Rice Post Game Thread

[BlueWolf25]

I was open to Evers because we ran a lot of misdirection and seemed to confuse the D with him. Those days are over. Everyone knows he can’t throw and we look like crap.

Nick can’t throw and he looks two steps slower than normal. My guess is he’s hurt on top of the fact he can’t throw. I swear I saw him limp a couple of times tonight when he got up and then he caught himself and stopped. Fagnano probably Isn’t going to beat Cuse but he gives us a better shot to beat everyone else.

Exactly. He can’t run right now, and aside from a few decent throws against Wake, he hasn’t been able to pass. Teams have figured out our rushing attack, so the only answer is to open things up through the air. Our WRs got open all day long, but Evers couldn’t even come close to hitting them. Also took way too many sacks and didn’t have good pocket awareness.

Fagnano has decent pocket presence, limits mistakes, and can get the ball to playmakers. That’s all this team needs right now to be able to beat the UAB’s and UMass’s left on the schedule

 

[ZooCougar]

Senior night is the perfect excuse to start Fagnano. It's inconceivable that he would have been worse tonight.

 

[cohenzone]

There were like 22 punts and 27 points. That’s gross.

Gross is having the worst defense in football history. I have no clue what some fans think this team actually is. 5-3 works for me. You must be betting on the games.

 

[phillionaire]

Gross is having the worst defense in football history. I have no clue what some fans think this team actually is. 5-3 works for me. You must be betting on the games.

No I just enjoy watching good football not whatever this game was

 

[cohenzone]

No I just enjoy watching good football not whatever this game was

So our defense was bad football. Ok. You realize that Rice has actually put up points against just about all their opponents. Defense is pretty important I think We put up 17 in the second half. That counts for something, right?

 

[Hamms30]

If we want to develop why not throw Cole in? From what I heard in spring he slings the ball well. If he can be more accurate than Evers and not stare down receivers like Fagnano, the run game pops off again

Not worth burning the red shirt. My gut is telling me he's the guy next year.

 

[ZOOCONN]

Man what happened to us

Teams realized we can’t throw the ball

 

[Milo65]

9/25 128 yds -3 yds rushing

Teams will continue to stack the box until we have someone who can hit open receivers. Overthrows, underthrows, and turnovers. This was today against a terrible defense. TERRIBLE DEFENSE.

 

[weyuo]

If you want to keep the D-coordinator around, pay him. Money talks. Evers is obviously hurt. Toe for sure and maybe something else. I too would have liked to see Fagnano play the second half. Evers stunk it up in the first half and if it wasn't for our stellar defense that game would have been lost. 17 points just isn't going to make it most weeks.

 

[phillionaire]

So our defense was bad football. Ok. You realize that Rice has actually put up points against just about all their opponents. Defense is pretty important I think We put up 17 in the second half. That counts for something, right?

Our defense playing great doesn’t make up for the fact that watching the offense was torture. Overall this was not an enjoyable game to watch.

 

[MrHockey9]

Just got home from the rent. it was ugly for sure, but I kept thinking during It, this is a game we would have been two scores down in before Mora arrived. Evers consistently threw behind receivers. I was also shocked at how conservative the rice offense remained the longer they stayed with UConn-Kept punting the ball away at midfield...a win is a win.

 

[MrHockey9]

it also was a very physical game. Some really solid hits on both sides

 

[huskysupporter]

I would go as far to say anyone that looks at the schedule and confidently thinks "ooh that's easy, UConn can will win that" has not watched UConn for the last 13 seasons. Just like some might think UConn has winnable games, other teams are looking at their schedules and see UConn think "ooh we can win that one."

This.

We are in the abyss - we need to somehow try to get out of an impossible situation. Wins achieve that. No one is going to care we barely beat a horrific team. Stack the wins. 7-5 or 8-4 would be awesome for recruiting both at high school and the portal.

Win and recruiting goes up a tick. Do it consistently and maybe we get in a g5 conference and can compete for a g5 invite. We are a long ways away but there is a small glimmer of hope.

 

[Stray_Dog]

The "D" was great - But this game - not going to look back and say - it was a turning point! We didn't make any strides - Showed that we regressed a bit! If this was game 1 - how many of us are thinking this is going to be a long season! So we won, we got a lot of players back. Our QB play was awful. That reminds me of years past. the Temple game we had excitement from our "D" in winning that one. The Buffalo game showcased an offense. The WF game showed we get no respect. This game says UConn has a very long way to go! I trust in Mora and will continue to do so. He knows what he is doing and I wonder with the logistics of NIL and revenue sharing taking place off the field... How much that impacts what talent is showed this late in the season on the field. I might get killed for this comment... But this is a new era and we should think at minimum there must be some kind of impact!

 

[uconnbill]

an ugly game but a win. I hear some complaining about Evers but with five drops and the pressure he did better in the second half.

The defense is very good and made the plays when needed. They kept UConn in the game in the first half.

A win is a win no matter how you look at it.

I wanted the kickoff that was returned for a TD to be squibbed because of the last returned to the 45.

 

[ZooCougar]

an ugly game but a win. I hear some complaining about Evers but with five drops and the pressure he did better in the second half.

The defense is very good and made the plays when needed. They kept UConn in the game in the first half.

A win is a win no matter how you look at it.

I wanted the kickoff that was returned for a TD to be squibbed because of the last returned to the 45.

Turn 5 drops into catches and the numbers are still bad.

 

[cohenzone]

No I just enjoy watching good football not whatever this game was

I guess you weren’t watching our defense. Try it, you might like it.

 

[UConnDan97]

I'm just glad that Robinson juked someone out of their shoes, Skyler made a big catch while a defender was committing a felony assault, and our defense is the reincarnation of the '86 Bears...

 

[NEforceUConn]

Thank god for McDonald.

 

[HCCForever]

Tough game to watch at times. Loved the sacks that Yates contributed to as they came at important times in the game. Sklyer Bell had a great one-handed catch as well. A win is a win so on to next week. Hard to feel real good about this victory but better than a loss.

 

[Gburyhusky]

We won and need just one win for bowl eligibility (second in three years). Why all the negative takes on here? Did you all forgot that four years ago we were the joke of college football?

 

[mikedog10]

I have to think he personally doesn't see a big difference between the two and because it's fagnanos last year, he's giving the ball to Evers in the hope he develops. It's clearly not working so I don't get it. If he was just inaccurate and not turnover prone it wouldn't be as bad but he can't hold onto the ball and routinely puts us in bad spots

At this point in the season without Evers having developed, you gotta go with the veteran guy that struck around and keeps working hard. Fagnano is likely to finish strong.

 

[HCCForever]

Thank god for McDonald.

And good thing they reviewed the targeting call so he stayed in the game.

 

[NEforceUConn]

And good thing they reviewed the targeting call so he stayed in the game.

No ACC review review

 

[cohenzone]

We won and need just one win for bowl eligibility (second in three years). Why all the negative takes on here? Did you all forgot that four years ago we were the joke of college football?

Exactly. I really don’t know what some people think this team is. 5-3 with a few more wins likely.