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So... UConn 56 - URI 49

How do feel after this game?

  • Great! 56 points, what's not to like?

    Votes: 7 3.8%

  • Good. We needed a win and now we have one.

    Votes: 77 41.4%

  • Okay. This may be the only game we win.

    Votes: 64 34.4%

  • Bad. We gave up 49 points. Crocker is officially on the clock

    Votes: 29 15.6%

  • OMG QUIT FBS! We barely won a squeaker against a FCS team (again.)

    Votes: 9 4.8%
  • Total voters
    186
  • Poll closed .
Just gonna leave this right here....
 

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SubbaBub said:
Pindell is not what we need at QB, has no instinct for the position. He is what we have this season so I hope the others are in deep preparation for next season.
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I’m excited about Marvin Washington and the kid with all the consonants in his name. But Pindell completed 75% of his passes for 300 yards and 4 TD. He ran for 140 and 2 more TD.

If 440 total yards and 6 TD isn’t good enough, what exactly are you expecting?
 
JMick said:
it's more like you left an empty glass outside and it rained a little overnight. there's some water in it now, but I'm not sure you'd want to drink it.
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I would. Why not? Sweet rainwater is tasty.
 
We’ve played 3 on the line, we’ve played 4 on the line.

We’ve had db’s give a cushion, we’ve had them play tight.

We’ve played base defense, we’ve blitzed.

The fact that so many of you are blaming the coaching for the defense is astonishing. Wade Phillips would’ve given up 40+ in every game we’ve played this year.
 
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Excalibur said:
Can’t bring in a DC if you have no intention of running his system.
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This is something that I've never understood in any sport.

Yes, some coaches are "systems" coaches, where they want to play a style and try to fit the personnel into it. But when you're a defensive coordinator and your personnel doesn't fit your desired system, you plan for a system that fits your personnel. Period. Or hit the road.

It was well chronicled last year that his system wasn't working for the personnel that we had/have. If he can't find a way to get a system for our current personnel that makes us even remotely competitive against 1-AA squads, then he simply needs to hit the road...
 
Crocker is the fall guy. He does not have the pieces to competitively run anything, nevermind what he’d like to run. He won’t have it next year either. He will be shown the door eventually... hopefully his successor will have the depth necessary to compete. It will take years to fix.
 
Purple Stein said:
I’m excited about Marvin Washington and the kid with all the consonants in his name. But Pindell completed 75% of his passes for 300 yards and 4 TD. He ran for 140 and 2 more TD.

If 440 total yards and 6 TD isn’t good enough, what exactly are you expecting?
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Pindell is helping with his legs and throws a catchable ball. He missed a ton of open 2nd and 3rd receivers today tucking and running once the primary receiver wasn’t open. Not sure how that gets fixed because he generally gets good plays out of his feet. My fear is against any decent defense he’s going to have to use his progressions, and they will key on the QB run option. It was nice to see a little run game develop with Mensah, because we can’t be one one dimensional with Pindell.
 
UConnDan97 said:
This is something that I've never understood in any sport.

Yes, some coaches are "systems" coaches, where they want to play a style and try to fit the personnel into it. But when you're a defensive coordinator and your personnel doesn't fit your desired system, you plan for a system that fits your personnel. Period. Or hit the road.

It was well chronicled last year that his system wasn't working for the personnel that we had/have. If he can't find a way to get a system for our current personnel that makes us even remotely competitive against 1-AA squads, then he simply needs to hit the road...
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If you can do one thing well, do that thing.
 
JMick said:
the Unix philosophy. If you can do one thing well, do that thing
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The problem is that the "one thing" should be what the players do well, not what the coach does well only with the right players...
 
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UConnDan97 said:
The problem is that the "one thing" should be what the players do well, not what the coach does well only with the right players...
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there are positives and negatives to both.

the benefit of having a system is that you know it intricately. if you have a system that you as a coach understand top to bottom, you can better teach it to your players
 
CTMike said:
Crocker is the fall guy. He does not have the pieces to competitively run anything, nevermind what he’d like to run. He won’t have it next year either. He will be shown the door eventually... hopefully his successor will have the depth necessary to compete. It will take years to fix.
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I'd agree with you if we were still talking about UCF or Boise. But we're talking about Rhode Island.

Any DC worth his salt has to be able to take this roster in year 2 and do better than 49 points against Rhody. I'm sorry, but that's the honest truth here. And i'm normally a "glass is 1/8 full" kind of guy...
 
CTMike said:
Crocker is the fall guy. He does not have the pieces to competitively run anything, nevermind what he’d like to run. He won’t have it next year either. He will be shown the door eventually... hopefully his successor will have the depth necessary to compete. It will take years to fix.
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He’s responsible for the D. He’s cultivated a D that is the worst in the nation. I don’t care how young they are. They can’t tackle, they don’t take good angles, they have no rush technique, they can’t get off blocks, they don’t hit and their cover technique is terrible. That’s on coaching. If they get beat physically, fine. But, they aren’t even making plays they can handle. We saw that all day long against a IAA team.
 
