Pasqualoni Watch

[sportsart]

Well, it's pretty obvious there aren't any quarterbacks ready to play BCS level football right now. They are starting a walk on, who was decent tonight but his numbers were inflated by Buffalo missing tackles on Williams.

It's pretty obvious that the other two aren't ready for prime time, but if you want to try and convince yourself that it's because of the playing time that's fine.

You are embarrassing yourself. I said people were saying we don't have any qb's that are good. I say we don't know if they are good because they are young with no PT.

Don't you need PT to get ready for primetime? You just change things as you go.

My point. We don't know if they're any good. You know they're not good

 

[whaler11]

You are embarrassing yourself. I said people were saying we don't have any qb's that are good. I say we don't know if they are good because they are young with no PT.

Don't you need PT to get ready for primetime? You just change things as you go.

My point. We don't know if they're any good. You know they're not good

I don't know if they will be good someday. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are not good right now.

 

[Dave Carlson]

Settle down, Steinbrenner, you're watching UConn football. As if you have ever in your entire life been in a position to fire anything other than another Marlboro red while arguing with a television set.

 

[cryjeremiah]

Good lord. The offense was beyond brutal tonight. Buffalo is one of the 15 worst teams in the country. If you want to talk yourself into JM based on tonight that is great.

I don't think anyone here is talking themselves into JMac. If you think that, clearly your reading comprehension is that of a turnip. We have beaten that horse to death already. But its not like we have anyone more productive right now.
For once this year, we are just happy the team/staff didn't give the game away. Clearly, JMac is not a great QB and our RB situation blows. Our offense is terrible. We get it. The only reason for our better attitude is that we actually WON a game with all that crap on the offensive side of the ball. Move on, Eeyore.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

Does anyone else watch Georgia Tech and wish that TDHusky had to deal with Paul Johnson?

Georgia Tech beat UNC today. UConn beat Buffalo. ACC vs low MAC. Good point.

 

[whaler11]

Georgia Tech beat UNC today. UConn beat Buffalo. ACC vs low MAC. Good point.

Maybe you've heard they run the ball 10 times more than they throw it. So it's ok to run if you win? Then what was your problem last year?

 

[huskysupporter]

How does Randy make McEntee not suck?

How does Randy win a BE championship with Zach Frazer at the helm? he ran a disciplined team who for the most part "executed". Yep there is that word. He identified the teams strength and stuck with it.

He was not without faults. IF you go to the Rutgers game thread from last year, I was livid at the lack of blitzing on a true frosh for Rutgers. And his lack of ability at recruiting a BCS caliber qb since Dan O left was frustrating beyond belief. But he was a terrific talent evaluator who snagged some great players for UCONN.

I absolutely stand by my statement that we would be undefeated if he was still the coach.

With that said, we need to give Coach P some slack here. It's the 4th game, and although he made some horrible decisions (continuing to throw v. Vandy; TO at end of Iowa State game so they could throw a 1 yard out), it is still too early to call for his job.

 

[UCHuskies08]

How does Randy win a BE championship with Zach Frazer at the helm? he ran a disciplined team who for the most part "executed". Yep there is that word. He identified the teams strength and stuck with it.

He was not without faults. IF you go to the Rutgers game thread from last year, I was livid at the lack of blitzing on a true frosh for Rutgers. And his lack of ability at recruiting a BCS caliber qb since Dan O left was frustrating beyond belief. But he was a terrific talent evaluator who snagged some great players for UCONN.

I absolutely stand by my statement that we would be undefeated if he was still the coach.

With that said, we need to give Coach P some slack here. It's the 4th game, and although he made some horrible decisions (continuing to throw v. Vandy; TO at end of Iowa State game so they could throw a 1 yard out), it is still too early to call for his job.

Frazer was a LOT better than McEntee.

 

[metsfan2323]

Don't we have the same offensive line coach as last year? Maybe Jordan Todman made the line look better than it was.

We would be 4 -0 if we still had Jordan Todman on this team.

Did we score an offensive TD against South Florida and Oklahoma last year? I can't remember.

 

[huskysupporter]

Frazer was a LOT better than McEntee.

Was he better? I can definitely get behind that argument. A LOT better. Uh, no.

 

[huskysupporter]

Don't we have the same offensive line coach as last year? Maybe Jordan Todman made the line look better than it was.

