Poll on NC State arrival and departure.

[Waquoit]

I agree with both you and Waquoit in that I don't think it's a big problem. Not on my top 100 things that I worry about in terms of UConn football.

I responding to W being a and putting words in my mouth.

Yeah, you got me good there.

 

[jdb50]

Reading the poll the first thing that sticks out is that no one on the Boneyard has any shame but we already knew that. Blow up dolls vs windy day could be a bad idea. As far as attendence right now we are getting 35,000 with the 6-8 record but we really have no known big time offensive playmakers that folks who are casual fans are drawn to see. No offense to Lyle and Nick who have had their moments. NC State really did a good job of limiting what Nick could do in the return game which was a big reason they won. The team seems to feed off his energy and they prevented that. The playmakers may show themselves by the end of the season but it looks like we are going to be in dogfights each week and so the error prone ways of our offense have to be corrected.

 

[Nostical]

They were able to take Nick out of the return game by giving their punter extra time to release and kick the ball, thus allowing their guys to get far downfield. Only late in the game did we apply any real pressure on the punter. The UMass film didn't lie. They had to neutralize Nick and found a way to do it. We simply never responded to their parry with a thrust.

 

[Waquoit]

We simply never responded to their parry with a thrust.

Good point. Luckily there is a how-to for parry and thrusting on you tube: