It's not NIL or the roster, Jim

[Sole]

I don’t think this team is too far off from being good..they need to keep the good players from transferring next year

 

[HuskiesFan1014]

At least Hurley doesn’t play his home games on a venue at an abandoned air strip 25 miles from campus, and a venue that needs $180 million in repairs. Neither did his predecessors. That’s only one of the things that Mora has to overcome when trying to lure recruits to UConn. So Mora shows the venue to prospective recruits and says, they can bus in 1000 of the 20,000 on campus students, to recruits for games. NIL is another problem.

Just. Stop. With. The. Stadium.

 

[Sole]

Mora is not a up an coming great coach…he is a sound coach who can if was on equal footing with other coaches would win his fair share of games…he’s not.. uconn is at such a disadvantage then most schools we play recruiting wise…it’s got to be frustrating for him

 

[Scrutineer]

This is only Mora’s second season here

But, but, but............it sure feels like more than two.

 

[Nostical]

The problem with a defensive minded HC like Mora is deferring too often to his OC during critical game moments, rather than being comfortable providing a level of offensive insight.
On that 4th and 1 late in the game, when they called time out and brought in Stafford, the call from Charlton was to try and replicate the NCSt game surprise pass from Fagnano to #97. So did Mora simply rubber stamp the call, concurring that rolling out Roberson, who has accuracy issues on the run, to throw a touch pass to 300 lb Stafford was the wisest choice? (And BTW, as Stafford ran to the outside he was double covered—you think that during that time out, BC, who had watched the NC St tape, didn’t warn its defense?)
So did Mora bring any insight into the play call discussion? Did he perhaps suggest that if Charlton thought BC would gang up to stop the Stafford dive, a more deceptive play might be having Stafford crash into the line while having the QB hand it to the trailing back Edwards to cut to the outside?
Look, I realize that if you analyze every play the successful ones have lots of fathers while those that don’t are orphans, but blindly trusting the play calling of our OC is one of the biggest failures of Mora’s tenure.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Just. Stop. With. The. Stadium.

The stadium is just one of the problems facing any football coach at UConn. This program needs big time donations for coaches salaries, NIL money, recruiting budgets, upgraded film and video facilities, and many other items that cost big money. Why don’t you make up bumper stickers having your stupid post and embossed with UConn Football on the top, and hand them out to your friends.

 

[husky8273]

The stadium is just one of the problems facing any football coach at UConn. This program needs big time donations for coaches salaries, NIL money, recruiting budgets, upgraded film and video facilities, and many other items that cost big money. Why don’t you make up bumper stickers having your stupid post and embossed with UConn Football on the top, and hand them out to your friends.

good luck with that.......

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Are you reviving the “we should run the triple option” thread? Because at this point I am 100% on board…

No, I'm looking into something different.

I personally believe that a) it would be more feasible for us to build a program where (ideally) the teams somewhat resemble what the Eagles and 49ers are currently doing than what, for example the Chiefs are doing and b) as better programs are moving more and more towards gearing up on primarily stopping the pass, they will be less capable of stopping a physical running game.

A side note is TDHusky has been whining that we don't throw the ball enough for at least 15 years.

 

[superjohn]

At least Hurley doesn’t play his home games on a venue at an abandoned air strip 25 miles from campus, and a venue that needs $180 million in repairs. Neither did his predecessors. That’s only one of the things that Mora has to overcome when trying to lure recruits to UConn. So Mora shows the venue to prospective recruits and says, they can bus in 1000 of the 20,000 on campus students, to recruits for games. NIL is another problem.

You think the XL Center is a showpiece?

 

[CONN78SEJ]

The problem with a defensive minded HC like Mora is deferring too often to his OC during critical game moments, rather than being comfortable providing a level of offensive insight.
On that 4th and 1 late in the game, when they called time out and brought in Stafford, the call from Charlton was to try and replicate the NCSt game surprise pass from Fagnano to #97. So did Mora simply rubber stamp the call, concurring that rolling out Roberson, who has accuracy issues on the run, to throw a touch pass to 300 lb Stafford was the wisest choice? (And BTW, as Stafford ran to the outside he was double covered—you think that during that time out, BC, who had watched the NC St tape, didn’t warn its defense?)
So did Mora bring any insight into the play call discussion? Did he perhaps suggest that if Charlton thought BC would gang up to stop the Stafford dive, a more deceptive play might be having Stafford crash into the line while having the QB hand it to the trailing back Edwards to cut to the outside?
Look, I realize that if you analyze every play the successful ones have lots of fathers while those that don’t are orphans, but blindly trusting the play calling of our OC is one of the biggest failures of Mora’s tenure.

