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Perfect Hair said:
He has barely played for BC this year, and lately only becasue their entire secondary was hurt. Philips has played more, but still not a lot.
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I was listening to the BC - FSU game on XM radio and in the second quarter Ty-Meer Brown intercepted Jameis Winston's pass and after that Shakim Phillips caught a 49 yd TD pass in a 20-17 BC loss to FSU.

I hope that Jefferson and the coaching staff can work things out. Very difficult year. Ashiru is a good football player. Hopefully we will see him back in a UCONN uniform. Hopefully this is not a lost cause and Marquis Vann and staff can work things out with Jefferson.
 
whaler11 said:
My ideal linebackers look a lot more like Smallwood, Moore, Lansanah and Fincher. When you watch them play the name Graham Stewart never crossed your mind.
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I'd settle for Wilson, Lutrus and either of the two Lloyds.
 
mauconnfan said:
Obviously Brian was a PP fan. I mean to write about his accomplishments at the Cuse and dismiss the fact he couldn't win the last few years there either is plain awful reporting, bias to say the least. He was looking for something and found it, good for him!
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It's the second hit job this Cuse hack has written about UConn football.
 
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Dizzy21 said:
So what that article is saying is that Ashiru is a good football player, good person off the field, good student, and had a year of eligibility left, but for some odd reason the coaches wanted their exact prototype of a player not to play there anymore? Seems a bit fishy on the part of the author of the article and Ashiru's dad, and possibly Ashiru. Why on earth would a coach want a player who meets all of his criteria off of the team? That's what makes no sense.
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Why on earth would people on this board come to the conclusion that a guy who's played football for many years is suddenly not tough enough to handle coaches yelling at him as they would any other player? If they were riding him they are smart enough to know they risked riding him off the team. At this level football is too tough a sport to come to practice and have to deal with that if it was happening. Everything just seems to point to a perception being created that we're losing because we have the worst collection of athletes and football players in FBS. When Coach D came in one of the things I liked about his approach was building up the players and how positive he was about his interactions with the guys. That led me to believe we wouldn't see a huge housecleaning and the transition would go smoothly instead of the tearing down the house approach we see now. To me that is not a positive development.
 
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Any news where he's thinking of transferring?
 
Duncan Idaho said:
Tearing down the house was always the plan.
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I believe that - and it's not hard to imagine that 'finding out who wants to play' has been a theme all season. It's been clear to me since the "exhibition" season that winning games was not a focus area for this season. That's tough on the fans, especially those buying tickets and braving tough weather to show support. Hopefully, two or three years in, we can forgive, if not forget, this season.
 
whaler11 said:
The one thing I think I understand about Diaco is that almost everything he says is for a reason.

His comments about cleaning out lockers and kicking people off the team was a desperate attempt to get their attention.

I can't shake the idea that come he!! or high water he was chasing an upperclassman from the team over those two weeks.

So here is the problem: It didn't work. It didn't come close to working. It was the opposite
of working.

It blew up horribly in his face and the team completely no-showed at home. (And if you are going to tell me they put in an effort - that is even worse - at least you can fix quitting).

It happens - these aren't his players and he's made it clear he's not responsible for how poorly they play - but it does mean even if Diaco can recruit and coach this mess is a long way from getting fixed.
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You must have a crystal ball.
 
Dogged said:
You must have a crystal ball.
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Well I don't need a crystal ball for what happened in the past...

I think it's going to take a while to fix. I'd be thrilled to be wrong. Are you willing to give us your near term date where it's fixed?
 
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whaler11 said:
Well I don't need a crystal ball for what happened in the past...

I think it's going to take a while to fix. I'd be thrilled to be wrong. Are you willing to give us your near term date where it's fixed?
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Yes. If you lend me your crystal ball.
 
Dogged said:
Yes. If you lend me your crystal ball.
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Well you clearly disagreed with me. But if you aren't willing to make a call that's fine. If you don't want to go on the record it's probably wiser to stand down.
 
whaler11 said:
Well you clearly disagreed with me. But if you aren't willing to make a call that's fine. If you don't want to go on the record it's probably wiser to stand down.
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"Stand down". Pompous. You are asking me to speculate. I don't. That's your department.
 
Dogged said:
"Stand down". Pompous. You are asking me to speculate. I don't. That's your department.
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Yes it's crazy. Sports fans speculate on what may happen in the future.
 
Three sides to every story - his his and the truth.

We an speculate on where the truth lies but it is not good players leaving team in week 10...

Good luck to JA - would like to know if he is still enrolled at school and graduating this year? If so that opens a ton of transfer opportunities.

Good luck to BD - think you will need it moving forward.
 
Any of these narratives require the following assumptions:

1. Diaco knows what it takes to win FB games.

2. The roster didn't have as many guys that were willing to do what it takes per #1.

3. Diaco tried to teach these guys, but it didn't work out because they are unwilling or incapable.

4. Diaco plans to build a roster of his guys who will.


I am not inclined to accept any of those assumptions as of this moment. So, I can't say whether who's more right. Instead, I'll just focus on games won for a while and stop seeing everything a positive step forward, because I've been told all of this before by RE, PP, and now BD.

