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50% of the time they're right everytimeThat escalated really fast.
50% of the time they're right everytimeThat escalated really fast.
Good lord I can't believe someone can lie to themselves like this.
1. Teams that stink lose games. It does not matter if they are good at one piece of the sport. If they lose to bad teams like Temple and Western Michigan that is a sign your team is bad.
I'm going to break some news to you. 5-7 against that schedule with the players they had on defense was a ing embarrassment.
Next year's roster is worse and the schedule is tougher. This seems obvious - yet you don't want to see it. Sure Western Michigan kicked the crap out of UConn in 2012. I'm sure worse players will beat Michigan next year.
2. Yeah I said Kevin Ollie seems pretty good. Sorry I was talking about the general excellence of Calhoun's career.
While UConn has pulled a couple upsets this year you do realize that team is like the 50th best team in country right?
I will spell it out for you in chapter and verse. If UConn does not get into at least the ACC the program is done. Dead and buried when compared to the last two decades.
3. Equivalent is just as silly. You post what you want to be true. Either you don't actually follow college basketball outside of UConn or you are being willfully ignorant.
Either way I'll do my best to ignore your nonsense. You'll notice that you started this by pretending to take my sarcastic reply seriously.
You and Weyou and a handful of people want to pretend you can live what has happened to this athletic program. Good for ing you guys. I'm not willing to sit back and pretend I'm happy playing ing Memphis and Tulane and SMU.
Best part is I piss and moan and you are Johnny Positive. I'll be at the XL Center tomorrow and you won't.
Good lord I can't believe someone can lie to themselves like this.
1. Teams that stink lose games. It does not matter if they are good at one piece of the sport. If they lose to bad teams like Temple and Western Michigan that is a sign your team is bad.
I'm going to break some news to you. 5-7 against that schedule with the players they had on defense was a ing embarrassment.
Next year's roster is worse and the schedule is tougher. This seems obvious - yet you don't want to see it. Sure Western Michigan kicked the crap out of UConn in 2012. I'm sure worse players will beat Michigan next year.
2. Yeah I said Kevin Ollie seems pretty good. Sorry I was talking about the general excellence of Calhoun's career.
While UConn has pulled a couple upsets this year you do realize that team is like the 50th best team in country right?
I will spell it out for you in chapter and verse. If UConn does not get into at least the ACC the program is done. Dead and buried when compared to the last two decades.
3. Equivalent is just as silly. You post what you want to be true. Either you don't actually follow college basketball outside of UConn or you are being willfully ignorant.
Either way I'll do my best to ignore your nonsense. You'll notice that you started this by pretending to take my sarcastic reply seriously.
You and Weyou and a handful of people want to pretend you can live what has happened to this athletic program. Good for ing you guys. I'm not willing to sit back and pretend I'm happy playing ing Memphis and Tulane and SMU.
Best part is I piss and moan and you are Johnny Positive. I'll be at the XL Center tomorrow and you won't.
The idea that your viewpoint is more accurate than Dan's just because your's is negative and his is positive is horse crap. If everyone on the basketball team returns next year we will probably be ranked top 15 preseason, it also appears that Ollie is a very capable recruiter, not many people can accurately state that they were Lebron Jame's paid mentor, so there is every reason to believe the basketball future is bright especially with the basketball palace under construction.
As far as football is concerned, many felt that GDL was a big part of the problem and he has been largely eliminated from the equation, everyone of significance other than Ryan Griffin returns to the offense, and there are enough returning pieces on defense to expect a continuation of excellence on that side of the ball, (assuming Hughes can adequately replace Don Brown).
Here are 4 things that aren't debatable:
1) Optimists in general are more successful than pessimists
2) Pessimists are far more annoying on sports message boards than optimists.
3) You would never, ever want a pessimist coaching your sports team.
4) Next year's football schedule is outstanding and should be something to look forward to.
The vast majority of the time you don't replace Wilson, Gratz, Moore and Williams as well as others without some drop off. I get painted as negative yet I seem to be one who recognizes in these discussions how good those players were.
It jumped up a notch.
Dan is correct I should have said about the 40th best team in the country.
