Rice post game thread

[UCan3]

UConn got beaten in the trenches on both sides of the ball.

And on the sidelines.. Outcoached Xs and Os

 

[How Sway?!]

How about Mora. THis is HIS program. These are his coaches and players.

This is what he was at UCLA. Mediocrity personified.

Too many misses in the portal this year. Which is why I don't think Mora treating it as NFL free agency to plug and play is a good strategy (see Florida State)

 

[JwittersPAC]

Brutal loss, Rice lost by 50 to UTSA last week.

Mora is mediocre at best.

Mora cannot tackle

 

[NowInStorrs]

No notes

 

[Mora4Prez]

Mora has done a good job bringing us out of the dungeon with UMass but let’s be honest, despite my username, he isn’t the answer. Need to bring in someone with a WINNING mentality after this season.

 

[gsmooth]

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.

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!

 

[PlayItLeo]

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.

 

[SwingDog]

Terrible defense is tough to overcome.

 

[Fatroony5]

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.

 

[Uconn77Duke74]

We must lead the Ncaa in 3 yard completions on 3rd and 7. Play calling needs a serious overhaul.

 

[Wildgopher]

Go for 2. Did he actually think this defense would make a stop in OT?

ABSOLUTELY should have gone for 2.

 

[FightOnCT]

Run game being nonexistent in the RAIN nevertheless is absolutely criminal.

And then you have the defense which is fireable.

 

[BlueWolf25]

Never established a run game, abandoned the pass game that was working and started running screens and flats to Rosa. And the defense was just awful

 

[RitzLuce1]

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.

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.

 

[Mets1432]

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.

 

[How Sway?!]

Last year's team beats this team by 20+ and that's with $1 million less in NIL. Some serious questions have to be asked on the player evaluation front

 

[Milo65]

Bad combination: second half offense plays not to lose, with a defense that can’t stop anyone. When will they learn? Third game they gave away.

 

[skisafari]

We should have hired back Don Brown instead of syracuse.

 

[NHRich]

Very good point on going for 2. Better chance of winning. No chance trying to match them with touchdowns with that defense. The defense is awful.

 

[Nameless]

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

 

[HCCForever]

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.

 

[storrsroars]

How about Mora. THis is HIS program. These are his coaches and players.

This is what he was at UCLA. Mediocrity personified.

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.

 

[RitzLuce1]

ABSOLUTELY should have gone for 2.

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.

 

[Palatine]

Brock needs to answer some questions.

I also fundamentally don’t understand why we didn’t run the ball today.

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.

 

[Palatine]

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.

That is not the point.