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Dear AD Dave

Hoophound said:
We were headed in the right direction. We lost our QB, then we lost our coach. It’s brutal out here.
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Seems like we lost some miserable fans too. Lots of hate out there, a lot of it directed at Dave Benedict.
 
CONN78SEJ said:
Seems like we lost some miserable fans too. Lots of hate out there, a lot of it directed at Dave Benedict.
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I don’t think there is any hate, just some fans that are tired of the losing and more so the lack of support by the School. Dave Benedict shoulders a lot of the blame.
 
Bongo Fury said:
Stop with the blame. My eyes told me the players were not interested in competing today. Much like Holy Cross they thought they’d win. They are more talented than those two teams but got their ass kicked.
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"More talented"? How do you figger that?
 
Apparently they figured they were because the effort was not there for the most part
 
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Here's my letter...

"Dear Dave,

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Stinger92860 said:
It felt, at least to me, that the team gave up. During one D play in Q4, it looked like one of the D players (not named) had no interest in covering the edge or hitting the runner. If true, then I should be allowed to give up to.
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He was being held… lots of lousy calls and no-calls.
 
We've lost to 2 football teams from Massachusetts already this season and neither is the Patriots nor even Boston College.

I get the fact that we were extra shorthanded on coaches this week, but , it's UMass. They pushed us around. Them! We had no answers for them 2nd half on either side of the ball, and the one scoring drive we had we squandered from a TD to a FG.

My God, their fans rushed the field after beating UConn. How bad of a football program do you have to have to do that? And how much worse of a football program do you have to be to lose to that program?

Still venting & pissed that I walked out of that little stadium in Amherst tonight embarrassed that we got our butts kicked by that crappy team and barely put up a fight in the process when we got hit in the nose.

I'm drained as a fan. I've hung in with this program for years now - going to games and hoping for anything to hang our hats on that'll give us hope that we'll climb out of this abyss, but it's been a brutal run. And any spark of hope gets dowsed quickly through misfortune (Puma injury, etc). How much more misery can what's left of this fanbase take?

Today was horrible. Another landmark low for this program. Not confident they can even pull it together enough to beat Yale next week.
 
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Fairfield_1st said:
m disappointed, but what did you think would happen with those losses?
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People would rally and be able to be the team that was formally the worst team in football? But maybe that was just me.
 
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Hoophound said:
We’ve played several games closer against better teams. This game was a disaster and totally embarrassing, but we are duct taped together at this point. Just move on. Edsall created this, don’t trash the players, who are, once again on their third coach and third QB in 6 games. We were never good enough this season to think that might not bite us against UMass. We are a mess. None of that helped the situation.
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So you liked the effort that they played with today? 3rd qb and 3rd coach shouldn't matter when it comes to effort. These players have no pride at all and that's embarrassing.
 
ASweet3781 said:
Funny. I can’t keep track anymore. The spin the last 2 weeks was we were heading in the right direction after near misses against Wyoming and Vanderbilt.
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I think we were. I really do. Today was a complete regression to the past. Spanos has been out along with few other coaches. Sounds like Mazzone was not involved this week (inexplicably). It drives home that there is no leadership in the program once an adult steps out of the room.
 
BugsyCT said:
We've lost to 2 football teams from Massachusetts already this season and neither is the Patriots nor even Boston College.

I get the fact that we were extra shorthanded on coaches this week, but , it's UMass. They pushed us around. Them! We had no answers for them 2nd half on either side of the ball, and the one scoring drive we had we squandered from a TD to a FG.

My God, their fans rushed the field after beating UConn. How bad of a football program do you have to have to do that? And how much worse of a football program do you have to be to lose to that program?

Still venting & pissed that I walked out of that little stadium in Amherst tonight embarrassed that we got our butts kicked by that crappy team and barely put up a fight in the process when we got hit in the nose.

I'm drained as a fan. I've hung in with this program for years now - going to games and hoping for anything to hang our hats on that'll give us hope that we'll climb out of this abyss, but it's been a brutal run. And any spark of hope gets dowsed quickly through misfortune (Puma injury, etc). How much more misery can what's left of this fanbase take?

Today was horrible. Another landmark low for this program. Not confident they can even pull it together enough to beat Yale next week.
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This! I have been active on this board and going to games forever, including today, hoping for the best. More importantly, I donated an additional $150 on Friday in addition to my season tickets and 2 blue lot passes since 1995. That ended today.

AD Dave, the Cameron well is dry. I trusted you, you failed me. I will reinvest with vigor when you show me you can make my money worth something more than buyouts for crappy coaches.
 
BapeKidd88 said:
Here's my letter...

"Dear Dave,

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have to break it down, cuz this is the funniest...
1. 'dear dave'
2. cat's paw,
3. cat's eyes,
4. caption.
u can almost hear the cat talking.....

seriously, this is wrecking us here.... props.
 
CONN78SEJ said:
Why?
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Hired Edsall, Made decision to jump to basketball only conference, essentially killing football, during his tenure no significant salary increases for head coach or assistant coach pool, waited to fire Edsall, admission standards not lowered for football players, and can probably think of many many more.

Dave Benedict needs to go. Need a reset on this athletic department and hire a visionary.
 
