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Srqhusky said:
Seriously. We have tight ends the size of Hulk Hogan and your throwing to a wr in the endzone. Cancel your account
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I think the salient point is you throw. Clearly the TEs would be involved, even if secondary targets.
 
whaler11 said:
I'm interested to see how much energy they come out with Saturday.

If what we've been told is true about brotherhoods and spirit - there shouldn't be any reason to come out flat.
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Mentioned earlier there was an opportunity to really get the players behind him by taking direct responsibility for mistakes made and being accountable for fixing the ongoing issues. I think he blew it at the press conference, but if he did that in a more direct way with the players it could certainly happen in a big way. If not, beware the energy vampire staring in the mirror.
 
businesslawyer said:
Just from the summary, I will make one point. It's great that the team wanted to smashmouth it in on 2d down, and it's great that HCBD hears them. But the grown up in the room needed to say "I'm all for that. But it would be malpractice to only give us one chance to score here when we can get three. So if we're still on the 1/2 yard line for 4th down, we will let you try to win it in the pits. But first we're trying two quick flag patterns, at least one to Noel, where the only two results are TD or quick incompletion."

Everything the players said was fine. His including them in the decision is fine. But there is a middle ground between ignoring your troops and letting them make illogical decisions. The middle ground was there. he completely blew it.
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Agreed, but even today he was still unwilling to acknowledge that we had three downs left, not two as he still seems to think. The bad thing about that is he's unwilling to acknowledge an important factor that impacted the decision making at the most crucial point of the game, even when he's been told that was in fact what the situation was. That's not good because it suggests that not only did he not know the correct down, but also that nobody else on the staff knew.
 
SportzEdge: UConn looks to put “the timeout” behind it, take care of business against Virginia

>>The Huskies and Cavaliers have met twice before, with Virginia winning 17-16 in Charlottesville in 2007, and UConn taking the rematch the next year in East Hartford, 45-10...

...This year’s UConn team has four players from Virginia–redshirt junior linebacker E.J. Levenberry, redshirt junior offensive lineman Brendan Vechery, freshman QB Donovan Williams, and redshirt sophomore LB Richmond Williams. Diaco served as the linebackers and special teams coach at UVA from 2006-08...

...PREDICTION: UConn 28, Virginia 24.<<

Guess they forgot that Coaches Poindexter, Brown and Lineburg all have UVA connection as well.
 
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TCB vs UVA and Cuse. Head into Houston 3-1. Come out 3-2 then the season REALLY begins. We should be able to get minimum 4 wins out of

Cincy
USF
UCF
ECU
Temple
BC
Tulane.
 
This is a really important game I think for a few reasons. First it can put Navy in the rear view mirror with a win. 2nd it is a win over a p5 team, albeit not a very good one. But it also is pretty important if we are going to become bowl eligible. A loss and it will be at best a crap shoot going forward. I see 4 winnable games left, 3 likely losses and 3 toss ups. Basically no chance error if we go into the Houston, Cincy USF stretch at 1-4 and no margin for error if we are 2-2. Bottom line is a loss here and we may well be playing out the string before October ends.
 
You can't play boring bad football. Almost lose to Maine lose to Navy in keystone kops style and expect to bring sro crowds. I know 26000 is bad but until the product is improved that is what we'll get. I know Benedict gets it. And it's why I think Diaco is indeed in a much warmer seat than most people do. This team doesn't get at least 6 wins and a bowl game and there is a new man on the sidelines for Holy Cross.
 
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huskymedic said:
Jim Fuller@NHRJimFuller 36 mins ago
As of this morning about 26,000 tickets have been sold for Saturday's #UConn/Virginia football game
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This was my point about the Maine game's impact on CR. In isolation, of course, it meant nothing. Susan isn't going to be asked to break down game film from it (thank god). But if we have certain metrics/goalposts to reach regarding attendance or fan interest... then Maine really took the wind out of the sails, and Navy didn't help. This is the result. The optimism from before the season is gone. Only a product that people don't want to miss out on will fix it.
 
