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How about it? What says the boneyard?
I think football should be played as a collision sport. If you're not hitting somebody when the whistles blow and the ball is snapped, you are not playing. If you are hitting, but not hitting as hard as you possibly can, and getting run over on offense or defense, you are not playing well.
The scariest thing that I think anyone can live to tell about, is close contact to the strafing of an A-10 warthog on the ground. These war birds are not named Thunderbolts by accident. By the time the deep guttural roar of that gun reaches the ears, hellfire explosions have gone off everywhere, and the earth has been moved, and the baddest of men in the world are reduced to blank fear. The commonality is that anyone who lives to tell about it, says they have never seen anything hit harder than an A-10.
That's war.
Football is a game, but it is a game of physical combat and the objective is to physically overwhelm and beat your opponent individually and as a team. I wish we could play football with that kind of intensity. There is a thread here about what people think of Randy Edsall. When I think of UCONN football in division 1A, I think of hard nosed, hard hitting, simple football. If you are not hitting somebody when the ball is snapped, you are not playing, and if you are not hitting hard on offense or defense, you are not playing well. I know there are new rules, but you can still hit, clean, and knock somebody out. You cannot play with fear. You cannot play slow. You cannot play weak.
This program used to take pride, win or lose, in making teams leave the field sore and tired, and having installed something into the opponent, such that when someone asks them - what was it like to play UCONN? the response is: "They hit hard."
The energy has to come from somewhere though, and the players need to be in position to hit.
Although all you need to do is call in the air strike for an A10 strafing run, and reduce an enemy to rubble......
you can't impose your physicality on an opposing team by talking about it and asking for it to be done. Players gotta go do it. Coaches got to put them in position to do it. Somebody needs to be accountable in the chain for making it all happen.
A-10 warthogs are the scariest thing in the world, for a ground soldier, because those pilots, once they start firing, are going to kill and destroy anything anywhere close to their target and a soldier on the ground that hears the jet coming? Oh man. The command to fire, and where, is the only thing between destroying your own troops or the enemy.
Pilots need to trust their orders without waivering, and the people in command better know what the they are doing or they are going to kill their own soldiers. It happens. It has happened. It will happen in the future if we end up in another war in the middle east. I have an old friend deployed who has been deployed to the Sinai Peninsula for a while now, who was supposed to come home soon, but isn't looking like it.
Morbid I know, but it's reality. There are enemies of this country out there, and we need to be real careful about how we choose our leaders, and what kinds of tactics and strategies we are going to use to engage enemies.
Football is football, coaches coach, and players play, and I'm looking to see what we've got against Maryland because success now, is most definitely coming from trust in a chain of command, and executing orders.
I want to see our guys beat Maryland down.
I think football should be played as a collision sport. If you're not hitting somebody when the whistles blow and the ball is snapped, you are not playing. If you are hitting, but not hitting as hard as you possibly can, and getting run over on offense or defense, you are not playing well.
The scariest thing that I think anyone can live to tell about, is close contact to the strafing of an A-10 warthog on the ground. These war birds are not named Thunderbolts by accident. By the time the deep guttural roar of that gun reaches the ears, hellfire explosions have gone off everywhere, and the earth has been moved, and the baddest of men in the world are reduced to blank fear. The commonality is that anyone who lives to tell about it, says they have never seen anything hit harder than an A-10.
That's war.
Football is a game, but it is a game of physical combat and the objective is to physically overwhelm and beat your opponent individually and as a team. I wish we could play football with that kind of intensity. There is a thread here about what people think of Randy Edsall. When I think of UCONN football in division 1A, I think of hard nosed, hard hitting, simple football. If you are not hitting somebody when the ball is snapped, you are not playing, and if you are not hitting hard on offense or defense, you are not playing well. I know there are new rules, but you can still hit, clean, and knock somebody out. You cannot play with fear. You cannot play slow. You cannot play weak.
This program used to take pride, win or lose, in making teams leave the field sore and tired, and having installed something into the opponent, such that when someone asks them - what was it like to play UCONN? the response is: "They hit hard."
The energy has to come from somewhere though, and the players need to be in position to hit.
Although all you need to do is call in the air strike for an A10 strafing run, and reduce an enemy to rubble......
you can't impose your physicality on an opposing team by talking about it and asking for it to be done. Players gotta go do it. Coaches got to put them in position to do it. Somebody needs to be accountable in the chain for making it all happen.
A-10 warthogs are the scariest thing in the world, for a ground soldier, because those pilots, once they start firing, are going to kill and destroy anything anywhere close to their target and a soldier on the ground that hears the jet coming? Oh man. The command to fire, and where, is the only thing between destroying your own troops or the enemy.
Pilots need to trust their orders without waivering, and the people in command better know what the they are doing or they are going to kill their own soldiers. It happens. It has happened. It will happen in the future if we end up in another war in the middle east. I have an old friend deployed who has been deployed to the Sinai Peninsula for a while now, who was supposed to come home soon, but isn't looking like it.
Morbid I know, but it's reality. There are enemies of this country out there, and we need to be real careful about how we choose our leaders, and what kinds of tactics and strategies we are going to use to engage enemies.
Football is football, coaches coach, and players play, and I'm looking to see what we've got against Maryland because success now, is most definitely coming from trust in a chain of command, and executing orders.
I want to see our guys beat Maryland down.
