2017 UConn Spring Practice Updates

[huskymedic]

Doubt it. Amazingly slow and awkward.

I wish I was this "amazingly slow and awkward":

 

[Jimdish255]

I wish I was this "amazingly slow and awkward":

Gonna take a wild swing and say he's a great athlete who was way behind in Football when he got here but still has a much higher upside than guys ahead of him.

 

[BlueDogs]

Gonna take a wild swing and say he's a great athlete who was way behind in Football when he got here but still has a much higher upside than guys ahead of him.

Makes me want a cry...speed, great size and athleticism. Imagine if he came in now with benefit of a real first rate line coach. Lots of upside for a team willing to develop him.

 

[gioff23]

TYPO Corrected

Makes me want a cry...speed, great size and athleticism. Imagine if he came in now with benefit of a real first rate line coach.

 

[RSTuthill]

I wish I was this "amazingly slow and awkward":

Wish he had shown that on the field. He didn't. But I agree, amazing potential with the right coaching.

 

[huskymedic]

Wish he had shown that on the field. He didn't.

People that do it for a living disagree:


Looking at it through a monocle prism of the team's performance last season is distracting. Did he have bad plays - sure, but he has/had the talent.

 

[Palatine]

Pasqualoni put him on the defensive line.

 

[RSTuthill]

We talking about the same guy? The one the pass rushers blew past as if he wasn't there?

 

[Stainmaster]

We talking about the same guy? The one the pass rushers blew past as if he wasn't there?

I'll take the actual scout's view over your untrained eye test.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

Pasqualoni put him on the defensive line.

I forgot that. What a joke.

 

[Kgun7]

I forgot that. What a joke.

It may not be apples to apples ... but I seem to remember Donald Thomas being listed as a linebacker in his first season ...

 

[LRock34]

We talking about the same guy? The one the pass rushers blew past as if he wasn't there?

In 2015, yes...he was much better in 16

 

[LRock34]

It may not be apples to apples ... but I seem to remember Donald Thomas being listed as a linebacker in his first season ...

Right, but wasn't he a 240 pound walk-on?