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AAC football power rankings: Parity rules, but Memphis & USF start out slightly ahead (Connelly)

I think Arkeel Newsome and who ever wins the QB battle are going to have an amazing year.
 
Expectations are low....
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We still have OL issues. RE2 and Lashlee will try to compensate by going uptempo (shocking, right?) and getting ball off quicker. Going no huddle (and not standing around for 30 seconds) should tire defenses late in the game. I don't know if they will be able to pull if off successfully, but it is an intelligent and informed approach to our current personnel.

I'd love to go a bowl game, but my goals for the season are far more modest. I just want UConn football to be fun again. Looking competent would be nice as well. Beyond that it's all gravy.
 
How games did BD lose because of awful clock management and play calling? UCF, Navy, and Cuse last year come right to mind and that's BEFORE the team quit. Those are areas of the game we can take for granted with RE. I think we get 6 wins. I'm not sure which 6, but we'll get em.
 
I expect our numbers will increase rapidly as soon as the team has a winning streak.
 
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Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
How games did BD lose because of awful clock management and play calling? UCF, Navy, and Cuse last year come right to mind and that's BEFORE the team quit. Those are areas of the game we can take for granted with RE. I think we get 6 wins. I'm not sure which 6, but we'll get em.
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Yep. And that's just competence. It doesn't truly take into account an actual scheme improvement. It also fails to consider that our QB was hurt midseason and played through it for several games before Williams came in. QB play will be better this year. The RB position is better as well. OL can't really be worse.

The people who make these prognostications do almost no analysis beyond seeing which players graduated and looking at prior season performance. They have no idea what young players might perform well. They give zero credit for coaching changes.
 
I imagine we'll see an uptick from 2016 in season ticket sales with Randy back. Probably just a modest improvement, but who knows. Hope we can routinely do 30k this year.
 
uconnphil2016 said:
I imagine we'll see an uptick from 2016 in season ticket sales with Randy back. Probably just a modest improvement, but who knows. Hope we can routinely do 30k this year.
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Randy or no Randy the only thing getting people back in seats is W's. We need to get people on the bandwagon to fill the stadium. There just aren't going to be enough diehards.
 
BlueDogs said:
The problem with the AAC is it's actually loaded with pretty decent teams that generate zero national interest. Other than Navy and UConn, each is over shadowed by a much bigger national presence in their backyard.

USF and UCF ( Miami, Florida, FSU)
Memphis (Tennessee)
ECU (NC State and UNC)
Houston and SMU ( UT, A&M, TT)
Tulsa (OU)
Cincy (OSU)
Tulane (LSU)
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You forgot Temple, which might not have it in the backyard, but PSU and RU.
 
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We were a bowl worthy team last year, crippled by bad coaching. And now our coaching has been upgraded.

I'm not predicting a winning season, but are we the worst team in the conference? No.
 
The small private schools also have a significant number of international students, who probably didn't grow up with a passion for American college football.
 
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