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ZooCougar said:
What?

The RB coach doesn't call plays. Rosa fumbles and runs into his blockers. UConn was the visiting team. MAC has a contract with ESPN and we don't.
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This is the level of accuracy and understanding many posters in this thread possess. Victor Rosa has zero fumbles in his UConn career and if he runs into his blockers - keep doing what you are doing because he has never average less than 4.5 yards per carrier in his UConn seasons.
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Chief00 said:
This is the level of accuracy and understanding many posters in this thread possess. Victor Rosa has zero fumbles in his UConn career and if he runs into his blockers - keep doing what you are doing because he has never average less than 4.5 yards per carrier in his UConn seasons.
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And yet he's been 4th string the past two seasons. Bad things happen when he has his hands on the ball.
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
Do you seriously want to revisit the 11:11 discussion? Unfortunately for you…I saved your post on this because I knew you would always spin what happened….it wasn’t about time zones…you acted as if you had inside information that the AAC agreed to 11:11 start times. You were proven to be wrong…and of course you never just took the “L”..you are still fighting this until this day.

“Did not realize it was not public knowledge yet but the AAC will have pre noon games.

Quite frankly, the TV guys already know the times - see below link. Navy, South Fl and Houston have 11:11,am starting times - sure these could change due to some factor but probably unlikely.

Trying to break this to you gently - this is the time unless something unusual happens

The CBS schedule is consistent with the TV contract and is precisely specific 11:11am - true it's subject to change - but not likely for these games

The same holds true for TBD for football - there may not be a 100% guarantee that's the time due to teams that surprise and challenge for league titles - but the TV contracts are understood in terms of time slots and the AAC's is 11am

I have never seen so many people in denial of reality - It's 11:11am - subject to change of course - but not likely!”
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I don’t know what you don’t understand about time zones - you play checkers when a smarter approach is to understand the time impacts on both team’s fanbases TV audiences and play chess.

No wonder given this silly thinking many here aren’t capable of moving beyond, we are not in the large group of schools from the old Big East and AAC that are now in a major conference.

Your take is just stupid. You can’t get your thinking out of your living room time zone. Unfortunately too often UConn has been hurt by this type of simplistic thinking. The World is bigger than your limited provincial thinking.
 
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FWIW here are the actual numbers (6 fumbles, 4 lost)

2022: 4 fumbles, 2 lost (Michigan (2-1), Ball State (1-1), Army (1-0)) - 12 games played
2023: 2 fumbles, 2 lost (USF (1-1), James Madison (1-1)) - 11 games played
2024: None (redshirted) - 5 games played
2025: None (penalty on play negated)
 
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ZooCougar said:
And yet he's been 4th string the past two seasons. Bad things happen when he has his hands on the ball.
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You were incorrect about him fumbling / he has zero in his career. And what you said just proved my point. So TD’s and a 4.5 yards + per carry are “bad things”? Like so many posters here you embarass yourself.
The problem hasn’t been Victor’s performance but his number of touches. Yes, the RB coach doesn’t call the plays but he plays a crucial role determining the rotation of RB’s at that position. Plays are by positions not particular players.
 
Chief00 said:
You were incorrect about him fumbling / he has zero in his career. And what you said just proved my point. So TD’s and a 4.5 yards + per carry are “bad things”? Like so many posters here you embarass yourself.
The problem hasn’t been Victor’s performance but his number of touches. Yes, the RB coach doesn’t call the plays but he plays a crucial role determining the rotation of RB’s at that position. Plays are by positions not particular players.
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This has been debunked above. I'm so sick of Victor's little pack NVL fanboys crying about his lack of touches.
 
Chief00 said:
You were incorrect about him fumbling / he has zero in his career. And what you said just proved my point. So TD’s and a 4.5 yards + per carry are “bad things”? Like so many posters here you embarass yourself.
The problem hasn’t been Victor’s performance but his number of touches. Yes, the RB coach doesn’t call the plays but he plays a crucial role determining the rotation of RB’s at that position. Plays are by positions not particular players.
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Look at the posts above - he’s fumbled 4 times here in his career
 
I like the kid, but at this point I think the Swedish RB Coleman should be getting more carries than Rosa. I know he fumbled once yesterday too, but I like the way he runs
 
Despite ESPN’s fumble error, my football point is valid. 17 TD’s and 4 fumbles loss in his career. He also averaged 4.8 yards a carry. How that’s a “bad” thing is ridiculous.
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ZooCougar said:
This has been debunked above. I'm so sick of Victor's little pack NVL fanboys crying about his lack of touches.
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So 4.8 yards a carry and 17 TDs on 281 carrys is a “bad”’performance? He neither has a fumble lost issue or a following his blocker issue at 4.8 yards per carry. All your initial points were wrong.
 
Chief00 said:
I don’t know what you don’t understand about time zones - you play checkers when a smarter approach is to understand the time impacts on both team’s fanbases TV audiences and play chess.

No wonder given this silly thinking many here aren’t capable of moving beyond, we are not in the large group of schools one of from the old Big East and AAC in a major conference.

Your take is just stupid. You can’t get your thinking out of your living room time zone. Unfortunately too often UConn has been hurt by this type of simplistic thinking. The World is bigger than your limited provincial thinking.
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what the heck are you even talking about. Your stunning inabilty to grasp the obvious is amazing. You lied in a post years ago about having inside knowledge on scheduling (not the first time you lied about having inside knowledge)…and now somehow it’s about time zones? It was never about time zones.

