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One heck of a press conference.

Maybe I don’t understand the nuances of coaching fully but as people have said - if it’s not working with Charlton, why doesn’t Mora fix it? Like we all have jobs. My manager has a ton on her plate but if something’s wrong with my work she’ll talk to me about it. Because at the end of the day she’s responsible. It really confuses me why Mora hasn’t been more active in fixing Charlton’s play calling.

The only reason I can think of that he hasn’t is because we literally just don’t have the talent to play aggressive offense. Which if so, is also sad.
 
noeynox said:
Yeah, you simply take those plays out the playbook/play sheet. I doubt Charlton has gone rouge. Honestly, every position on offense with the exception of the OL has played worse than last year. No coach on offense except for Samis should be safe. The new position coaches at RB and WR have seen their players take a step back.
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I suspect Charlton the the new RB coach were both factors in sudden departures of Houston and Brewton.
 
gopher2 said:
I suspect Charlton the the new RB coach were both factors in sudden departures of Houston and Brewton.
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I still don’t understand why we took on a mid level FCS coach to turn around a historically bad offense. Like you couldn’t have found ANY competent assistant OC or OC at the FBS level and just given them a 25k raise or something? Jesus. It’s like the administration is allergic to good decision making.
 
UConnJim said:
This was game 11 against a bad FCS team and the offense didn't run smoothly and dominate SHU. You can't blame practice time or the other team having better players so it was clear that the offensive schemes/play calling are not working. I have wondered how Mora and Charlton connected as there doesn't appear to be any past relationship and Charlton was a head coach, not an OC, when he was hired. Maybe somebody looked at Charlton and thought of Kirk Ferentz who was head coach at Maine for 3 years with not great results before he took some assistant jobs in the NFL and ultimately became Iowa's head coach.
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In 2018 Charlton was OC/QB at Maine. Seems to be his only prior experience as OC.
 
MKH2317 said:
Hypothetically speaking, I bet if Mora brought in Mazzonne for this last week, our scoring potential would increase by at least 10 points just based on play calling alone.
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Well, unless the playbook is generic and basic, that would be kinda hard would it not? Coming in and calling plays out of someone else's book? With no clue as to strengths and weaknesses? In a sport with a lot of moving pieces all of which depend on split second timing? That's asking a lot.
 
Skies2018 said:
I still don’t understand why we took on a mid level FCS coach to turn around a historically bad offense. Like you couldn’t have found ANY competent assistant OC or OC at the FBS level and just given them a 25k raise or something? . It’s like the administration is allergic to good decision making.
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I'd love to know the story behind how Charlton landed here. Was he Mora's choice and if so what did Mora see in the Maine teams that Charlton coached that made him think Charlton was the guy?
 
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RSTuthill said:
Well, unless the playbook is generic and basic, that would be kinda hard would it not? Coming in and calling plays out of someone else's book? With no clue as to strengths and weaknesses? In a sport with a lot of moving pieces all of which depend on split second timing? That's asking a lot.
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That was the joke lol
 
MKH2317 said:
That was the joke lol
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Yeah, the genre doesn't telegraph that well to those of us in a hurry. But I should have known anyway. Thing is that he had so little experience as an OC that your point was plausible and does still in fact stand.
 
gopher2 said:
I'd love to know the story behind how Charlton landed here. Was he Mora's choice and if so what did Mora see in the Maine teams that Charlton coached that made him think Charlton was the guy?
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Yeah, the sense we got at the time was that Charlton was AD David Benedict's backup and longer term succession plan. And that they were having trouble getting enough good candidates. I am still not convinced he will be leaving. Especially if the beat UMass. A rather big IF, actually.
 
Thanks, Medic. Any idea who the mutual acquaintance was? Spanos maybe?
 
Guru13 said:
Ehh I don’t think he was dismissive, plus all his press conferences have been short. He probably is frustrated about how much talent we have on our roster and can’t put up 50 points on a FCS team. Plus if media really wanted to do their job, they will ask questions like why didn’t our offense obliterate an FCS school. JMU manhandled us and played aggressive, but we can’t do the same.
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Talent? UConn has mediocre FCS talent at best. UConn got these guys because they had no where else to go.
 
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TouchdownHusky said:
Talent? UConn has mediocre FCS talent at best. UConn got these guys because they had no where else to go.
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That is false.. because there are a lot of kids on this roster that had other D1 FBS schools to go to.. but I wont run down the list of players who did. The problem is coaching and its a coaches job to get the most out of his players, but when your OC is not helping his case and calling the most dumbest plays in short yard situation you look at the coach not the players. On top of that don't disrespect the players who stuck it out for another season. In all honesty, we would've had a better season if we kept certain individual players because their athleticism could hide some of the bad play calls we've seen this season. Funny enough those players went to other FBS schools
 
businesslawyer said:
O.K., a bit much here. This season has been very disappointing, and I’m not satisfied with the offensive scheme and play calling either. BUT — we had 24 points without any takeaways and special teams help in the first half, and the game was over when we went to the locker room for the break. The only negative thing to say about yesterday, as opposed to the season, is that we stopped playing offensively in the second half when the game was over.

