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This was actually funny. Well done.
before you kill diaco
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31GuardTrap
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At Thursday's radio show, I am going to request we just go for 2 the rest of the year.
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Thanks Sherlock. You're right and everyone else is wrong. We should have demanded that we go from Old Dominion to Alabama all at once, instead of over a reasonable period of time.
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It's amazing the negativity.
UConn won the respect of people in Missouri, I can tell you that (from friends and family there). They opened some eyes of SEC fans. Some people went "whoa". Meanwhile, those kids earned a measure of self confidence that will carry forward. Playing straight up with nationally ranked SEC teams on the road, that isn't nothing. They know it. Coach knows it. Most of us know it. Recruits know it, and the football media knows it. Everybody but that guy apparently.
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Bat Shot Bob -
He is our Bob.
His recruiting looks like a major improvement - his game day needs a lot of improvement. End of Army last, this year and now the 'I don't have confidence in the blocking for kicks so I will trot out the kick formation and throw with the cold QB, again.'
The kids played great.
He is our Bob.
His recruiting looks like a major improvement - his game day needs a lot of improvement. End of Army last, this year and now the 'I don't have confidence in the blocking for kicks so I will trot out the kick formation and throw with the cold QB, again.'
The kids played great.
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Lolol.
I read the post game quotes and thought the same thing. Uh, Coach, if you didn't like the blocking in the middle, umm, why'd ya put the FG unit out there? Thanks for the laugh. He's a nutjob. But so far its working.
We're going to have a discipline test this weekend. I'm more excited for this game than I could have possibly imagined a month ago.
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Yup. Here's the thing -- we don't know how good we are this year at the level we compete at. The wins against Army and 'Nova don't show me that there aren't still 90 teams better than us. The loss to MIzzou doesn't show me how many teams there are worse than us. Are we #50 -- which means having a chance to win the AAC -- or are we #90, which means desperately trying to scratch to 6 wins, or are we something in between?
Given how different we are from last year, I just dont' know. We may learn a lot more on Saturday.
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We went on the road to play an overrated but ranked SEC team, and just as easily could have won the game as lost it. Do we get credit for winning? Nope. At the end of the day, we weren't good enough to get it done. But if you're not jumping with joy at the year to year improvement, and realizing we wouldn't have stayed within 30 of them on the road last year, you're an idiot or a troll. Or, most likely, both.
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Hopefully he can get us into the Big 10 also!
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I've seen enough of 200 level Diaco defense to think that we're going to be able to hang with anybody in the AAC conference. We're going to get tested by some of the programs in our conference for sure, that are building offenses. Houston for example. Diaco is nothing, as I"Ve noted umpteen times if not eccentric, entertaining and very consistent and given the position he's gotten himself too in life, it goes to reason that everything about the guy suggests he's very intelligent, which means that when developing his plan for the UCONN program, he's looked at our conference competition and what it will be, and what we'll need to be on D to compete.
I agree that this week is a tough test. Navy plays a brand of football that forces you to be disciplined, or superior in physical matchups across the board - and if you are both, you can beat them pretty easily. Like Army - the best way to stop Navy's offense - is to keep them off the field. Unlike Army, Navy can play defense. I don't expect to roll up offense like we did against Army - but we might - who knows. No matter what - Bill Parcells old rule of thumb which is completely not based not any sort of valid mathematics is that for every 100 yards of positive field yardage - you should have 7 points. We need to get that kind of rule of thumb going with our offense.
We do that, and score when we need to, and we can win this game. Make less mistakes than they make.
Ridiculous. Coaching deserves it's share of blame, especially if it doesn't get better. But at some point the players have to execute. Diaco didn't shank multiple punts, he didn't mess up a snap, didn't miss field goals, didn't hit the punt returner early twice. Maybe he needs to emphasize some of this stuff in practice more, or be more hands on, or change the players roles on special teams. Obviously something has to change, but that doesn't absolve players of responsibility.
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I'm stunned that so many are putting more weight on the final play call than the successful effort it took to take this team from that SMU home game to the having a chance to win late on the SEC road. It's like they were just ready to go off the guy the first chance they got..
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I see where you are coming from - we have made progress.
More weight, not necessarily.
Glaringly bad play call - every arm chair QB saw it that way and its hard to overlook. Not waiting to go off on the guy but his reason for not kicking and the play they ultimately ran makes no sense - and that happens often with Bob, not just on game day. And he would have gotten mucho kudos for winning.
The credit for the chance to win late goes to the kids - the credit of running the third fake ST play of the game goes to the coach.
That's the life of a coach and QB.
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I haven't seen that at all on the board. I see most posters ecstatic with the progress we've made and appropriately pissed off about the last play call.
Calling a fake FG there was beyond dumb, and Diaco deserves the criticism he's getting for it. But it doesn't mean we still can't be happy with the progress.
