Delaware Post Game Meltdown

[BugsyCT]

I said we’re not that good after last week and some asshats doubted me. FCS defense at best.

Should've emailed the coaches. They could've used your input.

 

[WrenchFan69]

Congrats gentlemen cutting the program is officially very much back on the menu. I thought those involved would have taken this more seriously. Sad!

 

[Viet Vet]

Hello hockey and basketball 🏒🏀

 

[ZooCougar]

our offense is alright, good enough to get us enough points to have a chance every week. That would have been enough, under one critical assumption:

to have any chance at a season, we needed to play our faces off on Defense, as we did in '24. It is now glaringly obvious that Defensively, we are a shadow of our past 2 years. with the loss of jalani, pryce, jackson, Jayden mcdonald, and others, we are back to a 2021-and-prior level of Defensive talent. And in the era of NIL, that is disappointing to see. Brock showed what he can do when he's got dawgs in his pound. this year he's got nothing to work with. That's on Jim Mora and the recruiting staff. They utterly FAILED FAILED FAILED to re-tool this defense.

Given that reality, I must put us at 5-6 wins tops this year. Jim Mora deserves some grace, but this AD has to make some tough decisions this summer about whether they want to spend the money necessary to build a P4 team.

P4 dude? LOL

Touch grass.

 

[gsmooth]

Who cares. The pass was short. All he had to do was tackle him and it was over. That was not good situational awareness.

That's it right there. I never got excited on that when the 3rd and 18 resulted in a 4th and 9 because knowing UConn Football the last 10+ years I said to myself "I wouldn't be surprised if Delaware converts this 4th down somehow someway" and they did. (shoulder shrug).

 

[Hamms30]

I hope someone asks in the post-game why you don't take the points and go up 6. It'll be a hogwash answer, but at least it'll have been asked.

 

[Milo65]

2nd down on the 2 yard line and we pass twice! Shouldn’t even gotten to that point.

 

[Ctrane]

On the last play before the tying field goal everyone in the stadium could see Delaware was going to run it up the middle. They still got 5 or 6 yards right thru the D. Horrid.

 

[mike012]

You weren’t gonna buy tickets to begin with.

Have to do a buy one get 3 free deal. Or else there won’t be many there to watch

 

[UConnTrumbull]

I hope someone asks in the post-game why you don't take the points and go up 6. It'll be a hogwash answer, but at least it'll have been asked.

No confidence in the defense

 

[TouchdownHusky]

I saw two teams, one poised and one playing tentatively. I was in K section on the 50, what a God forsaken joke. If we had converted on 4th and short late in the 4th in the red zone, game over and we win. Instead, what dejected drive home.

Convert on 4th down? Then don't throw into flat to statue TE, that can't gain a step for the close out first down. Throw to someone more athletic or smart enough to know where the first down marker is.

 

[ZooCougar]

I hope someone asks in the post-game why you don't take the points and go up 6. It'll be a hogwash answer, but at least it'll have been asked.

Hell would freeze over before one of our reporters ask a tough question like that.

 

[Scoe]

I hope someone asks in the post-game why you don't take the points and go up 6. It'll be a hogwash answer, but at least it'll have been asked.

Ya we were stopping them alright and the fg was near 50 on the road makeable but not automatic. I’m sure if they scored a td and won by 1 we wouldn’t all be killing Mora for it.

 

[RitzLuce1]

I hope someone asks in the post-game why you don't take the points and go up 6. It'll be a hogwash answer, but at least it'll have been asked.

I’m sure Dom Amore will get right on it as he’s watching the Yankees game on his phone.

Nobody cares. If they did, today wouldn’t have happened. They talk like they care, but they don’t. Not Benedict. Not the department. Mora will do his song and dance of cliches. Nothing will change.

 

[JMick]

It just looks like Brock is throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks with the blitz packages. It's basically gambling.

The players make terrible decisions, have no discipline and no awareness.

Some of our dline look like they've never actually played football before? Just look at their stances on some plays. They look like eight year olds. Crappy stance and then they just stand straight up and don't move anywhere. There were multiple times that a DL got blocked by a lineman and then the OL ALSO blocked the blitzing linebacker at the same time

 

[Kowalski]

Running Game?
2nd game in a row they couldn’t get a first down to seal the game.

They killed Uconn in the trenches. Pushed Uconn around on both sides of the ball. They converted every big short yardage run play & Uconn coulldnt.

 

[ATLDYKA]

I hope someone asks in the post-game why you don't take the points and go up 6. It'll be a hogwash answer, but at least it'll have been asked.

Exactly and if you were running the clock down and not snapping the ball so early they would have had very little time left down 6

 

[Bomber36]

The 10 second runoff after the Delaware injury was a joke. If that guy hadn’t been hurt on the play, they would’ve run off at least 15 seconds and they don’t kick a field goal with two seconds left.

 

[Jetskies]

They just lost to Delaware. We have coordinators who have been exposed as completely out of their depth and have single handily cost us 2 games in nut time.

And your worried about P4.

huh?

the goal is to build a P4-caliber team, to get us P4-level W/L results, and thus to get us to the P4.
yes, I'm worried about the P4, for the future of UConn athletics.

w/ regard to the coordinators, agree on offense, disagree on Defense. Brock is good, he just doesn't have the players/talent to execute what he envisions.
We need a real offensive mind over there who can be creative in a sustainable way (ie. not just doing trick plays to feign creativity).

Sammis got his shot, I was fine with that. everybody deserves a shot. This isn't working, IMO. Hope I'm wrong and he draws up some better stuff.

 

[TheDude]

Is that worth more to you than UConn winning? Just wondering.

I think we will beat Ball State

 

[gsmooth]

If you're blaming the QB in this debacle then you should watch another sport.

I could say the same to you. The defense was the biggest culprit, but you should face facts and realize Fagnano misses too many easy throws when they matter. In 2 crucial situations he threw behind the TE, although on the 2nd one Honig/Hansen still should've caught it.

Ask yourself this: on 3rd and 2 why did Delaware have 9 men in the box to sell out and stop the run and Sammis still stuck with the run with no option to audible and go to a pass play? Because Sammis had no confidence Fagnano can make the simple pass at a crucial moment.

 

[JMick]

I hope someone asks in the post-game why you don't take the points and go up 6. It'll be a hogwash answer, but at least it'll have been asked.

If they needed a TD they probably would have just scored a TD anyway. It's like we were just gonna let them do whatever they needed to win

 

[UConnDan97]

I hope someone asks in the post-game why you don't take the points and go up 6. It'll be a hogwash answer, but at least it'll have been asked.

I suspect it has something to do with them being accused of being too conservative last week against Syracuse.

In essence, we let Syracuse beat us twice...

 

[RitzLuce1]

huh?

the goal is to build a P4-caliber team, to get us P4-level W/L results, and thus to get us to the P4.
yes, I'm worried about the P4, for the future of UConn athletics.

w/ regard to the coordinators, agree on offense, disagree on Defense. Brock is good; We need a real offensive mind over there who can be creative in a sustainable way (ie. not just doing trick plays to feign creativity). Sammis got his shot, I was fine with that. everybody deserves a shot. This isn't working, IMO. Hope I'm wrong and he draws up some better stuff.

Huh?

Let me spell it out to you.

shut up about the P4. It’s not happening. Not now. Not anytime soon.

 

[Scoe]

Have to do a buy one get 3 free deal. Or else there won’t be many there to watch

Hey whatever it takes get it done. I’m just responding to a troll, if you don’t wanna go to a game then don’t, don’t need to announce it, you don’t need permission to not go.