Is next season "our" time?

[Nostical]

How refreshing to read the measured optimism of Durks07. As for his comment about GDL and the O Line, here's what we know. The O Line was, shall we say, less than stellar last season. During the year I heard from several player parents who absolutely castigated GDL for his boorish demeanor (one livid parent called me while I was at a meeting in Montana to complain). On the other hand, I heard from others who sheepishly questioned the inate ability of several of the O line players. Yet another parent mentioned how despite GDL's atrocious play calling, his acumen at positional coaching had made his son a better player from a technique standpoint. So, to sum it up, GDL seems to have some saving grace as a position coach--especially when he has talent to work with, lol. Stripped of his mad scientist role as OC ( "Now that we're really moving the ball--it's Wildcat time!") and without other distractions (avoiding all the rotten tomatoes during Husky Walk) GDL may prove to be useful (servicable) in his new role. The fact remains that PP protects GDL's backside--for whatever reason. Thus, the key element will be just how skillful at politics TJ Weist is. His ability to convince PP to endorse his autonomy and keep GDL from meddling will be critical to whether all the gears can mesh. PP knows that WM will be "monitering" the coaching interactions. All of that will be sorted out later but, in the meantime, in the face of so much negativity, Durks07 was a welcome read this morning.

 

[BlueDogs]

If GDL stays out of Weist's turf, maybe we get somewhere. I have real reservations about that occurring based on his personality and MO. By most accounts GDL is a miserable with a head size bigger than his waist.

 

[Waquoit]

... So, to sum it up, GDL seems to have some saving grace as a position coach-....

Your post gives me some hope. Get GDL out of the GD upstairs booth and back on to the field giving some real-time coaching to the OL. Couldn't hurt.

 

[UConnDan97]

"Now that we're really moving the ball--it's Wildcat time!"

This quote alone was worth the "like"!!!

 

[ruskin]

If TJ Weist was becoming the HEAD coach Id feel a lot more better about this. He's basically stuck between two old dudes who until now have shown unwillingness to embrace modern football. On the other hand, they did seem to stay out of DB's way last season, and PP in theory is a defensive coach. Better than having nothing, but I would like to have something stronger to hang my hat on than hoping the head coach stays out of the coordinators' way.

 

[ZooCougar]

GDL should not be in the program any more. There is just too much room for mischief with him lingering.

Weist sounds like a good dude, but I wonder if our field of candidates was narrower because of the prospects that GDL was staying on staff.

 

[ZooCougar]

This quote alone was worth the "like"!!!

It's so true though. Those idiots stymied this offense. We would make a big gain, and then bring in the Wildcat, which would result in a two yard loss, followed by 5 yard false start penalty when Whitmer came back in because the cadences were so different, followed by a sack for a loss on 3rd and long.

Followed by a punt on 4th and 18.

The horrible sequence was repeated time and time again it seemed.

But this guy worked his butt off, he worked 28 hours a day. OK?

 

[Waquoit]

It's so true though. Those idiots stymied this offense. We would make a big gain, and then bring in the Wildcat, which would result in a two yard loss, followed by 5 yard false start penalty when Whitmer came back in because the cadences were so different, followed by a sack for a loss on 3rd and long.

What did it for me ws the 2nd half of the NC State game. We finally start moving the ball and it's 2 and 1 around midfield. 2nd down, run into the line, into those two massive DT's - no gain. 3rd down, run into the line, into those two massive DT's - no gain. Punt. Game over. Just awful.

 

[Jimdish255]

You can make up for a lot of complicated genius strategy with good communication and a clearly understood scheme allowing guys to be aggressive. Hours in your office and boorish behavior seem inconsistent with creating an atmosphere where guys are enthusiastic and understand what's expected of them. He needs to change his approach to be successful at this level or step aside and let someone else do the communicating.

 

[UConnDan97]

It's so true though. Those idiots stymied this offense. We would make a big gain, and then bring in the Wildcat, which would result in a two yard loss, followed by 5 yard false start penalty when Whitmer came back in because the cadences were so different, followed by a sack for a loss on 3rd and long.

Followed by a punt on 4th and 18.

The horrible sequence was repeated time and time again it seemed.

But this guy worked his butt off, he worked 28 hours a day. OK?

You are singing to the choir, my friend! I have hated the Wildcat since it came to existence here. It's not that Scotty doesn't hit a good gainer now and then, but the problem is that many times, it goes nowhere, and typically we called for the play immediately after Whitmer made a nice throw. Talk about killing a QB rhythym.

