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john2153 said:
The sad thing is he said he's there at 5AM and leaves at Midnight...And we get THIS offense every week?!?
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So what? The season is 12 weeks long, lots of people do this all year. The real question is, what were you doing from December to August???
 
wow, this I'm sure was a Uconn Athletic Department propaganda effort and instead make them look even worse. If this signals that this stafff will be in place next year, then we can kiss any semblance of a competitive team goodbye. Makes it easier to not go to games and sell my 12 tickets to Michigan fans and MD fans next year and give the rest away to charity or something.

Its really hard to lose die-hard fans, but now i know what its like to be an Orioles fan, or a Royals fan...maybe if no one shows up for the last two home games the message will be sent.
 
I give GDL credit for talking to JJ. It takes a man to face the music. Have to respect him for that, plus I don't doubt he wants the best for UConn.

That said, he should do the honorable thing and fall on his sword. Not worth rebutting every quote, and rehashing the fact he hasn't been associated with a successful college football offense since 2001. The bottom line is this program has to cleanse itself of the - gag - "don't want to get behind the chains" mentality and move back into the 21st century. It's like worrying about getting hurt; the more you worry about it the higher the likelihood it's going to happen.

The Horde (not just Desmond and Jacobs) is starting to peddle this "been told reliably that PP will return for a third year" meme. That's all well and good, but we don't have to keep subsidizing this disaster. Our family can just as easily target our UConn donation to another part of the school. It will take a West Virginia-Holgorsen-Luck style coaching move to get me to renew my tickets. It's not fun going to games with no trust in the coaches to do the right thing in crucial situations. If this board can dig up up-and-comers like Neal Brown who have a proven. recent track record of building productive offenses, it shouldn't be that difficult for Mr. Manuel to do the same.
 
You read this and there is only one conclusion you can reach. George and Pasqualoni concluded that UConn had almost no talent on the offensive side of the football. So the best thing to do was play defense and play close to the vest on offense and hope for the best. Not that different from how Edsall played it really, with 3 exceptions. they haven't gotten take-aways on defense, they don't have the stud running back and the kicking game has not been as good. But if they in fact believe this, it seems to me that they should just go with younger players, the rest of the way. Play Tebucky. Play Joe Williams more. Play the younger o-linemen, Cruz and the freshman tackle everyone is so high on. See what they can do and give them some experience. Maybe it pays off in next season. This year is a total washout. We maybe get 1 more win. If you look at the recruiting these guys did, it actually does suggest that they felt that way. They brought in a JUCO quarterback, a JUCO tight end, a transfer receiver, and tried to land another in the kid from Clemson. they also took a transfer on the line. I'm not saying they were right or wrong, but I don't think there is any question that's what they thought. FWIW, its consistent with what they have been telling Dez, too, I think.
 
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Hoophound said:
The real shame in it is that he has produced effective offense for us multiple times, he just inexplicably abandons what's working every time.
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You mean like running the Wildcat after a big gain?

Mike Greenberg was bitching about the Wildcat and the Jets this morning. He sounded like one of us complaining about P and D. He basically said that they weren't even running the Wildcat and they were just snapping the ball to Tebow and getting nothing for it. There is also no rhyme or reason to when it makes an appearance..
 
freescooter said:
You read this and there is only one conclusion you can reach. George and Pasqualoni concluded that UConn had almost no talent on the offensive side of the football. So the best thing to do was play defense and play close to the vest on offense and hope for the best. Not that different from how Edsall played it really, with 3 exceptions. they haven't gotten take-aways on defense, they don't have the stud running back and the kicking game has not been as good. But if they in fact believe this, it seems to me that they should just go with younger players, the rest of the way. Play Tebucky. Play Joe Williams more. Play the younger o-linemen, Cruz and the freshman tackle everyone is so high on. See what they can do and give them some experience. Maybe it pays off in next season. This year is a total washout. We maybe get 1 more win. If you look at the recruiting these guys did, it actually does suggest that they felt that way. They brought in a JUCO quarterback, a JUCO tight end, a transfer receiver, and tried to land another in the kid from Clemson. they also took a transfer on the line. I'm not saying they were right or wrong, but I don't think there is any question that's what they thought. FWIW, its consistent with what they have been telling Dez, too, I think.
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Hate to say it but I agree with this post... And this is at all no disrespect to our current core of players. We all know that our roster over the past 5, 6 years has consisted of kids that, at best, were mid level 3 star kids or lower... We gotta do a better job of bringing in more talented kids... Everybody else is, no? We're no longer the new kid on the block. We are the soon to be veteran team in the Big East. We need to start recruiting with the likes of USF, Louisville, Rutgers, & Cincy.. No more excuses guys... start bringing in the kids we need to bring in to get this team to where it needs to/should be.
 
