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"UConn was the big winner, landing Poly Prep’s Cameron Stapleton, Christ the King’s Jordan Fuchs and Beach Channel’s Folorunso Fatukasi." Hell yeah!!!

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The offer to Kivon Taylor is actually a very smart recruiting move.

If Lagow doesn't sign - Minimum - UConn gets a servicable, athletic and smart (interest from Ivy League) dual threat QB that can provide a safety net for depth at QB and also provide an important scout team QB for prep against dual threat offenses. Wiest will then go after his own QB for 2014 and UConn will be comfortable just taking 1 next year.

Maximum - he could develop into a decent weapon at QB and challenge the pro-style crew of Cochran, Boyle and Lagow.

If Lagow does sign - UConn you have a smart, athletic 6'5" 200 lb kid who could make a difference at either WR or safety and who can still act as the scout team dual threat QB when needed. Most importantly, I am sure this was all explained to Taylor before his signing and he knows exactly what he is getting into at UConn. He got a full scholly and is likey walking on air today.

The Taylor move is much smarter an better planned than the Casey Turner signing a few years ago. Turner was a late QB depth signing when Dennis Brown transferred. Turner was a one-dimentional passing QB who really had no chance at the BCS level and it was a waste of a scholly.
 
Carl Spackler said:
I really wish you would stop writing around here, it's in the player's best interest. Really.
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STFU. Not one more word.

You're too duck*ing stupid to be dispensing advice.

I wasn't kidding about this thread - some people need to knock it off or they just won't be here anymore. And this isn't an invitation to a debate, so don't start one.

Clear enough?
 
UConnRock said:
The offer to Kivon Taylor is actually a very smart recruiting move.

If Lagow doesn't sign - Minimum - UConn gets a servicable, athletic and smart (interest from Ivy League) dual threat QB that can provide a safety net for depth at QB and also provide an important scout team QB for prep against dual threat offenses. Wiest will then go after his own QB for 2014 and UConn will be comfortable just taking 1 next year.

Maximum - he could develop into a decent weapon at QB and challenge the pro-style crew of Cochran, Boyle and Lagow.

If Lagow does sign - UConn you have a smart, athletic 6'5" 200 lb kid who could make a difference at either WR or safety and who can still act as the scout team dual threat QB when needed. Most importantly, I am sure this was all explained to Taylor before his signing and he knows exactly what he is getting into at UConn. He got a full scholly and is likey walking on air today.

The Taylor move is much smarter an better planned than the Casey Turner signing a few years ago. Turner was a late QB depth signing when Dennis Brown transferred. Turner was a one-dimentional passing QB who really had no chance at the BCS level and it was a waste of a scholly.
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I agree I am thinki g Taylor has wildcat written all over it.
 
Srqhusky said:
I agree I am thinki g Taylor has wildcat written all over it.
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I hope not I don't like having two distinct offenses with different personnel. Have one offense with multiple looks and get good at it.
 
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KOD594 said:
To bring it back to those who have committed two nice mentions in NYC area papers. In New York Post article which was more about Syracuse recruiting failures in NYC this year declared UConn the big NYC winners with the three NYC recruits Stapleton, Fuchs and Fatusaki.Also NY Journal News the Gannett paper that covers Northern NY suburbs frontpage two top stories are articles about two future Huskies, Saniya Chong breaking a scoring record and Hopkins signing. Guess they will need new signs in Yankee Satadium declaring who is New York's team.

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/coll...ity_rbs_spurn_syracuse_PNWXK8tKVrjCu6OISNmHbJ
http://www.lohud.com/section/SPORTS[/quote]

exactly. rutgers doesn't cross the water and cuse dont fly south. we be NYC!!!!!
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Srqhusky said:
I agree I am thinki g Taylor has wildcat written all over it.
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I think nothing screams, "We don't have a bona fide offense. It's all a gimmick!!!" louder than the Wildcat formation.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Holy crap. Just finished wading through the rest of this, and definitely need a place to wipe my boots.

We had a good class. Glad to see it. We had to take Boyle. Period. Richard Lagow has 19 more days to decide to come to UConn, and anyone who doesn't want him to do that has a screw loose. Any assumptions from us about UConn "moving on" is uninformed conjecture. What I see is that UConn took Taylor as a hedge against losing Lagow, knowing it could move him to another position if needed. Pretty obvious and intelligent move in my view, once Lagow's LOI didn't come in.

