DC- UConn Football Coach Diaco Calls November "A Separator" Month

[mikedog10]

http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-football/hc-uconn-tulane-football-1104-20151103-story.html

"We're excited about watching the work and investment done as it relates to November," Diaco said Tuesday at his weekly press conference previewing the upcoming game. "November is a separator."

It will be for UConn, which has three games left. After Tulane, the Huskies have a week off, then finish vs. Houston Nov. 21 at home and at Temple Nov. 28. Both teams are ranked.

"We expect this week of practice to be better than last week's practice," Diaco said. "Why wouldn't we?"

He said the intense week of practice was key to the win over East Carolina after the Huskies were coming off a bad loss to Cincinnati.

I'm excited to see this team continue to grow, and the next step is winning on the road. It may have been easy to get pumped up in practice following the Cincy loss, but it will be important to keep focus and humility after the ECU win.

Tulane has lost 4 in a row, but to good teams... it's possible they are a tough match-up, having already been through their hard stretch... or UConn could punch them in the mouths in the first quarter and make Tulane quit on themselves. I would really love to see UConn win strong two weeks in a row!

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Very likely, Tulane views UCONN as as much of an opportunity for a win as the Huskies, coaches, and fans alike view the Green Wave. Separation step 1: win Saturday. Go UCONN!

 

[ktuck911]

we had ZERO offensive support last year.. Honestly, no disrespect to Tulane, but they look about the same as last year... with their QB situation being shaky this weekend, there's no excuse here for us to take this one. A loss here would be really bad for us... I just don't see us losing though...

 

[Nostical]

Tulane's biggest weakness is their pass defense. Our air attack could go wild. The key on O will be shoring up protection for BS. Do that and we win by 25.

 

[SubbaBub]

I can't decide if Coach uses a word-a-day calendar or just grabs a fist full of scrabble tiles to come up with this stuff. Either way it's entertaining when is doesn't bit him in the butt.

 

[Chin Diesel]

In the article it mentions Garrett Anderson getting snaps last week at FB.

TV announcers said they moved Trey Rutherford as #7 and dude who wore #7 looked huge (Like 6'5" 300lbs huge).

Please tell me the TV announcers were wrong and that the beat writer for the state's largest paper didn't get it wrong five days later.

 

[BugsyCT]

We owe them for last year.

 

[SubbaBub]

In the article it mentions Garrett Anderson getting snaps last week at FB.

TV announcers said they moved Trey Rutherford as #7 and dude who wore #7 looked huge (Like 6'5" 300lbs huge).

Please tell me the TV announcers were wrong and that the beat writer for the state's largest paper didn't get it wrong five days later.

It is not possible to tell you that.

 

[Chin Diesel]

It is not possible to tell you that.

I checked the box score on the Huskies website participation report and the only #7 listed as participation is Green.

I guess we were all wrong.