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Syracuse post game thread

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Hamms30 said:
Defense punched above it's weight all game and kept giving the ball to the offense to just put anyyyyyy points on the board all second half and they couldn't do it. One blown coverage and the game changed and the offense went even more into their shell. They were selling out on the zone run, gotta have some sort of counter in the play book for that.
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Was it punvhing above their weight or are they pretty good? Look, the team is not great but it is decent which is a big step forward. Look to improve each year and in a year or two upgrade the schedule to a half dozen top half of p 4 conference teams. Two or three top 25's and 3 or 4 top 50 teams. Play PSU, FSU, WVA, Cuse, LSU, Mich State, good teams and a couple of excellent ones. Play BC and/ or Ptt, Notre Dame in BY C. If they can do that for a couple of years and go 500 they will have done what they need to do. Playing the schedule they have nowadays does nothing to move the program forward
 
businesslawyer said:
I mean, we hadn’t beaten a P-4 team in a whopping zero games before Saturday. Or did I imagine driving to Boston last December?

No UConn fan isn’t devastated by what happened Saturday. It’s just that most don’’t assume benching a QB who has overall played better than any QB has played for years is a rational response to being devastated.
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I think perhaps the whole concept of benching needs to be reconsidered for our team. It’s just putting in a player to mix it up when we’ve obviously hit a brick wall offensively w/ the starter a bad thing.

Is it really? We’ve got some great players and Nick does bring some talents to the field that Joe just doesn’t have.

He just had such a poor showing in that second half. He can’t scramble and throw on the run and we’re gonna need that against some of these better teams. He apparently won’t run as the situation calls for. I’m not trying to pin this on Joe or pit Joe versus Nick in anyway.

I would love to see Nick come in and see what he can do and then put Joe back in.

We just are really struggling against midtier competition and the thought of his, let’s try to shake things up when we start really stalling.
 
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The Viking said:
Totally forgot about this play but i remember yelling his body never hit the ground because he was on top of the defender- not even a review.
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that is a great point. He’s definitely not down and had he popped back up and ran for a touchdown. They wouldn’t have called it back.
 
I think the sprint running was foolish on Brown's part. It is going to be perceived by many as a punishment in front of your fans and that's simply not the way college football works today. I'm sure some of the players were pissed. Their comeback was actually pretty impressive.

As a UCONN football fan I could give a rat's ***, but the perception by some will be that it implies that the Orange struggled against an inferior opponent, so it will be good locker room material when the Orange visit the Rent next season.

That all said, to my eye UCONN was the much more physical team. The boys came out pop'n!
 
uconndogs said:
I think the sprint running was foolish on Brown's part. It is going to be perceived by many as a punishment in front of your fans and that's simply not the way college football works today. I'm sure some of the players were pissed. Their comeback was actually pretty impressive.

As a UCONN football fan I could give a rat's ***, but the perception by some will be that it implies that the Orange struggled against an inferior opponent, so it will be good locker room material when the Orange visit the Rent next season.

That all said, to my eye UCONN was the much more physical team. The boys came out pop'n!
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Next year at The Rent HC Mora should have the team do symbolic jogs moments before kick-off as a pre-punishment for not completely annihilating the orange. and to mock them.
 
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ZooCougar said:
Because two QB systems work so well.
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Well, when is the last time we had 2 jr/sr QBs of this caliber?
And when was the last time we knocked off a good team.

We’ve got a couple good games to point to, Buffalo and BC but then we start going back through the years…

This loss after loss after loss to good teams may require us to think outside the box IMO.
 
We were the better team. That’s why the loss hurts so much. I’d pick our guys to beat them 7 out of 10 times based on what I saw. Just a total mental collapse. That fear that creeps in when you are about to get a big upset win is very real and the whole program locked up. I don’t think it will happen again. You learn from that and in the end, it gives you confidence.

