The Horde

[Kevin Caliendo]

No one has called and gotten a comment from Manuel yet? How is that even possible? even a tweet saying "manuel was unavailable for comment" or "manuel would not comment at this time"

that is the only story right now for uconn football, the only thing any remaining fan cares about. Yet....nothing.

and LOL at all them parroting PP saying the "cupboard is bare" nonsense from last year. it is bare and is getting barer. but anyone with any understanding of football could see how poorly coached/organized and strategic the team was. now without the players that were actually taught fundamentals for a year or so, its a total disaster.

I really cannot believe he is still the coach today. why let whatever talent is left on this team be coached by these guys?

 

[ruskin]

You are spot on about the failure to talk to Manuel. They should have talked to him after the game. He was around (as it were).

 

[jdb50]

Manuel? Manuel who?

 

[Jimdish255]

So Towson has better players than us too? 33-18 better? Fantasyland.

 

[Whale22]

Besides Silver they all drink PP''s Kool-aid. Love to see the formula because it's pretty dang potent. Love how they mock us on twitter today instead of demanding answers.

 

[Kevin Caliendo]

One of the problems is that none of them know football. Silver at least has tried to learn the intricacies of the game, but none of them can really analyze a game, especially line play or schemes. In CT you don't have to, but follow beat guys of real programs and you'll see material differences. needless to say, PP would be mocked openly by the media if he was coaching anywhere south of the mason-dixon line

 

[john2153]

Who has said the cupboard is bare today? If true that is absolutely sickening, considering not even 2 days ago these fools were picking Uconn to win between 6 and 8 games. Now all of a sudden there is no talent on the team?

 

[whaler11]

Reading the UConn basketball and football writers after the Towson loss just highlights how clueless small town newspaper sports reporters are.

Painfully clueless.

 

[zls44]

Don't assume nobody asked just because you didn't hear anything. I bet they all reached out and just didn't hear back. If they say publicly that they didn't hear back, they'd never get a word out of Manuel again.

 

[ruskin]

If they say publicly that they didn't hear back, they'd never get a word out of Manuel again.

With all due respect Z I think that would mean both they and Manuel are in the wrong business. First, Manuel should not be hiding from the people who pay his salary during what can reasonably be called a 'crisis'. Second, reporters and you can't even write "X was unavailable for comment' or "X did not return a phone call' because you're a afraid a source might stop speaking to you ought to go in to public relations and forget 'journalism', or whatever it is these days.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Who has said the cupboard is bare today? If true that is absolutely sickening, considering not even 2 days ago these fools were picking Uconn to win between 6 and 8 games. Now all of a sudden there is no talent on the team?

They've been saying that since the middle of the 2011 season. P can be here another decade and win fifteen games over that stretch and they'll still blame it on the program he inherited from Edsall.

 

[uconndogs]

The press and most fans evaluate talent by these stupid recruiting sites. They failed to recognize how well HCRE and his staff evaluated and developed talent. What's most frightening to me is the perception that P recruits "better" and for the life of me I can't imagine why folks believe that to be true.

Graham Stewart was a four star recruit who created great buzz on the camp circuit and ended up with a schollie at Florida. I am telling you right now he is so far away from a Lutrus, Wilson or Sio it is hard to see how he ever plays at their level. Sorry, but I believe what I see a hell of a lot more than what someone tells me.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

The press and most fans evaluate talent by these stupid recruiting sites. They failed to recognize how well HCRE and his staff evaluated and developed talent. What's most frightening to me is the perception that P recruits "better" and for the life of me I can't imagine why folks believe that to be true.

Graham Stewart was a four star recruit who created great buzz on the camp circuit and ended up with a schollie at Florida. I am telling you right now he is so far away from a Lutrus, Wilson or Sio it is hard to see how he ever plays at their level. Sorry, but I believe what I see a hell of a lot more than what someone tells me.

Perfect post! Recruiting has only improved in te eyes of people who rank HS players based on what they read on the internet from other people who rank HS players based on what they read on the internet.

We haven't been bringing in better players, merely players that received more stars from people who never actually saw them play.

 

[CTBasketball]

Reading the UConn basketball and football writers after the Towson loss just highlights how clueless small town newspaper sports reporters are.

Painfully clueless.

Nobody wants to trash PP/UConn because it puts their head on the line. I wrote for uconnball.com last year and I had an article published discussing "pretty much tearing apart Manuel/Herbst" on conference realignment. I was fired. lol

 

[Stinger92860]

Nobody wants to trash PP/UConn because it puts their head on the line. I wrote for uconnball.com last year and I had an article published discussing "pretty much tearing apart Manuel/Herbst" on conference realignment. I was fired. lol

That never stopped Jacobs from bashing jc.

 

[zls44]

That never stopped Jacobs from bashing jc.

He did it after having his job at the state's top paper for a long time.

 

[ruskin]

Besides Silver they all drink PP''s Kool-aid. Love to see the formula because it's pretty dang potent. Love how they mock us on twitter today instead of demanding answers.

Who was doing the mocking? follow most of those guys and didn't see anything out of line. did see stuff alluding to upset fans but it seemed in bounds.

 

[Whale22]

Who was doing the mocking? follow most of those guys and didn't see anything out of line. did see stuff alluding to upset fans but it seemed in bounds.

