2025 Inbound Portal Options (December 9th - 28th 2024 & April 16th - 25th 2025 Cycle)

[gioff2323]

And, there are kids who enter the portal because they are told to for a variety of reasons. You almost never see a kid dismissed for academic or disciplinary reasons anymore. They enter the portal.

Not a great analogy, but it’s a bit like MBB kids getting opinions on draft stock before declaring. It’s a free look at your worth

 

[Jimdish255]

You could get a really good HS kid who plays for UConn and becomes the best star QB we ever had, Guess what - he's not sticking around for 3 years! That is just it. We are not a P4 conference. He gets an offer to play with them. He is gone! I agree we need multiple QB's and I am not worried who is the best or the worst. It is not my job to weigh in on how this may or may not look. Pull up the BIG Boy Pants and let the best kid get the job. No one and I mean NO ONE deserves anything in this life. Fight for it - Get the passion for it. keep it! And I am so glad I don't have the coaching job. I prefer being on my PC with my keyboard and thinking - none of what I do here will have any affect on any decision making for UConn Football. That means I can be a fan and put my trust in Coach Mora as I have done since he got here!

 

[giddyup]

You need players that are committed to UConn as a program. The school and team ethos is a thing of past generations when kids were raised on the idea that loyalty and pride in a program mattered. All about money.

 

[cohenzone]

Do we know that Welliver was even in the mix for this season or if he & coaches decided to retain redshirt and only throw him in a few meaningless spots. Mora might, just might, have a plan for the kid. We definitely didn't need "deer in the headlights" from the QB position this year, even though it did happen to the other guys on occasion...

Frankly, I think he was just red shirted. McDonald I think was ahead of him but obviously not ahead of the transfers.

 

[noeynox]

Yearly portal entries seems a bit absurd imo, unless your goal is more money each year.

His coach left.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

I know he probably won’t do it, but I would love to hear Mora honestly answer what kind of QB he is looking for in the portal. I know that’s tricky because he doesn’t want to throw Roberson or Evers under the bus, but I tend to agree with other sentiments in this thread that some sort of starting experience matters.

You can keep signing ex-4 stars and ‘hope’ they finally get it…or get a 2 or 3 star who has had reps who has shown they can play. Yes the upside may not be as great, but as we saw with Fagnano…you don’t need a star…you just need competence at QB. But..i do think that Fagnano was at the low end of competence. I don’t think he is the model of what they want….but he showed reps are better than stars.

Also…regarding Welliver…he may be the answer..but as we know…the team needs multiple qbs who can start.

Yeah, that Fagnano threw too many TD passes. He won games by leading the offense into the endzone a few too many times. This was so NOT UConn where they grind a boring offense into the face of an 8-9 man box. Stop bitching about that kid. He saved the season.

 

[Stinger92860]

I think I recall Coach P losing to Michigan by 3pts. He was an outstanding coach, not only for X and Oś, but for making his players better human beings. Was coaching in the NFL until recently...

Is that the game in Ann Arbor when Shoemate fumbled inside the 10-15?

 

[Stinger92860]

His coach left.

Ah, thank you

 

[fleaflicker]

Is that the game in Ann Arbor when Shoemate fumbled inside the 10-15?

It was at UConn in 2013. Packed stadium. On 4th and 29, they came up 1 yard short for a first down deep in Michigan territory. Great game. P was a great coach, even though he gets beat up on the boneyard...

 

[noeynox]

It was at UConn in 2013. Packed stadium. On 4th and 29, they came up 1 yard short for a first down deep in Michigan territory. Great game. P was a great coach, even though he gets beat up on the boneyard...

Describe what makes him a great coach?

 

[gioff2323]

No. That was in AA

 

[fleaflicker]

Describe what makes him a great coach?

I was familiar with him, with my son playing 4 years under his coaching guidance. There are a number of things that make a coach special. Society makes winning number 1. Of course, that is most important. But, But there are a number of other things that are equally as important as winning for those who play the game. When an athlete leaves an athletic program, any sport, they should be better prepared to take on the blows that will occur during their lifetime. The old saying, ¨not how many times you get knocked down, how many times you get up¨! Coach P made his athletes better in the game of life. I doubt if that is important in today´s world, but as we see athletes leave a team after 1 year for the portal to make $$$$, anyone who grew up in the days when loyalty to the team, be it college or pro, long for the old days.
Coach Mora is a throw back to the days when being a better human being for having played the sport means allot. While money rules, trying make that the most important thing in life when ¨the going gets tough¨. This will make little sense to most on the boneyard, but it sure makes sense to my son and those who played for Coach P.

 

[fleaflicker]

No. That was in AA

If you google UConn vs Michigan 2013, you can watch the game on Youtube. It is at UConn..