Agree with your general statement about rubber stamping Charlton’s play calling, but was Stafford the original target when the play was called?

 

[huskymedic]

… and a venue that needs $180 million in repairs.

Got anything that backs up that assertion?

 

[CONN78SEJ]

You think the XL Center is a showpiece?

No , it’s a dump. All the home games should be played at Gampel, with maybe one or two at the Civic Center not the 8 that Hartford wants. God knows we don’t need another roof collapse.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Got anything that backs up that assertion?

Yes, whatever the state says it will pay to make infrastructure improvements to Rentschler Field you can multiply that by 3. There are pictures of rust creep and water damage from the leaky roof.

 

[giddyup]

On that 4th and 1 late in the game, when they called time out and brought in Stafford, the call from Charlton was to try and replicate the NCSt game surprise pass from Fagnano to #97. So did Mora simply rubber stamp the call, concurring that rolling out Roberson, who has accuracy issues on the run, to throw a touch pass to 300 lb Stafford was the wisest choice? (And BTW, as Stafford ran to the outside he was double covered—you think that during that time out, BC, who had watched the NC St tape, didn’t warn its defense?)

It’s an excellent point. I’ll go a step further because our OC sucks in route design. We had two receivers basically in the same route space with TE never peeling off to either pull defenders away from Stafford or coming open. Despite running an ineffective pencil route the TE was open briefly but they were fixated on getting the ball to Jelani. This tells me Charlton doesn’t teach the theory of the play and players don’t understand the dynamics.

 

[gopher2]

Bottom line we lost to BC and that always sucks especially bad. But we did not get blown out. This game demonstrated the recent trend of increased parity between the programs which is good for us and bad for them. This was a hollow victory for BC.

I'm hopeful this team can finally put it together and win out against JMU, Sacred Heart and UMass. Defense, play calling, execution on offense and special teams all need to get better for that to happen but it is within reach and it can be done with deternination and continued effort. Let's get it done!

 

[Hoophound]

At least Hurley doesn’t play his home games on a venue at an abandoned air strip 25 miles from campus, and a venue that needs $180 million in repairs. Neither did his predecessors. That’s only one of the things that Mora has to overcome when trying to lure recruits to UConn. So Mora shows the venue to prospective recruits and says, they can bus in 1000 of the 20,000 on campus students, to recruits for games. NIL is another problem.

I’ve taken several people to the Rent, including some very intense Gator fans. They all loved it. They thought it was fun, well laid out, the concessions were good and everyone loves all the beer options every 50 feet all around the stadium.

The problem with the Rent is losing. The place used to rock and the venue has always been good.

 

[CL82]

If we could tackle, we have won by a lot today

Or catch a pass, or hit an open receiver... there's actually quite a bit to choose from.

 

[CL82]

Just. Stop. With. The. Stadium.

Why? It's not the only issue, heck, it's not even the biggest issue, but it is an issue.

 

[CL82]

I’ve taken several people to the Rent, including some very intense Gator fans. They all loved it. They thought it was fun, well laid out, the concessions were good and everyone loves all the beer options every 50 feet all around the stadium.

The problem with the Rent is losing. The place used to rock and the venue has always been good.

The problem with the Rent is that it's 30 miles to far west, and may be slightly too small for a functional program, and 20 years old and in need of renovation, but, yeah, 100% agree that winning masks most of that.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

At least Hurley doesn’t play his home games on a venue at an abandoned air strip 25 miles from campus, and a venue that needs $180 million in repairs. Neither did his predecessors. That’s only one of the things that Mora has to overcome when trying to lure recruits to UConn. So Mora shows the venue to prospective recruits and says, they can bus in 1000 of the 20,000 on campus students, to recruits for games. NIL is another problem.

You have never had season tickets at Storrs prior to the announcement of going 1A.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

The problem with the Rent is that it's 30 miles to far west, and may be slightly too small for a functional program, and 20 years old and in need of renovation, but, yeah, 100% agree that winning masks most of that.

The stadium is just one of the problems facing any football coach at UConn. This program needs big time donations for coaches salaries, NIL money, recruiting budgets, upgraded film and video facilities, and many other items that cost big money. Why don’t you make up bumper stickers having your stupid post and embossed with UConn Football on the top, and hand them out to your friends.