No, if it's up to me, I wouldn't mind if we never see the play again. Move McCummings to some sort of RB or slot receiver type deal to utilize his athleticism, and get back to the business of playing our offensive system without the gimmicks...

 

[ZooCougar]

You may be in the choir, but this place has been infested with Pasqualoni sympathizes lately. And while it is completely undignified to acknowledge their existence, they need to addressed.

You are singing to the choir, my friend! I have hated the Wildcat since it came to existence here. It's not that Scotty doesn't hit a good gainer now and then, but the problem is that many times, it goes nowhere, and typically we called for the play immediately after Whitmer made a nice throw. Talk about killing a QB rhythym.

No, if it's up to me, I wouldn't mind if we never see the play again. Move McCummings to some sort of RB or slot receiver type deal to utilize his athleticism, and get back to the business of playing our offensive system without the gimmicks...

 

[Adios]

If TJ Weist was becoming the HEAD coach Id feel a lot more better about this. He's basically stuck between two old dudes who until now have shown unwillingness to embrace modern football. On the other hand, they did seem to stay out of DB's way last season, and PP in theory is a defensive coach. Better than having nothing, but I would like to have something stronger to hang my hat on than hoping the head coach stays out of the coordinators' way.

Bringing in Weist seems to be a sign of change in offensive philosophy. But one thing I wish the staff did is move GDL to TEs and Foley back to OL. No idea why they did not make that switch.

 

[UConnDan97]

You may be in the choir, but this place has been infested with Pasqualoni sympathizes lately. And while it is completely undignified to acknowledge their existence, they need to addressed.

Well, I think we are talking about two different things now. I'm an apologista-pasqualista-whateverelseista. I'm guessing it was GDL that was calling for the Wildcat, not PP. I am also guessing that Weist will NOT be calling for the Wildcat. And it's clear that PP will have to succeed this year or else it is likely his last time as a head coach. But I think that he will have the tools to succeed, and I think that his "divorcing" himself from GDL at playcalling is a sign that he's willing to do what needs to be done in order to be successful. I'm not ecstatic about PP, but I'm not extremely down on him either...

 

[Adios]

You may be in the choir, but this place has been infested with Pasqualoni sympathizes lately. And while it is completely undignified to acknowledge their existence, they need to addressed.

At least we finally have a competent OC!

 

[ZooCougar]

What did it for me ws the 2nd half of the NC State game. We finally start moving the ball and it's 2 and 1 around midfield. 2nd down, run into the line, into those two massive DT's - no gain. 3rd down, run into the line, into those two massive DT's - no gain. Punt. Game over. Just awful.

Yup. That was the game where Pasqualoni lost me. Inexcusable. I actually scheduled leave around that game, flew in from Germany watched the game, and then flew to Montana the next day.

It was also the first time I saw us actually put the wrong players on the field after a time out on offense that we called deep in our own territory in the second half?

How do you do that? After that debacle and then Western Michigan game I pretty much saw that a bunch outdated and disorganized losers were running this program.

 

[ZooCougar]

I'm kind of dissappointed in you. You should be smarter than that.

Pasqualoni greenlit GDLs ideas. He is just as responsible. No, he is more responsible. He should know better.

He should have dismissed GDL if he was serious about divesting the program of his ideas that have proven to be a failure.

Well, I think we are talking about two different things now. I'm an apologista-pasqualista-whateverelseista. I'm guessing it was GDL that was calling for the Wildcat, not PP. I am also guessing that Weist will NOT be calling for the Wildcat. And it's clear that PP will have to succeed this year or else it is likely his last time as a head coach. But I think that he will have the tools to succeed, and I think that his "divorcing" himself from GDL at playcalling is a sign that he's willing to do what needs to be done in order to be successful. I'm not ecstatic about PP, but I'm not extremely down on him either...

 

[uconnflyer88]

I'm kind of dissappointed in you. You should be smarter than that.

Pasqualoni greenlit GDLs ideas. He is just as responsible. No, he is more responsible. He should know better.

He should have dismissed GDL if he was serious about divesting the program of his ideas that have proven to be a failure.

Alright Zoo, clearly you are firm in your position and refuse to even be open to other people's ideas (even if they are more logical)

It's getting kind of old, you coming into every thread and polluting it, taking away from what should be discussed

I want to know something, what will you do if my Huskies (they're not yours obviously), come into next year and win 8 games.....what will YOU do?

Hand write an apology letter to HCPP? To the boneyard?

You're clearly putting all of your chips in one basket......what if you're completely, 100% wrong and we go to the BCS....what then?