 

[DoctorWho85]

... says the guy that has been ranting about the same thing for 2 weeks.

Bottom line: the coaching staff is going to try to secure the best players they can. If that's the 5-star freshman, then that's great. If it's the transfer senior, that's great too. The best player we can secure for our team is literally what the coaches are paid for.

You need to stop with this idea that we're sending the wrong message to future high school recruits because you're just flat out wrong...

Got EEM

 

[gioff2323]

If you google UConn vs Michigan 2013, you can watch the game on Youtube. It is at UConn..

Ah, I was confused and replying to the fumble comment. I was at the Michigan game in east Hartford and while I knew P, he was not a great HC.

 

[fleaflicker]

Ah, I was confused and replying to the fumble comment. I was at the Michigan game in east Hartford and while I knew P, he was not a great HC.

Respect your opinion, but you could ask head coaches in the NFL what kind of coach he was. Anyway, JM is doing a great job. Go Huskies.....Beat NC

 

[gioff2323]

He’s a good coach. He’s not a good HC. I don’t need to ask, I was witness to it.

 

[huskymedic]

Respect your opinion, but you could ask head coaches in the NFL what kind of coach he was. Anyway, JM is doing a great job. Go Huskies.....Beat NC

There is a difference between being a good and decent man who loves sharing his knowledge of the game w/ players of all ages and skill sets and being a great head coach. Respect the man’s defensive knowledge and passion for game but he was stale when he got to UConn as head coach.

 

[Hskies4Ever]

It was at UConn in 2013. Packed stadium. On 4th and 29, they came up 1 yard short for a first down deep in Michigan territory. Great game. P was a great coach, even though he gets beat up on the boneyard...

CW also threw a couple back breaking INTs and it was still winnable… iirc

 

[businesslawyer]

I was familiar with him, with my son playing 4 years under his coaching guidance. There are a number of things that make a coach special. Society makes winning number 1. Of course, that is most important. But, But there are a number of other things that are equally as important as winning for those who play the game. When an athlete leaves an athletic program, any sport, they should be better prepared to take on the blows that will occur during their lifetime. The old saying, ¨not how many times you get knocked down, how many times you get up¨! Coach P made his athletes better in the game of life. I doubt if that is important in today´s world, but as we see athletes leave a team after 1 year for the portal to make $$$$, anyone who grew up in the days when loyalty to the team, be it college or pro, long for the old days.
Coach Mora is a throw back to the days when being a better human being for having played the sport means allot. While money rules, trying make that the most important thing in life when ¨the going gets tough¨. This will make little sense to most on the boneyard, but it sure makes sense to my son and those who played for Coach P.

I understand your point, and others say it, but I don’t agree. A college football coach is paid to win games. It’s great if he’s also a good person and role model, but that‘s not what he’s paid for. Look, as ridiculous as it sounds 45 years later I have a varsity letter from an NCAA institution. I wanted my coach to make me better in my sport. Was he a good man? Sure, but so what? I didn’t need a mentor. I had a father. I had older relatives. I had teachers and professors. It’s always great if you can learn life lessons from an older person put in a role where mentorship can evolve, but it’s not necessary that person be a football coach. A coach needs to teach his players their sport and make them better at it.

Did P have a good career with some huge highlights at Syracuse? Yes. Is he a good teacher of footbal? He must be. Is he a good human being? I’m sure he is. But he took a program that had won something like 8, 7, 7 and 9 wins the four years before he got here and went 5-7, 5-7 and 0-4 when here. No matter how many players look up to him as a mentor, he didn’t get it done.

 

[JeannoCT]

Is that the game in Ann Arbor when Shoemate fumbled inside the 10-15?

the game was in Ann Arbor but I think it was 2010, when he had that fumble. I thought Edsall was the coach at that game.

 

[uconnric]

If you google UConn vs Michigan 2013, you can watch the game on Youtube. It is at UConn..

Largest crowd ever at the Rent, 43,000 or so. Extra bleachers were erected in the west end zone under the scoreboard.

 

[Windham4th]

CW also threw a couple back breaking INTs and it was still winnable… iirc

Don't pin that on Cole Welliver. He was like 8 years old...

 

[DoctorWho85]

Don't pin that on Cole Welliver. He was like 8 years old...

This is an underrated comment.

 

[businesslawyer]

the game was in Ann Arbor but I think it was 2010, when he had that fumble. I thought Edsall was the coach at that game.

Yes, opening day in Ann Arbor in 2020, the year we ended in the Fiesta Bowl. It was 4th and short, Shumate got the first down that would have given us a first and goal inside the 5 with a chance to cut the lead to 7, and he coughed it up.