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Am I Wrong To Feel Optimistic Right Now?

Am I Wrong To Feel Optimistic Right Now?​

H, E, double L ..... NO!
Been fooled twice myself, Bobbie red pants and RE.2. Thought Paul was done as a head coach after Cuse. Mora comes across as the most honest coach we have had. That and the same with his staff. I asked some questions at the meet and greet and got strait answers unlike the past when you were told what they thought one wanted to hear.
Mora has expressed delight in the amount of depth at every position other than linebacker. I'm all in for a good competitive season regardless of the opponent.

TMB4405 said:
So I am all in. I think we have a better than punchers chance to win. And a win would create sick momentum for the team and the fanbase.
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Your not alone. ;)
 
TMB4405 said:
I am really optimistic. All things you can analyze should support that optimism. That said my pessimistic side is looming and i am always worried. The difference this time is we have a much better foundation (coaching) than maybe we ever had.

So I am all in. I think we have a better than punchers chance to win. And a win would create sick momentum for the team and the fanbase.
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This may be insane but I’m just gonna say it, if they manage to win I do not see it out of the realm of possibility that they could roll into Tennessee undefeated. If that’s the case I’ll be counting down the min till I get to Knoxville lol
 
I can’t lie. I wish we had a tune up game first, but I feel like we have a 50/50 shot to win it and I fully expect to be competitive.

If we aren’t, I’ll still believe. It just means we have some work to do. This staff is going to get the job done and put together a good record.
 
Listen, this is what's going to happen. We are going to get just under 30k at the game. We are going to score first. We are going to let them claw back into the game (and further my ulcer). Mora is going to tell them some inspirational stuff in the 4th quarter and we are going to squeak out a W.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
It's one day and a few hours until kickoff.

Team had its best season in years last season, finished the regular season strong, retained the critical coaches on the staff, kept most of the top performers, seemingly backfilled the biggest "losses" with comparable talent, and made it through camp relatively healthy. Plenty of depth and experience on both lines. An actual QB competition between D1 QB's. What fan base wouldn't be excited knowing all that?

When was the last season you felt this good about UConn's potential? I'm not sure, but I know I feel more excited about being a UConn football fan now than any time in recent memory.
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No guarantees ever. But in my flawed opinion you are not wrong. I think we see a different team this year. But to lay it all on game one might be a stretch.

Take the points.
 
giddyup said:
At this point they are so black and blue they have lost all feeling. So, it doesn’t hurt to be optimistic.
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Mine hiked up north after PP and never came back down. Last year I thought I felt them descending. Maybe this year my Aria won't be soprano.
 
Chin Diesel said:
It's one day and a few hours until kickoff.

Team had its best season in years last season, finished the regular season strong, retained the critical coaches on the staff, kept most of the top performers, seemingly backfilled the biggest "losses" with comparable talent, and made it through camp relatively healthy. Plenty of depth and experience on both lines. An actual QB competition between D1 QB's. What fan base wouldn't be excited knowing all that?

When was the last season you felt this good about UConn's potential? I'm not sure, but I know I feel more excited about being a UConn football fan now than any time in recent memory.
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All I can say is this is the most excited I’ve been for an opening night in years.

Hoping I can watch with my football obsessed 12 year old nephew today, who’s a Clemson fan but lives in CT. Gotta convert him!
 
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I am cautiously optimistic. Like all of us, this team has broken my heart for too many years. I think we will be dramatically improved, but, even the last year was an enormous improvement, we still have a long way to go. It takes more than a year to shake off a decade worth of suck.

Still though, our roster is upgraded. Our coaching staff is improved and it looks like the fans are coming back to the Rent. That's a whole lot to feel good about. When you add to that a truly inspirational leader in Jim Mora, you can see why we are all feeling confident.

NC State is a tough first test. I'm excited to see how we do.
 
I woke up feeling awesome this morning. We went so many years wondering if PP, Diaco or Edsall 2.0 had the chops to get our teams prepared for the season. Unlike those years, I’m 100% confident that Coach Mora will have our guys ready for battle. The players’ ability to execute will ultimately determine the outcome, but I feel great about this season. It all begins tonight. Let’s go Huskies!!!
 
