Player reactions?

[Carl Spackler]

Everyone needs to look in the mirror. Coach P got fired because the game passed him by. That does not excuse the performance of the players. For anyone who watched the second half of the Buffalo game, it was evident which players were giving 100 % and those who were going through the motions. Instead of high fiving and starting chants (I honestly have a hard time believing this. I am embarrassed for the players if they did something so juvenile), players need to get to work.

There are a lot of players on this team, that are less than the amount of time that Deleone and Psqualoni were employed at UCONN, removed from actually being juveniles. FWIW. Nobody really udnerstands what these players were put through around here. I can have an idea, based on what I see, and hear, but it's very clear that these players hit a breaking point. Some would say it's surprising they lasted as long as they did.

What's in the past is in the past, what matters is what they do from here.

 

[Devland]

I am not twitter person. Based on history of "tweets" I hear about, I take as much stock in anything from twitter as I do from reading the headlines on supermarket tabloids. It seems to me they are the same thing except one in on paper and the other one is electronic.

 

[sportsart]

Good to see some players being classy. If there really was football players high fiving in class over the news, or chanting "we are free!", that is really disappointing. Talking to your teammates frankly in the locker room is one thing, doing what they allegedly did was bush league. Have to show a little maturity.

I'll say it 100 times if I have to. Never judge a man until you walk 28 games in their shoes. You have no idea...none.

 

[Devland]

EdDaigneault 3:30pm via TweetDeck
UConn CB Byron Jones said it was nice to have Pasqualoni talk to the team "on a personal level" before leaving campus.

EdDaigneault 3:31pm via TweetDeck
Jones said he was "shocked" that a move was made in the middle of the season.

EdDaigneault 3:38pm via TweetDeck
UConn WR Geremy Davis: "(PP) is a great guy, a great coach. Something had to change. Unfortunately, it was a man losing his job."

"You mean a coach actually stuck around and said wished the players well on his way out the door? "- Randy Edsall

 

[whaler11]

I am not twitter person. Based on history of "tweets" I hear about, I take as much stock in anything from twitter as I do from reading the headlines on supermarket tabloids. It seems to me they are the same thing except one in on paper and the other one is electronic.

You don't have much of a handle on the medium...

 

[huskysupporter]

I'll say it 100 times if I have to. Never judge a man until you walk 28 games in their shoes. You have no idea...none.

I have an idea of how to act. They didn't act appropriately in the situation. We can certainly agree to disagree. Chanting "We are free" in front of other students is embarrassing (what they do in the locker room is entirely different). Thankfully, it looks like the majority of the players took the high road. Some did not. To be expected from 18-22 year olds. Doesn't make it any less disappointing.

 

[Jimdish255]

I'm sure the new coach has put a lid on that and is refocusing the team on football. They blew off steam and most probably regret it. I have too. It's over.

 

[weyuo]

No one on that team should have anything to be happy about. Two guys lost their jobs because they couldn't teach these guys how to play at the next level after they had been doing it longer than most of these kids have been alive. They lost to Towson and Buffalo, two teams they should have walked over no matter what scheme was used. Don't be surprised if you hear Weist, Hughes and Foley interviewing for jobs outside of New England this winter.

 

[formerlurker]

No one on that team should have anything to be happy about. Two guys lost their jobs because they couldn't teach these guys how to play at the next level after they had been doing it longer than most of these kids have been alive. They lost to Towson and Buffalo, two teams they should have walked over no matter what scheme was used. Don't be surprised if you hear Weist, Hughes and Foley interviewing for jobs outside of New England this winter.

What are you bitching about?

 

[metsfan2323]

Two guys lost their jobs because they couldn't teach these guys how to play

You are right about that.

It was P who said coaching is teaching..... well if you can't teach you can't coach hence their dismissal.

 

[UConnDan97]

I think Cardsfan hacked into Weyou's account...

 

[Adios]

No one on that team should have anything to be happy about. Two guys lost their jobs because they couldn't teach these guys how to play at the next level after they had been doing it longer than most of these kids have been alive. They lost to Towson and Buffalo, two teams they should have walked over no matter what scheme was used. Don't be surprised if you hear Weist, Hughes and Foley interviewing for jobs outside of New England this winter.

I would be surprised. Weist said he wants the job. If he felt he was only interested in being an interim, do you think he would care to say he wants the job permanently?

 

[sportsart]

Two guys lost their jobs because they couldn't teach these guys how to play at the next ANY level

Should have started and stopped right there. Also fixed the ending for you.

 

[weyuo]

What are you bitching about?

What am I bitching about? Four games into THE season they should be making a name for themselves the whole freakin team sucks and it isn't just on P and Deleone. I'm a huge UConn fan and will support but..... that egg that got laid up in Buffalo was more on the guys between the hash marks than it was from the sidelines. The guys on the offensive line can't block Buffalo? McCombs can't break an arm tackle against Buffalo? The defense can't stop Buffalo from scoring 4 TD's + on them?

