No, this was the second year implementing the scheme, and they only replaced 2 starters on the OL, not the entire line. Foley is more than competent. GDL is trying to make a round peg fit a square hole.
I never said that was the goal. It's an example of the quality of the coaching that we HAD at the OL.
1) your facts are wrong
2) you've created a strawman and missed my point
3) you're responding to an argument somebody else made and doing a poor job supporting it.
I don't want to get into a huge argument because this is a message board and conveying points is so difficult because there are 500 of them in one thread and its hard to follow just one, so if you want to sit down and have a beer I'd be more than happy to explain to you coherently why you couldn't be more wrong, but until then I'll say this:
This is from the UConn website:
"He has position responsibility with for the offensive line in 2012 after working with the tight ends last season."
So he has only been working with the O-line for probably less than a year...my facts are wrong?....shoot I mean the HCPP era hasn't even been two years yet (he came in Jan 2011).....how could GDL possibly of worked with the O-line for two years?
Square peg round hole? how do we know, we've seen 12 games of it....and to the people that say "well it wasn't working, so let's do something that does"....well when do you draw the line of "lets take a our lumps implementing a new system vice catering to the skill of the player?
This year we had the highest passing yards by a UConn since......well a long time, and that is IN SPITE of a porous offensive line learning a new scheme, I can only imagine what it will be like next year
However, I know that this post will get lost on the stubborn white noise of people that choose to see the glass half empty instead of half full regardless of what facts are put in front of them and I'm not knocking that, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Like I said, I'd more than happy to meet up at a bar (trying to make this comment as least creepy as possible), have a beer and discuss this because I truly think I can make you at least see my point which is....
Was the product on the field satisfactory? hell no
Was it what i expect when I pay to see UConn play? hell no
Did this team meet my expectations this year? hell no
Did I maybe expect a little too much considering a brand new QB and a totally new O-Line scheme? probably
But college football is a work in progess, and 12 games with an entirely new offensive system is not enough to call it bad, or not improving because if you sit there and say you saw no improvement from NC State to Louisville then you watched a different football team.
As far as developing kids, these coaches have been in their jobs since Jan 2011 and first worked with them Spring 2011...so maybe 18 months? and you want to knock them for not developing players.....seriously?
It took FHCRE 8 years (more if you can AA) to produce a 1st round draft pick and took HCPP a year to put Reyes in the second round (if you think he would have come off at that time or earlier if RE was coaching you're high)
I'm sorry, my rant is over, I can feel the fingers on keyboards getting ready to rip me apart.....
#BleedBlue #HuskyForLife