I'm excited!!

We beat some really good teams last year with second, third, and fourth string depth on offense. Our defense was that good and seemingly only gotten better. Our oline is top 30 in the country last year. They're bigger, stronger, hungrier this year.

We were 9-3 against the spread. 3-2 when we were 15+ points underdogs. 5-1 when we were at home. The team we're playing today, lost to Boston College at their own stadium last year! Yet we're somehow 15 points underdog in our house who lost to a team we beat.

Remember Fresno St last year? They barely lost to a top 10 Oregon St team and won the Mountain West against Boise St. They finished the year #24 on the AP poll.

Liberty was #19 on the AP poll when we beat them.

So what I'm saying is, ranked teams were 0-2 against us at the Rent. We are a ranked team's worst nightmare!!
 
SuperHuski said:
We were 9-3 against the spread. 3-2 when we were 15+ points underdogs. 5-1 when we were at home. The team we're playing today, lost to Boston College at their own stadium last year! Yet we're somehow 15 points underdog in our house who lost to a team we beat.
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Strange to mention their loss to BCU but not mention they beat us 41-10 (31-3 at halftime) in a blowout that could have been much worse.

The line is fair, but I think UConn covers.
 
WingU-Conn said:
Strange to mention their loss to BCU but not mention they beat us 41-10 (31-3 at halftime) in a blowout that could have been much worse.

The line is fair, but I think UConn covers.
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Hmm, what's strange to me is being negative in a thread about optimism. That's a fun party game.

My larger point, which seems to be missed, is that we're been a bigger underdog before and we won. We won a lot of games last year where experts and even our OWN fans dismissed our chances of winning. It would be nice if that changed, you know?
 
I feel pretty good. Some very good returning players, more time in the system and healthy QBs who have played in college before. Some tough games, but I expect UConn to be competitive tonight against a good NC State team.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
I think a large part of my optimism is the lack of "yeah, but....." on the program.

Even last year. Optimistic?

Yeah, but there's a new staff.
Yeah, but we don't know how Roberson will perform at QB or how any of the back ups would perform.
Yeah, but we still have some unknowns on the OLine and how will Guidone mesh.
Yeah, but our kicker, who was really good in 2021, got hurt and we don't know how that position will be.
Yeah, but our 2-deep still has a bunch of freshmen and RFresh and we don't know if they're ready.


What "yeah, but...." does this roster and staff have?

Right now my only "Yeah, but" is whether they have improved enough to the point where an NCST team that curb stomped UConn last year and won the game before 1st quarter was over, now has to play their first string all game and run their offense all game.
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This. The only questions are how much better will we be, and how do we translate being better into more wins. But the roster, compared with the post-injury roster we were looking at at 1-4, is absolutely better and deeper.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I feel pretty good. Some very good returning players, more time in the system and healthy QBs who have played in college before. Some tough games, but I expect UConn to be competitive tonight against a good NC State team.
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I feel good too. My only worry is that a lot of our wins last year did have an element of luck to them. I hope we can replace that with an improved passing game and increased morale.
 
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FWIW, I was at the barber for my pre-game haircut and the mood was upbeat. Folks were talking about UConn a bit. One guy said "You can buy season tickets for 60 bucks? I'm gonna do it."
 
SuperHuski said:
Hmm, what's strange to me is being negative in a thread about optimism. That's a fun party game.
My larger point, which seems to be missed, is that we're been a bigger underdog before and we won. We won a lot of games last year where experts and even our OWN fans dismissed our chances of winning. It would be nice if that changed, you know?
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I didn't dismiss our CHANCES of winning I just said the line is fair and i think we cover. If you interpret that as being negative, that's on you.

I wouldn't be shocked if we pulled off the upset. But I don't have to ignore a ridiculous complaint about the spread when you use a transitive argument while ignoring the head-to-head results.
 
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