Please quit blaming players - fire away at coaches

[TouchdownHusky]

Yeah the team in the white jerseys have scholarships. So not the players. BTW none of this applys to defense. They were terrific. If you where HCPP or Don Brown and someone told you yesterday morning you'd be holding NCState to 10 points, you'd be thinking a nice win and heading into Maryland at 2-0. The offense better start acting like they belong on scholarship at this level. Exception? #43. He's a warrior.

 

[emshorts]

i'm watching the georgia-missouri game and i believe joe testicletore was the announcer. the right defensive end for georgia beats his man & chases the qb across
the field & sacks him in the exact same manner as trevardo williams did. joe t says that type of play can only happen in the sec bcuz of the speed in the sec. the guy is a moron.

 

[ktuck911]

Did you see Whitmer? You want to blame the majority of that on coaching? Really?

My issue with Whitmer was that he seemed a step "behind" NC State's D on passing plays... It was like they knew what he was going to do before he did it... How many times did he throw into double coverage? How many times did he appear to lock in on one WR? Is that coaching? or QB instincts?

 

[ktuck911]

As per several linemen, the false starts were due in part to the way our center was snapping the ball. A slight hesitation several times caused false start movements by others.They are all aware of the issues.

That shouldn't happen in a live game a often as it did yesterday if they are aware of it....

 

[ruskin]

I agree with not booing the players but I think 95 percent of the boos yesterday were aimed at the coaches, and I think there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever.

 

[ktuck911]

Can I add to this that we stop booing the players. It really pisses me off hearing people boo college kids.

Be honest... Didn't you want to boo when we called the same bulls*** play (basically wildcat dive play..that wasn't working anyways) over again after the false start?

Seriously, I get what you are saying, but we all know that UCONN sports ( mbb, wbb AND fball ) are our pro-sports teams (save the real ones - hockey minor league teams in Hartford and Bpt and CT Sun -wbb)... We expect better.. Fair or not...

 

[Srqhusky]

Be honest... Didn't you want to boo when we called the same bulls*** play (basically wildcat dive play..that wasn't working anyways) over again after the false start?

Seriously, I get what you are saying, but we all know that UCONN sports ( mbb, wbb AND fball ) are our pro-sports teams (save the real ones - hockey minor league teams in Hartford and Bpt and CT Sun -wbb)... We expect better.. Fair or not...

would you boo your kids soccer team I guess is my point.

 

[Kingspoint]

Yeah the team in the white jerseys have scholarships. So not the players. BTW none of this applys to defense. They were terrific. If you where HCPP or Don Brown and someone told you yesterday morning you'd be holding NCState to 10 points, you'd be thinking a nice win and heading into Maryland at 2-0. The offense better start acting like they belong on scholarship at this level. Exception? #43. He's a warrior.

Your view that #43 is the only warrior on offense is absolutely wrong. Some day when you watch the coordination that must take place along the entire O line from the TE to the C on both sides of the ball that enables #43 to meet your 'warrior' standard - whatever that is - and stop limiting your focus to who has the ball in their hand at the time and whether they gain 1 or 20 yards - I'll consider what you have to say. In addition, you have to know it's just as important to make certain the OC is calling the right protection to make the play happen. And BTW, the O line is on scholarship because they are good and deserve it!...they aren't acting.

 

[huskymedic]

Can I add to this that we stop booing the players. It really pisses me off hearing people boo college kids.

Maybe they were booing the coaches

 

[businesslawyer]

I agree with not booing the players but I think 95 percent of the boos yesterday were aimed at the coaches, and I think there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever.

Out of curiosity, when we get sacked on third down and the crowd boos, you think the OL are going off the field saying to each other "I'm pretty sure they are not booing us -- just the coaches"?

 

[businesslawyer]

Be honest... Didn't you want to boo when we called the same bulls*** play (basically wildcat dive play..that wasn't working anyways) over again after the false start?

Seriously, I get what you are saying, but we all know that UCONN sports ( mbb, wbb AND fball ) are our pro-sports teams (save the real ones - hockey minor league teams in Hartford and Bpt and CT Sun -wbb)... We expect better.. Fair or not...

I guess, KT, I'd turn that around and ask you why in the world you'd do it if you don't believe it's fair to do so?

 

[TouchdownHusky]

Your view that #43 is the only warrior on offense is absolutely wrong. Some day when you watch the coordination that must take place along the entire O line from the TE to the C on both sides of the ball that enables #43 to meet your 'warrior' standard - whatever that is - and stop limiting your focus to who has the ball in their hand at the time and whether they gain 1 or 20 yards - I'll consider what you have to say. In addition, you have to know it's just as important to make certain the

OC is calling the right protection to make the play happen. And BTW, the O line is on scholarship because they are good and deserve it!...they aren't acting.

OK so UConn's offense is really good because well everyone is a warrior. Please. Watch the defense and you see a Top 25 unit of big time college athletes. The offense is nowhere near that level.

