Joe F Numbers

[huskymedic]

Joe Fagnano now #1 in QB Power Rankings

 

[UConn2SF]

 

[ZooCougar]

Soooooo much Fagnano.

It’s almost like he probably should have started all last season too.

 

[Purple Stein]

What a story JF is and has become. He is in multiple ways carrying the story of our program to the nation.

 

[Nameless]

Love the way he says Fagnano in this, lol

 

[noeynox]

You think that the fact that we threw really well in two games in mid-50s fall weather eliminates the beliefs that, in parts of the country, you have to be able to run effectively on cold late November days? That we’ve had one effective throwing QB in 22 years means that it’s as easy to recruit QBs in our region as it is other positions? O.K.

Newsflash. When you get a QB that can pass the ball, he will be effective passing the ball. This one came from FCS Maine where its colder than here. No QB we ever brought in here that couldn't pass here when they saw the field went and tore it up elsewhere.

If year after year you are trotting out offenses where the intent seems to be run, run, pass, punt, QBs are not going to trip over themselves to come here. The 1st step is to design an offense that kids want to play in.

 

[LetsGoUC]

I hope we throw the ball nonstop over the next two games....let's pump these numbers even more!! (and win lol)

 

[Chin Diesel]

What a story JF is and has become. He is in multiple ways carrying the story of our program to the nation.

Every year a G5 or FCS player has some crazy stats and becomes a national story. 25 and Oh Joe is an easy sell with that incalculable ratio.

 

[ZooCougar]

Newsflash. When you get a QB that can pass the ball, he will be effective passing the ball. This one came from FCS Maine where its colder than here. No QB we ever brought in here that couldn't pass here when they saw the field went and tore it up elsewhere.

If year after year you are trotting out offenses where the intent seems to be run, run, pass, punt, QBs are not going to trip over themselves to come here. The 1st step is to design an offense that kids want to play in.

Remember the old Boneyard lie that you couldn’t have a passing offense in southern New England?

 

[ZooCougar]

You think that the fact that we threw really well in two games in mid-50s fall weather eliminates the beliefs that, in parts of the country, you have to be able to run effectively on cold late November days? That we’ve had one effective throwing QB in 22 years means that it’s as easy to recruit QBs in our region as it is other positions? O.K.

They sure throw the ball am awful lot in Michigan.

KC is windier at all times than New England and it gets frigidly cold.

Buffalo?

The whole “you can’t pass in the cold and wind” lie needs to go away.

 

[Tex-Lager93]

We’re officially living in an alternate timeline…Saban, Gruden, et al. I’m was watching MACtion, and they posted and talked about Fagnano stats on the full screen with a ‘Who is this guy’ theme during the Buffalo game tonight…hyping the UConn/ game on Saturday. Hyping UConn. Unreal.

 

[Jetskies]

Yeah I remember going to the Rice game last year and vehemently asking for Joe Fagnano to get in and take out Evers. It was so obvious last year that Joe F. had a better chance to be good than Evers but all that NIL money we wasted was taking precendence.

did we just take Nick's NIL money away? lol i never thought about this, but I cannot imagine he's raking in the cash by sitting on the bench.

 

[Kolumbo]

This should probably go here thanks to Joey Heisman, and our D

 

[Palatine]

I thought 7th year was insane but watching a Duke game earlier this year, they had an 8th year player. I always think of the animal house line. "Seven years of college down the drain"

We had a six year guy on the 4th floor of Hanks Hall back in the day. He was kind of the king of the floor.

 

[JwittersPAC]

Newsflash. When you get a QB that can pass the ball, he will be effective passing the ball. This one came from FCS Maine where its colder than here. No QB we ever brought in here that couldn't pass here when they saw the field went and tore it up elsewhere.

If year after year you are trotting out offenses where the intent seems to be run, run, pass, punt, QBs are not going to trip over themselves to come here. The 1st step is to design an offense that kids want to play in.

But unless UConn is willing to pay $1 million a year or more they will have to get “lucky” in the portal with an up and coming QB. I think QBs are the hardest position to fill.

 

[giddyup]

OK - I hope all this Joey love and attention doesn’t mess with his head. Trying to stay perfect is precisely how you don’t. I hope Mora’s plan is just let him grip and rip and have some fun. He’s not winning a Heisman and he needs to just play with an underdog chip on the shoulder to show the world he should be.

 

[Waquoit]

KC is windier at all times than New England and it gets frigidly cold.

The Rent is incredibly windy, I've found.

 

[noeynox]

But unless UConn is willing to pay $1 million a year or more they will have to get “lucky” in the portal with an up and coming QB. I think QBs are the hardest position to fill.

Nah. Be opportunistic. Joe had like a 1900yd passing season at an FCS school. Don't shop where the P4 is shopping or go get a P4 castoff that never got in the field. Your sample sizes are Fagnano vs Evers and Roberson. All 3 have shown ability when they played. Roberson is starting at Buffalo. I would look to the FCS. Guys who look good on game film. I loved Fagnanos film on YouTube against BC and UMass. The kid could hit WRs in stride. Not shockingly he's doing it here as well.

 

[ZooCougar]

The Rent is incredibly windy, I've found.

It’s not as windy as Lubbock.

 

[ZooCougar]

OK - I hope all this Joey love and attention doesn’t mess with his head. Trying to stay perfect is precisely how you don’t. I hope Mora’s plan is just let him grip and rip and have some fun. He’s not winning a Heisman and he needs to just play with an underdog chip on the shoulder to show the world he should be.

He’s so even keel and cool under pressure. I don’t think it will.

 

[History Geek]

Soooooo much Fagnano.

It’s almost like he probably should have started all last season too.

Touche. I was definitely wrong.

 

[History Geek]

We had a six year guy on the 4th floor of Hanks Hall back in the day. He was kind of the king of the floor.

Hanks was all women when I was there. He definitely would be very king-like during my day.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Hanks was all women when I was there. He definitely would be very king-like during my day.

Or possibly queen.

 

[JwittersPAC]

Nah. Be opportunistic. Joe had like a 1900yd passing season at an FCS school. Don't shop where the P4 is shopping or go get a P4 castoff that never got in the field. Your sample sizes are Fagnano vs Evers and Roberson. All 3 have shown ability when they played. Roberson is starting at Buffalo. I would look to the FCS. Guys who look good on game film. I loved Fagnanos film on YouTube against BC and UMass. The kid could hit WRs in stride. Not shockingly he's doing it here as well.

You make it sound so easy to find a competent QB. You should join the staff.

 

[noeynox]

You make it sound so easy to find a competent QB. You should join the staff.

No one is saying it is easy, but this staff has tried 2 approaches. 3 if you count HS. I was one of the few ecstatic they got Joe in part because he played for Charlton, but he had game film against FBS schools where he actually looked good. Contrast that with how Roberson fared in his 1 game against Iowa.

Only at UConn does a school go 20 years between above average QBs. All over the MAC you got QBs that can pass the hell out of the ball, meanwhile our fanbase is worried about the 1 or 2 cold games a year that we might play in. Give me a break.