That, my friends, isn’t in the top 10 of issues I have with this year’s team, given that how we play when we’re up 21 at the half has not been our problem over the past decade plus.

Let’s see if we can win in Amherst, and then there will be plenty of time to do the autopsy.
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The time to start talking to new coaches is now.
 
Guru13 said:
That is false.. because there are a lot of kids on this roster that had other D1 FBS schools to go to.. but I wont run down the list of players who did. The problem is coaching and its a coaches job to get the most out of his players, but when your OC is not helping his case and calling the most dumbest plays in short yard situation you look at the coach not the players. On top of that don't disrespect the players who stuck it out for another season. In all honesty, we would've had a better season if we kept certain individual players because their athleticism could hide some of the bad play calls we've seen this season. Funny enough those players went to other FBS schools
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100% this....Also on offense at least, we have several guys who despite lack of pedigree are actually pretty good skill players - Ross, Joly, Edwards & Rosa.

With any competent play calling and coaching, those guys should be able to move the chains vs most of our schedule.
 
gopher2 said:
I suspect Charlton the the new RB coach were both factors in sudden departures of Houston and Brewton.
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I think the carry load that Rosa received early was a part of that too.
 
CTFAN4LIFE said:
The time to start talking to new coaches is now.
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Almost every coordinator and assistant you’d want is still coaching somewhere this season. And, because I may be confused, is that our job to be talking to them or Benedict’s and Mora’s?
 
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huskysupporter said:
I think we might be saying similar things - Coach Mora hired Coach Charlton. Coach Mora parted ways with Coach Spanos and decided not to bring in a defensive coordinator.
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Spanos was and is trash. If you think the defense is bad it would be 10x worse with him as DC
 
So everyone who wants a different OC should probably realize that if that is done, UConn will be back to running plain vanilla plays for half a year. Whole new playbook. That's what happens. No one is gonna come in and run the old playbook. That's not how it works.
 
Buffett10 said:
Spanos was and is trash. If you think the defense is bad it would be 10x worse with him as DC
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Spanos was not a good d coordinator - no argument there. Moras decision to not hire a new one was moronic
 
businesslawyer said:
Almost every coordinator and assistant you’d want is still coaching somewhere this season. And, because I may be confused, is that our job to be talking to them or Benedict’s and Mora’s?
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Obviously Mora's and Benedict's - not sure why you think it's a fan's job? And, yes, coaches have agents that take phone calls all the time and with coaching staffs already chopped and more to come, we better be lining up conversations now.
 
kemba said:
Moras not wrong, it’s just a little surprising. If this was week 2 and he wanted to set the tone that we need to be better against the rest of the schedule that would be one thing. But most of his press conferences after games that I’ve heard have been praising effort and trying to be positive and keep the team together and this went against that.

Not really sure what to make of it
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I think it's that he is fed up with our lack of offensive production. I view that as a good thing. I don't think Charlton lasts a week after the final gun the UMass game.
 
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CL82 said:
I think theoretically he was making more money available for the rest of the staff. It didn't work out. Fix it and move on.
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That’s kind of the “show us” I’ve been writing. I want to see him get “hard a$$es” in the portal, I want the offensive schemes cleaned up. But there is talk and there is action.
 
Just to add my concern is that Coach Mora really thought we would be joining a P5 conference (they were selling a big 12 invite to the qb recruit) and now that that ship has sailed I don’t know if he has a plan.

There is a way out of the dumpster. But it has to be incremental and there has to be a concrete plan.

Sounds like there will be an increase in NIL funds available which is awesome. Now just have to allocate them correctly.
 
huskysupporter said:
That’s kind of the “show us” I’ve been writing. I want to see him get “hard a$$es” in the portal, I want the offensive schemes cleaned up. But there is talk and there is action.
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If he wants tough guys, run the ball right at people, blow them off the line. Then you can be tough mentally and physically
 
DawgEnjoyer said:
100% this....Also on offense at least, we have several guys who despite lack of pedigree are actually pretty good skill players - Ross, Joly, Edwards & Rosa.

With any competent play calling and coaching, those guys should be able to move the chains vs most of our schedule.
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If Charlton observed anything it should have been that. They had running success off tackle, and counters. Passing success on slants, tight end crosses and midfield throws. Sweeps, tosses, bubble and wide screens, Qb run opinions failed miserably all year. Didn’t know or play to his players abilities or strengths.

On the coaching point, I can’t figure out whether Rosa is uncoachable or not being coached. The kid has one instinct only … break outside. He leaves gobs of yards on the table because he won’t cut back into the pursuit. It’s maddening. Edwards is a superior RB.
 
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