Ed D I thought was tongue in cheek mocking upset fans and maybe I am biased but Des seems to have this undertone that we just don't get it in his posts. There were more posts about us being upset than anything mentioning pursuing PP or Manuel and demanding answers. Maybe I am wrong and just beyond upset at this point but agree with this original thread that besides Jacobs most won't call out PP.

 

[jostar1]

M. Necci‏@MattNecci30 Aug
@EdDaigneault think Manuel and Herbst are even having the conversation today? Get not scaring off future hires, but it needs to be done now

Ed Daigneault‏@EdDaigneault30 Aug
@MattNecci Probably talking. Early or mid-season moves are always incredibly risky, though. Huge PR problem for UConn right now.

 

[UconnFamily]

So Towson has better players than us too? 33-18 better? Fantasyland.

better coached players

 

[Pudge]

I don't think it's fair to get on Stewart after one game. Particularly since he is coming back from a serious injury.

I've loved the Edsall story of developing players. I think the CT media has been on a nice easy ride & don't know where to go now. Pasqualoni is effectively done. Do you really think its in our (UConn) interest to broadcast that? The best thing is planning & structuring a Program going forward. If we have nobody on staff (we don't), go start talking. Don't pay the damn consultant.

 

[Carl Spackler]

One of the problems is that none of them know football. Silver at least has tried to learn the intricacies of the game, but none of them can really analyze a game, especially line play or schemes. In CT you don't have to, but follow beat guys of real programs and you'll see material differences. needless to say, PP would be mocked openly by the media if he was coaching anywhere south of the mason-dixon line

sadly true. This coaching staff - all of them - should be getting raked across the coals right now, with questions as to why certain things happened in that game on Thursday night. We had such mismatches physically on that line of scrimmage, that there is no reason for us to have so little control of the line of scrimmage all night. Towson was prepared for the mismatch, and we got beat and didn't adjust. I don't think there is a single reporter that knows enough about football to be even able to ask the question as to why were not able to dominate the point of attack with two 300lb defensive tackles over that center. Never mind the offensive line. The simple question there, by anyone with a brain for football, is why we have not yet reduced the offensive blocking scheme down on the offense essentially to drawing plays on the palm of the hand in the huddle and simply matching up hat on hat 5-5 at the line of scrimmage with each lineman identifying a player to block and then blocking them, and then letting the other 6 players on offense try to figure something out.

Openly mocking them - I like that.

 

[noeynox]

They've been saying that since the middle of the 2011 season. P can be here another decade and win fifteen games over that stretch and they'll still blame it on the program he inherited from Edsall.

Yeah,enough of that BS. P has collected about 4.5 million in salary the last there years. No one should be making excuses for this,dude after Thursday night. No one.

 

[Carl Spackler]

I certainly am not. This is Pasqualoni's program right now. He's got plenty of players that if he so wanted to, that he recruited, that he could put on the field. He just put a team on the field that got beat thoroughly by Towson. As painful as it was, I"ve looked at it again. To the players credit, they fought back, and had a chance. One special teams mistake, in what IMNSHO, is THE hardest individual thing to do on a football field, late in the game made a full comeback incredibly difficult and they weren't able to do it.

Everything that went wrong is correctable. Everything that went right was pretty good and can be built on.

THe problem is the greater picture. This was Towson. A tough 1-AA opponent, on opening night, for a season, that this coaching staff, should have been preparing for - to have success. The team did not pass the eye test. To use the head man's phrase.

What happens vs. Maryland? vs. Michigan? Honesly - I can't answer - I don't know. They could come back, and beat Maryland and beat Michigan and then lose on the road to Buffalo. That scenario is not unrealistic to me and I don't believe in unicorns. This team, has been incredibly inconsistent week to week for two years.

I'm sick of it. That was the worst loss for this program in over a decade on Thursday, pretty much two decades in my opinion - going back to UCONN-New Haven. It won't be forgotten easily. I've done a complete about face on this program. I'm incredibly angry and disappointed in what product they put on the field. you cannot expect people to pay for this product. It needs to become a consistent winner, or the entire coaching staff needs to go. The only question is how do you determine when. ANd for me - it's week to week. I used Bill Parcells hall of fame speech to get myself a bit fired up a few weeks ago. He talked about an important season in 1984 for him personally, because it was on the edge. Had he lost a few more games in the middle of that season, he most likely isn't a hall of fame coach.

The players had to believe in the coaches, and they had to believe in teh system, and they had to make it work on the field. The 1984 New York Giants found a way to rally and two seasons later, were Super Bowl champions.

I have no such grand aspirations for this program right now. I just want to see this team win at home. The fans need it.

From 2007-2010 we were 21-4 at home. We had a home field advantage, because we played hard at home, and we had fans that showed up expecting to win, and they made it difficult for opposing teams. Our weakness was that we could not beat any decent competition on the road (10-13)

From 2011 - current under Pasqualoni we are 7-7 at home, with some TERRIBLE losses, and for each good road win, we've had 2 bad road losses. (3-8). It has drained the fanbase of it's energy. It was evident on Thursday night.

Pasqualoni is a CT native - they've pushed that in the marketing office, etc. have some god damn pride in making it a priority in winning at your home field.