Dez let's P play the talent card some more

[BlueDogs]

Keeping PP and GDL is just another year lost. Whether he was good once, better or worse than RE is all irrelevant. What is relevant is there is no progress from season to season, or over the course of each season. PP had one of the top defenses in the country and even with an average offense could have had 8 wins. I don't see how anybody can rightly conclude he needs more time when there is no indication of basic on field improvement. A close look at PP's glory years reveals he came into a strong program under McPherson and he basically rode that out and enjoyed unique access to talent with limited local options. He shows steady decline over time with a few good years based on getting a few superstars that kept him above average. As more competitive programs arise in the northeast, he started failing. Look at his record from 99-2004. Big East rises, talent pool shrinks, and PP starts having to coach.

 

[uconnflyer88]

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

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

You're going to get ripped apart because the blocking scheme has been in place for 2 years now. Foley was the OL coach in 2011 but they were running DeLeone's scheme.

You also may want to take a look at GDL's track record his last 10 years as OC at Cuse, Temple, and here. It's posted in another thread. It's mind boggling that he can even find employment anywhere.

 

[SAMCRO]

Forget learning new schemes, etc.... just look at play calling, clock management, and in game adjustments over the past two seasons. This alone should be enough evidence that PP and GDL gotta go. We had the talent to at the very least become bowl eligible the last two seasons. I'm not saying we should have won the BE (although that needs to be the goal), but 6 wins with our talent and the schedule we had was more than achievable in '11 and '12.