ThisIsUConnCountry ‏@MattSchonvisky 3h 3 hours ago
Offensive coordinator Frank Verducci talked about @kidballer15 who is getting looks with the 2nd team offense in practice yesterday

ThisIsUConnCountry ‏@MattSchonvisky 3h 3 hours ago
"Any benefit we can give him as being exposed w/varsity to bring him along that's what we are trying to do. obviously if there is an.."

ThisIsUConnCountry ‏@MattSchonvisky 3h 3 hours ago
"Apocalypse plan cause you have plans for everything, we want to get him exposed as much as possible. Look if he never plays a down this yr"

ThisIsUConnCountry ‏@MattSchonvisky 3h 3 hours ago
"He's gonna start spring ball at such a higher level than if we just put him on scout team all year. Obviously a great physical talent"
 
All things considered, after nearly 6 years of terrible to slightly less terrible football, CR hell and then last weeks debacle the fact that 26,000 people still paid to show is actually impressive.

Take a look at some of our competitors for the big 12 ( BYU aside) and it's not that bad given the on field product.

Hell, the next time the team wins 7 or 8 games wed be back in the upper 30s in a heart beat.
 
freescooter said:
You can't play boring bad football. Almost lose to Maine lose to Navy in keystone kops style and expect to bring sro crowds. I know 26000 is bad but until the product is improved that is what we'll get. I know Benedict gets it. And it's why I think Diaco is indeed in a much warmer seat than most people do. This team doesn't get at least 6 wins and a bowl game and there is a new man on the sidelines for Holy Cross.
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Last year, it was fair to bemoan the low scoring grind it out nature we played even when we won against bad teams. This year, we've scored 24 points a game and given up 24.5 points per game. There has been substantially more scoring (unfortunately including points allowed) and two close games. If you weren't carrying forward your opinion from last year, you could not classify these two games as boring.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
All things considered, after nearly 6 years of terrible to slightly less terrible football, CR hell and then last weeks debacle the fact that 26,000 people still paid to show is actually impressive.

Take a look at some of our competitors for the big 12 ( BYU aside) and it's not that bad given the on field product.

Hell, the next time the team wins 7 or 8 games wed be back in the upper 30s in a heart beat.
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I'd agree with you if it weren't a power 5 team (albeit a not so good one). There's no excuse to be below 30k in attendance. If we want to be in P5 we need to show that we belong. 26k against any P5 opponent is embarrassing. However, I'm still holding out hope that the late week and walk up sales will bump those numbers up because it's looking like it'll be a beautiful day.
 
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ConnHuskBask said:
All things considered, after nearly 6 years of terrible to slightly less terrible football, CR hell and then last weeks debacle the fact that 26,000 people still paid to show is actually impressive.

Take a look at some of our competitors for the big 12 ( BYU aside) and it's not that bad given the on field product.

Hell, the next time the team wins 7 or 8 games wed be back in the upper 30s in a heart beat.
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Agreed.

Its just frustrating because if we had just taken care of business easier against Maine, and not completely butchered the end of the Navy game, 2 things that should have happened, we'd be 2-0 coming off maybe the best comeback in UConn history, and this team would have a lot of buzz right now.

But hey, build on the positives of the 2nd half of Navy and look good this week, and then Syracuse should have some excitement.
 
businesslawyer said:
Last year, it was fair to bemoan the low scoring grind it out nature we played even when we won against bad teams. This year, we've scored 24 points a game and given up 24.5 points per game. There has been substantially more scoring (unfortunately including points allowed) and two close games. If you weren't carrying forward your opinion from last year, you could not classify these two games as boring.
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Now you are just being lawyerly The point is that there was some positive energy coming into the season. A poorly played ugly opener against a team we should have blown away, followed by the keystone kops routine on Saturday has dissipated much of that among the non-diehard fans. It's more "here we go again."
 
freescooter said:
Now you are just being lawyerly
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No, not at all. We deal with both the "we suck" comments and the "even when we don't suck we don't score enough to attract fans" comments. You clearly wrote something that implied the latter. FActs count.

