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Game Week - UConn @ Vanderbilt (10/2/21 @ 7:30p (ET) on ESPNU)

The issue is retention once they get older and better. Which is why I suggested player representation on the search committee a sew weeks ago. The next coach will NOT have a free year or two to construct a team to his own liking if he is gonna save the program. He is gonna have to start winning immediately with the team he has, not the one that he would like to have.
 
Not really sure what the thinking is to bench Johnson and Hairston. Hairston is the most sure-handed WR we have on the roster with good frame and FBS althetisicm. Johnson clearly has the most upside at the TE position out of anybody on the roster and is physically ready to play now (Niemenski was a downgrade).. I hope Spanos isnt just benching them because he feels they're 'Edsall guys' and wants to send a message or whatever. Those 2 guys seeing the field give us the best chance of winning, so things like this give me pause in what would otherwise be an optimistic next 2 months ahead.
 
TheDoggPound said:
Not really sure what the thinking is to bench Johnson and Hairston. Hairston is the most sure-handed WR we have on the roster with good frame and FBS althetisicm. Johnson clearly has the most upside at the TE position out of anybody on the roster and is physically ready to play now (Niemenski was a downgrade).. I hope Spanos isnt just benching them because he feels they're 'Edsall guys' and wants to send a message or whatever. Those 2 guys seeing the field give us the best chance of winning, so things like this give me pause in what would otherwise be an optimistic next 2 months ahead.
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They are all Edsall's guys? So that doesn't make sense. With all the changes Spanos has made (starting phommachanh, bringing in mazzone, etc.) I doubt he is making 2 deep changes to "send a message" except that he thinks the other players can help us implement the game plan and win. Or maybe they simply picked up a knock and these are the next guys up? I don't really watch the media stuff so not sure if these 2 changes were discussed in more detail but from the tweets I assume not.

Spanos has only been interim coach for a little but I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt with these changes based on his (albeit small) body of work so far.
 
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HuskyGooner124 said:
They are all Edsall's guys? So that doesn't make sense. With all the changes Spanos has made (starting phommachanh, bringing in mazzone, etc.) I doubt he is making 2 deep changes to "send a message" except that he thinks the other players can help us implement the game plan and win. Or maybe they simply picked up a knock and these are the next guys up? I don't really watch the media stuff so not sure if these 2 changes were discussed in more detail but from the tweets I assume not.

Spanos has only been interim coach for a little but I think he deserves the benefit of the doubt with these changes based on his (albeit small) body of work so far.
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I'm just tired of in-house politics and want the best players on the field. Hairston and Johnson playing give us the best chance to win. They're not even on the 2-deep so something is up (and it doesn't appear to be injury related).. my interpretation might be incorrect as to the reasons why, but I'm certain they're better than Niemenski and Clercius. Those guys are both serviceable but seem more suited to be role players at this juncture.
 
Saturday night is the watershed moment of our season. It’s the game that will measure our true level of improvement. At Army we showed a spark on offense with TP newly at the helm and Brewton excelling on special teams. As for our defense, the triple option blurred any rational evaluation. We saw glimpses of our defensive improvement vs Wyoming until wearing down in Q4. We displayed some Mazzone imagination on offense but were also aided by some questionable "home cooking" penalty calls. So where exactly are we in our slow progression from the depths?
This Saturday we’re playing a nighttime away game in an atmosphere where the refs will more than likely reverse the penalty advantage that aided us against Wyoming. And for some added intrigue, we're rolling into Nashville to face some (nominal) SEC athletes who were just humiliated by Georgia 62-0. Whatever self-respect the Commodores hope to reclaim will come at our expense.
So anything is possible (isn’t that why we watch) and nothing would surprise me. Conflicted, I’ll either be taking UConn on the money line at (+450) to validate our growing ascension and Vandy’s utter capitulation—or— Vandy (-14.5) for all the reasons you can imagine. So I’ll wait for an epiphany right before kickoff and if none appears, I just may keep my powder dry. Go Huskies!
 
By all accounts Coach Spanos is putting players on the field that he thinks gives the team the best competitive chance. I would think effort, attitude and intensity are high on his list. Paper talent doesn’t win games. Let’s see what happens at Vandy. I think we might be very happy at the end of the day.
 
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TheDoggPound said:
Not really sure what the thinking is to bench Johnson and Hairston. Hairston is the most sure-handed WR we have on the roster with good frame and FBS althetisicm. Johnson clearly has the most upside at the TE position out of anybody on the roster and is physically ready to play now (Niemenski was a downgrade).. I hope Spanos isnt just benching them because he feels they're 'Edsall guys' and wants to send a message or whatever. Those 2 guys seeing the field give us the best chance of winning, so things like this give me pause in what would otherwise be an optimistic next 2 months ahead.
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Where did you see Johnson and Hairston benched? Hairston did play against Wyo, just that he and Morrisseau had reduced snaps.
 
Nostical said:
We saw glimpses of our defensive improvement vs Wyoming until wearing down in Q4. We displayed some Mazzone imagination on offense but were also aided by some questionable "home cooking" penalty calls.
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Err - name them? I'll be the first to snicker at one, and i watched them all on replay - looked legit to me.
 
pepband99 said:
Err - name them? I'll be the first to snicker at one, and i watched them all on replay - looked legit to me.
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Interestingly the only one I saw was a non-call. TP was under pressure and threw the ball right into the back of an offensive lineman with no eligible receiver in sight. Assumed a penalty was coming.
 