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I haven't seen any posts from Perfect Hair, so things must be looking up.
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The coach doesn't get credit for going to an empty backfield on the last drive that moved the ball? Or having the players prepared so they pull off the change effectively?
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Why can't we do both?
The improvement from last year is remarkable, and they had an absolutely perfect game plan against Missouri. Overall, I'm ecstatic with Saturday's performance, as well as the direction this team is going.
But the play call was inexcusable, and this is coming from someone who was firmly against them kicking a field goal in that situation. Just run your best offensive play with your best offensive unit on the field. And if you're gonna try a fake, don't use the same exact one you used earlier in the game.
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Verducci most likely yes, Bob, most likely, no. All your examples are offensive, in more ways than one, most likely Bat Shot Bob has nothing to do with that - but I could be wrong.
If Diaco is calling the offensive plays - sure. If he told Verducci to go empty back - sure. We don't know so it is hyperbole. If it comes out that what you stated actually occurred I will give him that credit, otherwise I will go off the reasonable assumption he stays out of the offense - but I could be wrong.
I would ASSUME a reasonable football mind like yours would agree Bob Diaco decided the third special teams fake play call of the game - he gets the credit. I am not wrong here.
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I'm assuming that it was touched on, but maybe not. I read something last week from St.Louis writer about Mizzou coaches quoting Verducci's offense as 'plodding.' I remember it, because it's a good word. Plodding.
In the first half, we were the plodding offense we've been through 2 games. In the second half, we were anything but. It's good to see that ability to change pace. I'm not going to go as far as to give credit for changing in game, because I think it was planned all along that we would play the second half like that on O, but it's good to know that if we find an offensive game plan not working, we have the ability to change, rather than scrapping the entire playbook, like what happened last year in the first quarter of a game.
I could be wrong, but the second half offense all the way up to the last drive looked a lot like the life we had against ECU last year on that side of the ball.
Sooner or later, Colonel Hannibal Smith's "I love it when a plan comes together" is really going to apply to Diaco and our Huskies, and it will be a championship.
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It's the QB chainsaw start signal that gave it away to me, for anybody reading.
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Stay with me here. Let's say we still lost the game but had tied it on a Puyol FG and then lost in OT. The reports would have said "Mizzou wins in OT". Big deal. Losing the way we did got us noticed. All over the country. in every media outlet, on Twitter etc. So we tried an ill advised fake FG, but in doing so got fans all over the nation to take notice of UConn-- the amazingly close score, the huge defensive effort, the fact that we stayed on that field and almost beat the SEC East winner from last year. Think about that. UConn hasn't been noticed for years!!!! Not even a ripple in the conversation. I don't mind any of the ridicule for the play call. I love the attention. When we beat Navy and BYU there'll be a different take by the media on that Mizzou game." But for a bad call at the end of the Mizzou game, UConn would be 5-0".
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I wish I could like this 5 times, because not even I can make the leap that Diaco intended to make that last fake FG call, to generate attention to UCONN football. Bravo. Bravissimo!
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Is there a sort of like button?
I don't want to debate your dream as I like your thought process...
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The Tin Cup moment of UCONN football! What's the difference between an 18 on the final hole of of the U.S. open and the final fake field goal. The only problem is someone might remember who won the game, but right now "they" are talking about the play.
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Just got back to my hotel room in Tulsa, turned on TV and the talk was about the play, and the play call. "At least Diaco was going for the win, usually that's laudable". Mizzou won the SEC EAST the last TWO years." Let's see what it all means"
I say keep on talking about the Huskies.
I say keep on talking about the Huskies.
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In keeping with the last couple posts...Dan LeBatard mentioned Diaco's "cantaloupes" on his ESPN radio show this morning. Said the call was crazy, but he loved it. I agree - crazy, but a very endearing kind of crazy.
National broadcasts are talking about UCONN. It's been a long time since that's happened.
National broadcasts are talking about UCONN. It's been a long time since that's happened.
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I apologize for my comments coming across as harsh as they did, I meant no disrespect to the team or to our fan base. I would just like to see more offense and less of it by me on this board. LOL
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Waquoit said:
I can't believe we are surprised by that. We should know better by now. We have a fair number of posters indicating that they are off the bandwagon if we lose to Navy, who has the best offense we have faced this year by a wide margin.
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Our group got together and watched the game at my cousin's house. A disappointing ending, yes. However we all agreed it elicited the most out of us as a game had in a very long time. Cant remember when we were so amped at the end of a game.
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It was the first time in a lonnnnnnng time that I was sick to my stomach 3 days after a loss.
I am chalking that up to being a good thing. Now, we move on to Navy and a "disruption to our central nervous systems".
I am chalking that up to being a good thing. Now, we move on to Navy and a "disruption to our central nervous systems".
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