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Biggest Single 72 Hour Upgrade in Talent

Chin Diesel said:
I'm not going to say everyone added since the weekend will be great.
But overall, this is the largest upgrade in talent based off D1 production this program has ever had.
No FCS players. All FBS and many with a bunch of snaps on file.
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maybe the NIL money is starting to come through? Just thinking outloud based on nothing
 
AD DB Burner said:
I wouldn't call this a very difficult schedule nor a schedule filled with a lot of high-level competition.

Yes, you can chalk up the Maryland game and three ACC games as likely losses, but outside of that, every other game should be considered winnable. Aside from Wake, they are slated to only face one other top-100 SP+ team at home. Go 5-2 at home and win the UMass game on the road and you have your 6-6 season. I don't feel that is all that unreasonable.

45. MarylandAway
MerrimackHome
48. DukeAway
114. FAUHome
130. BuffaloHome
128. TempleHome
72. Wake ForestHome
92. RiceHome
116. Georgia St.Home
101. UABAway
61. SyracuseAway
118. UMassAway
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Duke and Maryland strike me as teams getting worse idk if we win I don't think its 80-90% we'd lose, Syracuse I don't feel confident at all, but Wake @ home is winnable, my expectations are 6-6 but 8-4 (or if I'm feeling insane 9-3) is decently potential
 
huskidork said:
Duke and Maryland strike me as teams getting worse idk if we win I don't think its 80-90% we'd lose, Syracuse I don't feel confident at all, but Wake @ home is winnable, my expectations are 6-6 but 8-4 (or if I'm feeling insane 9-3) is decently potential
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Wow. You guys are crazy optimistic. I just hope we can beat Georgia State, Temple and UAB.

And I mean crazy.
 
businesslawyer said:
You need to be better at math. How long ago do you think were the two years we tied for the Big East Championship? (Actually, if you are really good at math, then you can’t recognize football talent.)
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Donald Brown, Todman, Dixon, Sherman, Beatty ……. Hard to say that we’re that good.

I could continue. We have certainly upgraded. We’ll prove talent in the field.



Certainly an improvement. Go Huskies.
 
What I like the most about the portal kids coming, most have several years of eligibility remaining. This does nothing but help the team for the next few years. It gives UConn instant experience that will get plugged in and hopefully adapt easily to the play scheme. Secondly, it gives some of the younger guys some time to develop and learn. Mora is absolutely going all in on next season. I'm feeling a good 14-0 on the season and a NC.
 
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Windham4th said:
If we win each game by 70 points do you think we make the playoff?
Ill Be Back Jim Carrey GIF
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I'll do you one better, we beat everyone by at least 3 touchdowns until the Championship game where we blowout FSU as redemption for them voting against us in realignment.
 
businesslawyer said:
You need to be better at math. How long ago do you think were the two years we tied for the Big East Championship? (Actually, if you are really good at math, then you can’t recognize football talent.)
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Meant 15. Can’t type on this stupid phone
 
businesslawyer said:
Well, except parking near the stadium and getting a good seat. Both of those have been easy for a long time.
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Don’t forget to show your phone (twice) to get into the lot, then the gates.
 
Patman said:
maybe the NIL money is starting to come through? Just thinking outloud based on nothing
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I think the NIL influence is clear. According to Chin this whole group is FBS and the fire sale feel to it speaks to “SOMETHINGS DIFFERENT”
Remember how jealous you’d be when an SEC school would come out of a recruiting weekend with a slew of 4* & 5* commits. This had that kind of feel(not all 4's and 5's, but better talent+experience). We go 8-4 and you’ll see more NIL show up next year.
 
It's Spring/Summer, time for UConn Football fans to be crazy optimistic. I agree this off season does feel a bit different but I am going to wait to see how well these guys do on the field before I get excited. The portal and NIL sorta feels like those hype videos from previous off seasons of the guys pumping iron in the weight room...just like getting stronger/faster in the offseason, every other team is also working the portal and dishing out NIL $$. The question is are we lapping our competition or just keeping up with the Jones's?

I bought into the optimism last year. I bought extra season tickets and extra parking passes because everyone I knew wanted to go to a game after 2022. We had a huge turnout for NC State and then, I couldn't give my tickets away.

businesslawyer said:
Well, except parking near the stadium and getting a good seat. Both of those have been easy for a long time.
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Yep, a silver lining...parking steps from the gate and having extra tickets to go out and tailgate at halftime and go back in...
 
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Skiblets said:
Great to see. Two NIL efforts and the Burton family back into the fold. Add in Mora and staff upgrading and filling holes. Well done all around Hope it translates this fall
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If JM turns this into a winning program and we get an invitation to a P League with lots of media money coming to us the Burton family should be deified with a special logo on the field.......
 
Patman said:
maybe the NIL money is starting to come through? Just thinking outloud based on nothing
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Won't get into specifics, but the NIL budget this year is significantly higher than last year. IYKYK.

