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Perhaps being UNCOMMON isn't a good thing.

BE BEST!!!!

;);)
 
Patman said:
You sound like a typical UConn fan, everything is trash, coaches don't know what they're doing, lets bury the program, fire everybody.
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In fairness to the typical UConn going on 14 years of consistently bad, losing football is hardly a typical fan experience. When .500 is your aspiration and a banner year, there are real problems.
 
This is year 3 of his tenure and if the opening game of the season is a sign of things to come, no one, the boosters, administration or fans will be happy.

The schedule is friendly to help reach a bowl game.

MD is a solid team, but we made them look like Alabama.

Let's see how the next game goes. As they say, one game at a time.

It was a bad game. I'll leave it at that.
 
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PackTheRent said:
More is fine, but our assistant coaches are bad due to lack of money in program
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At this point they could hire Connor Stalions for cheap once his suspension is up. I'm not even really joking much either, say what you will about that kid but hes a genius regarding football. After watching that piece on Netflix about him, I actually came away more impressed.
 
Hamms30 said:
ESPN's FPI had Maryland at 27. UConn at 125. What did people think was going to happen with 125 vs 27?
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There is still an unrealistic expectation of the place the football team is in. You can’t criticize the football team for its weaknesses when we have essentially made it impossible for them to compete.

They are trying, and maybe at the G5 level they can be middle of the road as an Indy. But they aren’t going to suddenly be a mid tier power 5 team, much less top 25.
 
Interesting discussion. I need more data to participate but they will be in hand in three days at 1530 hours. The central question to be answered is whether or not the disastrous score of last weekend represented a foreshadowing of something really bad this weekend. A 14+ point W would go a long way to calming our apprehensions. Anything less would be concerning. I was a Mora skeptic, but he said the right things and won me over. But we are now in the rubber meets the road phase. The trend better be up this year or one has to ask what is the point of continuing on the current contract. And btw, I was hoping UConn would get Chesney last time.
 
JohnFSilver said:
There is still an unrealistic expectation of the place the football team is in. You can’t criticize the football team for its weaknesses when we have essentially made it impossible for them to compete.

They are trying, and maybe at the G5 level they can be middle of the road as an Indy. But they aren’t going to suddenly be a mid tier power 5 team, much less top 25.
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I don't think anyone was expecting that.

We brought in lots of new transfers and spent "a lot" on NIL to bring in players. But in the limited data we've seen ... almost no improvement, not even on the basics. The play calling was also less than inspiring, to put it kindly.

Episode 1 Tns GIF by THE NEXT STEP


Is it so much to ask for some small measure of real improvement from year to year?
 
JohnFSilver said:
There is still an unrealistic expectation of the place the football team is in. You can’t criticize the football team for its weaknesses when we have essentially made it impossible for them to compete.

They are trying, and maybe at the G5 level they can be middle of the road as an Indy. But they aren’t going to suddenly be a mid tier power 5 team, much less top 25.
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John do you work PR for the school football team or something? LOL. Good Grief dude. I don't think there is an unrealistic expectation at ALL. Not even a little bit. I've followed this program from there transition from 1AA to 1A (at the time it was called) and they are VASTLY worse NOW-on par with the 2000-2001 teams when we were transitioning. The 02-03 teams would kick this team and last years teams @SS. I know FCS teams that would soundly beat us. That's not asking much, that's just asking to be competitive. Someone else mentioned Vegas had this game I think at 16.5 and we lost by 43!!! That's telling right there. We underperformed by a mile what Vegas thought we would lose by. LOL. Coming off a 3-8 season last year that was HUGELY disappointing with a veteran team no less. You need to wake up brother....wow...your "expectation" is literally no expectation at all I guess.
 
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jayp123669 said:
John do you work PR for the school football team or something? LOL. Good Grief dude. I don't think there is an unrealistic expectation at ALL. Not even a little bit. I've followed this program from there transition from 1AA to 1A (at the time it was called) and they are VASTLY worse NOW-on par with the 2000-2001 teams when we were transitioning. The 02-03 teams would kick this team and last years teams @SS. I know FCS teams that would soundly beat us. That's not asking much, that's just asking to be competitive. Someone else mentioned Vegas had this game I think at 16.5 and we lost by 43!!! That's telling right there. We underperformed by a mile what Vegas thought we would lose by. LOL. Coming off a 3-8 season last year that was HUGELY disappointing with a veteran team no less. You need to wake up brother....wow...your "expectation" is literally no expectation at all I guess.
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The unrealistic expectation thing is so weird. The team has been putrid for a dozen years. Like probably the biggest laughingstock in all of college football. It's not unreasonable to think they should be better than rock bottom.
 