 

[formerlurker]

What am I bitching about? Four games into THE season they should be making a name for themselves the whole freakin team sucks and it isn't just on P and Deleone. I'm a huge UConn fan and will support but..... that egg that got laid up in Buffalo was more on the guys between the hash marks than it was from the sidelines. The guys on the offensive line can't block Buffalo? McCombs can't break an arm tackle against Buffalo? The defense can't stop Buffalo from scoring 4 TD's + on them?

Yes, what are you bitching about? Didn't you answer your own question when you said this?:

Two guys lost their jobs because they couldn't teach these guys how to play at the next level after they had been doing it longer than most of these kids have been alive.

 

[UConnDan97]

I'll be the middle-ground guy on this one.

Weyou, yes you're right that the players have to own some accountability for that game. That game was simply a mess right from the start. And it got out of hand quickly. A couple plays into the game, and Buffalo is starting their first drive on our 8-yard line. Their next touchdown is a pick-6. So on and so on.

However, and here's where it gets tricky, my friend; the coaches lost the team. Plain and simple, they lost the team. A disastrous start to the game, and the coaches had not build up the emotional collateral in past moments to snap them back out of it. Last year, it was a player like Sio Moore who could grab the team by the scruffs of their necks and say, "We aren't going to give up now!" That's why we only lost games 10-7 last year. THAT part of it is on the head coach. PP is a good man, but that is undeniably on him...

 

[FfldCntyFan]

No one on that team should have anything to be happy about. Two guys lost their jobs because they couldn't teach these guys how to play at the next level after they had been doing it longer than most of these kids have been alive. They lost to Towson and Buffalo, two teams they should have walked over no matter what scheme was used. Don't be surprised if you hear Weist, Hughes and Foley interviewing for jobs outside of New England this winter.

Don't worry abut the two who were relieved of their job duties. Each will get paid (far better than most here) for the remainder of the calendar year and one will also receive a $750k kicker. They also will likely find new employment far more quickly than the average working man. This isn't all that bad considering how poorly they performed. Keep in mind that this is their chosen profession and in this profession you are judged by results. The two of them have known this for longer than any of the current players have been alive, a couple of decades longer than any of the players have been alive.

I am very curious as to your motivation as regardless of what P and/or GDL did you could never find a bad word to say about them and criticized posters here for questioning them. Somehow in your eyes 19, 20, 21 year old kids warrant less margin for error than two men in their 60's. I don't get it.

 

[2Infinity]

However, and here's where it gets tricky, my friend; the coaches lost the team. Plain and simple, they lost the team.

I think you nailed it here. And THIS is the reason why Manuel relieved PP four games into the season. Once it becomes evident that you've lost the respect of the players, which is what happened in Buffalo, there is nothing more to wait for. When the players start to not care, it has to do with the amount of respect they have for the coaches...or lack thereof. Better to try and turn things around with a new "captain", than to let the ship go down.

 

[minidarren]

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/dbmN3

I'm sorry, this is all I learned from that article...
http://collegespun.com/aac/ucf/vide...ake-bortles-does-axis-cover-shoot-in-ucf-gear

 

[Jimdish255]

Captain steers ship into iceberg. Passenger Weyou goes down to engine room and yells at engineer for not keeping up with the floodwater.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

What am I bitching about? Four games into THE season they should be making a name for themselves the whole freakin team sucks and it isn't just on P and Deleone. I'm a huge UConn fan and will support but..... that egg that got laid up in Buffalo was more on the guys between the hash marks than it was from the sidelines. The guys on the offensive line can't block Buffalo? McCombs can't break an arm tackle against Buffalo? The defense can't stop Buffalo from scoring 4 TD's + on them?

What is your relationship to these coaches? You have to have kind of connection to them. Relative? Friend? What is it?

That is the only explanation for your posts.

 

[JaYnYcE]

I'm sorry, this is all I learned from that article...
http://collegespun.com/aac/ucf/vide...ake-bortles-does-axis-cover-shoot-in-ucf-gear

She ain't got no meat on them bones.

 

[minidarren]

She ain't got no meat on them bones.

I am glad that you are not interested. One less person in my way.

 

[Husky25]

Don't worry abut the two who were relieved of their job duties. Each will get paid (far better than most here) for the remainder of the calendar year and one will also receive a $750k kicker. They also will likely find new employment far more quickly than the average working man. This isn't all that bad considering how poorly they performed. Keep in mind that this is their chosen profession and in this profession you are judged by results. The two of them have known this for longer than any of the current players have been alive, a couple of decades longer than any of the players have been alive.

I am very curious as to your motivation as regardless of what P and/or GDL did you could never find a bad word to say about them and criticized posters here for questioning them. Somehow in your eyes 19, 20, 21 year old kids warrant less margin for error than two men in their 60's. I don't get it.

Something tells me that you won't get an answer from him.