freescooter said:
You read this and there is only one conclusion you can reach. George and Pasqualoni concluded that UConn had almost no talent on the offensive side of the football. So the best thing to do was play defense and play close to the vest on offense and hope for the best. Not that different from how Edsall played it really, with 3 exceptions. they haven't gotten take-aways on defense, they don't have the stud running back and the kicking game has not been as good. But if they in fact believe this, it seems to me that they should just go with younger players, the rest of the way. Play Tebucky. Play Joe Williams more. Play the younger o-linemen, Cruz and the freshman tackle everyone is so high on. See what they can do and give them some experience. Maybe it pays off in next season. This year is a total washout. We maybe get 1 more win. If you look at the recruiting these guys did, it actually does suggest that they felt that way. They brought in a JUCO quarterback, a JUCO tight end, a transfer receiver, and tried to land another in the kid from Clemson. they also took a transfer on the line. I'm not saying they were right or wrong, but I don't think there is any question that's what they thought. FWIW, its consistent with what they have been telling Dez, too, I think.
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I'd be willing to buy in to their thinking and wait a little longer if recruiting was more than marginally better than it was under the previous staff. It's not. Keeping P and GDL will be a monumental mistake.
 
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GDL: "When there's a cover-2 and there's five underneath defenders waiting for you to throw the ball quick, what do you do now?

I don't know, maybe throw the ball quick to an open receiver? Maybe he should ask some MAC teams what they do in that situation.
 
freescooter said:
You read this and there is only one conclusion you can reach. George and Pasqualoni concluded that UConn had almost no talent on the offensive side of the football. So the best thing to do was play defense and play close to the vest on offense and hope for the best.
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This is the key right here, and where I have the biggest mental disconnect. We never had the most talented kids, but we've had success. Kids were coached up, now it feels like they are coached down.

Did we really recruit that poorly that we had worse than average talent when P and GDL came in? Was Edsall asleep at the wheel? I just don't understand how we can be lacking SO much talent to be THIS bad.
 
HomeKing93 said:
GDL: "When there's a cover-2 and there's five underneath defenders waiting for you to throw the ball quick, what do you do now?

I don't know, maybe throw the ball quick to an open receiver? Maybe he should ask some MAC teams what they do in that situation.
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Yesterday P said that defenses have been "slanting and moving" against us which makes things difficult for our offense. He actually used the word "moving", defenses are moving. On the same day DeLeone asks what do you do when there is a cover 2.

Combined these guys are making about 2 million per year.
 
I took a couple things away from this, and none of them are good.

First, GDL stated the obvious that they lost 2 mainstays on the OL in Mike Ryan and Moe Petrus but in the next breath says that he didn't anticipate that would be an impact to this year's line? You lose your 2 best linemen at the 2 most important positions on the OL.......and you didn't anticipate that may be a problem this year? Hello?

Secondly, I'm convinced now more than ever that this is a GDL teaching issue. The OL regressed in 2011 but was not completely incompetent. Foley was still coaching the OL. Now with GDL in total control of the offense and the OL, nobody knows what the fook to do. This was a disaster decision to give GDL the OL. It likely will cost P his job.

This guys needs to go. Do not keep him on staff and reassign him somewhere else. George DeLe-GONE.
 
metsfan2323 said:
Yesterday P said that defenses have been "slanting and moving" against us which makes things difficult for our offense. He actually used the word "moving", defenses are moving. On the same day DeLeone asks what do you do when there is a cover 2.

Combined these guys are making about 2 million per year.
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The defenses are also tackling, blitzing and intercepting. Goddamit. I wish they would stop doing that!
 
john2153 said:
The sad thing is he said he's there at 5AM and leaves at Midnight...And we get THIS offense every week?!?
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He might as well leave at 5:00 and get some sleep. Those extra 7 hours a day are doing nothing. We can suck this bad with a PT Offensive Coordinator.
 