My viewpoint on the basketball being better in the New C7 league than the Big East going forward is based on looking at the actual quality of the teams that look to be involved. Unless you think the computers are wrong across the board. That's not a positive or negative viewpoint - That's the objective reality.
I like Ollie a lot and he's done a very nice job in his first year. Nobody has any idea if he can recruit in the new league.
As for the football team there is almost no way the defense will be as good as it was this year. The vast majority of the time you don't replace Wilson, Gratz, Moore and Williams as well as others without some drop off. I get painted as negative yet I seem to be one who recognizes in these discussions how good those players were.
The offense probably can't be worse. It may not improve more than the defense falls off and the schedule you mentioned is much tougher than 2012. Even if the team is better they might not win more games.
You don't just lose two NFL CBs and not expect to take a hit. I don't care how good the guys behind him are. Gratz and Wilson were hardly perfect when they moved up to the #1 spots. Their performance this season was the product of years of practice and many games under their belts. It's almost as if the defense is starting over.
We got behind in games with last year's offense. Just in order to compete, we had better be explosive on offense. Like, really explosive. Otherwise some of these games are going to be ugly.
Oh by the way, our two most explosive receivers were Tight Ends, and both of those guys are gone. Has anyone seen what we have left in that dept?
Yeah and Nick Williams is gone but we ignore his loss on offense and specials. No one has shown any ability to return kicks yet.
You don't just lose two NFL CBs and not expect to take a hit. I don't care how good the guys behind him are. Gratz and Wilson were hardly perfect when they moved up to the #1 spots. Their performance this season was the product of years of practice and many games under their belts. It's almost as if the defense is starting over.
We got behind in games with last year's offense. Just in order to compete, we had better be explosive on offense. Like, really explosive. Otherwise some of these games are going to be ugly.
Oh by the way, our two most explosive receivers were Tight Ends, and both of those guys are gone. Has anyone seen what we have left in that dept?
You're right.
Nobody should expect the defense to be as good as it was last year. Last year it was scary-good. You don't easily replace Gratz, Blidi, Sio, Trevardo, and Jory. But it doesn't mean that we shouldn't have a good defense next year. There is a great deal of anticipation for Graham Stewart to fill in one of the LB spots. Donohue is a veteran linebacker who is also expected to produce, and we also have Vann and Ashiru as well. We should have a good linebacking group, along with Yawin.
As far as the corners go, we will also be weaker. We will need Mack to step up, along with guys like Stephenson. We may even see a safety shift over to corner before the Spring Game.
As far as the ends go, losing Trevardo hurts a lot, but getting Joseph back helps a lot. Add that to the fact that Pruitt and Norris have an extra year under their belts, and we should be as good on the ends as we were last year. At DT, we may be even better (although Wirth was a good player). Myers, Campenni, and Stephen are a year bigger and better. Add to that newcomers in Fatukasi, as well as ends Holines and Jalen Stevens, and I think we are going to have a really really solid front seven.
So in summation, you're right that we may no longer be a top20 defense in the country. But we should still be really good...
Honestly, I don't think you truly understand how good the defense was last year. We basically had a top flight SEC type defense. Even some SEC defenses don't have two NFL caliber corners. The drop off will be much bigger than you comprehend, there is some talent coming along, but it will take a season or two for them to mature.
And if the offensive improvement isn't commensurate with the defense's degradation then we are in for a long season.
Thank god for Smallwood.
Honestly, I don't think you truly understand how good the defense was last year. We basically had a top flight SEC type defense. Even some SEC defenses don't have two NFL caliber corners. The drop off will be much bigger than you comprehend, there is some talent coming along, but it will take a season or two for them to mature.
And if the offensive improvement isn't commensurate with the defense's degradation then we are in for a long season.
Thank god for Smallwood.
Just one man - HuskyfanDan.8) NCAA hoops credit money
9) Exit fee money
etc.
I think that the people out there who are mad at Aresco for not yet making a tv contract happen for the Big East really have to understand how much of an absolute clusterf#$k it has been up to this point. There are so many moving parts, along with the need to cover members in a 1-year contract in order to hold them to the exit timing (Ville, Rutgers, C-7), as well as the effect that the 1-year contract pricing will have on the long-term contract pricing....who on earth would envy this guy's job???