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2018 Roster Changes Confirmed

Scrutiner said:
Does everyone remember when RahRah Bob took over and said we're going to recruit big kids and we're going to put the current players on a more
healthful diet? He said nothing about big kids who also happen to be fast and strong, and the existing roster did appear to slim down. They didn't get stronger or faster, but did look very healthy when losing.

So, Edsall's probably right that it'll take another year and likely two to turn the roster around to get the speed they need. In his first time here he found players with speed who others passed up, likely due to their size. Darius Butler ran a 4.29 or better in high school and was under six feet tall, as I recall, and was a two star with no other offers who turned out pretty well for UConn. Obi Melifonwu had no other offers and interest from Fordham, BC, Rhode Island and Temple. Not the type players Alabama recruits, but they turned out to be great players here and would have been great elsewhere but were not judged correctly or simply overlooked. It couldn't have just been luck, could it?
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Obi was a P recruit. Your point still stands, we need to find NFL caliber players where other teams aren't looking. Diaco' s most likely NFL player will likely be Peart.
 
huskymedic said:
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When I read this, I thought it has to be wrong, but the games clearly showed that we were slow and not very strong.

I did notice that Diaco did not recruit skilled players from Florida and Georgia like Edsall did. Edsall would grab 2 or 3 DBs/WR/RBs per year from Florida and Georgia whereas Diaco would bring in only 1 per year. Diaco brought in Johnson (RB), Battle (WR), and Vickers (RB). None of them appeared to have much speed.
 
ktuck911 said:
Geez.. That's a ton of players leaving.. How do we fill the roster when there's only 25 schollies available per recruting year??? There's gotta be a transfer or two or three or four (or five?) heading here , via JUCO/GS??? that's just too many to leave all at once. We need the competition in practice at the very least...
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I have an idea. Why don't you follow ever player nationally who will be a grad student next year and suggest they come here? Oh wait ....

Just kidding. Sort of.
 
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Jimmy Serrano said:
I can’t believe how many people are surprised to see this. We couldn’t push around Holy Cross.
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Who got shut out by Yale....

I pointed this out to a UConn fan on Twitter who was remarking on HCs QB and he retorted that Yale won the Ivy. We've fallen so far that we're practically melting in the Earth's core
 
uconnphil2016 said:
Who got shut out by Yale....

I pointed this out to a UConn fan on Twitter who was remarking on HCs QB and he retorted that Yale won the Ivy. We've fallen so far that we're practically melting in the Earth's core
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Can we make these points of emphasis after 2/1? I don't want to scare away our 7 additional kids. I motion all such comparative commentary be suspended to 2/2.
 
uconnphil2016 said:
Who got shut out by Yale....

I pointed this out to a UConn fan on Twitter who was remarking on HCs QB and he retorted that Yale won the Ivy. We've fallen so far that we're practically melting in the Earth's core
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Diaco's plan revealed: If we're Meek, we'll inherit the AAC.
 
Coney was a Diaco preferred walk on who got a scholly? But his penalties on kickoffs did not endear him to the big guy this year, I’d imagine.
 
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I’m glad bobby is gone, but in the spirit of the holidays, we did get to a bowl after beating Houston
 
gioff23 said:
I’m glad bobby is gone, but in the spirit of the holidays, we did get to a bowl after beating Houston
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Yep. Good times.
And were so well prepared in St Pete for that sh@t bowl game
 
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ktuck911 said:
Agreed.
Disco was the ultimate Corporate 3rd party service provider. By year 3 you truly know what you got, which is a song a dance a bill of goods, basically BS.
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Another coat of paint. That's all we got.
 
CTMike said:
It took me a long time to admit that we managed to pick the one guy worse than P, but facts are facts.
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I think you're being more humble than necessary here.

Tell me that the alarm bells weren't sounding off when your new OL coach was saying he didn't believe in wasting time stretching? Or the whole "Jesus in the huddle" fiasco? Or starting QB #1 and #1A?

That all happened BEFORE he named a guy as OC who had never called a play in his life! And if memory serves me correctly, you were on the right side of that fence even if you weren't very vocal about it. Let me put it this way; the guy lost me early. ME!!! How the hell do you lose me?!? I'm the guy in the room that says, "Hey, maybe this Satan guy isn't the worst...he plays a mean fiddle..."
 
The 40 times are appalling to the point of where they are unbelievable - I played at a D II school before transferring to UConn and we had way more 40 times under 4.64 then that! I mean the baseline is 4.64 not even 4.5 that's just mind boggling to me.
 
FDNY99 said:
The only one's that left that would have seen ANY playing time are Britton, Brown and Lawley. Of the 3 I say Britton would have made the most impact next season...and maybe Brown. Other than that..thank you for coming; have a nice day.
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Agree on Brown, thought there may have been something there.
 
All I can say is thank God that disaster is gone. He left uconn on fumes and thankfully we now have a coach that has an actually plan outside of more vitamin d and energy vampire crap
 
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