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UCMB88 said:
After Brown got up from his kneel, he pointed at the FAU bench, which is what drew the penalty. Could have been construed as him "shooting" at them??
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That's the same type of motion that they penalized the DB for later in the game.
 
businesslawyer said:
It was 4th and long. What did you want him to do — throw it away and turn the ball over on downs? He had to take a shot, he did and he got it to where Porter with a really good play could get it.
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So it doesn't make it a great QB play. It was a great catch on a decent throw. Not stellar QB play as the "Fagnano walks on water ever since Merrimack" contingent seems to think.
 
Was at the Rent. Great performance. I wish we could have played a couple of these lesser teams to start the year before playing Maryland.
Actual Fannie's in seats was petty poor. Huge swaths of areas with no one around. Maybe 12-15k actual attendance? Student section was packed but they left at the half. Hope more folks start showing up over the next few weeks if word gets around that we've turned the corner
 
Windham4th said:
So it doesn't make it a great QB play. It was a great catch on a decent throw. Not stellar QB play as the "Fagnano walks on water ever since Merrimack" contingent seems to think.
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As UConn fans, we'll take "a decent throw" by QB. They've been few a far between over the last decade. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but overall UConn QB's have not been effective passers.
 
CCSUblue said:
Was looking at the game notes again and I noticed that Danny Antolovich was dethroned as the backup tackle by Carsten Casady. Danny was the backup tackle all last season and the first 3 games this season. Anyone know if he was injured last week?
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He was in sweatpants as was Murawski.
 
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freescooter said:
Honestly I love running games. I think it does 2 things. First it wears out the defense. But it also just demoralizes them just not be able to stop the other guy play after play.
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And, it takes us on the "way back machine" to the 60's. Want exciting football? Throw the ball.
 
businesslawyer said:
Cam Ross with 7 catches for 107 and a TD against the Heels. Not a big, physical #1, but the best receiver we’d had since Noel Thomas. But we had no idea how to get him the ball.
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I love Cam but how can you get someone the ball who's on the sideline alot of the time?
 
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TouchdownHusky said:
As UConn fans, we'll take "a decent throw" by QB. They've been few a far between over the last decade. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but overall UConn QB's have not been effective passers.
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Most UConn fans don’t watch college football outside of UConn. The fans for the most part don’t get football like they get basketball and the school doesn’t really get football either.
 
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ZooCougar said:
Most UConn fans don’t watch college football outside of UConn. The fans for the most part don’t get football like they get basketball and the school doesn’t really get football either.
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Maybe that's true for the fans of the soccer teams, but don't put this qualifier on the general UConn fan population.
Some historical background: Until the late 80's many suburban towns didn't have youth & high school football teams, whereas the industrial towns had VERY competative programs. As more families moved to rural suburbia, (Avon, Simsbury, Guilford, etc.) youth & high school football followed.
As a corollary, interest in college football grew in those areas as well.
When I was a student in Storrs, eons ago in the '70s, one could walk into any dorm that have tvs in the common area & watch the ABC game of the week doubleheaders. When my kids were matriculating in the early 2000's, they would comment about how many of their dorm mates followed particular teams in addition to UConn.
ZooCougar said:
Most UConn fans don’t watch college football outside of UConn. The fans for the most part don’t get football like they get basketball and the school doesn’t really get football either.
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ZooCougar said:
Most UConn fans don’t watch college football outside of UConn. The fans for the most part don’t get football like they get basketball and the school doesn’t really get football either.
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From reading quite a few of your posts, both recently and over the years, I seriously wonder if you watch much football. Perhaps you are well versed in the sport that they call football in London, Liverpool and Manchester, but the version that uses an oblate spheroid, which for a number of decades has been the leading professional and amateur team sport in the US seems to be a bit beyond your grasp.
 
CL82 said:
Just curious why people who know they are going to miss the game don't set their TVs to record it. Seems like an easy answer to the replay issue.
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Laziness in my case. I've gotten so used to someone here providing replays, I never even think about DVRing.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
From reading quite a few of your posts, both recently and over the years, I seriously wonder if you watch much football. Perhaps you are well versed in the sport that they call football in London, Liverpool and Manchester, but the version that uses an oblate spheroid, which for a number of decades has been the leading professional and amateur team sport in the US seems to be a bit beyond your grasp.
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Whoa, what's with the snark? I know this isn't directed at me, but didn't UConn win pretty emphatically? Aren't we supposed to be mellow and happy? For example, last week Sammis was an idiot, this week he knows all? Get with the program! ;)
 
It was a great night and went to Ted's after the game which was fun. But very few people seemed excited about the win. I attribute that to FAU as a low-level program with no connection to New England. We need a win against a Power 4 team like Wake Forest to get people excited
 
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TouchdownHusky said:
As UConn fans, we'll take "a decent throw" by QB. They've been few a far between over the last decade. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but overall UConn QB's have not been effective passers.
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Exactly. I will gladly take any throw that is caught (except the -2 yard catches we have seen a ton of over the last decade OR the ones for 7 yards when we needed 8...)
 
CCSUblue said:
Was looking at the game notes again and I noticed that Danny Antolovich was dethroned as the backup tackle by Carsten Casady. Danny was the backup tackle all last season and the first 3 games this season. Anyone know if he was injured last week?
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He's injured.
 
Chin Diesel said:
1. The TV feed and announcers were awful.
2. I'm too lazy to invest any energy outside this board.

In the first half, it was other Robinson or Brown who had a first half touchdown and in the back corner of the end zone kneeled and did the sign of the cross. And that drew an unsportmanlike conduct flag. Was there anything else beyond what the crappy TV feed showed that would have drawn that flag. The gesture certainly wasn't towards an FAU player but the TV feed didn't show anything, there was no replay, and announcers didn't mention anything about it.
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I had the same question. He kneeled down and crossed himself, then got up and went to the sidelines. What did he get the unsportsmanlike penalty for?
 
Tui Faumuina-Brown and Jordan Wright, two guys that were much maligned following the Maryland have been really dang good over the last 2 games. Both have been sure tacklers and absolutely zip to the ball. Tui seemed like he was in on every tackle in the first 3 quarters and Wright has become our best cover guy; opposing QBs are choosing to throw to the other side instead of challenging him. Wright just needs to take it easy with the excessive celebrating.
 
storrsroars said:
Laziness in my case. I've gotten so used to someone here providing replays, I never even think about DVRing.
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Once you set it up out will record every game so you will be all set.

(FWIW, I actually preferred the Storrs South stuff to my own recordings since he edited out the commercials, but it was good to have a back up.)
 
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