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Felt like Christmas again

Getting back to Christmas....Does anybody else feel like a sled full of every present you asked for has been delivered, but you are just going to have to look at them for 8 months before you can play with them?
 
UCFan1513 said:
Relatively novice football fan here (mostly MBB) so this is a genuine question. What makes Candle’s transfers and recruits markedly better than Mora’s? It seems a lot of the transfers have limited on-field experience from what I’ve seen - are they more highly rated coming out of high school than a Mora recruit?

Looking at 247 Sports a similar proportion of last year’s recruits to this year’s are 3-stars vs unranked, and this year has a slightly higher average rating, but not a huge jump. Not tapped in to the world of football recruiting - what am I missing?
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I am joining this thread late, but the short answer is that no one knows how the replacements will fair until at least two or three games into the season. Will the QB from TN be better than JF? I doubt it in his first full season even if he wins the competition. But he may not need 6 seasons to get to where Joe was in his final season. Then again he may be not quite as good as hoped. We simply haven't seen him play.
 
RSTuthill said:
You apparently missed this year's rose colored glasses ceremony. It is an annual affair in which we all partake. We normally remain in this state, fed constant optimistic press releases and Courant stories until the first game of the season against a P4 opponent comes around. Then our heads explode.
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You mean like the 2 P4 teams we beat this past season including the ACC Champ? I’d say if any heads exploded they didn’t belong to UConn fans.
 
AllHusky said:
Getting back to Christmas....Does anybody else feel like a sled full of every present you asked for has been delivered, but you are just going to have to look at them for 8 months before you can play with them?
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It's like getting a giant Lego set and having no time to build it
 
Just when you think you’re done unwrapping the gifts and that Christmas is over ….
 
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The end of last season to now has been a roller coaster. First, Mora left, then players opted out of the bowl and hit the transfer portal and the team got smoked by Army in the Fenway Bowl. Then the loss of assistant coaches. The one positive during that time was the hiring of Candle.

Then the script shifted. Candle started hiring assistants and inbound recruiting picked up considerably. It's hard to evaluate all of the new assistants and new players, but I think Candle and crew have done a terrific job in a short period of time.

Candle won't replace Joe, Skyler, and Cam, but he has had solid offenses during his time at Toledo so I am hopeful the offense will be solid. I'm more optimistic on defense as UConn's defense was not good last year and it started with the DL which I think has been upgraded.

I'm excited for the season!
 
UConnJim said:
The end of last season to now has been a roller coaster. First, Mora left, then players opted out of the bowl and hit the transfer portal and the team got smoked by Army in the Fenway Bowl. Then the loss of assistant coaches. The one positive during that time was the hiring of Candle.

Then the script shifted. Candle started hiring assistants and inbound recruiting picked up considerably. It's hard to evaluate all of the new assistants and new players, but I think Candle and crew have done a terrific job in a short period of time.

Candle won't replace Joe, Skyler, and Cam, but he has had solid offenses during his time at Toledo so I am hopeful the offense will be solid. I'm more optimistic on defense as UConn's defense was not good last year and it started with the DL which I think has been upgraded.

I'm excited for the season!
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I am excited for the season too ... until proven otherwise. You should also mention that HCJC won't be replacing Joe Fagnano either, at least in the first year. But given a couple years of experience with the guys in the room today, he could come close.
 
I'd say he has alot more talent to work with than Mora had(at QB). Fagnano was a 7th year player, good QB with LOTS of experience.
 
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