Huskygrad88 said:
Interestingly the only one I saw was a non-call. TP was under pressure and threw the ball right into the back of an offensive lineman with no eligible receiver in sight. Assumed a penalty was coming.
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Agreed. We had some "illegal touching" jokes going around my friends for that one.
 
pepband99 said:
Err - name them? I'll be the first to snicker at one, and i watched them all on replay - looked legit to me.
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Unclear which specific Wyoming calls anyone perceived were aided by home cooking. I'm no refereeing guru, but I didn't see any explicit home cooking.

Granted UConn pays refs for our one-game home game contracts, but aren't they typically ACC refs? If so, shouldn't they screw the Huskies from every possible angle? Multiple times on Saturdays.
 
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Nostical said:
Saturday night is the watershed moment of our season. It’s the game that will measure our true level of improvement. At Army we showed a spark on offense with TP newly at the helm and Brewton excelling on special teams. As for our defense, the triple option blurred any rational evaluation. We saw glimpses of our defensive improvement vs Wyoming until wearing down in Q4. We displayed some Mazzone imagination on offense but were also aided by some questionable "home cooking" penalty calls. So where exactly are we in our slow progression from the depths?
This Saturday we’re playing a nighttime away game in an atmosphere where the refs will more than likely reverse the penalty advantage that aided us against Wyoming. And for some added intrigue, we're rolling into Nashville to face some (nominal) SEC athletes who were just humiliated by Georgia 62-0. Whatever self-respect the Commodores hope to reclaim will come at our expense.
So anything is possible (isn’t that why we watch) and nothing would surprise me. Conflicted, I’ll either be taking UConn on the money line at (+450) to validate our growing ascension and Vandy’s utter capitulation—or— Vandy (-14.5) for all the reasons you can imagine. So I’ll wait for an epiphany right before kickoff and if none appears, I just may keep my powder dry. Go Huskies!
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Small point, but normally when teams from two conferences play the refs come from a third conference. Since UConn is no longer in a conference, where will the refs come from for this game -- the SEC? And what conference's refs were used last week against WYO?
 
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giddyup said:
Paper talent doesn’t win games. Let’s see what happens at Vandy. I think we might be very happy at the end of the day.
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Very unlikely. But perhaps by the end of the evening. ;)
 
TheDoggPound said:
I'm just tired of in-house politics and want the best players on the field. Hairston and Johnson playing give us the best chance to win. They're not even on the 2-deep so something is up (and it doesn't appear to be injury related).. my interpretation might be incorrect as to the reasons why, but I'm certain they're better than Niemenski and Clercius. Those guys are both serviceable but seem more suited to be role players at this juncture.
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Good God, would you stop with the conspiracy theories. For all any of us know this could be an injury and it could be disciplinary. And if it's just a decision, you have zero reason to even speculate that this is anything other than a good faith decision as to who would help the team win.

It's fine to make the point someone should be playing. It's not to be so sure that your opinion is right that if someone disagrees with it there has to be a bad faith reason.
 
TheDoggPound said:
I'm just tired of in-house politics and want the best players on the field. Hairston and Johnson playing give us the best chance to win. They're not even on the 2-deep so something is up (and it doesn't appear to be injury related).. my interpretation might be incorrect as to the reasons why, but I'm certain they're better than Niemenski and Clercius. Those guys are both serviceable but seem more suited to be role players at this juncture.
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And you know this how? Maybe that aren’t executing their assignments? Running the wrong route ?
 
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Shrugs. Given the change in HC, I discount the scores of the first three games a bit.
 
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pepband99 said:
Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
I didn't see any explicit home cooking.
i watched them all on replay - looked legit to me.
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The Cowboy fans we were sitting near were getting apoplectic about the calls, and who could blame them. ”Home cooking’ was the reason they alleged. It may not have been the explicit reason but you get their point.Let’s just say if on Vandy’s final drive Saturday night we get called for three pass interference penalties. Even though some Vandy fans say the calls looked legit to them, you can bet we’ll all be saying we got “Southern Fried”.
 
Nostical said:
The Cowboy fans we were sitting near were getting apoplectic about the calls, and who could blame them. ”Home cooking’ was the reason they alleged. It may not have been the explicit reason but you get their point.Let’s just say if on Vandy’s final drive Saturday night we get called for three pass interference penalties. Even though some Vandy fans say the calls looked legit to them, you can bet we’ll all be saying we got “Southern Fried”.
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Which goes back to the question, which call do you believe was home cooking. All those PI calls were blatantly obvious.

UConn got lucky more than home cooked on the roughing the passer call where, if memory serves me correctly, TP threw a horrible pass which was picked off. After he released the ball, he got drilled helmet to helmet. Easy call but the helmet hit had no effect on his poor reading of the defense and pass.
 
RSTuthill said:
Small point, but normally when teams from two conferences play the refs come from a third conference. Since UConn is no longer in a conference, where will the refs come from for this game -- the SEC? And what conference's refs were used last week against WYO?
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Short answer is they can come from just about any conference. I try to note if the announcers state what conference the refs are from but I don't track it on a spreadsheet or anything.
 
Nostical said:
The Cowboy fans we were sitting near were getting apoplectic about the calls, and who could blame them. ”Home cooking’ was the reason they alleged. It may not have been the explicit reason but you get their point.Let’s just say if on Vandy’s final drive Saturday night we get called for three pass interference penalties. Even though some Vandy fans say the calls looked legit to them, you can bet we’ll all be saying we got “Southern Fried”.
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PIs? Out there for all to see? Nope. If our secondary did what Wyoming did on Saturday, they should get called.

Phantom holding calls, a la Notre Dame? You bet.
 
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