Random OL Thoughts from TJW/Player Presser.

[huskymedic]

EdDaigneault 11:39am via TweetDeck
Weist says Foley will be on the sidelines coaching, down from box. Buggs to box along with Day. Defense coaches stay the same.

UConnFB_Andrew 11:53am via Web
Weist: (on Foley coaching offensive line) "He's so happy to be back coaching the line. Loves it, lives it."

UConnFB_Andrew 11:53am via Web
Weist: Foley had time to put his style, system in.

UConnFB_Andrew 12:59pm via Twitter for iPhone
LG Steve Greene talked about how things are now simplified with coach Foley. One word and the protection is set

 

[Stinger92860]

^^THIS^^

EDIT: Damn you gdl and pp

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

UConnFB_Andrew 11:53am via Web
Weist: (on Foley coaching offensive line) "He's so happy to be back coaching the line. Loves it, lives it."

UConnFB_Andrew 11:53am via Web
Weist: Foley had time to put his style, system in.

UConnFB_Andrew 12:59pm via Twitter for iPhone
LG Steve Greene talked about how things are now simplified with coach Foley. One word and the protection is set

Amen.

 

[freescooter]

Not expecting miracles, but Foley back where he belongs give me a bit of hope at least.

 

[huskymedic]

http://snyuconn.com/uconn/football/tuesday-presser-change-in-motion/

>>Senior left guard Steve Greene, who was tutored by Foley the first three years of his career, is happy to have his first line coach back. I love Coach Foley,” Greene said. ” “I missed him when he was gone and it is great to have him back. He bring a mentality to the offensive line that we needed?”

What was that mentality?

The first thing the Huskies did was try to make the protection schemes easier. The linemen struggled with scheme calls and the complexities of the defense under DeLeone. “Coach DeLeone was great, I don’t want to say anything bad, but Coach Foley has come in and simplified things a little bit,” Greene said. “He’s allowed us to not think about things and come off the ball and play football and be more physical;. That’s what we need.”<<

 

[sportsart]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

http://snyuconn.com/uconn/football/tuesday-presser-change-in-motion/

>>Senior left guard Steve Greene, who was tutored by Foley the first three years of his career, is happy to have his first line coach back. I love Coach Foley,” Greene said. ” “I missed him when he was gone and it is great to have him back. He bring a mentality to the offensive line that we needed?”

What was that mentality?

The first thing the Huskies did was try to make the protection schemes easier. The linemen struggled with scheme calls and the complexities of the defense under DeLeone. “Coach DeLeone was great, I don’t want to say anything bad, but Coach Foley has come in and simplified things a little bit,” Greene said. “He’s allowed us to not think about things and come off the ball and play football and be more physical;. That’s what we need.”<<

It infuriates me that we let these 2 guys on campus the last 2 years.

Are we sure Steve Greene hasn't been trolling us all on the Boneyard for the past 2 years? How many posters here have been saying that? Almost verbatim.

Now, let's hope it translates.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

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I cannot stop staring.

 

[Jimdish255]

“He’s allowed us to not think about things and come off the ball and play football and be more physical;. That’s what we need.”

Nice to see they're ALLOWED to come off the ball and play physical. There will be mistakes but change should be evident almost right away judging by this statement.

 

[UConnDan97]

I'm pretty psyched up by this thread. This is what I've wanted for quite some time, and I truly believe that it will fix a lot of what ails us. Saturday can't come fast enough for me...

 

[UConn Dan]

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[huskymedic]

Nice to see they're ALLOWED to come off the ball and play physical. There will be mistakes but change should be evident almost right away judging by this statement.

Hope so or that excuse/argument/rationalization will go down the crapper.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

Her poor father......

 

[huskymedic]

From Elsberry update:

>>HE’S BAAACCCKKK – In his five seasons as coach with the offensive line for head coach Randy Edsall, Mike Foley put up some very impressive numbers. In those combined five seasons, UConn averaged 181.2 yards a game (11,596 yards in 64 games) as the Huskies posted four winning seasons and appeared in four straight bowl games. Best was a 216.4-yard per game average in 2008 when the team rushed for 2,813 yards.

However, when Paul Pasqualoni took over as head coach in 2011 and brought George DeLeone with him to be offensive line coach, Foley moved to tight ends. The rushing results were near disastrous.Over the next 28 games – leading up the Pasqualoni and DeLeone’s firing last week – the rushing average fell to just 95 yards a game and this season is just a dismal 45.8 yards. So, one the of the first things interim head coach T.J. Weist did was restore Foley to his old offensive line coaching position, much to the delight of the linemen, who initially learned their skills from Foley.

“I love coach Foley. I loved him when we had him, missed him when he wasn’t there. Now that he’s been back, it’s been great,” redshirt senior guard Steve Greene said. “He brings a different type of mentality to the line, more physical kind of thing and honestly, the last three days you can see improvement in the way that we’re playing.

“He’s simplifying things a little bit, taking away some of the thinking, allowing us to not have to consider everything and to be able to line up and go play football.”

And as much as the players are glad to have Foley back, Foley is equally as glad to be coaching the offensive line again.

“He loves it. He loves coaching the offensive line,” Weist said. “It’s tough when you move from a position that you coached most of your career … I understand how it was when Mike moved away from offensive line. He’s so happy to be back coaching the line. He loves it, he lives it. He’s done a great job with it.

“Any coach has to infuse his temperament, infuse his language, infuse his every day teaching process to his players, so luckily we had an off-week where we could all adjust and he could put his system in with the offensive line. It was similar to what we were doing before but he just put his own personal style back in.”<<

 

[ibleedhuskyblue]

 

[HomeKing93]

Music to my ears. I would have loved to hear Foley's first words to the OL at the first practice post PPGDL.

 

[UConnDan97]

I don't know what makes me happier; this GIF with the UConn girl, or the fact that you have quoted the theme song of "Who's the Boss?" in your signature line........it's the girl....it's definitely the girl...

 

[Kingspoint]

Music to my ears. I would have loved to hear Foley's first words to the OL at the first practice post PPGDL.

I think one poster said it went something like this...Forget everything you were taught under GDL. Meeting over.

 

[Kingspoint]

At what

I cannot stop staring.

At what? Her glasses? ;-)

 

[Kingspoint]

As much as some drone on about the OL, and I do think it's important...IMO I think it's just as important to know what's the plan for enhancing the running back rotation.

 

[huskymedic]

From Dez update:

"It's back to being a physical line," Greene said. "Enough of this, that and the other – line up and play football and beat the guy across from you. Be physical, open holes. It's not a math equation. If you're physical, regardless of whether you're doing the right thing or not something good will happen and I think that's the biggest thing we're trying to get back to, come off the ball and play football."

 

[Nostical]

It's tough to argue with Steve Greene. Our O-Line went from years of rainbows, rushing titles and Bowl games with Foley to years of dank, dark and dismal with GDL. Coach Foley is back--enthusiastically so---and the O line will respond on Saturday with a vengeance. No more shackles--they are free at last!

 

[ruskin]

"The results were near disastrous"

Wonder what Elsberry would consider a real (football) disaster?

I really, really, really hope Foley makes the unnamed guy who buried him to theuonnblog eat his words. And I hope the linemen understand that they don't have any excuses now

 

[RedSoloCup]

At what
At what? Her glasses? ;-)

I will now go back and see if she has glasses.


edit: NOPE!!