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Phil Steele Predicts UConn 6th in AAC East

Stainmaster said:
1. I never explicitly said you did. It’s assumed that everything you write here has to be dumbed down, because you’re the only smart human being here. Everyone else is a vegetable.
2. You’re the last person to accuse others of being toddlers pitching fits. You have the impulse control of a dingo in heat.
3. At least I’ll still have my original liver in 5 years.
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How did whaler become the only one on the board who drinks?
 
businesslawyer said:
This actually goes back to some of the debates of those who wanted Edsall gone in the late aughts. Because he made it look easy to recruit from a pool of players with few or no other BCS offers, and still get his share of kids who made the NFL, too many here assumed anyone in his position could do that and how could our overall talent pool go down if someone else was in charge of the program.

Those people look absolutely idiotic at this point. Apparently, it's easy to hire a coach who, just because he can't beat out P5 teams for players, also can't find a high percentage of NFLers among players no one else is offering.
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This is absolutely true. Edsall would catch serious criticism for the ranking of his recruiting classes while putting as many kids in the NFL and on All Big East teams as any team in the conference. It was as if folks believed the internet over what they saw on the field with their own eyes. We really have to hope he and his staff can do it again.
 
uconndogs said:
This is absolutely true. Edsall would catch serious criticism for the ranking of his recruiting classes while putting as many kids in the NFL and on All Big East teams as any team in the conference. It was as if folks believed the internet over what they saw on the field with their own eyes. We really have to hope he and his staff can do it again.
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Agreed, Edsall recruited perfectly---except at QB. He seems to have figured that out now, so I'm optimistic. The big thing is identifying the same kind of players he used to and then getting them to come play here without the BCS conference label. I presume that's doable since many of our good players from the past didn't have any big offers anyway.
 
Colt house75 said:
Just tough to read an article like that after 8 long years....
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And the prospect of a ninth long year perhaps even worse than the previous eight. If that happens, just wait for what the opposition to FBS football will be saying in December.

But things may get a lot better too. That is the beauty of the college game.
 
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The difference between HCRE & the two previous regimes:
1. Randy has had a great eye for talent
2. He immerses himself into the job: Pasqualoni seemed disinterested in the finer details & Diaco lived in Bizarro World
3. He's not afraid to tell the truth of the situation: When Diaco said in a post-game interview after a 45-3 pasting, that if a couple of plays went differently, UConn would have won the game, we all knew he was delusional.
4. He wants to atone for the way he scrambled out of Dodge after the Fiesta Bowl: he's determined to reestablish his legacy.

The problem is UConn is now situated in a different world with no BCS (err, Power-5) affiliation. How he overcomes this immense hurdle will be telling, but I trust him over the last two buffoons.
 
businesslawyer said:
This actually goes back to some of the debates of those who wanted Edsall gone in the late aughts. Because he made it look easy to recruit from a pool of players with few or no other BCS offers, and still get his share of kids who made the NFL, too many here assumed anyone in his position could do that and how could our overall talent pool go down if someone else was in charge of the program.

Those people look absolutely idiotic at this point. Apparently, it's easy to hire a coach who, just because he can't beat out P5 teams for players, also can't find a high percentage of NFLers among players no one else is offering.
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I think this is fair. I don't know that I wanted him gone, but I remember thinking that he had taken us as far as he could and that if we were going to improve it would be under another coach. I doubt I posted any of that because I had, and have, a lot of respect for the job REv1 did after Jasper Howard's death.
 
He is right though...the offense is better and fans grumbled under the Diaco years. One side of the ball is drastically better and RE decided to switch the defensive scheme so that was going to take a few years to get right.

I think it would be similar if Navy switched their offensive scheme to a normal offense...it would take a few years for them to get their O moving again.

If we can get the D players we need and the scheme gets into their brains we should see a dramatic improvement by the end of this year and next year....I think.
 
TRest said:
I think it's more likely he's the only one who admits when he schnockered. I know I have had some bourbon-fueled gems in the past that have gone without attribution.
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Meh, you fake it better. No one was better than Dan. I believe on night his posts degenerated into just random consonants. I suspect he may have woken up with a keyboard print on his forehead.
 
CL82 said:
Meh, you fake it better. No one was better than Dan. I believe on night his posts degenerated into just random consonants. I suspect he may have woken up with a keyboard print on his forehead.
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I miss Dan's crazy enthusiasm.
 
YoungFree said:
He is right though...the offense is better and fans grumbled under the Diaco years. One side of the ball is drastically better and RE decided to switch the defensive scheme so that was going to take a few years to get right.

I think it would be similar if Navy switched their offensive scheme to a normal offense...it would take a few years for them to get their O moving again.

If we can get the D players we need and the scheme gets into their brains we should see a dramatic improvement by the end of this year and next year....I think.
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It wasn't going to take a few years because of the scheme, its that the personnel needed a few years to catch up.
 
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I know HCRE has a reputation of turning lemons into lemonade, but we can't be 12th in conference recruiting every year and expect great things.

We might be able get to 6-6 (which is darn good if we're last in recruiting). That's about it.
 
Redding Husky said:
I know HCRE has a reputation of turning lemons into lemonade, but we can't be 12th in conference recruiting every year and expect great things.

We might be able get to 6-6 (which is darn good if we're last in recruiting). That's about it.
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It’s a vicious cycle because after 7 years in the toilet, it’s hard to attract the talent to get us out of the basement of recruiting rankings. At least we’ve got a guy in charge that’s proven he can do more with less. Now all we can do is hope this is the year that starts the turnaround.
 
auggie22 said:
At least one other on this board. I am at this moment knuckling some vino, reading the yard, playing it right.
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I'm about 3/4 of a bottle of wine in, trying to figure out who we'll play in the national championship this season. I'd finish the bottle, but it's a work night...

#WhiskeyIsForTheWeekends
 
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These idiots don't know anything. He didn't have UCF in his pre-season top 30 last year. Apparently, he can be wrong.

In every single sport we see the same thing, all question marks are resolved in the negative. Don't know who will emerge as QB? Assume nobody will and QB play will stink. Only 2 returning players from a bad Defense? Assume the replacements will be even worse. We see it now with the hoops team. The expected contribution from Gilbert among prognosticators is close to zero. Yet he could be freaking fantastic. The unknown is the unknown. It can be good or bad, or just so-so.

The problem is that it never works that way. There are many, many upside surprises every year in every sport. Players develop and improve, new guys come in and are better than expected. That is not to suggest that this UConn team will win the division, that would require too many upside surprises. But it is not unreasonable to expect that we will get solid play from some unexpected places next year. Replacing all the players on a bad defense might be a positive thing. A second year in the system almost certainly will be. And I'm not worried about QB play at all. We have 3 guys who are talented players, 4 if you count true freshmen.
 
What we all know that it just takes one great QB and a couple of excellent skill players to radically change the direction of program, and create the conditions for follow-on momentum. Dan O and a stable of excellent RBs created the conditions for success. You can see the same pattern at other schools having made moves as well. Building a strong defensive corps is also more manageable. We just need catch some breaks.
 
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