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HomeKing93 said:
I still have faith in HCBD, but 3 of the 4 sacks in the Tulane game were after CW dropped back 7+ steps. I could be wrong, but I think it's past time to get those plays out of the playbook.
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They did make an effort to do that.
 
Fact: UConn football is flat out awful, and you would have to be delusional (ala Rutgersal) to think otherwise.
 
15 years in without waivering, and I'm starting to waiver. Got to hang in but I just don't know how many more shows i
weyuo said:
The one thing that irritates me the most about all of this is this team should be 4-2 instead of 1-5 and it's all about the offensive line. The O-line is what got P fired and Diaco & Co knew coming into this season what the biggest problem with the team was. Still, the O-line looks awful, worse even than the last few years and I don't see them recruiting P-5 caliber O-linemen. That has to be priority #1!! Get P-5 caliber O-lineman so you can compete at that level. If he and his staff are such great coaches & recruiters then prove it by building a top 25 offensive line. I don't care if Newsome is fast and elusive. Can he block? Diaco: Your process should start with teaching everybody on the team how to block. What's with the tight ends? They are like invisible out there. They don't block anybody because no one blocks anybody. I want to support the coaching staff but this is going on 4 years now and the line just looks worse and worse each year.
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Something we can agree on.
 
[QUOTE="It's hard for me Duncan, to reason out and accept why we need to wait 3 seasons, to see those fundamental things improve. We lost on Saturday night for only a few reasons. #1. Fumbles. #2. Interception #3.Catching kicks. #4. Poor fundamentals of both blocking and tackling. To me, fixing these things does not take several years. You put the players in simple drills, and do it until they get it right.[/QUOTE]
I thought I was drawing a continuous line of improvement.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
FACT: UConn and Diaco have looked inept on offense every game this season.

FACT: Diaco makes at least one decision every game that is mind boggling.

FACT: He's a first year head coach so he could be good, but hasn't shown anything to date to substantiate that. We have to hope he's great, but that's blind faith.
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Fact: Quoting or paraphrasing Zoo Cougar: he has taken a 5 car pile up and turned it into a train wreck.


This is a fact of any fan of this program who cannot believe how horrible we have fallen. Bottom 5 program bad.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
Diaco could go 1-11 this year and 0-12 next year and still not be fired. UConn can't afford it. He is getting 3 years minimum, so we just have to hope for him to succeed.
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Yep. He gets paid for 3 but is gone mid third. Yes, please do not let this happen. No P2, the Diaco years.
Sherifs and JUCO transfer linemen.
Spread offense or die
 
Alum86 said:
Yep. He gets paid for 3 but is gone mid third. Yes, please do not let this happen. No P2, the Diaco years.
Sherifs and JUCO transfer linemen.
Spread offense or die
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Yep, he is going to introduce something different next year.
 
Alum86 said:
Fact: Quoting or paraphrasing Zoo Cougar: he has taken a 5 car pile up and turned it into a train wreck.


This is a fact of any fan of this program who cannot believe how horrible we have fallen. Bottom 5 program bad.
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Eh, I'm of the opinion that it was a slow-motion train wreck since year 2 of PP, - you could even argue the roots of that failure go back to Edsall's late years when he complained about not being able to get recruits qualified while Hathaway was coasting on his laurels. And surprise, surprise, it hasn't magically un-wrecked itself in year 1 of BD because he doesn't have the talent to work with (TJ's 3 wins at the end of last year were a bit of fool's gold, especially with CC unavailable this year).

If you didn't think we've been bad for a while, you haven't been paying attention.
 
As hard as this team has been to watch, these last two bye weeks have given me enough time to reflect and realize that patience truly is in order. I was at least willing to give him through next season, but the reality is this team probably won't get to where it needs to be until year 3 under Diaco. He needs at least a couple full years to bring in his own recruits before anyone can really judge where this is going. If this team doesn't steadily improve by year 3, then all bets are off with him being considered a "good hire", which I believe he is. Matter of fact, we're probably lucky to have such a hot commodity want anything to do with UConn football considering how much its fallen since Edsall.
 
I think UConn fans are feeling more patient with Diaco now that we have had Midnight Madness and the hoop team looks good. I know I am.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I think UConn fans are feeling more patient with Diaco now that we have had Midnight Madness and the hoop team looks good. I know I am.
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It's funny. As football was growing I couldn't pay any attention to hoops until the bowls were over. NOW, I'm looking forward to hoops and worrying less about football (or I will be once the season starts). Although the dumpster fire of a home BB schedule isn't making me feel great.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
I think UConn fans are feeling more patient with Diaco now that we have had Midnight Madness and the hoop team looks good. I know I am.
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I didn't think the Men looked particularly great (e.g. despite his re-found athleticism, Calhoun is still demonstrating he can't hit the broad side of a barn), but it was a meaningless scrimmage and EVERYBODY had an ear-to-ear grin. On the other hand, I was already 3 deep and wasn't watching super closely, as I would be for a regular season game.
 
Brimah on D and Purvis on O will make a lot of people forget all about Diaco's offense.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I think UConn fans are feeling more patient with Diaco now that we have had Midnight Madness and the hoop team looks good. I know I am.
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J187Money said:
It's funny. As football was growing I couldn't pay any attention to hoops until the bowls were over. NOW, I'm looking forward to hoops and worrying less about football (or I will be once the season starts). Although the dumpster fire of a home BB schedule isn't making me feel great.
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It's posts like these that makes me wish this board had an "agree" button.
 
KennyD said:
Each day I look for a new thread that will offer some unemotional analysis of what is the current state of husky football. Today I was again disappointed. Let me start by stating what I perceive to be some facts. Notice that I’m not listing things such as talent level, offensive schemes, personnel decisions, etc.

FACT: HCBD is about the most competitive person that we could have ever hired to guide husky foot from the abyss.

FACT: HCBD and his staff have enough football experience to understand what it takes to win at the major college level and have not just suddenly decided to throw all that knowledge away.

FACT: HCBD and his staff “on average” probably know a little more about football than each and every boneyarder.

FACT: This team is the most difficult to watch of any husky football team that I have watched in the last 20 years.

So in spite of all of the yelling and screaming I have done either at the Rent or watching TV for our two away games this year, I couldn’t be more optimistic. Why, you may ask. Am I delusional?

FACT: HCBD is a goal oriented planner and has lived his whole life based on that premise. His professional coaching future is based on succeeding at UConn. He will do it the right way, but it’s guaranteed that he will do whatever it takes to succeed.

FACT: HCBD will not take shortcuts. It might hurt now, but that is one of his most important assets.

FACT: HCBD has a passion to coach. Passion at the top of an organization results in passion throughout an organization.

I do not think that HCBD plans to make UConn his final stop. Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so. UConn is just part of his long term plan to be a highly successful head football coach. He will live and die National Flag Blue until UConn is at the top of the mountain. He won’t care what criticism he hears during his UConn journey. Behind the scenes, 24 hours a day, he is planning what he needs to do to have the team improve. Behind the scenes he is demanding that each and every player and coach is doing what it takes to win. A person in charge that wants to win as badly as HCBD, will accept nothing less.

Can we argue about who should be getting more reps at a given position during a particular game? Sure. But that’s small potatoes. What’s going on behind the scenes (including their recruiting) is what’s most important.

Mark it down. Sometime in the future, after HCBD has turned this program around, we will all be frantic wondering if we can ever get someone as good, to lead the huskies again. Take a deep breath. We are eventually all going to enjoy this ride.
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I actually thought it might take a little longer, but I KNEW it would eventually happen. (I DO like to capitalize for for emphasis).
 
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