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Maybe We Needed Another Year Off

SportsFan88 said:
QB was missing dudes all day smh couldn’t get the run game goin and we might as well have thrown Steve K in he couldn’t of done any worse
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Krajewski should’ve started the second half and have time to prepare for it. Not throw him late in the fourth quarter and have him launch a 50 yard pass on his first throw. It might’ve connected had the receiver not been interfered with.
 
Gotta be the most disheartening part of that game. Fresno is a great offensive team. They are not a great defensive team. Yet... UConn was beyond inept.

Special teams looked good. McFadden seems like the real deal. Smart move doing punts also...otherwise he would get no work.

Defense looks marginally better.

Offense...the same. Not sure if it is players or scheme...but it's most likely both.
 
Rhett Lashlee had no trouble getting us to move the ball in his first year here using terrible players. We have better, faster players now than we did then. It is the coaching that’s killing us.

Being outmanned is one thing, we were playing a different game than Fresno. Our offense looked like it had a high school game plan and we waited way too long to switch QBs. I don’t blame Giufre, it could be his fault but this sure looks like standard Randy ball to me. Randy needs to evaluate, recruit and manage. He’s got to have good and empowered coordinators do the rest.
 
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I think after what we witnessed today that we the fans could use another year off.

How is it possible for them to be this consistently profoundly awful?
 
Hoophound said:
Rhett Lashlee had no trouble getting us to move the ball in his first year here using terrible players. We have better, faster players now than we did then. It is the coaching that’s killing us.

Being outmanned is one thing, we were playing a different game than Fresno. Our offense looked like it had a high school game plan and we waited way too long to switch QBs. I don’t blame Giufre, it could be his fault but this sure looks like standard Randy ball to me. Randy needs to evaluate, recruit and manage. He’s got to have good and empowered coordinators do the rest.
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I agree with you 100% but that isn't Edsall. He is a control freak and will never give up up control all aspects of his team.
 
How many years did it take for the Cubs to win a world series, so how many years until UConn has a winning season or close to one?
 
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Palatine said:
The sheer stupidity of taking a year off on full display.
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There is a collective willing stupidity among some to swallow the line of BS from the program time and time again.
 
BigTenFan said:
Boys v Men today
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I’d like to think that’s the case and nothing more. Yes, we are very, very young, but the offense is just bland garbage. As I said before, Rhett Lashlee moved the ball easily with far less physical talent on the field. I can’t emphasize the “far less talent” part enough. Diaco had recruited players that were almost entirely FCS and lower recruiting targets.

Randy is bringing in much better, higher rated players but this brand of offense just won’t work these days without completely dominating players on the roster.
 
Hoophound said:
I’d like to think that’s the case and nothing more. Yes, we are very, very young, but the offense is just bland garbage. As I said before, Rhett Lashlee moved the ball easily with far less physical talent on the field. I can’t emphasize the “far less talent” part enough. Diaco had recruited players that were almost entirely FCS and lower recruiting targets.

Randy is bringing in much better, higher rated players but this brand of offense just won’t work these days without completely dominating players on the roster.
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They should at least sprinkle in a few 'gimmick plays' to keep it interesting and possibly keep the defense guessing.
I watched some of the game and UConn offense lacks speed - so plays like jet sweeps are out. Not sure I saw a single screen.
Granted it was 120 degrees on the field - but it was 120 degrees for both teams
 
When we got our bid to the Fiesta Bowl I thought it was the greatest thing to ever happen to UConn football. It has been a boot stomping our face ever since...at some point we get back up, right?
 
Guapo said:
Remember when @ktuck911 kept saying “pin this up” whenever an article came out saying UConn was going to be bad, like they were sooo wrong? I remember.
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YEAH I said that... and as a man I own it... where have you been? Don't come talking about what somebody said when you can be a man up in here and voice opinions... Own your own mess...
 
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Yup! said:
How about the guy that gave him that role in the first place.
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Because if you fire Edsall now, I'm pretty sure Guifre gets the nod as interim. And do you want him having full control over the program?
 
JMick said:
I know the QB's missed on a bunch of throws, but this is also what happens when you hire a career OL coach to be an offensive coordinator. We drew up a handful of decent plays that didn't work out. Most teams nowadays are drawing up several decent plays per drive.
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Don’t blame the coach for inability to throw farther than 10 yards downfield. Lost 1-2 tds with overthrows. The 1st was a dagger.
We need to find another Casey Cochran, who only wins, despite not having a cannon.
 
ktuck911 said:
YEAH I said that... and as a man I own it... where have you been? Don't come talking about what somebody said when you can be a man up in here and voice opinions... Own your own mess...
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I’ve been consistent the whole time. I’m happy to see UConn play football, but I knew they’d be really bad and I want Edsall gone
 
uconnfan68 said:
Don’t blame the coach for inability to throw farther than 10 yards downfield. Lost 1-2 tds with overthrows. The 1st was a dagger.
We need to find another Casey Cochran, who only wins, despite not having a cannon.
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Who recruits QBs? Who sets the 2 deep. RE owns it all.
if you don’t have a QB that can throw more than 10 yards, find a Juco or transfer that can. Or find a recruit that can.
 
Guapo said:
I’ve been consistent the whole time. I’m happy to see UConn play football, but I knew they’d be really bad and I want Edsall gone
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You have been ... consistently quiet until now. Stay consistent...
 
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DoctorWho85 said:
Because if you fire Edsall now, I'm pretty sure Guifre gets the nod as interim. And do you want him having full control over the program?
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Never said fire Edsall now.
Edit: I would definitely after the season
 
BTW, temp on the field was over 120 degrees by the 2nd half... tough sledding after 637 days off in probably the worst environment to start your season
 
Guapo said:
Just show some humility! Maybe people like Bill Connolly know what they’re talking about when it comes to college football
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If anybody shows humility for/with this team it's me. Its just not fun when someone who's consistently silent all if a sudden becomes a critic. If you were voicing your opinion before, for like the last 10 years, consistently (not 10 years for you, but at least within the last 5 years) then maybe my initial response would've been more receptive to yours.
 
Here’s my question for those of you taking a victory lap over the canceled season last year… what would today have looked like if we played 4 games last year like UMass? How would it have been any different?
 
ktuck911 said:
If anybody shows humility for/with this team it's me. Its just not fun when someone who's consistently silent all if a sudden becomes a critic. If you were voicing your opinion before, for like the last 10 years, consistently (not 10 years for you, but at least within the last 5 years) then maybe my initial response would've been more receptive to yours.
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I’m an alum and care deeply about the school and it’s sports. The amount one posts on an internet message board is not a good measure of investment. I appreciate your fandom, but we have to recognize that thinking everything is sunshine and roses ultimately does a disservice to the football program. Just about every sport the school sponsors has some measure of success and demanding the same of the football program should not be controversial. I think building a sustainable and successful program is really hard in the northeast but not being a national embarrassment isn’t unachievable. However, I think Edsall sits back, cashes his paycheck and lets the top notch on campus facilities and the fandom of people like you and I rot. I hate that and it makes me angry.
 
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