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Message: [QUOTE="Husky68, post: 3177731, member: 173"] So 111th best scoring offense loses most WR's and TE's and is going to be better? Last year QB was a running threat and this year won't be so much. Lose center and OC. New DC. 2017 recruiting class needs to fill out the two deep with some 2018 (including those that red shirted) in there too (don't count on 2019 freshman for much help), transfers/juco's need to help. If the bar wasn't so low (129th defense and 111th offense on points per game) I'd say could very well be worse than 2018. Given 2018 performance it is legit to expect better play just from kids year older/stronger/smarter and having "any" QB win the starting role who can be a passing threat past 10 yards. That still leaves UConn fighting ECU for worst AAC team. And that is HCRE2.0, year 3. In league play 2018 the average margin of loss was 32 points. That isn't how many points given up that is AVERAGE MARGIN OF LOSS. Surely the team got more competitive as the year ended, not so fast SHIRLEY. Last 2 games were 34 point loss to ECU and 50 point loss to Temple. Think the boys quit on ol' HCRE2.0? And this with team where didn't have crazy amount of injuries in 2018 and Pindell some how survived to pretty much play the full season. If you had influence over a 2020 high school player and UConn has another less than 4 win season (for the 4th straight year) would you be suggesting in December of 2019 he go to UConn? Would expect you likely would have a concern that HCRE2.0 will never turn UConn into a winning program (didn't say into a non terrible program) and could be gone before your player got to his red shirt freshman year. Why is it ok to expect hockey stick improvement in UConn when recruiting for 2017, 18 and 19 doesn't suggest player talent to do that unless going from laughingstock of FBS to just bad is the aim. [/QUOTE]

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