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The QB Issue

Who should start at QB going forward?

  • Evers

    Votes: 104 43.7%

  • Fagnano

    Votes: 78 32.8%

  • Mcdonald

    Votes: 3 1.3%

  • Welliver

    Votes: 53 22.3%
  • Total voters
    238
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I'm going to put my faith in Mora and go with whatever happens. Said before I'm not wedded to Fagnano and IF you can get evers into a groove he's probably the better option.

That being said, if it were me make the call I put Fagnano out there. We'll see what happens game day.
 
In 2010 Edsall decided to start a freshman QB (Box?) Instead of Frazer against Louisville yet he did not lose the locker room.

Some posters in this thread may be jumping to an erroneous conclusion if they believe starting Evers over Fagnano this week (if that does happen) would lose our HC the locker room.

And for the record, if Frazer was the QB in that game there is a reasonable chance that we would have won the conference outright that year.
 
ZooCougar said:
Except we have had two games since then and one QB looks more ready than the other. Don’t get in the way of success.
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One and a half… against backups and an overmatched FCS team. He’s got to start whomever he thinks gives the team the best chance to win.

I don’t care who it is… but it’s not an apples to apples comparison anymore than comparing Welliver at the scrimmage (against the seconds) to Fagnano’s performance against the ones… after the scrimmage through Game 1 it was still a feeling many here held that Fagnano was only on the roster due to football nepotism towards the old OC and that his taking another meaningful snap was a sign it was time to pack it in.

I’m starting to think we (the boneyard) may not be the best people to make this call…. :D
 
ScottVib said:
One and a half… against backups and an overmatched FCS team. He’s got to start whomever he thinks gives the team the best chance to win.

I don’t care who it is… but it’s not an apples to apples comparison anymore than comparing Welliver at the scrimmage (against the seconds) to Fagnano’s performance against the ones… after the scrimmage through Game 1 it was still a feeling many here held that Fagnano was only on the roster due to football nepotism towards the old OC and that his taking another meaningful snap was a sign it was time to pack it in.

I’m starting to think we (the boneyard) may not be the best people to make this call…. :D
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It’s apples to pears and that’s close enough for me.
 
So apparently Mora said today that Evers will start if he has a good week in practice. This was EXACTLY what I was talking about, and certain prognosticators in this thread took issue with it.

Either way, I want our starting QB to light up Puke...
 
ZooCougar said:
Except we have had two games since then and one QB looks more ready than the other. Don’t get in the way of success.

They can start Fagnano and if it doesn’t work then they can always try Evers again.
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I think Mora is building a relationship with Evers. He said he won the starter role and isn’t going to lose it due to injury. Also is tempering Merrimack results given they are FCS and Maryland is Big10.

Give Evers start. If offense is flat then JF gets shot. No issue with this.
 
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My guess is Evers won’t be ready to start due to health and not getting enough practice time. This game will be more telling if Joey really earns the job, no reason to declare a change based on merit until he has to
 
Patman said:
I'm going to put my faith in Mora and go with whatever happens. Said before I'm not wedded to Fagnano and IF you can get evers into a groove he's probably the better option.

That being said, if it were me make the call I put Fagnano out there. We'll see what happens game day.
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I can see Mora as the Yankee skipper taking Gerrit Cole into the 7th inning down a couple runs. Lol
 
kemba said:
My guess is Evers won’t be ready to start due to health and not getting enough practice time. This game will be more telling if Joey really earns the job, no reason to declare a change based on merit until he has to
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I actually think this is a real possibility. It is sort of a free play for Mora.
 
uconnyankee said:
I think Mora is building a relationship with Evers. He said he won the starter role and isn’t going to lose it due to injury. Also is tempering Merrimack results given they are FCS and Maryland is Big10.

Give Evers start. If offense is flat then JF gets shot. No issue with this.
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Nah.

He's not even fully healthy yet and it's game week. Mora gave himself an out.
 
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I will stick with what I have been saying for 25 years. Anyone who believes that a head football coach speaks for the purpose of disseminating truth gets exactly what they deserve.

I have no predictions for the season, but I’ll believe Evers is starting Saturday when I see him walk on the field and not before. Far, far more likely, Mora is keeping the “starter” designation on him but assumes either he won’t be healthy enough or won’t be ready enough on Saturday, knowing that JF isn’t going to make anyone forget Tom Brady and Evers is likely to get another chance soon enough.
 
Agree, but he did say Evers is the starter and wouldn’t lose by injury.
If Joe starts at Duke and has a similar game as Merrimack, would love to have that issue headed into following week. I think Mora would too.

ZooCougar said:
Nah.

He's not even fully healthy yet and it's game week. Mora gave himself an out.
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I'd rather see JF start, but let's not pretend like there's a whole lot of daylight between these two QBs. Makes for great discussion board fodder but on any given day either one of these guys could outperform the other.

There's no right choice when you're rolling the dice until you've seen the outcome.
 
Purple Stein said:
I'd rather see JF start, but let's not pretend like there's a whole lot of daylight between these two QBs. Makes for great discussion board fodder but on any given day either one of these guys could outperform the other.

There's no right choice when you're rolling the dice until you've seen the outcome.
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Evers may have more upside, but Fagnano has more experience. Evers has eligibility after this season and Fagnano does not. Evers was injured for the Merrimack game and Fagnano was not.