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It's not working. The dedication is admirable but the 16+ hour days only confirm that. That kind of time spent "studying" is for the preseason and specific game preparation. Now it should be shifted to working with the players. I'd like to say condense it down to what works but I don't know what that would be. You know, the "bread-and-butter" plays :p.
 
The last time we lost 3 games in a row, we reeled off 4 straight wins and won a bowl game against an SEC team.

The last time we were so dysfunctional as team, that we got shut out and completely destroyed? We reeled of 5 straight win and went to a BCS game.

The last time we lost 4 games in a row? 2005. Nearly 7 years ago, was the last time we lost 4 in a row. We're going to have to go on the road in teh Big East game, to stop that from happening again.

We've traded a passive defensive scheme for an aggressive one. We've adjusted the kicking game to the new rules, and have the same returner, and a kickers that appear to be quite capable of the mental toughness required for those positions, and we've traded an offense that could run but couldn't pass, for an offense that can pass but can't run. We've traded one head coach with poor game time management, for a another coach with different poor game time management.

It's on the players and coaches to get this thing fixed and finish the season righ and get back to winning football.

It's on the administration to figure out what to do about the coaching staff if we continue to perpetuate a losing program.




Results speak for themselves.
 
i think at this point our only bread and butter are the short to intermediate throws to Griffin and others, which is why the defenses "slanting and moving" is giving us such a hard time. It'd be nice if we could stretch the field a little to keep D's honest. I can only remember a handful of deep throws and I don't remember coming even close to completing one this season.
 
Man the growing drumbeat that these guys are staying has really darkened my Friday.
 
Skiblets said:
Man the growing drumbeat that these guys are staying has really darkened my Friday.
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We won't know this weekend, but after next weekend, we'll know for sure, if we've become the worst team in the league.

I know Skippy's not popular among Boneyarders, but I have this crazy thought, that just maybe we can go down to Tampa, and kill two birds with one stone. Win the game, and Skip Holtz just may not keep his job, and the pool of candidates, to interview, that may just be interested in coming to UConn, to run an offense, and focus only on offense, and just put him in position to do what he's good at - offense only, and continue to recruit Florida, and actually recruit for UConn - as he did in the 90s, but this time as a 1-A program, with great facilities.

See the thing with everythign we want, is that you have to have somebody to replace them.
 
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uconNYC said:
What ever talent we had should have been good enough to defeat WMUx2, Temple and SU.
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I don't know guys - whatever combination of talent and coaching that we've had, was good enough, such that we have not lost 4 games in a row since 2005.

Results matter. We'll see what happens next week.

A win? and you get yet another shot, at trying to string somethign together and reverse the habits of losing.

A loss? and it's safe to say, that based on performance, we are no better as a program, right now, than we were in 2005.

I'm not really interested that much in the past, except to provide a simple measuring stick for wins and losses. The program was a lot different then than it is now.

But we are a losing program now, for the first time, in a long, LONG time, we are under .500, and going lower, not higher, and that is not acceptable, and has to get changed.
 
Carl Spackler said:
See the thing with everythign we want, is that you have to have somebody to replace them.
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Do you really think we would have a hard time finding qualified candidates who want the job? I don't think so.

The Boneyard could probably come up with a potential interview list of 20 guys in two minutes.

Off the top of my head:

Don Brown
Tony Sparano
The Stony Brook coach
The Texas Tech offensive coordinator
Joe Moorhead
Rob Ambrose
KC Keeler
Any MAC head coach with a winning record because that route seems to work very well for Cincinnati (Kent State, Toldeo, Ball State, Western Michigan)
and if Skip Holtz is available and wants to interview he should be interviewed.
 
Rob Ambrose???!!!

I don't give a what anybody here has to say about me being a die hard fan. If we hire Rob Ambrose as our HC, I will not only not purchase season tickets, I may stop watching altogther. God save us from that man returning as HC. my life. Rob Ambrose, you kidding?
 
if warde got rid of gdl this week, i would buy every ticket left for the last home game so its a sell out to support wardes decision.
 
WingU-Conn said:
Rob Ambrose???!!!

I don't give a Fecundity what anybody here has to say about me being a die hard fan. If we hire Rob Fecunditying Ambrose as our HC, I will not only not purchase season tickets, I may stop watching altogther. God save us from that man returning as HC. Fecundity my life. Fecunditying Rob Ambrose, you Fecunditying kidding?
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Rob Ambrose is now my number one candidate.
 
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