Is he sick? Is he just biding his time and re-evaluating? It doesn't matter. He's completely entitled to reconsider his situation and see what other offers may be out there. He probably is sick, and yes, even though he is, if he was 100% sold on coming to UConn he would have signed and had his dad fax it in. I don't think Mr. Lagow has suggested otherwise. Richard is clearly reconsidering, and being sick provides him a little cover. Why is that a big deal? We have blown this way out of proportion.

UConn didn't blow it. Lagow didn't blow it. Nothing has been screwed up.
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I think that's a pretty good summary. Early on UConn was looking for a quarterback and went after Lagow and Boyle, probably as 1 and 1A with a couple of backups too. I think it has been clear for some time that they were looking to bring in a couple this year in an effort to upgrade a position which has been, to put it nicely, somewhat below what one would hope for. When Boyle chose BC, Lagow became the top quarterback recruit. Most likely Taylor and a couple of others were always in the mix. When things changed for Boyle at BC, UConn re-entered the mix and he committed here too. My hunch is that UConn never expected to have both Lagow and Boyle until maybe a couple of weeks ago, but they did in fact want to bring in 2 at the position. Hence the brief attempt to land the Cincy cast off, too. Taylor was probably one of a couple of guys they were expecting to take as #2. And I doubt Lagow would have cared if we took Taylor. He cared that we took Boyle. to put it more simply, UConn's original plan was Either Boyle or Lagow and Taylor (or someone like Taylor). But when a quarterback of Boyle's calibre comes back on the market, you have to take him regardless of who else you have "signed up." Had the shoe been on the other foot, and Boyle committed to UConn and Lagow to Texas Tech, then Lagow left Texas Tech and come to UConn, we'd have done exactly the same thing. End of the day we were always going to have at least 2 quarterbacks. The only real question is who they would be.
 
guys the wildcat is dead either this fall or this winter. either tjw kills it or p doesn't let him. if p doesn't let him then p and gdl are still running the O which means they are fired or i commit suicide. the wildcat is dead.
 
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UConnDan97 said:
Seriously, though, you know how much I was hoping we would land Chasz Wright to go along with Schafenacker and Hopkins in our recruiting conversations. I'm really glad that we landed him too. I always feel like three solid OL's every recruiting year will lead to good things, and less than that will lead to "less-than-good" things. Remember the three star product out of Chicago, McKee? High hopes for that kid, and then the disgusting story that led to his getting kicked out. Also, when we lost Joe Akers at center due to the neck injuries and Jimmy Bennett was snake-bitten for the longest time (although I heard today he got approved for the sixth year!). To me, OL health and depth is always the key to a successful team...
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You also need a good defenseman who can drop the gloves if necessary.
 
whaler11 said:
I'll just send my thoughts to excaliber and he can post them in such fashion that doesn't offend anyone's sensibilities.
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You may want to consider it. It would beat coming off as a complete bag every time your fingers hit the keyboard.
 
whaler11 said:
I guess this is a misquote from yesterday's interview. He's not asking for other offers. Do you seriously believe what you post?

“I’m not sure exactly where I’ll be signing,” Lagow said. “I’m not sure when it will be. I’m not saying I won’t be signing with UCONN but I’m looking at all options. Anybody that wants to talk to me and wants to recruit me, I’ll be open to them and listen to what they have to say.”
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It took me awhile to realize that while I had issues with how this was handled, nobody's perfect and people screw up. But more importantly that just because I wanted to know all the details I really didn't need to know all the details or to prove I could have done it better.

You can argue all day long and then walk away and let the program and it's recruits deal with the collateral damage of your self-righteous glory. But it's pretty selfish to put your ego above the future of young men who are making a huge decision under difficult circumstances. I agree with some of your points but who's right and who's wrong got lost long ago in the fog of your little war in this thread. But why stop now? Maybe someone wil cry Uncle and you can claim victory. It's just that nobody wins a war that never needed to be fought.
 
