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Start Welliver next week. Not sure what they have to lose. You know what u have in Fagnano, Evers is raw and seems to be the exact same QB that was on the roster for 2 seasons! Let the prototypical pocket passer do that. If Bell is one of the better wideouts in the past few years then let a true pocket passer throw it. Live with the picks.
 
Whole game was a disgrace. Just an absolutely gutless performance. Coaching was absolutely awful. Execution was terrible. Mora punting on fourth and 2 at midfield down 29 in the fourth….cmon dude

Same old same old. Lets get one against Merrimack next week
 
I am not giving up yet. But i saw some fans on the chat giving up after the first series.
 
Uconn may lead FBS football in targeting ejections at the end of week 1. Shameful that those were UConn's hardest hits. Mora, how about benching the next guy who does that. Give them a designated seat on bench. Coaching tip . . . tell your players NOT TO DO IT, EVER.
 
Omahabound said:
Start Welliver next week. Not sure what they have to lose. You know what u have in Fagnano, Evers is raw and seems to be the exact same QB that was on the roster for 2 seasons! Let the prototypical pocket passer do that. If Bell is one of the better wideouts in the past few years then let a true pocket passer throw it. Live with the picks.
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Nothing to lose but Welliver is not mobile so defense lineman will come straight at him not concerned with his wheels. You better hope the OL can pass block.
 
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what are we doing EXISTENTIALLY wrong, as a program? not just today, but overall, i mean.

like... i have no theories at this point. This past week I've been watching North Dakota, Western Carolina, ND State, hold their own against respectable FBS power programs. I doubt they have great NIL collectives, if at all.


Like... what in tarnation.
 
I’ve found a new level of frustration now with the evolving college sports landscape. I thought it couldn’t get worse, but it has.

It is still so frustrating and disappointing to watch this program. Complete incompetence and embarassment…but honestly, I am used to that at this point.

But I felt a new level of frustration now as well. Knowing that we are paying these players over $1MM…it makes it even more frustrating and unbelievable. I just think of how much of a difference $1MM could make in this world.

This is not the players fault, so not blaming them for getting paid. Just relaying this new level of frustration that I have now started feeling. I thought my level of frustration couldn’t get worse…but they’ve found a way to make me feel even more flabbergasted watching this program.

I will continue to watch and support this program. But I completely understand why there are very few of us left. This program is impossible to get any joy out of or enjoy.
 
Purple Stein said:
It's the first game of the season and there's really nothing left to say.

If we don't hammer Merrimack next week it's time for another reckoning.
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This was always going to be a bad mismatch for us. I figured 45-14. I just think it is hard to keep focus when you are badly overmatched. I agree if we don’t pound Merrimack something is very wrong.
 
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UConnSportsGuy said:
I’ve found a new level of frustration now with the evolving college sports landscape. I thought it couldn’t get worse, but it has.

It is still so frustrating and disappointing to watch this program. Complete incompetence and embarassment…but honestly, I am used to that at this point.

But I felt a new level of frustration now as well. Knowing that we are paying these players over $1MM…it makes it even more frustrating and unbelievable. I just think of how much of a difference $1MM could make in this world.

This is not the players fault, so not blaming them for getting paid. Just relaying this new level of frustration that I have now started feeling. I thought my level of frustration couldn’t get worse…but they’ve found a way to make me feel even more flabbergasted watching this program.

I will continue to watch and support this program. But I completely understand why there are very few of us left. This program is impossible to get any joy out of or enjoy.
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Average BIG and SEC teams have NIL at $5 million. Our NIL would put us in top 10% of G5 teams. We have much total NIL for MBB. But I understand it UConn fans only want to watch teams have a chance at a national championship. Which in all likelihood never will happen in FBS.
 
UConn is making football look way too difficult. I don't think we expected a win against Maryland, I sure as hell did not. I know Maryland or Duke will be the toughest game of the season for UConn, but right now they are not even competitive that is what bothers me the most. Maryland's coach used this game as a glorified scrimmage to develop him back up players, and he did this early in the game. Maryland could've won 80-0 if they really wanted to.

However, I think the most troubling thing starting from game 1 of last year is that Mora and the coaches are not getting the players to play better and above their expectations to any degree. In other words, he is not getting the team to be a sum greater than their individual parts. In order to for UConn to get to the Big 12, they need to have a loud raucous fan atmosphere at the Rent with maybe 75% or greater capacity. In order for that to happen they need to be competitive and have some semblance of a modern offense so the product is entertaining. Today's game did not get UConn closer to that goal.

Teams like North Dakota State and Appalachian State would whoop this UConn team and they would defeat their fair share of lower level D-1A teams. Those teams' coaching salary pool is much less than UConn's. How are they consistently better than UConn? I am asking for a friend.
 
gsmooth said:
UConn is making football look way too difficult. I don't think we expected a win against Maryland, I sure as hell did not. I know Maryland or Duke will be the toughest game of the season for UConn, but right now they are not even competitive that is what bothers me the most. Maryland's coach used this game as a glorified scrimmage to develop him back up players, and he did this early in the game. Maryland could've won 80-0 if they really wanted to.