We would be 4 -0 if we still had Jordan Todman on this team.

Did we score an offensive TD against South Florida and Oklahoma last year? I can't remember.

I will tell you, Mike Ryan has regressed a ton this year. Not sure what happened. I asked last week, but does anyone else think he looks alot heavier? I think that might be impacting his play. THe Line was solid last year, but Todman was also the type of back who could get yards after contact. McCoombs has proven he can't. And he already seems gassed after 4 games.

 

[ucjoet]

WOW. People have to relax. I was an Edsall supporter, but he is at Maryland with a 1 - 2 record. He just got smoked by Temple at home, and some are wishing he was still here. Do you think we would have a great offense if he was around, I personally think it would be worse. As regards to HCPP, you have to give him some time. I am not happy with how the team is playing but to say the clock is ticking is ridiculous. He has already done a better job then Edsall has on the recruiting front, lets see what he does when he gets HIS players aboard.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

How is everyone getting so worked up over a 2 TD road victory?

 

[Excalibur]

Um, because we looked like cr@p against one of the worst FBS teams in the country.

As for the other topic on the thread, I'm doubtful Randy would be better than 2-2 with this team. No stud RB wouldn't bode well for his style.

 

[noeynox]

I'm not sure what an honest appraisal of the coaching staff has to do with being in a foxhole. It seems crazy to think it, but this may be a one year administration.

Well, Randy Edsall may be back on the market so this may work out perfectly yet for his fan club.

 

[Nostical]

Good one Noey! So let's say Edsall goes back on the market. Forget the politics and the improbabilities---just answer the Q. If he calls and says I want to come back, would you hire him?

 

[Dann]

this thread is so stupid its beyond me.
-PP first year here, alot of transfers(more 2 come in spring imo) and we lost alot to the pros
-we have 2 qbs that are not bcs quality and a true frosh who needs a year in the weight room and film room
-we have a rb corp that would be in the bottom 25% of bcs teams talent wise
-our wr corp is not a top 50% bcs teams talent wise
-our oline has been a little disapointing, but how good can they be when every team has 15 guys in the box vs us for every play
-our st is ok, not as ood as last year though. i think less time is being spent on this right now becuase the staff is trying to put a capable O on the field at all costs using all practice time possible for it
-our d is sick, its top25 quality. but we have them on the field 2 much with the O stinking for the most part. we havn't got blown out at all and have been in every game.
-we have beat 2 nobodys and lost to 2 bcs teams that are both ok. not top 25 teams but not duds either. just look up noth and be happy for a bit that things are going to be ok over time. give PP 2 years of recruit classes, playbook change and player by in, we will be fine. and please stop with the randy crap, thats behind us now.

 

[Nostical]

Exit 16 has just summed it up nicely. And just made me depressed--lol

 

[UCDaveD]

Good one Noey! So let's say Edsall goes back on the market. Forget the politics and the improbabilities---just answer the Q. If he calls and says I want to come back, would you hire him?

No.

 

[UCHuskies08]

I'm not sure what an honest appraisal of the coaching staff has to do with being in a foxhole. It seems crazy to think it, but this may be a one year administration.

LOL, there is zero, ZERO chance this is a one year coaching staff. Keep trying to convince yourself otherwise, though.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Ok, I'm going to try and keep this short, but I have a couple points to make

1. The clock is ticking in HCPP, he really needs to turn this ship around and turn it around fast. Hathaway really screwed up this hiring, If Herbst was in charge at the time and Hathaway was ousted we'd either still have HCRE (I wish) or someone like Garrick Mcgee. Now I'm not saying we'd be undefeated but we wouldn't be downright awful like we are.

2. Can we please stop with the gimmicky punt block darn? Nick Williams may be the best player on the team and its sad that we're wasting his return ability by letting gunners force him to fair catch.

3. Everyone here wants to be considered for the ACC, right now we don't even deserve to be in the Big East, we look like a mid level MAC team

4. Start Neibrich the rest of the year, see if he can develop into something. JMac and Mccumings are god awful. When Cochran steps foot on campus tell him he's your guy for the next 4 years and don't look back. Of course HCPP should not be able to deliver that message because he should be gone by then.

1) I think we should tell every Head Coach that they have 4 games to make UConn a Top 25 program or they are fired.

3) Which mid-level MAC team. Buffalo? Didn't UConn just beat them by 2 TD's on the road?