At least Hurley doesn’t play his home games on a venue at an abandoned air strip 25 miles from campus, and a venue that needs $180 million in repairs. Neither did his predecessors. That’s only one of the things that Mora has to overcome when trying to lure recruits to UConn. So Mora shows the venue to prospective recruits and says, they can bus in 1000 of the 20,000 on campus students, to recruits for games. NIL is another problem.

“What are things that are harder to accomplish here?” Mora said. “You look at our facilities, we have everything we need. The way we travel is first-class. The way we feed our players is first-class. Our ability to acquire a first-rate staff is great. I would say if there's one thing, it's just when we're in a recruiting battle — and this happens too often — we’ll be in a battle and we'll be winning that battle; and the kids come on campus and love the campus and love the facility; they meet the people and they love the people; they see our vision and they love our vision. And then a Power Five team walks in at the last minute and fulfills their dream of playing Power Five football, and we lose him. That's really, to me, been the only obstacle. Every day there's little picky things, but a true obstacle? That's the only obstacle we've seen. The good news is we've been in the fight. We'll start winning some of those battles. We'll start pulling people away from the Power Five teams as we become more successful as a program.”

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I’ve taken several people to the Rent, including some very intense Gator fans. They all loved it. They thought it was fun, well laid out, the concessions were good and everyone loves all the beer options every 50 feet all around the stadium.

The problem with the Rent is losing. The place used to rock and the venue has always been good.

This!

Over the past two decades I've hosted countless people who have history of attending games in college football hotbeds. They always spoke highly (often surprised) by the sightlines in the stadium, the tailgating space and the ease of access. These were people who attended school at the Universities of Florida, South Carolina, Michigan, Maryland and West Virginia to name a few. I still remember the write-ups after both Baylor and Vanderbilt visited.

Anyone who attended home games from 2007-2010 has experienced a stadium that rocked as well as many with a capacity of 70k-80k.

The stadium is well down the list of concerns and if we start winning it won't be a concern

 

[CONN78SEJ]

I’ve taken several people to the Rent, including some very intense Gator fans. They all loved it. They thought it was fun, well laid out, the concessions were good and everyone loves all the beer options every 50 feet all around the stadium.

The problem with the Rent is losing. The place used to rock and the venue has always been good.

Would they have loved it if their grand kids, one freshman and one junior lived in Shippee Hall or Werth?

 

[LetsGoUC]

The idea is your HC is supposed to build a winning program. That means building a competent staff, getting the players you need, coaching the players up to perform and execute, holding players and coaches accountable and correcting mistakes, and managing the gave to give them the bests chance to win. Overall, Mora is failing on all accounts. Couple that with an AD that doesn’t give a crap about football and you have a mess. Really pathetic.

The AD came from Auburn...Football is AD Daves #1 priority, I can promise you that.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Hope all the complainers are doing what they can and not just contributing to the program by coming here. I hate saying that.

Got anything that backs up that assertion?

Also thinks the entire student population in Storrs gives a s___ about college football.

 

[giddyup]

The AD came from Auburn...Football is AD Daves #1 priority, I can promise you that.

I wish that was true. Anybody with a brain gets the B12 done even if means camping in the state capitol and LOB for 6 months straight to get the financial commitment. The whole story is told with how SMU got it done at whatever the cost because they understood the long term existential implications. We are run by numbskulls.

 

[Hoophound]

Would they have loved it if their grand kids, one freshman and one junior lived in Shippee Hall or Werth?

I don’t know, nor do I care. There’s 40,000 seats, when they win, they are filled. We don’t need your grand kids to find a way to East Hartford when we go 8-4 or better.

 

[BigTenFan]

I wish that was true. Anybody with a brain gets the B12 done even if means camping in the state capitol and LOB for 6 months straight to get the financial commitment. The whole story is told with how SMU got it done at whatever the cost because they understood the long term existential implications. We are run by numbskulls.

Big difference -SMU is a private University and can spend any money they want
State not going to write a check to a conference

 

[JohnFSilver]

Big difference -SMU is a private University and can spend any money they want
State not going to write a check to a conference

They should.

 

[Bobol]

It isn’t coaching. These guys can coach. ………. If you watched them play, you wouldn’t think they were 1-7. They should be at worst 3-5.

Hey if you are going to be in the imaginary world then you should imagine that UConn is really undefeated 8 - 0.

No. Facts are a stubborn thing; UConn football’s current record is 1 win and 7 losses and is headed to Knoxville as the underdog for a game against 6 - 2 University of Tennessee.

Can you say 1 and 8 ?

Time to hire a young aggressive head coach.