However, I think the most troubling thing starting from game 1 of last year is that Mora and the coaches are not getting the players to play better and above their expectations to any degree. In other words, he is not getting the team to be a sum greater than their individual parts. In order to for UConn to get to the Big 12, they need to have a loud raucous fan atmosphere at the Rent with maybe 75% or greater capacity. In order for that to happen they need to be competitive and have some semblance of a modern offense so the product is entertaining. Today's game did not get UConn closer to that goal.

Teams like North Dakota State and Appalachian State would whoop this UConn team and they would defeat their fair share of lower level D-1A teams. Those teams' coaching salary pool is much less than UConn's. How are they consistently better than UConn? I am asking for a friend.
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Have a history of good football so players want to play there. UConn has no history so needs to overpay players to come here. Also I think the coaching staff for UConn is not good. It could be the same issue. UConn needs to overpay for coaching staff since a coach thinks coming here will end their career.
 
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Skyler Bell was great. Fagnano looked better than I expected but still a lot of room for improvement. Everything else was terrible, especially the coaching. The game was over when we saved 50 seconds just to give the ball away before the half.

Maryland may be pretty good, we’ll have to wait and see. Hopefully this is as bad as it gets and we can find a little bit of joy this fall. But its hard not to feel like we’re in a never ending spiral.
 
blue93 said:
Skyler Bell was great. Fagnano looked better than I expected but still a lot of room for improvement. Everything else was terrible, especially the coaching. The game was over when we saved 50 seconds just to give the ball away before the half.

Maryland may be pretty good, we’ll have to wait and see. Hopefully this is as bad as it gets and we can find a little bit of joy this fall. But its hard not to feel like we’re in a never ending spiral.
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I hope they go 10-2.
 
Devland said:
The biggest challenge for this program is there is not enough talent in this area of the country. If we want more talented players from other parts of the country we need some success for them to want to come and stay here. Catch 22
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Oh and Wyoming has boat loads of talent in their area of the country. North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, etc. Hell, how many "talented players" has Coach Prime gotten from Colorado. UConn will always depend on out of state talent.
 
Faumuina-Brown can't be playing this much. Brinson is the guy on the cover of all those O video practice snippets the last three years. Rante's game has regressed after he shortened his name. What happened there? Thought Evers was going to be more elusive, shifty, possessing more football moves etc. even against the better competition. Hope he is ok and that the team will grow throughout the season.
 
I didn't really get to watch most of the game as I was at the Pitt game. I checked in often, saw Fagnano's INT and a lot of missed tackles.

Not having seen the flow of the game, I'm looking at stats and noticed UConn gave up no sacks and only one TFL. Yet Evers didn't do squat passing - seemed he bailed to the run quite often. So my question is, were most of Evers runs designed or a result of the pocket collapsing or just a bad option scheme (I noticed many of you mentioning too many rollouts). Is the O Line decent? Were passes just off target or missed badly or thrown into coverage? Help a guy try to understand why UConn got 310 yds and only a single TD.

Btw, while Pitt was only playing Kent State, the offense looked pretty damned good, scoring 55 pts. They plucked their new OC from mighty Western Carolina.
 
gsmooth said:
UConn is making football look way too difficult. I don't think we expected a win against Maryland, I sure as hell did not. I know Maryland or Duke will be the toughest game of the season for UConn, but right now they are not even competitive that is what bothers me the most. Maryland's coach used this game as a glorified scrimmage to develop him back up players, and he did this early in the game. Maryland could've won 80-0 if they really wanted to.

However, I think the most troubling thing starting from game 1 of last year is that Mora and the coaches are not getting the players to play better and above their expectations to any degree. In other words, he is not getting the team to be a sum greater than their individual parts. In order to for UConn to get to the Big 12, they need to have a loud raucous fan atmosphere at the Rent with maybe 75% or greater capacity. In order for that to happen they need to be competitive and have some semblance of a modern offense so the product is entertaining. Today's game did not get UConn closer to that goal.

Teams like North Dakota State and Appalachian State would whoop this UConn team and they would defeat their fair share of lower level D-1A teams. Those teams' coaching salary pool is much less than UConn's. How are they consistently better than UConn? I am asking for a friend.
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How is App State consistently better? They are in a Conference and mostly playing teams at their level and winning.

Independence is death for the football program.
 
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About what we should have expected on the road against a quality team. Plenty of wins remaining on the schedule, including next week. I see a big win against Merrimack by at least 20 points.
 
Same old story! Tackling ia a big problem. Specialty teams also. Lost for words on the offense. Any report yet on Evers and any other hurt players? Hoping for a close one but got this.......... No words can cover how this day went.
 
storrsroars said:
I didn't really get to watch most of the game as I was at the Pitt game. I checked in often, saw Fagnano's INT and a lot of missed tackles.

Having seen the flow of the game, I'm looking at stats and noticed UConn gave up no sacks and only one TFL. Yet Evers didn't do squat passing - seemed he bailed to the run quite often. So my question is, were most of Evers runs designed or a result of the pocket collapsing or just a bad option scheme (I noticed many of you mentioning too many rollouts). Is the O Line decent? Were passes just off target or missed badly or thrown into coverage? Help a guy try to understand why UConn got 310 yds and only a single TD.
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Almost every pass play was a rollout. He just chucked it OOB a ton. There were a couple big drops but you can tell he hasn't played football in a while
 
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