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huskymedic said:
Deep ties...

Roanoke Times: Ex-Virginians await Cavaliers at UConn

>>Third-year Connecticut head coach Bobby Diaco previously was a defensive coordinator at Virginia and has been joined at UConn by Poindexter, Brown, ex-Cavaliers assistant Wayne Lineburg and former UVa strength coach Matt Balis.<<
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huskymedic said:
Mike Anthony on Coach Poindexter and UVA: UConn Football Insider: Anthony Poindexter Up Against Former Team
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Jim Fuller on UVA Connections: UConn defensive coordinator Anthony Poindexter knows Virginia’s defensive stars rather well
 
SeoulHuskyFan said:
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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The football is better? Here's the thing about athletics. You either win or you lose and you are what your record says you are. We are 1-1. Our coach has made bad decisions in both games. Cost us one. My point is that we need to make improvement. Look like a real football team. Not make unbelievable decisions if we expect to bring back fans. This year has not been a step in that direction so far..It has been a step backward.
 
freescooter said:
The football is better? Here's the thing about athletics. You either win or you lose and you are what your record says you are. We are 1-1. Our coach has made bad decisions in both games. Cost us one. My point is that we need to make improvement. Look like a real football team. Not make unbelievable decisions if we expect to bring back fans. This year has not been a step in that direction so far..It has been a step backward.
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You're more than entitled to your opinion; I don't agree. No one is arguing that we don't need improvement - that may have been your intended point but what you typed is "approaching pasqualoni levels". That is nonsense to anybody watching.
I've played and watched a lot football over the last 50+ years and while I understand that it's a results business, I believe in the eye test. My opinion, on the eye test, is that this team is much improved, especially on offense from last year and light years beyond years previous. They have to clean up the mistakes but that wouldn't matter if they didn't have a better foundation in place.
 
Stinger92860 said:
"I might say this: we’ve always been a running team and I’m sure we will continue to be so. (We’ve been criticized for it, I might add.) But I’ve always felt that three things can happen to you whenever you throw the football, and two of them are bad. You can catch the ball, you can throw it incomplete, or have it intercepted."
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In that particular circumstance, an incomplete pass would have been ok.
 
"I might say this: we’ve always been a running team and I’m sure we will continue to be so. (We’ve been criticized for it, I might add.) But I’ve always felt that three things can happen to you whenever you throw the football, and two of them are bad. You can catch the ball, you can throw it incomplete, or have it intercepted."
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Why must that be true? The way he proclaims loyalty to an idealogy that has produced the worst offensive numbers in FBS for 2 years running makes you think he made up his mind about something that worked somewhere in the past and then closed the book on any other path to success. Was that statement made after BS went 23 of 26 with a TD and zero int.'s?

I really should be used to these statements by now but they go beyond semantics in terms of thought process. I sincerely hope he builds on the successes of this past week because what we are capable of can win this game for us.
 
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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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Maine called a timeout to stop the clock. How is that on Diaco?
 
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Redding Husky said:
Call me weird, but I'd rather beat Virginia, BCU, and Syracuse than Temple, Cincinnati, and ECU.

I really hate the ACC.
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I don't know about you, but can't they just beat them all!?!

With the way the game ended last week, leaving the team gutted but inspired, anyone else think this team comes out hungry and fired up ready to make a statement? I DO.
 
BNich said:
I don't know about you, but can't they just beat them all!?!

With the way the game ended last week, leaving the team gutted but inspired, anyone else think this team comes out hungry and fired up ready to make a statement? I DO.
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God, I hope so. Love to hang 50 on an ACC school.
 
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Jimmy Serrano said:
Too much sun!!!!!
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Early in on the "we had a bigger crowd but they were all standing under the concourse because of the sun" excuse?

At least you didn't pull the "I'm going to the Big E tomorrow for a Maine potato" card.
 
