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Forte said:
UCF's offense will give them a chance to go undefeated again. Serious... Serious talent at WR and obviously QB. Their defense is younger which really surprises me why we only had 10 points through most of the game. I don't get how anyone else is not concerned about that. UConn has been epic as a program that gets into the Red Zone and comes up empty. It seems like we always say IF we didn't turn it over we would have 100 points. Well we keep getting turn overs and stupid ... absolutely stupid penalties. The offense should not be getting so many penalties.
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I remain concerned about UConn's lack of offense. Been a problem for a while, except for stretchw last seaskn.
 
Even after tonight, I still think UConn will win 3 this year. With all these freshmen the learning curve ought to be steep.
 
RSTuthill said:
Even after tonight, I still think UConn will win 3 this year. With all these freshmen the learning curve ought to be steep.
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That’s not much to look forward to.
 
Bomber36 said:
That’s not much to look forward to.
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Well, considering they will have to upset one and perhaps two teams to achieve that, I think it is realistic. But if they do that, the foundation for 2019 will have been established.
 
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RSTuthill said:
Well, considering they will have to upset one and perhaps two teams to achieve that, I think it is realistic. But if they do that, the foundation for 2019 will have been established.
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But how many fans will be left....it’s gonna be a long process getting fans back in seats at the rate of 3, 4 or 5 wins a season. I have lots of friends who are casual fans and won’t go even if tickets are free.
 
Not the way any team wants to begin the season. It's bad enough to lose a league game right out of the box, but you also lose some confidence and swagger in front of a national TV audience. :(
 
Bomber36 said:
But how many fans will be left....it’s gonna be a long process getting fans back in seats at the rate of 3, 4 or 5 wins a season. I have lots of friends who are casual fans and won’t go even if tickets are free.
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How bad is a product if you can't even give it away?
 
Zero bright spots?

On D, I liked #44 Swenson tackling in space & #14 Herring-Wilson coverage and moxie.

I’d love to see Lutrus - Wilson - Lloyd
 
whaler11 said:
I feel like Palatine should too. Since he believes his posts impact results.... I think it’s time for his backup.
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Hopefully this end the positive thoughts and posts affect team performance drivel. The talent needs to improve big time. You mentioned Edsall trying to take the air out of the ball. Following one of those attempts UCF went the whole field in 3 passes for a touchdown. That is a tough approach in this league.
 
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Bomber36 said:
But how many fans will be left....it’s gonna be a long process getting fans back in seats at the rate of 3, 4 or 5 wins a season. I have lots of friends who are casual fans and won’t go even if tickets are free.
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We are way way beyond worrying about numbers of fans at this point. Three wins has been pretty much the consensus prediction on the part of those with an objective eye for almost a year now. Still achievable. Four wins would exceed expectations. Next year should be a bowl year. Still probable. The blue sky is still up there.
 
RSTuthill said:
We are way way beyond worrying about numbers of fans at this point. Three wins has been pretty much the consensus prediction on the part of those with an objective eye for almost a year now. Still achievable. Four wins would exceed expectations. Next year should be a bowl year. Still probable. The blue sky is still up there.
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I am still thinking UConn may be able to get five or six wins in 2018. Many of the opponents are weak. The defense will likely improve over the season.
 
Last night I walked away thinking there wasn’t one true freshman that I was impressed with and that was disappointing.

But here in the morning after reflection, i’m Giving more weight to the fact we just played a ranked team with a dominant qb and 13 game winning streak, so how can you really judge it? Would the game have looked any different against anyone in the top 10? No it would have been the same. UCF is very good, partially on offense.

Concerns: OL not as good as hoped in run game.
Pindell and Dunn don’t have a down field pass play.
LBs not fast enough.... but Kevon Jones does bring size.
I don’t want to pick on a guy, but I’m rewatching the first half this morning I noticed Terry had two opportunities to make stops/plays that would have stopped drives but missed. Need more athletes in that Husky LB slot.

Postives:
Wilson played better at CB
Swenson as Husky LB did make some tackles
Obviously Pindell is a fantastic runner
Buss can make plays
TEs made plays
Hergy has some nice catches

I hope Dunn copies some of the plays UCF used. We need a couple long ball plays and we need to our RBs running dump off routes to put themselves in better spots in the flats to be more productive.

On D, I would spend the week working on blitz packages. We did blitz some; the second UCF TD was on a Terry blitz where Milton was able to elude him.
 
LoyalFanCT said:
I am still thinking UConn may be able to get five or six wins in 2018. Many of the opponents are weak. The defense will likely improve over the season.
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Think again. Vanishingly small probability above four and and getting to four is like one chance in six. If UConn had started the season with a rational schedule that afforded some learning opportunities it would be a different story. Reality will set in soon.
 
Exit 4 said:
On D, I would spend the week working on blitz packages. We did blitz some; the second UCF TD was on a Terry blitz where Milton was able to elude him.
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He had him and then fell for a juke inside while Milton went outside. I ground my teeth on that one.
 
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