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storrsroars said:
After the first play, I was expecting at least 56 points from our O today.

Aside from the D, whatever Joe and Sammis had in 1st half they lost in 2nd. 2nd half O was awful in both design and execution.
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Exactly. The defense was horrendous and deserves all the criticism in the world, but what shouldn't get lost in this was that the offense only had 3 points in the 2nd half. They had 2 possessions with great field position in the 3rd quarter and came away with nothing!
 
Our defense is atrocious. We have one good player in Parham and then the rest are useless. Second-half playcalling from Gordie was his worst since Syracuse's second half. There's no universe where we need to force feed Rosa running routes out of the backfield.
 
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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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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What makes you think they'd be able to run for 3 years based on how this game went?

How about this? Score another TD and 2 pt conversion IN DOUBLE OT and actually carry momentum OVER. God forbid we do that.
 
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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Same tired old story. Missed tackles. Questionable play calling at times. Missed throws. We had put a lot of that behind us for the past couple games. Came back and bit us today.

But what makes this sting more is Rice had every reason to roll over and let us trample them. Empty stadium, crappy day. We scored on one play the first drive and shut them down for their first 2 drives. All we had to do was keep our foot on the gas and we would've put them away early. But then idk what happened, it looked like we got too comfortable and when they counter punched we didn't respond the way we needed to. Yeah, we still lead for probably most of the game. But the team just seemed tense or something again. As everyone noted in the game chat, we squandered every chance we had to put them away in the 2nd half. On the other hand Rice just kept fighting.

I hate acknowledging this, but they deserved to win more than we did today. I hope our guys let that sink in, and come out playing with vengeance at home next week against UAB. Let's get to 6-3 and be bowl eligible again
 
Just terrible attempts at tackling. Brinson had a few nice tackles in crunch time but last TD by Rice was pathetic.

Not surprised at loss in OT since they could not stop Rice. Unfortunately, Freeman missed FG when he slipped on wet field. But UConn deserved to lose based on their poor effort.
 
RitzLuce1 said:
How about Mora. THis is HIS program. These are his coaches and players.

This is what he was at UCLA. Mediocrity personified.
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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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DaveHuskiesFan said:
Brock needs to answer some questions.

I also fundamentally don’t understand why we didn’t run the ball today.
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Sammis kept running the zone read and it kept losing yardage which stalled the offense. He did change to running up the middle which worked better in the four quarter. But running the zone read would NOT have helped.
 
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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He has thrown away about 7-9 games in his 4 years with bad coaching.

And these are not hard schedules he is dealing with.

He and these coaches SUCKED today. Absoutely embarassing loss.
 
Losing to Rice is going 100 steps backwards. Absolutely putrid.

But it should remind us what the team's true level is a midpack AAC team and high end CUSA.

BC isn't even in the Top 100.
 
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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RitzLuce1 said:
What makes you think they'd be able to run for 3 years based on how this game went?

How about this? Score another TD and 2 pt conversion IN DOUBLE OT and actually carry momentum OVER. God forbid we do that.
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They averaged 4 yards a clip and just scored. I have no idea why they thought they were going to get a stop, they were getting gashed and rice could use all 4 downs to score if UConn scored. You go for the win there.
 
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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He's only had one winning season.
 
Mora is good at everything but making game decisions.

He gets guys that are good enough to win games. He is great with the media. Preparation seems solid. Players seem to like him. Has had enough donor support to keep guys.

But man he has a tough time making the hard decisions. It seems like he always chooses wrong. He's not getting fired or anything and probably shouldn't but 0-3 in OT and his road game record succinctly describe his flaws.
 
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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I’m with you; it’s was way too recent we were a bottom-feeder program, assuming we end the season 7-5 or better, I can’t be over him.

That said, there needs to be a change somewhere, I can’t get over how flimsy and unreliable the defense has been.
 
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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The first person to like this post is Mora4Prez. The irony, lol.

I'm not saying you're wrong but I am in no rush to can one of two successful coaches we've had in our FBS history
 
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