There was supposed to be a deal in there somewhere that since you never have anything different to say that we on the board just assume your post in response to certain subjects so we don't actually have to read it, but that would never be able to be enforced

 

[UConnDan97]

I'm kind of dissappointed in you. You should be smarter than that.

Pasqualoni greenlit GDLs ideas. He is just as responsible. No, he is more responsible. He should know better.

He should have dismissed GDL if he was serious about divesting the program of his ideas that have proven to be a failure.

You're not the first Boneyarder that has assumed I should be smarter, and I should let you know that my wife agrees with you.

Look, "the buck stops with PP", there is no doubt about it. But he's a defensive guy, and I am sure that he is going to cede the offensive direction to whom he believes are "the experts." The other problem is that PP saw the Wildcat work to perfection against Rutgers in 2011, and I'm sure he believed that it should always end up like that. He took the exception and made it the rule.

But the head coach is responsible for more than just the offensive philosophy. (he's also in charge of timeouts uggh!) But he believes in a high pressure defensive strategy as well, and nobody seems to credit him with helping to create a 180-degree reversal of the Edsall "bend, don't break" philosophy; a reversal that helped make us one of the top defenses in the country. Nobody seems to credit him with the highest rated recruiting class (on paper) that we have ever had here.

I don't want to turn this into a defense of Pasqualoni's job thread, because he clearly has some work to do. You don't get a visit from the AD about personnel if everything is going peachy. But there is light at the end of the tunnel, and I'm really looking forward to what Weist can bring to the table. If the light at the end of the tunnel goes dark, UConn will be moving on to a different tunnel...

 

[Srqhusky]

How refreshing to read the measured optimism of Durks07. As for his comment about GDL and the O Line, here's what we know. The O Line was, shall we say, less than stellar last season. During the year I heard from several player parents who absolutely castigated GDL for his boorish demeanor (one livid parent called me while I was at a meeting in Montana to complain). On the other hand, I heard from others who sheepishly questioned the inate ability of several of the O line players. Yet another parent mentioned how despite GDL's atrocious play calling, his acumen at positional coaching had made his son a better player from a technique standpoint. So, to sum it up, GDL seems to have some saving grace as a position coach--especially when he has talent to work with, lol. Stripped of his mad scientist role as OC ( "Now that we're really moving the ball--it's Wildcat time!") and without other distractions (avoiding all the rotten tomatoes during Husky Walk) GDL may prove to be useful (servicable) in his new role. The fact remains that PP protects GDL's backside--for whatever reason. Thus, the key element will be just how skillful at politics TJ Weist is. His ability to convince PP to endorse his autonomy and keep GDL from meddling will be critical to whether all the gears can mesh. PP knows that WM will be "monitering" the coaching interactions. All of that will be sorted out later but, in the meantime, in the face of so much negativity, Durks07 was a welcome read this morning.

Tj weist seems like an aggressive guy I see the political ass kissing they are doing now being short lived. He is going to call his shots it will be his offense. Coach p seems like a delegator so he will let weist run his show. He will give some input but it will be weists show. Seems like he let brown and Deleone do their things so I see the same happening here
Also out o line was bad but it was a combo of plays called , new blocking scheme and lack of talent. You can't expect an o line to hold ten second blocks or every pass but yes I expected them to overpower umass and buffalo more than they did so talent is an issue there.
Also how many times did we see d linemen run right by them untouched. Cuse game. Usf game. Coaching needs to improve. We can only move up.
As far as whitmer remember this is his second year he did pretty well. Lets hope interception decrease. Td increase

We are close we are close

 

[ZooCougar]

Alright Zoo, clearly you are firm in your position and refuse to even be open to other people's ideas (even if they are more logical)

It's getting kind of old, you coming into every thread and polluting it, taking away from what should be discussed

I want to know something, what will you do if my Huskies (they're not yours obviously), come into next year and win 8 games.....what will YOU do?

Hand write an apology letter to HCPP? To the boneyard?

You're clearly putting all of your chips in one basket......what if you're completely, 100% wrong and we go to the BCS....what then?

There was supposed to be a deal in there somewhere that since you never have anything different to say that we on the board just assume your post in response to certain subjects so we don't actually have to read it, but that would never be able to be enforced

Not my huskies?

You get to decide that?

I am not the only one pointing out that Pasqualoni is awful. I am just directly engaging suckers like you because you are 100% wrong.

What are you going to do when the opposite happens? Write an apology to the Boneyard for sticking up for Coach Blue?

Sounds like a great contest to me. Because there is no way this team will get to the BCS under Pasqualoni, much less get bowl eligible.