As a tennis player I was always dealing with playing older, “better” players. You can really freeze up when you are beating someone you aren’t supposed to be beating. Once a meltdown happens, you realize you gave away a big win due to fear. It actually builds that needed fearlessness you need to mow people down going forward.

We need to build off of this and come out guns blazing this Saturday. They really shouldn’t take anything from this but “we blew it and that’s the last time we do that”. That goes for everyone involved.
 
Hoophound said:
We were the better team. That’s why the loss hurts so much. I’d pick our guys to beat them 7 out of 10 times based on what I saw. Just a total mental collapse. That fear that creeps in when you are about to get a big upset win is very real and the whole program locked up. I don’t think it will happen again. You learn from that and in the end, it gives you confidence.

As a tennis player I was always dealing with playing older, “better” players. You can really freeze up when you are beating someone you aren’t supposed to be beating. Once a meltdown happens, you realize you gave away a big win due to fear. It actually builds that needed fearlessness you need to mow people down going forward.

We need to build off of this and come out guns blazing this Saturday. They really shouldn’t take anything from this but “we blew it and that’s the last time we do that”. That goes for everyone involved.
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Yeah I hope the next time we build a couple possession lead, whether that’s against UD or Ball State, we see a different approach and keep the foot on the gas. Good teams win big, I want more scores like the FAU and Buffalo games last year
 
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Disappointing for sure. Better than the beat down a few years ago when they effortlessly hung 50+ on UConn at the Rent. That team under Babers came to playThe sprints brought attention to Brown some of which was positive for him.
 
We lost a game we should have won. To truly turn the corner, we have to win these. I'm not happy with the game, I'm sure the coaching staff and the players are even more disappointed

Our athletic excellence has made me intolerant of moral victories

Score more than they do, nothing less
 
LBird33 said:
Every year this board or certain people on this board argue for the back up QB to start it’s kinda funny. Never fails
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uconndogs said:
I think the sprint running was foolish on Brown's part. It is going to be perceived by many as a punishment in front of your fans and that's simply not the way college football works today. I'm sure some of the players were pissed. Their comeback was actually pretty impressive.

As a UCONN football fan I could give a rat's ***, but the perception by some will be that it implies that the Orange struggled against an inferior opponent, so it will be good locker room material when the Orange visit the Rent next season.

That all said, to my eye UCONN was the much more physical team. The boys came out pop'n!
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Exactly. It seems like the end of the game was a moment to celebrate and talk about character in fighting back to win. The next week's practices is when you can go into, they never should've been a position to win, we can't wait till the second half to decide to play football…
 
CL82 said:
Exactly. It seems like the end of the game was a moment to celebrate and talk about character in fighting back to win. The next week's practices is when you can go into, they never should've been a position to win, we can't wait till the second half to decide to play football…
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That stunt was grandstanding, plain and simple.

He was telling their feeble, petty fanbase that he's too tough to tolerate a performance like that against an (allegedly) inferior opponent who the fanbase happens to despise

Doing this pointed blame to the effort of his players, not the staff's ability prepare, game plan, adjust or evaluate the opponent. It was basically a college football version of flexing internet muscles.

Giving this light helps nobody. Let this die on the vine.
 
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FfldCntyFan said:
That stunt was grandstanding, plain and simple.

He was telling their feeble, petty fanbase that he's too tough to tolerate a performance like that against an (allegedly) inferior opponent who the fanbase happens to despise

Doing this pointed blame to the effort of his players, not the staff's ability prepare, game plan, adjust or evaluate the opponent. It was basically a college football version of flexing internet muscles.

Giving this light helps nobody. Let this die on the vine.
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We went through a stretch years ago when we used to beat the Orange like a drum as an annual right of passage. I was at a couple of those games in Syracuse. The fan reaction was absolutely comical. Think of an absolute look of deer in the headlights, WTF just happened. That fanbase was not sad to see UCONN left behind in the ACC expansion. On a level playing field of conference affiliation UCONN owns the Orange as well as the Eagles. Alas.......
 
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