The measuring stick rapidly approaches. Calibration of last weekend's result is almost at hand.
 
I would like to point out that Mora’s best season was with Edsall 2.0’s players. By no means am I am Edsall supporter, but what does that say about Mora?
 
Hogoff said:
I would like to point out that Mora’s best season was with Edsall 2.0’s players. By no means am I am Edsall supporter, but what does that say about Mora?
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If that is true, my goodness the truth hurts. Us UConn Football fans are like a beaten down boxer/MMA fighter with a broken nose and ribs that is staggering in the ring/octagon.

Posts like yours, although informative, are like another jab we can't take as we struggle to keep our balance.

I was somewhat excited about the Jim Mora hire simple because he is a big name and he was obtained for a good price. But after last week, I am really questioning whether he was the right hire. I hope this post does not age well and does not age correctly.
 
gsmooth said:
If that is true, my goodness the truth hurts. Us UConn Football fans are like a beaten down boxer/MMA fighter with a broken nose and ribs that is staggering in the ring/octagon.

Posts like yours, although informative, are like another jab we can't take as we struggle to keep our balance.

I was somewhat excited about the Jim Mora hire simple because he is a big name and he was obtained for a good price. But after last week, I am really questioning whether he was the right hire. I hope this post does not age well and does not age correctly.
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I was excited too, especially after the first year. But looking at what has happed after, and what happened at UCLA, I see a pattern.
 
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Hogoff said:
I would like to point out that Mora’s best season was with Edsall 2.0’s players. By no means am I am Edsall supporter, but what does that say about Mora?
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It makes me wonder if those players are the ones that actually cared.
 
Patman said:
well, the NIL era arrived and the better ones left
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And thus there is a very substantial structural barrier in place to recovering UConn's FB program. A barrier that may be impossible to surmount.
 
How Sway?! said:
Per AD Dave and Storrs Central, we are spending upper G5 money in football. Coach Mora needs to start producing top G5 results
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From what I have seen, that is not the case. We are maybe 20th in G5 at best, which is slightly better than 50th percentile.

The larger issue though is that when the pay for play gets instituted, the payments are based on revenue, revenue that does not include university or state support. The cap for us would be less than half of the lowest P5 team.

If the proposal they are talking about now happens, we would literally be unable to pay our athletes half of what the BiG12 teams pay. We would need to raise the athletic revenue to be able to compete, but in order to raise the revenue, we would first have to be competitive.
 
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Dizzy21 said:
From what I have seen, that is not the case. We are maybe 20th in G5 at best, which is slightly better than 50th percentile.

The larger issue though is that when the pay for play gets instituted, the payments are based on revenue, revenue that does not include university or state support. The cap for us would be less than half of the lowest P5 team.

If the proposal they are talking about now happens, we would literally be unable to pay our athletes half of what the BiG12 teams pay. We would need to raise the athletic revenue to be able to compete, but in order to raise the revenue, we would first have to be competitive.
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why the hell would there be a cap? I don't see no union.
 
Hogoff said:
I would like to point out that Mora’s best season was with Edsall 2.0’s players. By no means am I am Edsall supporter, but what does that say about Mora?
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That he's been here for only two seasons plus a game?
 
Hogoff said:
True. We will see what the season brings. I hope I’m wrong. Hell, I’d love to be wrong!!!
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Saturday is the calibration. Is UConn really that bad this year? Yes or No? There should be no psychological excuses.
 
Patman said:
why the hell would there be a cap? I don't see no union.
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Because the Power 2 are negotiating the settlement and want a built in advantage. The cap I am seeing is 22% of the athletic revenue with a max of $22 million. UConn would be able to spend a max of $6.5 million and the average big 12 school around $14 million. Most power 2 would be at or near the max.
 
Dizzy21 said:
Because the Power 2 are negotiating the settlement and want a built in advantage. The cap I am seeing is 22% of the athletic revenue with a max of $22 million. UConn would be able to spend a max of $6.5 million and the average big 12 school around $14 million. Most power 2 would be at or near the max.
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Well, it isn't going to happen because imposing such a cap on future players will also be found illegal
 
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