By the way -- is "lawyerly" -- presumably meaning careful, normally correct and with people caring about what you say -- meant to be an insult? Because of so, #insultharder.
 
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huskymedic said:
Jim Fuller@NHRJimFuller 36 mins ago
As of this morning about 26,000 tickets have been sold for Saturday's #UConn/Virginia football game
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Mike Anthony ‏@ManthonyCourant 4m 4 minutes ago
26,000 tickets have been distributed for UConn-Virginia game.

Sounds like old info... Fuller reported same # yesterday. Know for a fact that it's changed by at least 4 since yesterday (additional converts).;)

Still seeing info on promo code PW2016 for $15 tickets to the game earlier today.
 
No bl I meant lawyerly as in incapable of seeing anything but black and white. Or "derived from lawyer as in how do you tell the difference between a dead lawyer in the road and a dead skunk in the road? Skid marks in front of the skunk."
Let's put it this way. We barely hung on to beat Maine (when, lest you forget, he left enough time on the clock to give Maine a final desperation play for the win) then bungled the ending of Navy. Both may have been "exciting" but neither gave a sense of a team that is on the upswing. There was a sense after last year going into this season that UConn was on the on the upswing. The struggle with Maine followed up by the sheer ineptitude at Navy and its aftermath have drained much of the positive vibe around the program. In fact I think if we lose Saturday it will begin to approach Pasqualonian levels.
 
freescooter said:
No bl I meant lawyerly as in incapable of seeing anything but black and white. Or "derived from lawyer as in how do you tell the difference between a dead lawyer in the road and a dead skunk in the road? Skid marks in front of the skunk."
Let's put it this way. We barely hung on to beat Maine (when, lest you forget, he left enough time on the clock to give Maine a final desperation play for the win) then bungled the ending of Navy. Both may have been "exciting" but neither gave a sense of a team that is on the upswing. There was a sense after last year going into this season that UConn was on the on the upswing. The struggle with Maine followed up by the sheer ineptitude at Navy and its aftermath have drained much of the positive vibe around the program. In fact I think if we lose Saturday it will begin to approach Pasqualonian levels.
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If it does, that would reflect on the lunacy/immaturity of the fanbase more than the reality of the situation. The team is getting better. I have no clue whether HCBD will ever be better at game management, as I keep saying, and it may be his undoing at the end, but any comparison between our track at the end of the P era and our track now is absurd. Come back to me at the end of the season and tell me you don't think there was any improvement year to year in the team. You can't have concluded that yet. All you can have concluded to date is that HCBD hasn't eliinated has crazy game decision making mistakes, which is frustrating but hardly where our program as a whole is headed.
 
freescooter said:
No bl I meant lawyerly as in incapable of seeing anything but black and white. Or "derived from lawyer as in how do you tell the difference between a dead lawyer in the road and a dead skunk in the road? Skid marks in front of the skunk."
Let's put it this way. We barely hung on to beat Maine (when, lest you forget, he left enough time on the clock to give Maine a final desperation play for the win) then bungled the ending of Navy. Both may have been "exciting" but neither gave a sense of a team that is on the upswing. There was a sense after last year going into this season that UConn was on the on the upswing. The struggle with Maine followed up by the sheer ineptitude at Navy and its aftermath have drained much of the positive vibe around the program. In fact I think if we lose Saturday it will begin to approach Pasqualonian levels.
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For the record, and I think @businesslawyer would agree, lawyers see almost nothing in black and white. Everything is grey.
 
I can see where freescooter's post above probably describes someone watching the scores. we're going to need results at some point to start bringing back old fans or bringing in new ones. To anyone watching the games and paying attention however, the improvement should be obvious. The football is better, the results are coming. Hopefully before we run out of patience.
 
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