 

[businesslawyer]

OK so UConn's offense is really good because well everyone is a warrior. Please. Watch the defense and you see a Top 25 unit of big time college athletes. The offense is nowhere near that level.

I have to admit, TDH, I'm just impressed that you notice the defense.

 

[ktuck911]

would you boo your kids soccer team I guess is my point.

My daughter has played soccer the past 5 years.. She's 11 now... I don't get the comparison, when you're dealing with kids ranging in age from mostly 19 (very few 18 year olds play right away nowadays) thru 23 year olds who are built like grown men and wear their testosterone on their sleeve...

 

[ktuck911]

I guess, KT, I'd turn that around and ask you why in the world you'd do it if you don't believe it's fair to do so?

Good question bro.. It's all in the adrenaline of the moment... We (Husky fans/alumns) expect our team to win, no? Especially with the way the game was going.

 

[ruskin]

Out of curiosity, when we get sacked on third down and the crowd boos, you think the OL are going off the field saying to each other "I'm pretty sure they are not booing us -- just the coaches"?

Pretty sure the players are smart enough to figure out when boos are and aren't directed at them, especially if there's a "C'Mon Pasqualoni" thrown in there.

 

[Doggie Style]

That's how I saw it as well. It actually looked like Masters got shoved back too quicklly

The center will utilize a stagger step if he is being pushed hard off the ball to gain leverage so that he can buy some time. I figured this (masters getting shoved back) was the case since Whitmer has usually been mobile out there. I have not had a chance to rewatch the game yet.

 

[Srqhusky]

My daughter has played soccer the past 5 years.. She's 11 now... I don't get the comparison, when you're dealing with kids ranging in age from mostly 19 (very few 18 year olds play right away nowadays) thru 23 year olds who are built like grown men and wear their testosterone on their sleeve...

Instead of booing how about having a whole section of fans yelling "pound that rock!!! Pound that rock!!!". Are u getting my point yet?

 

[Doggie Style]

One of the faithful here with bad knees and hips so you do not have to get to your feet to cheer - I go home with no voice most times. But there are a lot of fans who do not even clap let alone yell.

HBD, listen I'm not directing this as an attack on your situation. But as a guy who has bilateral arthritis in both knees, needs a total hip replacement on my left hip, and is bone on bone in my spine @ L4/L5 as well as c6/c7. I have NO sympathy for people who Sit on their ass! Last year I sat in the handicapped section in 138 after having spinal surgery. I was walking w/ a walker like a little old man and needed a cane to stand up and sit down, but I managed to get up and down for the team last year just fine. My point is this, if your able, get the hell off your ass, if you cant, we're still glad your there, but if you just don't bother, STAY HOME!

 

[huskymedic]

HBD, listen I'm not directing this as an attack on your situation. But as a guy who has bilateral arthritis in both knees, needs a total hip replacement on my left hip, and is bone on bone in my spine @ L4/L5 as well as c6/c7. I have NO sympathy for people who Sit on their ass! Last year I sat in the handicapped section in 138 after having spinal surgery. I was walking w/ a walker like a little old man and needed a cane to stand up and sit down, but I managed to get up and down for the team last year just fine. My point is this, if your able, get the hell off your ass, if you cant, we're still glad your there, but if you just don't bother, STAY HOME!

Tough crowd...

 

[Adios]

I am not going to discuss my personal situation. I go if I can and go nuts and have a great time, no matter what. I learned to take a loss like a man. Hats off to NC State.

As for these players, I am sure they are living life as the "big men on campus". Don't care to boo them, though. I know they are trying their best. They have enough peer pressure from their fellow students. And parents. Joe Griffin is the man!

 

[UConn9604]

Pardon me for being irrationally bothered by this comment by NC State's beat guy at the News & Observer:

UConn fans booed quarterback Chandler Whitmer in the second half after an incomplete pass. Whitmer threw three picks and wasn’t exactly sharp, but it was his second college start. Not sure that was really the kindest treatment from the fan base, or necessary, especially when you consider football is essentially an afterthought at UConn.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/09/08/2327841/nc-state-observations.html

It's a perfectly valid point about not booing a college player in his second start.

That said, what the hell makes you qualified to talk about what's an "afterthought" at UConn? Since the last time we played NC State in 2003, we're 55-45 and they're 48-50. We have just as many bowl wins (and they actually lost a bowl game to Rutgers!), and two conference championships (and a BCS bid).

Meanwhile, they haven't finished higher than a tie for third, once, in a league that is no better (and likely worse) than ours.

The "afterthought" is an obvious, amateur implication that we're a basketball school. Should I mention that in that same timespan (2004-2012), we've been to three Final Fours and won two of them, while NC State has had one of the worst programs in the ACC?

Give me a break.

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[Adios]

What a moronic writer. NC State does get better crowds than us. They've been at the FBS level much longer, obviously.

 

[ruskin]

don't have luxury of DVR but pretty sure those boos were for play call (short pass on 3rd and long)

 

[jdb50]

Our fan base isn't there yet but there are alot of things that are done well at UConn on game day- good response 9604.