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Agree 100%. If a passing offense was a threat, an opposing team would not prioritize stacking the LOS to stop the run.

I've seen that scenario quite a bit over the last 40 years. It must be part of the DNA required in a UConn offensive coordinator philosophy!

I've been following and rooting for UConn FB since 1969. I swear, the games as a 1-aa team were much more exciting and competitive. I was excited to see UConn make an attempt to upgrade schedule and excitement when they announced they were going 1-a. After all these years, the problem in my...

maybe it's the coaches who are limited.

I'd like to believe we've had a talent upgrade in coaching. And hopefully that will result in talent upgrade in recruiting. IMO ever since 1aa-1a move, a number of recruits need a couple of years of practice to reach the skill levels of those schools that traditionally are stocked with 3*-4*...

This is a tough call one way or the other. Revenue will be down if you play or don't play in any sport.....especially in the academic 20/21 time frame. If they do play, universities may not be allowed to offer tickets on a "sellout" basis. For every seat occupied, one to the left/right would...

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To put it in another perspective, to convert MPH to Ft/sec, multiply MPH X 1.5. Not exact conversion, but close enough. e.g. 60 MPH = 90 ft/sec. Imagine running from home plate to 1st base in one second!

A couple of years ago (2017) I had a "personal contact" named Kristina Tedford. She was more than exceptional. Kept in contact with me even after I recommitted for 2017 season. Kristina left Dec 2017. Last time I heard from anyone was February 2018. Effort has dropped off in a lot of areas, in...

The biggest concern is whether we can get a quality coach to accept the job........right now, the quality of athlete UConn attracts is more often than not FCS or lower. Never mind the teams performance has been the "worst of the worse". This program is currently a career killer. You can offer me...

Didn't RE last fall suggest that there were players on the team that did not know how to play football? I'm guessing a good portion were under the radar recruits. So now we're looking for under the radar coaches (i.e those who don't have other offers?) Sounds like a winner to me........let's...

It wasn't too long ago when, during an ESPN broadcast of Oklahoma-Houston game remarked.....Houston doesn't have to travel too far outside of Houston to find skilled players to compete at the highest level. Houston didn't do too bad in the old SEC.....remember Earl Campbell?

I wish all well, and hopefully there is enough talent such that of the 4 year window for playing, they don't have to spend two-three years in conditioning and training to get to the point they can compete physically with our opponents. Some of the players appear "tiny" in weight class for their...

No. The perception of the league in general may change, but no P-5 (no matter how bad) school is going to move to a G% conference just for the sake of being the champion of the best G5 conference and an "automatic" bid. The G5 and team revenues will not match that they get as an awful team in a...

I don't think I've ever witnessed a recruiting class so poor in numbers this late in the season. It seems we usually had this many athletes orally committed by mid summer in years past. My real fear is that we may not even come close to the allotment we have available. Should we advertise in the...

Wasn't it early in the season Randy suggested that many of the players didn't know how to play football? Its getting annoying when he consistently recruits players no one else wants and thinks with a sprinkling of fairy dust, he can coach them up into competitive players. The season is almost...

It isn't just the coach, its the pool of talent from which he draws. Lets be realistic, HS football talent in other regions of the country is far advanced from what you find in northeast (NE, CT, NY). I don't care who the UConn coach is, they will not get top rated recruits like UAB or most...

I don't think I could do that to any student in any sport......regardless if they produce revenue or not. I'm not sure any sport at the HS level was self supporting, but it gave every athlete a chance to participate and/or excel in those sports their abilities gave them some sort of self esteem...

Didn't RE midseason suggest that some players didn't even know how to play football. Sounded almost like he felt he had to go back to the beginning to teach basics they should have learned in midget or HS football.

Most of the names on the list were high profile winners (whatever their title) at other venues........and went to the highest bidder. We got Edsall cheap because he was not high profile, and probably did not have other offers. Somehow I don't think UConn is going to attract a high profile...

I'm not sure there is a ceiling.........and won't be until we stop bringing in players that don't even have an offer from FCS, Div. II, or Div.III. I don't even recognize some of the schools from which the players have had other interest. "Coaching up" for 2-3 years so we can compete with other...

Kettle calling pot black. UConn avoids Navy and Houston, but jumps at playing URI and Maine. Lets not judge others OOC schedule when UConn avoids top FCS teams from the old Yankee Conference/ A10 Conference.

Exactly! The P5 won't schedule them because there is a real chance they could loose to UCF. We can criticize UCF's schedule, but they tend to blow out the weaker ACC teams because their talent is that much better. They can't refuse to schedule teams like UConn because they are in the same...

Maybe......hopefully there are two left that are good enough to have been noticed by someone besides UConn.......the "no other offers" that seem all too common on UConn's roster are not there for a reason

I'm missing something......who is Shirley? Does he have smaller and daintier fingers than Pindell?

Didn't we go that route with OC Weist in his PP's last year. PP was fired.......Weist was past over for BD from Notre Dame. Bad precedent for OC's in waiting......can't trust Uconn's word. Agree with your comment about UMass.......more speed......stronger......can execute better. You left out...

Maybe he can't pass. But you can try to fake the other team out and drop back like you can. Maybe then so many defenders wouldn't be staking the line.......maybe

I've seen midget football teams coached and play better.......Uconn coaches are afraid the players may drop a pass when the ball is wet........oh wait.......we do that when the sky is sunny and the field is scoarched

It kills me also......but this rebuild is going to be a lot tougher that going 1-aa to 1-a the first time RE was here. Our other sports are relatively strong as the recruiting area for those sports has competitive talent within CT and immediate surrounding geographic region to the point those...

If there are too many kids on the team that "don't know how to play football", UConn is way behind the eight ball. It almost sounds like we're trying to "coach up" players that have skills of those in pop warner leagues. I guess that is why some don't have any other offers This sounds like a...

Youth, size, speed, experience all contribute to success and/or failure in game results. But it all starts with recruiting, which, I know, is beating a dead horse. My concern is the number of recruits that don't have any other offers....at any level of college football. Its one thing to suggest...

Results as expected. Bottom line is UConn will be less skilled, smaller, and slower than the majority of their opponents. When that is the deck you are dealt with, the players ......and coaches......have to pay attention. What irked me was how many times the "D" appeared to be looking to...

Outside of having a small stadium, I really don't know if the Hartford area has enough infrastructure to support quantity of fans that follow major programs on the road.

An experienced upper class dominated team within a very good program vs an inexperienced lower class team within a not so good tradition that will rely on a lot of players with high school experience. Who really thinks this will be close? Heart says "UC win" Afraid to express reality and...

That's the problem. Most of the programs where there is "high" spring game attendance exhibit strong support for the program all year........they don't go just to tailgate.......although I'm not against tailgating. Everybody saves money by not attending......the school and the fans. Probably...