularly. But guess what? Everyone has different standards for athletes. The Ivy League accepts guys who couldn’t get into any Ivy school. As an old friend who coached hockey at an Ivy used to say...

The dream game took place in New London, not East Hartford. Coast Guard 92-Nichols 60. And yes, it was football. This was either an aberration or a view of the future.

If that’s the plan we are in trouble. We are really not a ball control offense. We are a quick strike type. A runner who can go 60 yards any time he touches the ball and a wide out who can take it for 40 any time he gets the ball. If the defense n come around this will be a very good...

We are an offense that is built around big plays, not a grind it out one. We were that for years and even in our better seasons under Edsall 1 people complained they we played that way. Now we play a very different style and you complain we don’t grind out every first down. Just as a side...

One problem is without Mel Brown we need another running back. Preferably a big back. Edwards is great and can break long ones on any play, but he isn’t the guy who is going to get you 2 yards when he gets hit a yard behind the line. He isn’t that type of back. Mel was more of a slasher...

We have one of the top performing offenses in the country, a running back who can break a long one at any time and a really talented receiver. Every game except Central has come down to the last minute. Two went to overtime. It isn’t like we are playing 6-3 games. What the heck do you need to...

You know I don’t get the need to argue about attendance. I really don’t. Unless you go around and count you have no idea. I don’t see this at other places. It seems another bizarre UConn fan thing aimed somehow at undercutting the program. And not another school I’ve ever seen talks about...

Thank is not fair. Bell, Fagnano, Hoh are all portal guys who have performed very well. Last years defense had a couple of guys who made big plays. The portal is a crapshoot because you aren’t developing guys. It’s plug and play but if you miss it leaves a big hole.

Partly this is a case of portal misses. I think a number of teams have seen it. It’s a hit or miss thing and it looks like this year was a miss. This game should have been 31-10 or something similar. Any competent defense puts them away. Ours is just not good. They need to revamp the whole...