 

[ZooCougar]

He's out of date, out of touch, and watching this team is like experiencing Deja Vu because it is showing all of the same flaws that his later Syracuse teams showed.

Honestly, the worst thing that could happen to this program head coaching wise, would be if we somehow went 6-6, and got to a bowl. Because then Warde would have an excuse to not fire him.

We're never going to be stockpiling loads of blue chip talent, so we need the best state of the art coaches money can buy.

We don't need the '95 Lincoln Continental of Coaches.

You're not the first Boneyarder that has assumed I should be smarter, and I should let you know that my wife agrees with you.

Look, "the buck stops with PP", there is no doubt about it. But he's a defensive guy, and I am sure that he is going to cede the offensive direction to whom he believes are "the experts." The other problem is that PP saw the Wildcat work to perfection against Rutgers in 2011, and I'm sure he believed that it should always end up like that. He took the exception and made it the rule.

But the head coach is responsible for more than just the offensive philosophy. (he's also in charge of timeouts uggh!) But he believes in a high pressure defensive strategy as well, and nobody seems to credit him with helping to create a 180-degree reversal of the Edsall "bend, don't break" philosophy; a reversal that helped make us one of the top defenses in the country. Nobody seems to credit him with the highest rated recruiting class (on paper) that we have ever had here.

I don't want to turn this into a defense of Pasqualoni's job thread, because he clearly has some work to do. You don't get a visit from the AD about personnel if everything is going peachy. But there is light at the end of the tunnel, and I'm really looking forward to what Weist can bring to the table. If the light at the end of the tunnel goes dark, UConn will be moving on to a different tunnel...

 

[uconnflyer88]

Not my huskies?

You get to decide that?

I am not the only one pointing out that Pasqualoni is awful. I am just directly engaging suckers like you because you are 100% wrong.

What are you going to do when the opposite happens? Write an apology to the Boneyard for sticking up for Coach Blue?

Sounds like a great contest to me. Because there is no way this team will get to the BCS under Pasqualoni, much less get bowl eligible.

Yes, if you were a true blue husky fan, there wouldn't be so much hate for so long, yeah after the game/season some frustrated posts, but you get over it and realize that the last football season is over and there is a new one months away that we have no idea what could happen, so we as fans get excited....if you can't find ANY excitement in this team then yes I call into questions your fandom

I think we need to call in BL, but what would your definition of the opposite be?

I would most certainly take that bet to derail all the hate that is being spewed and get back to discussing the REAL issues with his football team if thats what it takes

"Sounds like a great contest to me. Because there is no way this team will get to the BCS under Pasqualoni, much less get bowl eligible"

....let's make a deal....

 

[UConnDan97]

Because there is no way this team will get to the BCS under Pasqualoni, much less get bowl eligible.

This is what I don't understand on this board from many of our members.

It's almost as if there are certain members of this board who are actively and vehemently rooting for UConn's demise. I just don't get it. It's so much easier to type that UConn sucks on the Cuse board or the RU board, because everyone will enjoy it and laugh. Why do it here? Do you really believe that there is "no way" that we get to a bowl game next year? If so, does that mean that you aren't going to watch the games? Because why would you watch the games if you truly believed there was "no way" we could win half of them? I swear, I just don't get it at all.

And let me preemptively strike against anyone's response that I need to "open my eyes" or I "don't live in reality." The reality is that there is no game on the schedule where we will be so outmatched as to not allow for our chance of winning the game. None. Not even Michigan. Louisville this year was likely better than Michigan. We will be underdogs for sure in some of these games, but we have a chance to win each and every one of them. Period.

 

[ZooCougar]

Oh blow it out your a-s-s.

Pardon me for being irritated that these guys took this thing backwards. That's undeniable. And no, don't give us that Desmond Conner song and dance that Edsall left a train wreck behind him. Absolutely nobody is buying that.

Yes, if you were a true blue husky fan, there wouldn't be so much hate for so long, yeah after the game/season some frustrated posts, but you get over it and realize that the last football season is over and there is a new one months away that we have no idea what could happen, so we as fans get excited....if you can't find ANY excitement in this team then yes I call into questions your fandom

I think we need to call in BL, but what would your definition of the opposite be?

I would most certainly take that bet to derail all the hate that is being spewed and get back to discussing the REAL issues with his football team if thats what it takes

"Sounds like a great contest to me. Because there is no way this team will get to the BCS under Pasqualoni, much less get bowl eligible"

....let's make a deal....

