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jdb50 said:
I believe Pryce Yates can be an NFL player. He has not played yet. We have 4 good RBs. We have really upgraded our WRs even after losing Joly and Cam Ross. Getting our DBs and LBs to tackle well is a big key to this season. They did well today. At today's game we looked like a tidal wave. Pregame Jelani Stafford had a game face on that let you know no one was happy with last week. We also cut down on our penalties today. Huge win.
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We just need to get some takeaways. They are huge in close games.
 
IndyLives said:
A lot of overreactions last week. Ridiculous. With 1 loss, we still have a chance of making the college playoffs. Nice win today against a tough Merrimack team. Let's go!
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There weren't a lot of overreactions last week, we looked putrid against an ok Maryland team. It's nice we crushed a terrible Merrimack team but it means nothing if we aren't competitive against Duke.
 
ScottVib said:
The 32k was tickets sold/distributed. My thought was 25-26k at its peak.
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Was thinking the same. About 25-28k tops. The only relatively bare bleacher sections were under the scoreboard and some of the upper deck corners. It was a decent crowd especially for an FCS opponent, but opening day crowds usually do well attendance-wise compared to the rest of the season.
 
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BugsyCT said:
Was thinking the same. About 25-28k tops. The only relatively bare bleacher sections were under the scoreboard and some of the upper deck corners. It was a decent crowd especially for an FCS opponent, but opening day crowds usually do well attendance-wise compared to the rest of the season.
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It might have been 28k, but the parking situation and cone system makes it feel like 60k. I always say to my son that I have no idea what would happen if this crew had to deal with a sell out...
 
Bomber36 said:
Yeah, a win next week would be a gift, but I think we can beat FAU.
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I certainly hope so. However, FAU only lost by the score of 16-10 Michigan State last week. Michigan State just won at Maryland 27-24, the same Maryland team that annihilated UConn a week ago. I know the sports math and the transitive property does not always work that way, but I am not going into any UConn game thinking they are better than their opponent.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
What I remember over the past dozen years are losses to Towson (Townson per P) & Holy Cross and escaping by the skin of our teeth against Yale, URI and I believe) Stony Brook. There were a few others that were a whole lot less comfortable than they should have been that are all blurred together in the ongoing nightmare that we have lived since the Fiesta Bowl.

Today was a serious breath of fresh air.
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Oh I forgot about Yale in 2021 a few weeks after AD Benedict fired that football carcass of that snake oil salesman, Randy Edsall. Yale was on 25-yard TD pass away from winning that game. If they did, UConn would have been 0-12 that year.
 
gsmooth said:
I certainly hope so. However, FAU only lost by the score of 16-10 Michigan State last week. Michigan State just won at Maryland 27-24, the same Maryland team that annihilated UConn a week ago. I know the sports math and the transitive property does not always work that way, but I am not going into any UConn game thinking they are better than their opponent.
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I think UConn may have learned a lot today about themselves and if they play to their abilities, they have a chance. Just have to know what they can do, one play at a time. Come on let's go!

 
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UConnDan97 said:
It might have been 28k, but the parking situation and cone system makes it feel like 60k. I always say to my son that I have no idea what would happen if this crew had to deal with a sell out...
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well, all I'd say is get there early and it won't be a problem... but seeing as I was either in school or in DC the entire time I've been associated with UConn I haven't had to deal with that too much
 
Patman said:
well, all I'd say is get there early and it won't be a problem... but seeing as I was either in school or in DC the entire time I've been associated with UConn I haven't had to deal with that too much
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I got there more than an hour before game time. I didn't miss any of the game, but it was like a police drivers test taking place on the George Washington bridge. They severely overcomplicate the process...
 
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I don't think enough has been said about the defensive backs as it seems they are missing a number of DBs. Specifically, Rante Jones has missed a bunch of time due to penalties, Malik Dixon-Williams has been out due to injury, and we haven't seen Reggie Akles (New Mexico St. transfer) or Dean Engram (Wisconsin transfer).
 
UConnDan97 said:
I got there more than an hour before game time. I didn't miss any of the game, but it was like a police drivers test taking place on the George Washington bridge. They severely overcomplicate the process...
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Would agree always an adventure
 
gsmooth said:
I certainly hope so. However, FAU only lost by the score of 16-10 Michigan State last week. Michigan State just won at Maryland 27-24, the same Maryland team that annihilated UConn a week ago. I know the sports math and the transitive property does not always work that way, but I am not going into any UConn game thinking they are better than their opponent.
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FAU lost to Army yesterday 24-7, giving up 405 yards rushing while managing only 42 yards on the ground themselves. Army (2-0) might be good this year, but it looks like FAU can be run against, and we look like we can run a bit.
 
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UCTitleTown said:
Anyone know the attendance number?
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Officially, 32,351. Being there, it seemed to me the peak crowd was maybe 25,000 -27,000 during the second quarter. A lot of the blue seats stayed empty the whole game, which I hate, because it's visually more noticeable. The game was competitively over before halftime, so the crowd got thin during the second half, when UConn played backups and stopped running anything interesting on offense.
 
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Bobol said:
Hopefully the B12 braintrust was impressed by our 63 to 17 pounding of Merrimack.
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Let's ask Air Force if they think UConn embarrassed itself by beating up on a glorified high school team, or if Merrimack is a legitimate opponent. The Mountain West is probably the best non-P4 football conference, and their guys managed to beat Merrimack 21-6. We did what most FBS schools do when they have their [poop synonym] together - we scheduled our first home game against a weaker opponent, and handled them easily.

It sucked for us that our work-out-the-kinks game was at Maryland, which made us look worse than we probably are.
 
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ninety-nine said:
Let's ask Air Force if they think UConn embarrassed itself by beating up on a glorified high school team, or if Merrimack is a legitimate opponent. The Mountain West is probably the best non-P4 football conference, and their guys managed to beat Merrimack 21-6. We did what most FBS schools do when they have their [poop synonym] together - we scheduled our first home game against a weaker opponent, and handled them easily.
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Merrimack finished ahead of Sacred Heart last season.
 
Super happy with everything that occurred yesterday. Was really pleasantly surprised by the crowd. With the weather forecast earlier in week and getting destroyed last week I was not optimistic. Thos is a good sign. Next home game a a night game and if we can show well at Duke it bodes well. W e need to play well next week.
 
LBird33 said:
Would agree always an adventure
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Bad traffic lane markings coming in and no control at all after the game. From where we usually park, the first blue lot on the left coming up Silver Lane and right turn into the stadium, getting to the far left lane when you leave means crossing 3 lanes of heavy traffic with nobody stopping the on coming traffic to allow cars to turn out of the lot. Too few drivers willing to let people merge.

Best traffic control I ever experienced in a big venue was at Hollywood Bowl in LA where several lanes had to take turns with several cars going at a time on their lane’s turn. Took a little waiting but nobody cut anyone off or prevented easy merging. It isn’t that complicated to do smart traffic flow.
 
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