UConnDan97 said:
I'd agree with you if we were still talking about UCF or Boise. But we're talking about Rhode Island.

Any DC worth his salt has to be able to take this roster in year 2 and do better than 49 points against Rhody. I'm sorry, but that's the honest truth here. And i'm normally a "glass is 1/8 full" kind of guy...
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I think the reality is that we are in significantly worse shape than our D1 transition. It’s that bad. It’s year 2 but we are younger than ever, and we are switching up bases. Edsall himself said these guys shouldn’t be on the field but we don’t have a choice.
 
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BlueDogs said:
He’s responsible for the D. He’s cultivated a D that is the worst in the nation. I don’t care how young they are. They can’t tackle, they don’t take good angles, they have no rush technique, they can’t get off blocks, they don’t hit and their cover technique is terrible. That’s on coaching. If they get beat physically, fine. But, they aren’t even making plays they can handle. We saw that all day long against a IAA team.
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And Edsall also talked about the kids not taking the right gaps in the press conference. In week 3! He said something to the effect of, "we're not going to be that type of team." It was an odd, but perhaps revealing statement in his post game comments...
 
CTMike said:
I think the reality is that we are in significantly worse shape than our D1 transition. It’s that bad. It’s year 2 but we are younger than ever, and we are switching up bases. Edsall himself said these guys shouldn’t be on the field but we don’t have a choice.
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Don't get me wrong, our personnel is not high caliber by any definition. But you can't convince me that we have equivalent talent to Rhody. I just refuse to believe that. And the recruiting databases won't believe it either.

With the performance our offense gave today, that game should never have been close...
 
CTMike said:
I won’t convince you or many others, and that’s ok. I don’t believe our freshmen are that far off than more mature FCS players. If we had juniors and seniors going against them, the gap would be larger.
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It's a fair point that age and experience count. But i'm guessing that Rhody won't go up against DTs like Murphy and Jones very much. I'm guessing that Kevon Jones is a better linebacker than what they would often face, and that Beavers is as good a DE as they would ever face, even if he's truly a linebacker. Yes, two years from now, the difference should be staggering. But it should be noticeable now as well. We need to put these kids into spots that make the most of what they are, even if that's not great right now...
 
CTMike said:
Well I mean that’s pretty ignorant of reality. But carry on with the Crocker crusade.
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Dude, we were shredded by a IAA team and have given up huge numbers for 15 games. I just don’t know what it takes to understand what a bad job looks like. Everybody has excuses. I’m not asking for miracles just some semblance of mediocre play.
 
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UConnDan97 said:
This is something that I've never understood in any sport.

Yes, some coaches are "systems" coaches, where they want to play a style and try to fit the personnel into it. But when you're a defensive coordinator and your personnel doesn't fit your desired system, you plan for a system that fits your personnel. Period. Or hit the road.

It was well chronicled last year that his system wasn't working for the personnel that we had/have. If he can't find a way to get a system for our current personnel that makes us even remotely competitive against 1-AA squads, then he simply needs to hit the road...
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He can also try to improve his personnel, that's we have strength and conditioning coaching, tackling drills, agility drills, why demonstrating proper tackling technique in the open field is important when the ball carrier is running by you at an angle or right at you.
 
Chief00 said:
Chief has been saying we should blitz more since we can’t cover anyways. Randy effectively overruled Crocker the last series of downs and started blitzing from the edge. Number 22 Thomas had two huge plays.
Earlier Hahn blitzed up the middle but it was basically ineffective since he got swallowed up.

I am sorry but the DB’s have very poor technique on their coverage.

Too much detail to cover on this very busy weekend, but perhaps some day Chief will write a post regarding what ways the technique needs to be improved. Does anyone have interest in Chief doing that?
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Everyone does.
 
BlueDogs said:
Dude, we were shredded by a IAA team and have given up huge numbers for 15 games. I just don’t know what it takes to understand what a bad job looks like. Everybody has excuses. I’m not asking for miracles just some semblance of mediocre play.
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Who would you suggest we hire instead? Honest question.
 
blue93 said:
Who would you suggest we hire instead? Honest question.
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I don’t know. We have burned up our house money. I’d prefer a guy with some FBS level experience, perhaps a guy out the MAC or MWC. Vic Koening from Troy is supposed to be pretty awesome.
 
BlueDogs said:
I don’t know. We have burned up our house money. I’d prefer a guy with some FBS level experience, perhaps a guy out the MAC or MWC.
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Okay, so a MAC or MWC defensive coordinator is going to take a lesser job to coach coach this defense giving up 60 ppg? Or you’re going to take an unproven position coach?

I think @CTMike is right in that Crocker will end up being the fall guy. But my point is that no one is just going to come in and turn this thing around unless they’re a magician.
 
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