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I really hope it's a healthy Roberson under center for the opening night snaps. He's not very good but no one else on the roster is better and I don't think Welliver as a true frosh is going to be ready.

It's just frustrating knowing for the past decade over 80% of the games the opposing team has clearly had a better QB than whomever UConn had under center.
 
Chin Diesel said:
I really hope it's a healthy Roberson under center for the opening night snaps. He's not very good but no one else on the roster is better and I don't think Welliver as a true frosh is going to be ready.

It's just frustrating knowing for the past decade over 80% of the games the opposing team has clearly had a better QB than whomever UConn had under center.
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If Mora can sell the program to this kid Evers, then Roberson definitely has some competition.
 
Would love the addition of another QB but it just stinks he has practically 0 actual game snaps.
 
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CONN78SEJ said:
If Mora can sell the program to this kid Evers, then Roberson definitely has some competition.
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That post hadn't been posted when I started my comment. Absolutely Evers would be in the mix right away if he came here.
 
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If Roberson hasn't gained any comfort or feel in the pocket and become more decisive once he tucks and runs, I'm open for suggestions not named Fagnano.
It seemed like Roberson was getting better towards the end of the season, but I will concede it's possible the bar was set so low during the first half that even a poor performance looked border line acceptable.
 
storrsroars said:
Fagnano has a better chance of being 3rd string with the Browns.
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So, according everyone who posted in the spring scrimmage thread, Fagnano looked better than Roberson today, and coach Sammis called out McDonald to the media. Other tweets and posters mentioned Welliver being able to sling the ball. And some of us are hoping Evers transfers in.

Not looking good for Roberson if he was trying to nail down QB1 in the spring.
 
Chin Diesel said:
So, according everyone who posted in the spring scrimmage thread, Fagnano looked better than Roberson today, and coach Sammis called out McDonald to the media. Other tweets and posters mentioned Welliver being able to sling the ball. And some of us are hoping Evers transfers in.

Not looking good for Roberson if he was trying to nail down QB1 in the spring.
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It may be bad for Roberson, but let's not forget that Fagnano "won the job" last year. If he starts the first game and UConn looks as pathetic as it did in Fagnano's last start, "Mora must go" chants will be heard.
 
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I heard that Fagnano looked the best today by far and that Weliver looks more than capable. I agree its not looking good for Roberson.. especially when Mora is looking at the portal for more QB's that could potentially start day 1. Very telling IMO. Some QB's just have the IT factor and I think us UConn fans have been waiting a very long time to see a clear cut stand out QB that you just know will be special. This far along in his career you would think Roberson would be further along... injury included.
 
Anyone but Fagnano, I didn't even know he was still on the roster. Boy did it kill me seeing him play exponentially worse than freshman Zion.
 
Chin Diesel said:
I really hope it's a healthy Roberson under center for the opening night snaps. He's not very good but no one else on the roster is better and I don't think Welliver as a true frosh is going to be ready.

It's just frustrating knowing for the past decade over 80% of the games the opposing team has clearly had a better QB than whomever UConn had under center.
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As to Welliver not being ready, a word of caution. Over the history of college football there are examples of freshmen being Day 1 starters. Dan O. didn't Start his first game, but came in due to injury to the starter & never relinquished the position. At 'Nut Hill, a 4th string freshman named Doug Flutie showed so much during preseason practice that he leapfrogged the 3 qbs ahead of him. I'm not saying that Welliver should be named the starter NOW, i just think that he has had spring practice to begin to learn the system, with summer practice yet to come to further absorb it. Who's to say how fast he progresses?
 
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Huskiefan78 said:
Anyone but Fagnano, I didn't even know he was still on the roster. Boy did it kill me seeing him play exponentially worse than freshman Zion.
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He only played 5 quarters. And he kept us within a touchdown of a far superior NC State team if you consider the poor officiating and short field that directly led to a touchdown after the Rosa penalty. I thought he looked far better than Roberson when Roberson came in. And he might have grown into the role just as well if not better than Roberson.

Fagnano may have come from FCS, but he had tons of experience with Maine against superior FBS opponents. Low on turnovers and even managed to put up some decent points on ranked teams. Having a doom and gloom and negative vibes because of second-guessing the coaching staff isn't the best way to start the season.
 
Huskiefan78 said:
Anyone but Fagnano, I didn't even know he was still on the roster. Boy did it kill me seeing him play exponentially worse than freshman Zion.
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My only comment on Fagnano is that I think all of us, myself included, had no idea how bad were last year - as a team, when the season started.

So when we stunk it up out of the gate with fan expectations high - Fagnano took the brunt of it. Yes, must be the QB, right?

Well, when others came in to play QB, we got no better / no worse.

I am for anyone by TR. We are not good enough to have solely a pocket passer who is afraid to take a hit when he runs. Not a knock on him as he might fit in somewhere else but not at UConn IMO.

TR off the bench.


I say start Cole W. We likely only have him for a couple of years, let’s get him on the field.
 
RC111 said:
He only played 5 quarters. And he kept us within a touchdown of a far superior NC State team if you consider the poor officiating and short field that directly led to a touchdown after the Rosa penalty. I thought he looked far better than Roberson when Roberson came in. And he might have grown into the role just as well if not better than Roberson.

Fagnano may have come from FCS, but he had tons of experience with Maine against superior FBS opponents. Low on turnovers and even managed to put up some decent points on ranked teams. Having a doom and gloom and negative vibes because of second-guessing the coaching staff isn't the best way to start the season.
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He looked really bad after that first drive.
 
ZooCougar said:
He looked really bad after that first drive.
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Ha. I agree. But I thought Roberson also looked terrible at the beginning of the season. My thought is that if he could get it done on the first drive, a lot of the poor results afterwards were on Charlton. Charlton always seemed to have the first possession well planned, and the offense stuttered afterwards. Or maybe the opposing D was playing conservative to start?

I'm not saying Fagnano is the answer, more that I'm not convinced we had someone better at the time. I'm all for giving the young guys a chance, but only if they're ready.
 
RC111 said:
Ha. I agree. But I thought Roberson also looked terrible at the beginning of the season. My thought is that if he could get it done on the first drive, a lot of the poor results afterwards were on Charlton. Charlton always seemed to have the first possession well planned, and the offense stuttered afterwards. Or maybe the opposing D was playing conservative to start?

I'm not saying Fagnano is the answer, more that I'm not convinced we had someone better at the time. I'm all for giving the young guys a chance, but only if they're ready.
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Hopefully with some more tools to play with we can put together a makeshift offense like we did in 2022.

But those P4 games sure do look like Ls at this point.
 
Start the best of Roberson vs Fagnano, give the best of Welliver vs McDonald(or Wisconsin kid) a set number of reps/series in first few games, enough for them to give a glimpse of how ready they are. Maybe the best young'un shows it is close enough to their time to turn it over to them.

I do like that Fagnano stayed and fought for his job(so far).
 
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