 

[ZooCougar]

Yes, if you were a true blue husky fan, there wouldn't be so much hate for so long, yeah after the game/season some frustrated posts, but you get over it and realize that the last football season is over and there is a new one months away that we have no idea what could happen, so we as fans get excited....if you can't find ANY excitement in this team then yes I call into questions your fandom

I think we need to call in BL, but what would your definition of the opposite be?

I would most certainly take that bet to derail all the hate that is being spewed and get back to discussing the REAL issues with his football team if thats what it takes

"Sounds like a great contest to me. Because there is no way this team will get to the BCS under Pasqualoni, much less get bowl eligible"

....let's make a deal....

I'll take that bet, but I won't change what I have to say between now and then regardless. Not apologizing for it, nope. You guys are the ones that should be apologizing to us when Pasqualoni sets the program back another year.

 

[UConnDan97]

I'll take that bet, but I won't change what I have to say between now and then regardless. Not apologizing for it, nope. You guys are the ones that should be apologizing to us when Pasqualoni sets the program back another year.

I apologize in advance to you, ZooCougar, for PP setting this program back another year.

There. Now that it's out of the way, we are all playing with "House Money", right? The fact that this year will suck is now a foregone conclusion, and anything good that comes of it will just be gravy on the mashed potatoes. Here's hoping that UConn can overcome all of the crap that we have surrounded ourselves with and through sheer dumb luck, we can hopefully get maybe a win or two.....maybe....

 

[ZooCougar]

Because 6-6 is not true success. Regardless of what you want to believe. We could back into a 6-6 season but that would just mask our problems.

I think that losing to USF, WMU and Temple like we did would open your eyes enough to see through the whole " there's nobody we can't beat argument".

Sorry, I'm not buying into Pasqualoni, he needs to do something pretty amazing to prove that we are wrong about him.

This is what I don't understand on this board from many of our members.

It's almost as if there are certain members of this board who are actively and vehemently rooting for UConn's demise. I just don't get it. It's so much easier to type that UConn sucks on the Cuse board or the RU board, because everyone will enjoy it and laugh. Why do it here? Do you really believe that there is "no way" that we get to a bowl game next year? If so, does that mean that you aren't going to watch the games? Because why would you watch the games if you truly believed there was "no way" we could win half of them? I swear, I just don't get it at all.

And let me preemptively strike against anyone's response that I need to "open my eyes" or I "don't live in reality." The reality is that there is no game on the schedule where we will be so outmatched as to not allow for our chance of winning the game. None. Not even Michigan. Louisville this year was likely better than Michigan. We will be underdogs for sure in some of these games, but we have a chance to win each and every one of them. Period.

 

[Srqhusky]

Where is the ring board. Or call it back alley

 

[UConnDan97]

Because 6-6 is not true success. Regardless of what you want to believe. We could back into a 6-6 season but that would just mask our problems.

I think that losing to USF, WMU and Temple like we did would open your eyes enough to see through the whole " there's nobody we can't beat argument".

Sorry, I'm not buying into Pasqualoni, he needs to do something pretty amazing to prove that we are wrong about him.

I'm not aiming for 6-6. I'm sure that PP is not aiming for 6-6. I think that 6-6 may not even be enough to change his fortunes, to be quite honest.

Also, losing to USF, WMU, and Temple does not change the statement of "there's nobody we can't beat." We beat Louisville, MD, and Pitt. I didn't say there was "nobody we could lose to." We don't have enough talent on this team to ever say that; the same with most teams in D1 football. Maybe Alabama can say that, and even then. And if Alabama was on the schedule, I would probably tell you that we might not even have a puncher's chance in that one. But on our current schedule, with our current team, there is nobody that we cannot beat. Nobody at all.

Here's hoping for 13-0.... (that one seems to tick Whaler off for some reason)

 

[uconnflyer88]

I'll take that bet, but I won't change what I have to say between now and then regardless. Not apologizing for it, nope. You guys are the ones that should be apologizing to us when Pasqualoni sets the program back another year.

Haha well that makes absolutely no sense because if he does go to a bowl this year then that would prove me and some others on this board (I don't know about all that other stuff about Des) right that all HCPP needed was a couple years to implement his system before he started to post winning seasons because this is college and not the NFL where you have guys that play in the system for 12 years

The deal would be that I would refrain from "defending our football teams head coach????" (If thats a crime) and you refrain from spewing hate about him (even though most of my "defending" stems from you spewing hate)

And then we would agree to just strictly talk about roster moves, recruits and players for the 2013 season until the season starts and then analyze each game was season gets going

But apparently we can't make a deal and you will keep driving people that want to discuss UConn football rationally away