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gioff23 said:
JJ is a blowhard. WTF? EVERY team playing FBS has talent - to suggest otherwise, is to have awoken yesterday to understand that simple fact. Winning sports, any sport, is so much more than talent. If talent were the driver to Ws and Ls, Michigan would be 7-1, Florida would be in the Top 10, USC and UCLA would dominate and Mack Brown would be coaching at UT as they drove for a 5th NC. Can someone take away his typewriter, please. He and Dez and the rest on their "sports" team are the reason i stopped paying for the HC.
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Watch out JJ might call you out on public access TV.
 
Bonehead said:
Nope - reading comprehension is spot on - you may want to choose your words more carefully!
Go Chandler!
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Nope, you completely missed the point and are now doubling down. I said nothing like what you PRETENDED I wrote. You built a straw man and knocked it down. Good job.
 
Palatine said:
Nope, you completely missed the point and are now doubling down. I said nothing like what you PRETENDED I wrote. You built a straw man and knocked it down. Good job.
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Wow - I didnt know you knew how to give a compliment - touche!!
And you didnt make a point...
 
And here's Des and his expert analysis. Right up there with JJ's, see we do have talent analysis.

Line: The protection held up very well, and when it does, UConn looks like a different team. Chandler Whitmer was sacked twice Saturday. Deshon Foxx broke through for 102 yards on 11 carries. B-plus

Running back: Subtracting Foxx's numbers — and Whitmer's 20 — UConn had 57 yards on the ground from the backs. That has to improve. In the Northeast, for any successful team it is a must, especially around this time of year. C

Hmm, so the OL was the strength and the RBs were the weakness. Well, um, uh, ..... I guess the young pups missed the gaping holes the OL was creating.
 
gioff23 said:
And here's Des and his expert analysis. Right up there with JJ's, see we do have talent analysis.

Line: The protection held up very well, and when it does, UConn looks like a different team. Chandler Whitmer was sacked twice Saturday. Deshon Foxx broke through for 102 yards on 11 carries. B-plus

Running back: Subtracting Foxx's numbers — and Whitmer's 20 — UConn had 57 yards on the ground from the backs. That has to improve. In the Northeast, for any successful team it is a must, especially around this time of year. C

Hmm, so the OL was the strength and the RBs were the weakness. Well, um, uh, ..... I guess the young pups missed the gaping holes the OL was creating.
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What you didn't read was this: "Take away those four interceptions, and the UConn defense was awful in the turnover battle. UConn has to get more turnovers."

Umm you can't interpret stats like that.
 
Palatine said:
I agree with that post but would add that attitude of the coaching staff has seemed to changed. Instead of the "it's all about us" and "BYU is our partner in getting better" stuff, the word "WIN" is creeping into Diaco's vocabulary. You can see the game plans and play calling becoming more aggressive and wrinkles being added. They are starting to use players strengths rather than just rotating guys. Diaco is finally acting like winning is important and that makes a huge difference in the attitude of the team.
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The reason they were rotating in guys was to figure out each player's strengths and where they fit into the big picture.

And yes, agree that the word "win" entered into the coachspeak vocab of late.
 
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huskypantz said:
The reason they were rotating in guys was to figure out each player's strengths and where they fit into the big picture.

And yes, agree that the word "win" entered into the coachspeak vocab of late.
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AS they could have done in practice or by watching tape of the previous year which Diaco refused o do.
 
It's been 4 years since we've seen players and a team actually improve throughout the season. It's almost like some of us forgot that it can happen. Some of us.

Usually that's called good coaching. Usually.

Oh well, I'm going to enjoy what hopefully becomes the turnaround.
 
Palatine said:
AS they could have done in practice or by watching tape of the previous year which Diaco refused o do.
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Aren't you the one preaching that they can't know how good Boyle is because they aren't giving him a fair shot to play in games, that they can't know how good he is from practice alone, not to mention he was abysmal in games last year?
 
WingU-Conn said:
It's been 4 years since we've seen players and a team actually improve throughout the season. It's almost like some of us forgot that it can happen. Some of us.

Usually that's called good coaching. Usually.

Oh well, I'm going to enjoy what hopefully becomes the turnaround.
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Were you overseas last season? The team got much better as the season wore on.
 
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Many unpaid experts on this board spent quite a bit of the past nine weeks criticizing Cummings ability to call plays, run an offense likely many other things. Early in Saturday's game (anyone who watched a DVR version, or better yet, a live feed) a paid expert pointed out a play that Cummings called that was exceptionally well designed but poorly executed. Shortly afterwards he stated that he had watched extensive tape on UConn (if you heard the broadcast it was obvious that he wasn't lying) and had seen many plays that were exceptionally designed but not executed by our offense. This reminded me of the brief time when Alex Karas was part of the MNF broadcast (he didn't last long because of his contentious relationship with Howard Cosell) when a few times a game, after a big offensive play, Cosell would state that it was an excellent play call and Karas would follow "the call was pretty good but it was the execution that made it excellent".

Look at the USF game, look at the Tulane game, hell, look at the Stony Brook game. Until very recently (two byes and a nine day break between games helped greatly) the offensive line had trouble blocking air (actually there were too many plays where air was all they were blocking). Now that the line appears to be figuring it out we can actually do some things on offense (which help the defense tremendously on a couple of levels) people are b!tch!ng about the fact that many here felt there wasn't a lot to work with on offense (and that it would take time to get the offense going). Only in the Boneyard.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Many unpaid experts on this board spent quite a bit of the past nine weeks criticizing Cummings ability to call plays
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and rightfully so. If you haven't noticed we are running a different style offense the last two games. The pro style/fullback sets continued to fail even vs UCF, while the newly discovered shotgun spread option sets moved the ball and won the game.
 
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