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Rice post game thread

No kidding.
ScottVib said:
The defense is hyper aggressive, we've seen it all year with plays where the defender over-pursues and runs past the play. It was a terrible matchup for a team that uses a lot of misdirection. The few plays guys tried to read and react they got caught flat-footed.
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Terrible job assembling them. Worse job coaching them.
 
5-3 against a schedule this putridly weak, is not a good look. 6-2 wasn't really that impressive either, but objectively - no one is impressed with us, and no one is fooled by a winning record.

this defensive line is truly just infuriating to watch, play after play. feels like we came right back to august and september, in one afternoon.
 
Mora4Prez said:
Yeah it’s also pretty ironic that our school which has produced championship basketball teams under 3 different coaches in 25 years is incapable of finding a football coach who can make us even remotely nationally competitive.

I appreciate what Mora’s done but there’s zero reason UNT, USF, Memphis, and Tulane should have more prominent and successful programs than us. It’s infuriating.
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That's the part that gets me. Why have Coastal Carolina, Appalachian State, North Dakota State been consistently better football programs? UConn is a much bigger brand name (thank you basketball) and has more resources. I know some might say they are closer to better recruiting grounds blah, blah, blah, etc. etc. etc.

It really shouldn't be this difficult to be nationally competitive. This is not a hard schedule UConn Football has this year.
 
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ScottVib said:
The defense is hyper aggressive, we've seen it all year with plays where the defender over-pursues and runs past the play. It was a terrible matchup for a team that uses a lot of misdirection. The few plays guys tried to read and react they got caught flat-footed.
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Sure that's true, and I saw that as well, but it looks like any and every offense is a bad match up for UConn's defense.
 
Hamms30 said:
I don't get why all of a sudden we started running our offense side to side instead of north and south. Outside zone to short side, screen to wide side.. TE drag 5 yds short of the sticks on 3rd down. Do we not have a running playbook that gets north and south between the tackles? Is it all outside zone runs? Rice used their big DLine size to just wash the crap down the gutter to the sideline. Where'd the tight ends in the seams go in the second half that were working in the first half?

Tackling, tackling, tackling... there's more than enough film from this year to show the players the consequences of diving arm tackles. It needs to get fixed. So many extra yards and touchdowns today because guys can't put prey on the ground and try and go high on them.
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Lots of missed tackles in this game. Embarrassing
 
I'm gonna say it our offense was actually worse then our defense in the fact that our D got stops in the 2nd half while the offense didn't score countless times after the D got stops and we were in plus territory.

Rice out played us out coached us from a physical standpoint we got our butts whooped. We're too predictable on offense, running routes short of the sticks we do it every game. Defense is trash we knew that.
 
Fatroony5 said:
Thinking about this more: I just don’t understand kicking the Extra point there, like what’s the expectation? Go score another TD, hit 2 point, then get stop? Thats a lot to go right. You have the ability to win it right there, get the ball in Edwards hands and give him a shot to win it. It’s playing not to lose. Gotta grab the bull by the horns and win it.
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Especially when playing a bad team. Rice expects to choke.
 
RitzLuce1 said:
We should NOT have gone for 2.

SCORE A TOUCHDOWN IN DOUBLE OT! That is much easier to do than scoring a 2 pt conversion.
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The reason why you go for two when you get the ball second in OT is that the next time you score you have to go for two anyways.

And given how putrid and disgraceful the defense is that just adds another solid reason to go for two.

Mora is not a good game day coach.
 
Mets1432 said:
Mora was always the stepping stone to get this team out of the FBS basement. He succeeded in that but this team under Mora has hit their ceiling.

Now its time to try and find a young offensive coach to try and really build this program.
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And that's what I am concerned about. I will always be grateful that Mora took UConn out of the deep and dark dungeon of historically bad football that Diaco and Edsall put UConn Football in. However, I do wonder if the team or program has hit their ceiling under Mora.

Let's face it, this schedule is really not that difficult, in fact it's an easy schedule.
 
the mark of a UConn program that is continuing to ascend, is a team that is winning comfortably against bad g6 teams. I can tell from the Boneyard's fury, that we are now beyond the "gratitude" phase for playing close games against bad FBS teams, even winning sometimes by the skin of our teeth. I agree.

By now in year 4, we needed to start beating teams like Rice, by 14-21 points minimum. Not necessarily blowouts, but results that clearly indicate we are a step ahead of these other programs. The fact we keep going to OT (not to mention Losing), shows we're right in the neighborhood of these schools we dream of being better then.... well, we're not better. I am thankful we're not losing 49-7 to the Rice's of the world, but again, year 4. I'm tired of that silver lining.

Today should have been 41-17 us, to demonstrate we're on our way to being ready for a REAL schedule. At this rate, all we're doing is confirming that we have no business getting Big12 and ACC teams to come to the rent on a regular basis; games that would get us back to the 40K crowds we keep dreaming about.
 
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storrsroars said:
What about Mora? Who did you think was going to come to UConn and create a positive program?

He'll post a 3rd winning season and get a 3rd bowl appearance in 4 year. He's shown you can win here. You had to have someone like Mora to get back to some level of respectability. Not to mention he doesn't have the pick of the litter for assistants.

I give him a pass until I don't, which won't be this year.
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Thank you for a logical post, such ridiculous posts from this fan base..
 

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