I would think that Evers would have to be fully cleared and have an incredible practice week to start this week. And, the schedule for the following 3 weeks are Florida Atlantic, Buffalo, and Temple at home so much easier opponents coming up to help him develop.
 
UConnJim said:
Evers may have more upside, but Fagnano has more experience. Evers has eligibility after this season and Fagnano does not. Evers was injured for the Merrimack game and Fagnano was not.

I would think that Evers would have to be fully cleared and have an incredible practice week to start this week. And, the schedule for the following 3 weeks are Florida Atlantic, Buffalo, and Temple at home so much easier opponents coming up to help him develop.
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We think he has upside.

It’s all just a theory at this point.
 
businesslawyer said:
I will stick with what I have been saying for 25 years. Anyone who believes that a head football coach speaks for the purpose of disseminating truth gets exactly what they deserve.

I have no predictions for the season, but I’ll believe Evers is starting Saturday when I see him walk on the field and not before. Far, far more likely, Mora is keeping the “starter” designation on him but assumes either he won’t be healthy enough or won’t be ready enough on Saturday, knowing that JF isn’t going to make anyone forget Tom Brady and Evers is likely to get another chance soon enough.
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Or Fagnano has a great game, giving more fuel to the fire that he should be QB 1. No matter how it turns out, though, there is zero to be gained by flip-flopping in his position that Evers is the designated starter.
 
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I would probably start Fagnano just because a positive or negative outcome against Duke resolves the situation in either direction. If he does well in an unfair test, he's the guy. If he does poorly, you give Evers FAU, Buffalo, and Temple at home to shed the rust against some bad teams and show he's the guy long term. If he lays an egg in those 3 games and you're 1-5 or 2-4, you go to Fagnano after the bye week to try to save the season.

If you start Evers and it's Maryland all over again, he's now 0-2 in a pair of games where UConn was a combined 38 point underdog and to me that basically doesn't answer any questions and isn't overly helpful in his development.

The only qualifying statement here is that there is a bit of a sliding scale depending on how clear cut it was that Evers won the job in camp.
  • If you were close to 50/50 on it and only went with Evers because he's the guy you gave the bag to, then you start Fagnano because he has tipped the scale in his favor.
  • If it was 75/25, I think Fagnano has done enough to earn a real if somewhat unfair audition against Duke. You start Fagnano and give him the chance at a miracle performance to win the job.
  • If it was never close and Evers was always 100% the guy, I am fine starting him as soon as he is healthy and understanding results against Duke are irrelevant.
 
Gotta go with Joe this Saturday. He's like 35 years old and has a ton of reps. He was trending well against NC State until he got hurt last year.

Evers may have gotten a bag but that doesn't mean he's given the starting role after how he looked against MD.
 
Skiblets said:
Gotta go with Joe this Saturday. He's like 35 years old and has a ton of reps. He was trending well against NC State until he got hurt last year.

Evers may have gotten a bag but that doesn't mean he's given the starting role after how he looked against MD.
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I'd like to go with Joe also, but maybe Mora thinks we need more of a running threat at qb against Duke.
 
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I'd be shocked if we start a guy who's 0-1 in a blowout coming off a concussion, over the guy who's 1-0, healthy, just blew out our last opponent and is ranked top 10 in the nation. If your coach starts the first guy and we get behind 3-4 scores that coach loses a ton of credibility. Evers PT is likely to be situational and only if needed, but hopefully not.
 
Jimdish255 said:
I'd be shocked if we start a guy who's 0-1 in a blowout coming off a concussion, over the guy who's 1-0, healthy, just blew out our last opponent and is ranked top 10 in the nation. If your coach starts the first guy and we get behind 3-4 scores that coach loses a ton of credibility. Evers PT is likely to be situational and only if needed, but hopefully not.
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Death, taxes and arguing over who starts at QB for the U.

Although, I never thought we’d start micromanaging a 40 yard td pass to go up 35 before the half.

Good times.
 
uconnric said:
I'd like to go with Joe also, but maybe Mora thinks we need more of a running threat at qb against Duke.
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This whole “we need a running“ QB has me bit baffled…. We played Marland and did a fine job protecting the QB. I am not even sure we have given up a sack yet this year. We might need one soon who knows? but this doesn’t need to be priority #1.

This whole Mora schitcik “I stand behind QB“ and never want him to look over shoulder? Dude, we are one of the worst teams in college according to pollsters without solid play at the QB for 7 or more years. What Joe did last week regardless of who we played was impressive!

Let Joe start w/ hot hand.
 
UCan3 said:
This whole “we need a running“ QB has me bit baffled…. We played Marland and did a fine job protecting the QB. I am not even sure we have given up a sack yet this year. We might need one soon who knows? but this doesn’t need to be priority #1.

This whole Mora schitcik “I stand behind QB“ and never want him to look over shoulder? Dude, we are one of the worst teams in college according to pollsters without solid play at the QB for 7 or more years. What Joe did last week regardless of who we played was impressive!

Let Joe start w/ hot hand.
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Thanks Mrs F.
 
UCan3 said:
This whole “we need a running“ QB has me bit baffled…. We played Marland and did a fine job protecting the QB. I am not even sure we have given up a sack yet this year. We might need one soon who knows? but this doesn’t need to be priority #1.
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Its been like this forever, a lot of it is that we got burned frequently by such types of runners at WVU, or USF, or so on. "if only we had a dual threat QB"... I don't remember how we beat RG3 twice because UConn traditionally got destroyed by running QBs.
 
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