At least when Randy did it, he went out an beat Iowa State with a roster more like Fordham's. And thr times he was embarrassed it was by #1 Miami and not Buffalo or Army.
 
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SeoulHuskyFan said:
I believe that - and it's not hard to imagine that 'finding out who wants to play' has been a theme all season. It's been clear to me since the "exhibition" season that winning games was not a focus area for this season. That's tough on the fans, especially those buying tickets and braving tough weather to show support. Hopefully, two or three years in, we can forgive, if not forget, this season.
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Even players like Puyol were given opportunities to show what they can do in game situations though actually meaningless to outcome of the games themselves. The upperclassmen defensive backfield depth, gone in preseason.
Abrams drops balls, gone. Tried cycling some underclassmen OL but they were too much of a liability yet. The TEs are very light, will grow, but cant block for now. You really think players like Frank would be playing much now if Carrezola didn't get hurt? The offense began transitioning during the season with qbs not having the skills to run it. Ashiru was getting subbed for very early in the season. Also explains game management and the following gobbledygook press conferences. Fans and some players of course are going to be pissed. You would think what ever plan he decided to embark on would have been shared with his boss and given its support.
 
Duncan Idaho said:
Even players like Puyol were given opportunities to show what they can do in game situations though actually meaningless to outcome of the games themselves. The upperclassmen defensive backfield depth, gone in preseason.
Abrams drops balls, gone. Tried cycling some underclassmen OL but they were too much of a liability yet. The TEs are very light, will grow, but cant block for now. You really think players like Frank would be playing much now if Carrezola didn't get hurt? The offense began transitioning during the season with qbs not having the skills to run it. Ashiru was getting subbed for very early in the season. Also explains game management and the following gobbledygook press conferences. Fans and some players of course are going to be pissed. You would think what ever plan he decided to embark on would have been shared with his boss and given its support.
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I'm still going to sacrifice a goat in a few hours, proverbially, because I don't want to wait until next year to try to start winning, and I think that knocking a potential conference champ off, at their own house, would be validation for the crapfest, and if I could strap it up, and play I would, but I can't, so the goat will have to do. I hope that some players show up tomorrow, maybe more than 22, and the coaches put them in position on the board to succeed.
 
Carl Spackler said:
I'm still going to sacrifice a goat in a few hours, proverbially, because I don't want to wait until next year to try to start winning, and I think that knocking a potential conference champ off, at their own house, would be validation for the crapfest, and if I could strap it up, and play I would, but I can't, so the goat will have to do. I hope that some players show up tomorrow, maybe more than 22, and the coaches put them in position on the board to succeed.
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While you're at it, ask the goat's spirit or whatever to put your fingers in a position to find the period key and succeed in breaking up those-run on sentences.

I keed, I keed.
 
Any reason why the Courant game evaluation does not list the coaching grade? It seems the only paid positions should be evaluated as well as the student athletes.
 
ctkaiser said:
Any reason why the Courant game evaluation does not list the coaching grade? It seems the only paid positions should be evaluated as well as the student athletes.
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Last thing one of the local media suckers wants to do is give coaching a D+ and then have to go and ask questions of the staff
 
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huskymedic said:
Bet the truth is somewhere in between but...

Brian Koonz: UConn football player deserved better from Diaco
http://www.greenwichtime.com/uconn/article/Brian-Koonz-UConn-football-player-deserved-5920025.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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I'll bet Ashiru's dad would have gotten a response from former AD Jeff Hathaway, which would have read something like this: "Thank you for your interest in UCONN athletics."

Apparently, Warde Manuel hasn't quite grasped the concept of robotic Auto-Reply yet.
 
metsfan2323 said:
The article doesn't refute what Diaco said about the Ashiru situation at all. Diaco said he didn't want to play anymore which probably means play for UCONN.

No doubt Diaco pushed him hard and that is why he quit, but the coaches are supposed to push the players hard no? Do Jim and Geno push their players hard? Just ask Alex Ohriaki and Roscoe Smith and Geno has had a number of players leave for other less demanding programs. Jake Voskhul called his dad after a grueling 2:0o am practice his freshman year wanting to quit because Calhoun was a crazy man.
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No, Jake wanted to quit because he thought Calhoun had legally changed Jake's first name to M'F'er!
 
Bonehead said:
To show your next team/coach you are committed.
Winners dont quit and quitters dont win.
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maybe he wants to concentrate on his studies and getting some work experience through internships before he graduates because he knows there is almost no chance of him making it in the NFL. the sooner he quits the better off he is in regards to finishing the semester strong academically.
 
Sportsman5 said:
maybe he wants to concentrate on his studies and getting some work experience through internships before he graduates because he knows there is almost no chance of him making it in the NFL. the sooner he quits the better off he is in regards to finishing the semester strong academically.
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I hope u are correct!!
 
Without using the words, Diaco just called Brian Koonz a hack and William Paxton is making it known in the Twitterverse.
 
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