Excited about defense.

[businesslawyer]

i assume you are referring to the interceprion I feel he made an aggressive call and there is nothing wrong with that. Coaches make calls all the time to catch the other team off guard or to build confidence. In this case it backfired.

I understand and accept that position. In this one game, and this one situation, I 1000 % disagree with it, but you or anyone else is entitled to think it wasn't a bad mistake, except in hindsight.

 

[businesslawyer]

Was hoping to get some x's o's talk going. there's a hell of a lot more to talk about x's and o's now than there ever was before in UConn 1-A football.

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I agree with that and expect it to continue. But more interesting x's and o's will count for squat if we don't get back to better fundamental blocking, tackling and avoiding penalties. Hopefully we will.

By the way, I'm now asking you for the third time why you think Franklin had more time to learn his players weaknesses than P did. Feel free to answer whenever.

 

[B1GEast]

This has got to be one of the most boring threads on this board. I can't believe that it's 10 pages deep.

 

[RedSoloCup]

This has got to be one of the most boring threads on this board. I can't believe that it's 10 pages deep.

As a relative noob, having come back after 10 years away, it's good to get educated on the lay of the land.

And see that some things NEVER change around here.

 

[pj]

By the way, I'm now asking you for the third time why you think Franklin had more time to learn his players weaknesses than P did. Feel free to answer whenever.

Maybe Franklin had fewer weaknesses to learn about?

UConn was a particular team, very weak at some positions and very strong at others. Vanderbilt maybe had a more uniform level of quality. With fewer weaknesses to cover for, the coaching challenge was less complex.

 

[freescooter]

I understand and accept that position. In this one game, and this one situation, I 1000 % disagree with it, but you or anyone else is entitled to think it wasn't a bad mistake, except in hindsight.

I thought it was a mistake to make that call the way our defense was playing and the way we were throwing the football, too, but I get what Srqhusky is saying. That pass is completed and its game over.Pass is incomplete and we kick it away with a solid chance to win. The only thing that would hurt us was what happened. Not all that different from Edsall's call of the run against Pitt. Todman gets the first down so it was a gutsy call that won the game. If he had gotten stopped a yard short, Edsall is an idiot who should have punted.

On the other point about Franklin having time to learn his team's strengths and weaknesses, it is almost impossible to evaluate that unless you know what systems he was running, what kind of changes he made, compared ot Pasqualoni. Look, it is entirely possible that Pasqualoni and his staff made a calculated decision that 2011 would be a transition year where they would see what they had, make changes they needed to make to move forward. They hoped to win 6 or 7 games, but didn't expect to win 9 plus anyway. Of course no coach will ever admit that. Franklin, coming into a program that had struggled for a long time, may have taken a very different approach aimed at winning now.

 

[mattp]

This has got to be one of the most boring threads on this board. I can't believe that it's 10 pages deep.

i had a feeling when i logged in this morning and the thread had grown to 10 pages that it had turned into yet another pro/anti Edsall pissing match.

 

[Palatine]

P. absolutely sh%# the bed against Vandy last year.

1. He should have played Nebrich in the second quarter like he planned. Instead he played him one series and put an ineffective Mac back in. He totally abandoned his "production" criteria for "continuity." A panic move.

2. The defense was so disorganized it couldn't get lined up.

2a. When the defense was incapable of lining up, the coach should have called a TO. He didn't. Instead, the chaos led to a Vandy TD.

3. The worst play call of the season, the down and out, the only play call that could have lost the game, it got called, did indeed lose the game.

Afterwards, MAC said he single-handedly lost the game. Not true, he split it 50/50 with P. Heck, the fact that he was playing at all was P. fault as well. Vandy was a coaching disaster.

 

[PUPPY4]

P. absolutely sh%# the bed against Vandy last year.

1. He should have played Nebrich in the second quarter like he planned. Instead he played him one series and put an ineffective Mac back in. He totally abandoned his "production" criteria for "continuity." A panic move.

2. The defense was so disorganized it couldn't get lined up.

2a. When the defense was incapable of lining up, the coach should have called a TO. He didn't. Instead, the chaos led to a Vandy TD.

3. The worst play call of the season, the down and out, the only play call that could have lost the game, it got called, did indeed lose the game.

Afterwards, MAC said he single-handedly lost the game. Not true, he split it 50/50 with P. Heck, the fact that he was playing at all was P. fault as well. Vandy was a coaching disaster.

WRONG!, Coach Brown got the dirty Sanchez!
He tried to confuse the QB/Offense by switching the safety and LB responsibilities, unfortunately he confused our safeties and LB's.

Yeah that INT sealed our fate, but we were lucky to be in that situation.

 

[Srqhusky]

Spackler I agree with you that we did a great job in the first half of that wv game. We held a very potent offense in check. Unfortunately they made adjustments , we got tired and couldn't hold on for the upset. Hope to see that better than that first half play thus year. I noticed the defense got better as the pass from Syracuse game on so we will see. The offense controlled the ball very well at times last year but we will need this offense to gel quickly wih all the new names. You really need the same qb n wr te for a few years I really peak. Best of luck to this years team