4) So your advice is to start a freshman quarterback and replace him with another freshman quarterback a year from now?

 

[whaler11]

LOL, there is zero, ZERO chance this is a one year coaching staff. Keep trying to convince yourself otherwise, though.

I'm not saying I want it, I'm saying it's possible. If they go 2-10 with a president and AD who didn't hire them, I think the possibility exists.

 

[noeynox]

Good one Noey! So let's say Edsall goes back on the market. Forget the politics and the improbabilities---just answer the Q. If he calls and says I want to come back, would you hire him?

No!

Our offensive problems right now are in large part attributed to his coaching and recruiting. Simply put, he failed at recruiting the QB position. He lucked out in that he recruited some studs at RB and they worked out Great. A decent passing game last year and that team wins 10 or 11 games.

So no I would not hire him, people are saying the clock is ticking on P , it is probably ticking a lot louder for Edsall at UMD after getting trounced at home by Temple. I am sure when they fired 9 win coach and hired him, UMD was expecting more. Edsall also inherrited a stud QB. How good would we be with Danny O'brien?

 

[temery]

DFPOTY

Ok, I'm going to try and keep this short, but I have a couple points to make

1. The clock is ticking in HCPP, he really needs to turn this ship around and turn it around fast. Hathaway really screwed up this hiring, If Herbst was in charge at the time and Hathaway was ousted we'd either still have HCRE (I wish) or someone like Garrick Mcgee. Now I'm not saying we'd be undefeated but we wouldn't be downright awful like we are.

2. Can we please stop with the gimmicky punt block darn? Nick Williams may be the best player on the team and its sad that we're wasting his return ability by letting gunners force him to fair catch.

3. Everyone here wants to be considered for the ACC, right now we don't even deserve to be in the Big East, we look like a mid level MAC team

4. Start Neibrich the rest of the year, see if he can develop into something. JMac and Mccumings are god awful. When Cochran steps foot on campus tell him he's your guy for the next 4 years and don't look back. Of course HCPP should not be able to deliver that message because he should be gone by then.

 

[upstater]

Good one Noey! So let's say Edsall goes back on the market. Forget the politics and the improbabilities---just answer the Q. If he calls and says I want to come back, would you hire him?

no way!!!

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Worst possible case scenario (in terms of the length of Pasqualoni's tenure, not necessarily the future of our football program) gives Pasqualoni the remainder of this season and all of next season at a minimum.

If Herbst does bring in a mover and shaker at AD and that AD has the next great coach already in his/her sites (similar to Luck with Holgorsen), that AD won't be in house for a while and will need to allow at least one football season to transpire before making any moves.

Breaking in two new guards (with a career tackle playing right guard, and a career tackle splitting time at left guard) has hurt our lineplay and (from what I understand as something was wrtitten about this earlier in the week) using a new blocking philosophy hasn't helped to date as we obviously are behind on the learning curve.

This is very frustrating as the OLine is a unit that we expected to be a strength without question, especially with the talent we've returned.

 

[NHUConnfan]

This is a ridiculous OP.

First off, UConn was left void of talents like Donald Brown and Jordan Todman. Rushers averaged about 2 yards per rush. How is that a UConn rush offense?! Second, our OL has been just absolutely pathetic. When they gave McEntee time, he could make plays. But with an OL as porous as ours have been sometimes, we could have Kellen Moore, and we'd still be bad.

 

[UC990411]

1) I think we should tell every Head Coach that they have 4 games to make UConn a Top 25 program or they are fired?

Uh yes. I don't want to be Indiana. Or Oregon St. Or wazzu. Or Rutgers. Or Illinois. Or, well you get the picture

 

[NHUConnfan]

Uh yes. I don't want to be Indiana. Or Oregon St. Or wazzu. Or Rutgers. Or Illinois. Or, well you get the picture

Go back to wherever you came from. This is just ridiculous.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

If I remember correctly Oregon St has spent the bulk of the past few years ranked (and even upset a then undefeated and top ranked USC on national television a few years back). Also, Isn't illinois ranked as we speak?

At the moment we aren't close to being able to hang with an Alabama or LSU. Vince Lombardi could be running the show and we still wouldn't be able to hang with those schools. If PPasq can bring in better players than we've had and we can get our offense and defense working correctly, we'll become a program that is ranked more often than not. If he can't, then we look to replace him.