What are we predicting for attendance?? Beautiful day, ACC team with decent alumni base in the northeast, all the HS band kids and probably some of their families. Plenty of promotions abound. If you bought a mini pack this is probably one of the games.

~33k?
 
DiacosArmy said:
What are we predicting for attendance?? Beautiful day, ACC team with decent alumni base in the northeast, all the HS band kids and probably some of their families. Plenty of promotions abound. If you bought a mini pack this is probably one of the games. ~33k?
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Wednesday/Thursday tweets from Fuller/Anthony:

Mike Anthony ‏@ManthonyCourant
26,000 tickets have been distributed for UConn-Virginia game.

If we get 30k we'll be lucky.
 
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huskymedic said:
Wednesday/Thursday tweets from Fuller/Anthony:

Mike Anthony ‏@ManthonyCourant
26,000 tickets have been distributed for UConn-Virginia game.

If we get 30k we'll be lucky.
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Well those numbers went up by 8 today, including two newcomers that I'm hoping to turn into converts. Purely anecdotal but I think we could have a good crowd next week with a win tomorrow. I've already had a few friends that haven't been to a game since the P years asking about tickets as "Watching UConn beat Syracuse in anything is always worth seeing"
 
UConn Student Tix@UConnStudentTix 15 mins ago
Don't miss out on @UConnFootball taking on Virginia tomorrow at 1:30pm! Students are just $10 and family/friends are just $15!#UConnNation
 
There is a guy on the Reddit CFB board who runs a computer simulation of all the games. So far he's close to 75% correct.
Here is his result for tomorrow: L Virginia 0-3 @ W UConn 2-1 31-14
 
Fuller: Virginia at UConn football: 5 things to know

1. Hit the ground running: UConn’s next two games are against teams ranked 121st and 127th among 128 FBS teams in rushing yards per carry allowed, so perhaps it will give former Ansonia High star Arkeel Newsome the spark he needs to get going. Newsome averaged 4.4 yards per carry en route to being the Huskies’ leading rusher in 2015 but he is at 2.2 yards per carry this season.

2. Spreading the wealth: Senior receiver Noel Thomas has 20 catches, the most for a UConn player after two games. The drawback is other players have not been involved in the passing game. Newsome, Tyraiq Beals, Alec Bloom and Tommy Myers combined for 261 yards on 16 catches with three TDs in the first two games last season, but they have just 77 yards on five receptions this season, with 25 of those yards coming on a fake field goal.

3. Guarded optimism: UConn’s depth on the offensive line was viewed as a strength with six players with previous starting experience returning. That depth could be tested with starting guard Tommy Hopkins likely to miss his second straight game. His replacement, Brendan Vechery left last week’s Navy game for a bit, and if he isn’t 100 percent, reserve tackle Trey Rutherford could move back to guard where he started the St. Petersburg Bowl.

4. Familiar faces: Not only is UConn coach Bob Diaco a former assistant coach, but defensive coordinator Anthony Poindexter and quarterbacks coach Wayne Lineburg played and coached at Virginia. Defensive line coach Vincent Brown is another former assistant. Virginia’s top four tacklers (Micah Kiser, Quin Blanding, Zach Bradshaw and Kirk Garner) were recruited by Poindexter or Brown.

5. Road woes: Virginia has lost its last 16 road games, including last week’s 44-26 at Oregon. The Cavaliers’ last road victory came on Nov. 3, 2012 against North Carolina State.
 
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DiacosArmy said:
Well that's pretty pathetic.
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Diaco drains people with his stupidity. I don't expect much of a change. His talk has been so stupid so far. Took Belichick losing his job to become a winning coach.

This game should be a W.
 
Butch said:
Diaco drains people with his stupidity. I don't expect much of a change. His talk has been so stupid so far. Took Belichick losing his job to become a winning coach.

This game should be a W.
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Sometimes I wonder what kind of team we'd have with all the same players but BB as coach.
 
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