Game Week 2022 - UConn @ Utah State Aggies (Saturday 8/27/22 @ 4p EST on FS1)

[ShakyTheMohel]

Obviously, (Spanos) is my guy and I hope everything is good with him,

This supports the theory that Spanos is out for personal reasons and not because of personality conflicts. It still could be both, but this sounds like it's more about the personal side.

 

[RSTuthill]

I was joking about the cleats. Someone had the audacity to accuse me of trolling with my comment.

I'll take plenty of flak on these message boards without responding, but if you accuse my humor of being trolling, well, that's a bridge too far in my book.

When email first came out back when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, there were constant corporate entreaties not to get into flame wars and to understand that humor is not well communicated by the medium. The same could be said for message boards

 

[RSTuthill]

Humor?

Not mine but the other two are.

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

.....so let me make sure I have this right... if we upset Utah State this weekend.....and then Utah State upsets Alabama in Tuscaloosa the following weekend....then we will be #1 in the country, right?!

 

[CL82]

Not mine but the other two are.

Sort of, at least for me. I’m serious that I’m buying into this staff in this team. I just said it in a tongue-in-cheek way, because I’m well aware it’s all smoke and mirrors at this point. We will know more Saturday.

I just want to see what we look like. I want to see some degree of competence. I want confirmation that all the good things we’ve been hearing haven’t all been horseshit. In short…

 

[huskymedic]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[weyuo]

.....so let me make sure I have this right... if we upset Utah State this weekend.....and then Utah State upsets Alabama in Tuscaloosa the following weekend....then we will be #1 in the country, right?!

Yes, that's exactly right. UConn will go from the worst team in college football to AP #1 in the country after upsetting Utah St and throttling the Mighty Blue Devils of Central Connecticut State. And it will be a consensus #1 ranking. Mora will be immediately nominated for the Football Hall of Fame. The players will have to juggle their time between academics, football and the tidal wave of NIL offers each will receive.

 

[BugsyCT]

Not ready to say CCSU will be easy at all. Last time we beat an FCS school by more than 7 points was 2011 vs. Fordham. That’s insanely bad.

I think we’ll have a better sense of how this team is after Utah St and CCSU.

 

[uconndogs]

.....so let me make sure I have this right... if we upset Utah State this weekend.....and then Utah State upsets Alabama in Tuscaloosa the following weekend....then we will be #1 in the country, right?!

This logic is irrefutable!

 

[huskymedic]

UConn Game Notes for Utah State added in OP above ^^

 

[Hoophound]

Not ready to say CCSU will be easy at all. Last time we beat an FCS school by more than 7 points was 2011 vs. Fordham. That’s insanely bad.

I think we’ll have a better sense of how this team is after Utah St and CCSU.

Mazzone needed one week to have last year’s cast go from the worst team in FBS to giving Wyoming and Vandy all they could handle. Mora and Charlton will very likely have this much improved roster throttling CCSU. I’m not going to temper my expectations for that game. I just shouldn’t have to. I’d only be doing it to protect myself from the hurt.

We will destroy CCSU.

 

[Husky68]

Did you not see how Yale almost beat us last season? We should win that game but we lost to Holy Cross and almost lost to Yale soooooooooo

soooooooooo what? If we had last year's team playing with last year's coaches I get it, but UConn isn't playing with last years team and coaches.
CCSU has about a 1 in 20 chance of beating this UConn team, that's about as "given" as you get in sports.

 

[DCUconnfan]

Mazzone needed one week to have last year’s cast go from the worst team in FBS to giving Wyoming and Vandy all they could handle. Mora and Charlton will very likely have this much improved roster throttling CCSU. I’m not going to temper my expectations for that game. I just shouldn’t have to. I’d only be doing it to protect myself from the hurt.

We will destroy CCSU.

Mazzone's success in changing the offensive game plan in literally the blink of an eye is the one thing that is giving me oodles of hope on the over 2.5 for this year. That alone said to me how much of a difference coaching can make and perhaps the player talent pool, while we certainly have and need to continue upgrading, isn't quite as bad as a 1-11 and years prior records say the player talent was or is.

 

[huskymedic]

More coachspeak but she does a good job w/ these. Be interested to see how they develop over the season.

 

[ZooCougar]

soooooooooo what? If we had last year's team playing with last year's coaches I get it, but UConn isn't playing with last years team and coaches.
CCSU has about a 1 in 20 chance of beating this UConn team, that's about as "given" as you get in sports.

Ok. Whatever. It’s like you and you people suffer from amnesia.

I’m not making any comments like you are until we actually playing football. Until then, it’s just wishful thinking.

You would think that anyone with a brain would learn this lesson after a decade of this crap.

 

[Jimdish255]

Little things add up to big things.

 

[Viet Vet]

Sort of, at least for me. I’m serious that I’m buying into this staff in this team. I just said it in a tongue-in-cheek way, because I’m well aware it’s all smoke and mirrors at this point. We will know more Saturday.

I just want to see what we look like. I want to see some degree of competence. I want confirmation that all the good things we’ve been hearing haven’t all been horseshit. In short…

I want to see exciting football. Not three yards and a cloud of Edsall.

 

[dvegas]

.....so let me make sure I have this right... if we upset Utah State this weekend.....and then Utah State upsets Alabama in Tuscaloosa the following weekend....then we will be #1 in the country, right?!

Well the guys who put the $1k bets on Utah State to win the Natty will be disappointed (there's also a UConn mention in the article)

The story behind the wildest college football bet of the offseason

David Purdum tells the story of how two friends made the wildest college football bet of the offseason at a Russian-style bathhouse.

www.espn.com

 

[huskymedic]

 

[WNConn]

WIN IT FOR LOU

 

[jdb50]

Little things add up to big things.

"from small things momma big things one day come" mister Bruce Springsteen. A great not well known song by him and hopefully the story of our season.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Little things add up to big things.

Great motivational poster.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[NYtoCT]

Not ready to say CCSU will be easy at all. Last time we beat an FCS school by more than 7 points was 2011 vs. Fordham. That’s insanely bad.

I think we’ll have a better sense of how this team is after Utah St and CCSU.

Definitely agree that we’ll have a better understanding of this team after they play a couple games