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huskysupporter said:
It means UCONN is worse than atrocious. The two worst teams in FBS are UMASS and UCONN. UMASS beat UCONN. Doesn’t change the fact UMASS is atrocious. Just means that it puts to rest what team is the worst in FBS.
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Does this mean an invite to the ACC is out of the question???
 
huskysupporter said:
Hired Edsall, Made decision to jump to basketball only conference, essentially killing football, during his tenure no significant salary increases for head coach or assistant coach pool, waited to fire Edsall, admission standards not lowered for football players, and can probably think of many many more.

Dave Benedict needs to go. Need a reset on this athletic department and hire a visionary.
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AD Dave gets to make the next Football hire. If this go around is another complete failure, we should join Nova in FCS. Until then, put the Rent upgrades on hold. I cannot believe I am writing this.
 
Stinger92860 said:
I won’t be at the Rent next week or the rest of the year. I can’t see myself investing in another game this year.

Please do your best in the next hire and I’ll be back next year.
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Seriously, I drove up to Amherst for that game. To begin, there was no defense. Then. Things slowly got worse and worse. The play calling was awful and Umass came to play. UConn did not seem ready. I can’t tell you how disappoint the fans were. I didn’t know any of them but we all marveled at how UCONN continued to kill themselves. Penalties. Dropped balls. Horrible play calling. Over and over. It is so frustrating to me. I will say we have a hell of a kicker. We are so hungry for the spirit that was here.
 
huskysupporter said:
Hired Edsall, Made decision to jump to basketball only conference, essentially killing football, during his tenure no significant salary increases for head coach or assistant coach pool, waited to fire Edsall, admission standards not lowered for football players, and can probably think of many many more.

Dave Benedict needs to go. Need a reset on this athletic department and hire a visionary.
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Benedict never wanted to rehire Edsall, that was forced on him. He had no choice in the matter. Although not an ideal situation, being independent isn’t killing football, terrible coaching did that. Edsall 2.0 could not have done a better job killing and destroying what he built in RE 1.0 if he had wanted to, and some think he did. Benedict saved the men’s basketball program which which had become a dumpster fire.
 
ASweet3781 said:
Funny. I can’t keep track anymore. The spin the last 2 weeks was we were heading in the right direction after near misses against Wyoming and Vanderbilt.
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That wasn't the spin. That was the conventional wisdom. Do you know the difference?
 
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The silence from this University and state officials is deafening. Most Universities have weekly status updates on programs- granted the head coach is out with Covid but where is interim president, AD, Governor discussing current situation? They are all happy to take credit when BB and Women's teams are super successful.

This is a state funded Public University that should answer to fans and taxpayers. I can't believe how poorly this is being handled-or maybe I shouldn't be surprised. The Governor of this state has been granted executive privilege during pandemic- Where is he?

Millions and Millions of taxpayer dollars have been dumped into Football. We are owed an accounting and accountability.
 
BigTenFan said:
The silence from this University and state officials is deafening. Most Universities have weekly status updates on programs- granted the head coach is out with Covid but where is interim president, AD, Governor discussing current situation? They are all happy to take credit when BB and Women's teams are super successful.

This is a state funded Public University that should answer to fans and taxpayers. I can't believe how poorly this is being handled-or maybe I shouldn't be surprised. The Governor of this state has been granted executive privilege during pandemic- Where is he?

Millions and Millions of taxpayer dollars have been dumped into Football. We are owed an accounting and accountability.
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What makes you think that a State funded University is required to answer to the taxpayer fans of the football team? It would be wonderful if they did, but they never have and I don't believe it’s going to start happening anytime soon either.
 
They already answered to you. They pushed Randy out. What do you want them to do, fire the rest of the coaches and let the kids handle this themselves? There isn’t anything to say except that it would be nice to know what happened with Mazzone.
 
huskysupporter said:
Hired Edsall, Made decision to jump to basketball only conference, essentially killing football, during his tenure no significant salary increases for head coach or assistant coach pool, waited to fire Edsall, admission standards not lowered for football players, and can probably think of many many more.

Dave Benedict needs to go. Need a reset on this athletic department and hire a visionary.
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The jump to the Big East didn’t kill football. Having three consecutive absolutely miserable head-coaching choices killed football.
 
CONN78SEJ said:
Benedict never wanted to rehire Edsall, that was forced on him. He had no choice in the matter
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I know that this is said on the boneyard often, but is there any authority for this? Any link to a reliable source? It makes sense to me, but it would be nice to know if it is fact or speculation.
CONN78SEJ said:
Although not an ideal situation, being independent isn’t killing football, terrible coaching did that.
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Agree.
 
CL82 said:
The jump to the Big East didn’t kill football. Having three consecutive absolutely miserable head-coaching choices killed football.
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Jumping to the Big East definitely didn't kill football. What killed football is coach P, Disco, and Edsall 2.0. These are the 3 worst hires in the row. Most schools get 1 or 2 wrong, but Uconn managed 3 in the row.

Going indy for football in the current climate is the right move. Uconn can carve out a nice niche as an indy vs. the AAC lineup especially after the latest AAC raid. I am pretty sure most fans would prefer the indy schedule.
 
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