Durks07 said:
Syracuse buys signs...Uconn just wins NYC. That was the message of the articles! ;)
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Agreed, but we need to have more articles written about us as the tagline. The articles was really about how 'Cuse sucks and then they threw that UConn winning winners line in at the end.

We need more pub!
 
UConn Dan said:
Agreed, but we need to have more articles written about us as the tagline. The articles was really about how 'Cuse sucks and then they threw that UConn winning winners line in at the end.

We need more pub!
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Agreed, but we have the foothold in NYC that comes with success. We didn't have to rely on a contrived sign proclaiming we were "New York's Team." We just went out and were NY's team...I'm just happy that the sign cost them money to say something that is shown to be false.
 
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Srqhusky said:
I agree I am thinki g Taylor has wildcat written all over it.
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I think he has Spread Option written all over him. Our new OC may actually be smart enough to see what our previous OC and Head Coach don't....the Spread (multiple receiver sets) is the way to go unless you can recruit like Bama, LSU, or USC

This young man is tall, mobile, smart, with a cannon for an arm. Think a poor man's RGIII or Cam Newton
 
MilliniumPrince said:
I think he has Spread Option written all over him. Our new OC may actually be smart enough to see what our previous OC and Head Coach don't....the Spread (multiple receiver sets) is the way to go unless you can recruit like Bama, LSU, or USC

This young man is tall, mobile, smart, with a cannon for an arm. Think a poor man's RGIII or Cam Newton
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I'm sure he is a fine young man, and I hope he has an outstanding career in Storrs, but am I the only one cringing because a young man who apparently had no other offers is being compared to Cam Newton and RGIII?
 
businesslawyer said:
I'm sure he is a fine young man, and I hope he has an outstanding career in Storrs, but am I the only one cringing because a young man who apparently had no other offers is being compared to Cam Newton and RGIII?
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Hence the qualifyer "poor man's"........
 
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The man speaks the truth about a tri-tip. They're hard as hell to find here because they just don't cut the meat like that here. Traditionally right on about the cooking, too. You want to slow cook it for much longer but that's a mistake. 3 hours and it's pure gold. Us northerners... Northern Ct, that is can get them from Arnold's meats in Longmeadow or Chicopee. Actually the Longmeadow store can get them from the Chicopee store. I do a fair amount of smoking in the summer months. Dammit! Now I'm even more pissed its winter. No football, no smoking! When you make it up for a game, I'll show you how a Californian can make some BBQ.
 
Jarhead_1775 said:
The man speaks the truth about a tri-tip. They're hard as hell to find here because they just don't cut the meat like that here. Traditionally right on about the cooking, too. You want to slow cook it for much longer but that's a mistake. 3 hours and it's pure gold. Us northerners... Northern Ct, that is can get them from Arnold's meats in Longmeadow or Chicopee. Actually the Longmeadow store can get them from the Chicopee store. I do a fair amount of smoking in the summer months. Dammit! Now I'm even more pissed its winter. No football, no smoking! When you make it up for a game, I'll show you how a Californian can make some BBQ.
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Set up takes about 15 minutes (on the outside of the range. My guys and I can do it in under 10 from parking to grill fire.), Getting the smoker up to temp takes about 10, smoking the meat takes up to 3 hours, breakdown takes another 15 minutes. Standing in line for the free security feel-up at the gate takes about 17 minutes. I've been to my fair share of pig roasts and actual Barbeque parties and 3 minutes is nowhere near the requisite time to achieve full ambrosia enjoyment.
 
Husky25 said:
Set up takes about 15 minutes (on the outside of the range. My guys and I can do it in under 10 from parking to grill fire.), Getting the smoker up to temp takes about 10, smoking the meat takes up to 3 hours, breakdown takes another 15 minutes. Standing in line for the free security feel-up at the gate takes about 17 minutes. I've been to my fair share of pig roasts and actual Barbeque parties and 3 minutes is nowhere near the requisite time to achieve full ambrosia enjoyment.
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I agree they really need to expand the tailgating hours. This 4 hour is bush league.
 
Almost a half hour since the last post! Is this finally dying? Yes, but only until tomorrow morning, somewhere around 8am in Texas. :)
 
An early announcement would be nice. Before we all lose power from this biatch snow storm.

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Just prepare it before hand then bring it to the tailgat keep it warm on the grill.
 
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