Make no mistake, if we continue to gain momentum in the NIL space, the football program will be competitive again. Mora was very public about our NIL struggles last year, so there's probably a good amount of pressure to deliver this year now that donors have stepped up to some extent. Not saying they need to go 10-2, but they absolutely cannot and should not be 3-9 again.
 
giddyup said:
Going to be a little rough around the edges in the beginning but this the most talent we’ve had in 25 years. There are more than a handful of real FBS players in the stable.
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Fiesta Bowl for 1000 Alex!
 
GoConn said:
It's simply time to just go undefeated, who is with me?
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This would be our second undefeated season joining the highly touted 2020 season where the NYT's crowned UConn football as the real national champions. Even more impressive was that Edsall was able to accomplish it with his hands tied behind his back.
 
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Its fair to say that Mora was laying low and preparing to make a splash in the portal. He realized that talk is cheap and apparently he decided playing cheerleader wasn't working anyway. I respect the attitude he seems to have adopted. Its great to see he has been working hard the whole time and that our concerns that he was drifting away were misplaced. To say that the last few days of commits is anything but a shocking surprise would be an understatement. Great job by the staff and the AD to make things happen. Obviously, it needs to translate on the field, but we've clearly upgraded the roster. So here we are, another summer and I'm getting sucked right back in---and I love it.
 
Hoophound said:
Its fair to say that Mora was laying low and preparing to make a splash in the portal. He realized that talk is cheap and apparently he decided playing cheerleader wasn't working anyway. I respect the attitude he seems to have adopted. Its great to see he has been working hard the whole time and that our concerns that he was drifting away were misplaced. To say that the last few days of commits is anything but a shocking surprise would be an understatement. Great job by the staff and the AD to make things happen. Obviously, it needs to translate on the field, but we've clearly upgraded the roster. So here we are, another summer and I'm getting sucked right back in---and I love it.
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I'd still say long way to go and we are hoping for things from guys who didn't see a lot of time so we are looking at players who were as good as they were rated coming in. Either way it should be better than what we had
 
I’m prepared to guarantee that we will have one of the best records of all the independents.

In reality I think Mora was a bit embarrassed by last year’s performance. AD Dave said he wants wants the top G5 program but Coach want the top program. I think he is working toward at least the first gosl
 
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UConnDan97 said:
With you???

I've been here WAITING for you...
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Hysterical, was reading GoConn’s undefeated posts and trying to remember who the guy was that always predicted undefeated seasons…..UConnDan97! Maybe in a few years you guys will be predicting ANOTHER UNDEFEATED SEASON!!
#SomethingsDifferent!!
Go Huskies!!
 
thoroughly enjoying the number of pessimistic optimists in the thread - "we suck every year but i'm back!" - lol love u guys, seriously.

my feelings after these 72 hours are somewhat more measured.

i'm honestly not excited for wins, cuz this team really sucks until they prove otherwise to me.

BUT - i'm hoping as a starting point, we can look and feel like an actual FBS team. Wins aside, since i became a fan in 2018, i've gotten seriously tired of being an OBVIOUS FCS team (and a MID one, at that) who was only dressed in FBS clothes. I'm tired of sending out boys who have no business being on an FBS field, and to be confirmed in my suspicion when they transfer out just to get picked up by the likes of Merrimack and Fordham. I'm tired of slow receivers, undersized running backs, inaccurate QBs, corners who can't cover, and d-lines that just. don't. get to the QB.

My first ever game as a uconn fan was the boise state game, week 2 2018 - absolutely pitiful.

Even in our 6-7 2022 season, we did not truly look the part, which matters to a Big-12 or ACC commish, and which i believe is why that season did not help us land the Power invite everyone was hoping for last summer.

please note i'm venting about my entire experience from 2018 to today - i know there are select counter examples to the contrary (Jackson MItchell, Christian Haynes), but the overall theme i saw was this. And all of football america casually saw it too, and have made fun of us ad nauseum in the twitterverse and in media. Those voices matter. Perception matters. And we have lost the battle to this day.

I apologize for my pessimistic pessimism. But until I see a UConn team pass the eyeball test, i.e. obvious fully-merited FBS-level competency across all 3 phases of the game, and particularly in the passing offense, I cannot even begin to expect wins.

Rooting for them regardless. let's go Jim Mora & boys, I so want to see you win and celebrate.
 
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Bigger question is how do you randomly decide to be a UConn fan? Kid went there? If not, you may have issues with self-hatred. There may be medicine to help you stop being a UConn fan...
 
Woof 101 said:
I hope you do realize there are only us and two left. One being Notre Dame. ;)
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I hope you do realize that was some serious tongue in cheek!

Hoops over, spring ball over, portaling maybe one or two more, 2025 recrtg not heating up yet, ITS SILLY SEASON or nothing better to do season
 
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