You consistently show that you are dishonest…and don’t understand the basics of how scheduling is done.

Your posts when you attack are 100% projection.
 
Chief00 said:
I recognize all that from the start. I think it’s short sighted to schedule numerous games that are likely to be on streaming/web. That’s not how you built a brand and a fanbase. CBS Sports Network is fine for home games but you need to think more strategically than just home games. About 1/2 our games are away. The TV filter needs to be constructed in your scheduling process regardless what team holds the actual contract.
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You understand that we can only schedule teams that are willing to schedule us?
 
Chief00 said:
So 4.8 yards a carry and 17 TDs on 281 carrys is a “bad”’performance? He neither has a fumble lost issue or a following his blocker issue at 4.8 yards per carry. All your initial points were wrong.
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He’s fumbled 6 times. That’s a lot of fumbles. Not good.
 
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This is why we can't have nice things.
 
businesslawyer said:
You understand that we can only schedule teams that are willing to schedule us?
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Of course, that’s part of putting together the best schedule for the program possible. I know there’s many challenges but 7 of our 12 games were either on ESPN+ (3) or no TV (4). The other 5 games were on CBSSN. To achieve our high level objectives we need a better TV outcome. Additionally, our University President needs to be more effective too networking in the Presidents Club to give us a better chance to land a top conference spot. At the end of the day her peer group are the decision makers.
When I look at what Dave’s done playing OOC national basketball games in TD North and MSG, I think he has done a great job of establishing our regional footprint for conference expansion in basketball.
Our marketing narrative in football needs to include better attendance, TV exposure and filters on games we play. To your point top conferences recent expansions with more conference games mean less schedule dates for us to compete for.
 
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ZooCougar said:
Using only fumbles lost is disingenuous. Unsurprising though.
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If you use fumbles rather than fumbles loss during 2022, the team would move from 11 to 21, Victor 2 to 4. No material difference. Personally, I believe fumbles loss is more result orientated since it is reflected in turnovers counts which statistically determine many games. Either way Victor did not stand out as a fumbling problem on our team even in his freshman year. So, you should take that inaccurate comment back.
This year there are zero fumbles loss by the team. So it is not a statistic driving our loses. So why did you bring it up?
 
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ShakyTheMohel said:
what the heck are you even talking about. Your stunning inabilty to grasp the obvious is amazing. You lied in a post years ago about having inside knowledge on scheduling (not the first time you lied about having inside knowledge)…and now somehow it’s about time zones? It was never about time zones.

You consistently show that you are dishonest…and don’t understand the basics of how scheduling is done.

Your posts when you attack are 100% projection.
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The time zone TV issue was when we played Missouri.
 
ScottVib said:
FWIW here are the actual numbers (6 fumbles, 4 lost)

2022: 4 fumbles, 2 lost (Michigan (2-1), Ball State (1-1), Army (1-0)) - 12 games played
2023: 2 fumbles, 2 lost (USF (1-1), James Madison (1-1)) - 11 games played
2024: None (redshirted) - 5 games played
2025: None (penalty on play negated)
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So @ZooCougar turned this into a Victor fumbling issue thread and he’s had zero fumbles the last 2 years. And even his freshman year had 1.2% fumbles per touch vs the team result of 1.5% per touch that year. Never mind you ignore a guy’s excellent 4.8 yards per carry career statistic or his 17 TDs.
 
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Chief00 said:
So @ZooCougar turned this into a Victor fumbling issue thread and he’s had zero fumbles the last 2 years. And even his freshman year had 1.2% fumbles per touch vs the team result of 1.5% per touch that year. Never mind you ignore a guy’s excellent 4.8 yards per carry career statistic or his 17 TDs.
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You mean last season he had no fumbles when he basically didn’t play because he was 4th string and injured?

Amazing. No fumbles during a redshirt year.

He has 6 career fumbles in basically two seasons of play. That’s a ball security issue.
 
Chief00 said:
So @ZooCougar turned this into a Victor fumbling issue thread and he’s had zero fumbles the last 2 years. And even his freshman year had 1.2% fumbles per touch vs the team result of 1.5% per touch that year. Never mind you ignore a guy’s excellent 4.8 yards per carry career statistic or his 17 TDs.
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Yeah, sure, ZooCougar ef’d this thread.
 
Chief00 said:
This is the level of accuracy and understanding many posters in this thread possess. Victor Rosa has zero fumbles in his UConn career and if he runs into his blockers - keep doing what you are doing because he has never average less than 4.5 yards per carrier in his UConn seasons.
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Chief, subscribe to PFF so you can see better football stats. Rosa fumbled 3x in 2022 and 2x in 2023. Last year, there were 3 RBs who seemed to be better than Rosa in Robinson 6.8 ypc, Edwards 5.7 ypc, and Brown 5.7ypc and Rosa has averaged 4.9 ypc over his career. This year, especially with Brown hurt, I would have thought Rosa would get more carries and I don't understand why. I do think Rosa is better in space than he is hitting a hole and he should have some wide runs or screens.
 
Chief00 said:
Of course, that’s part of putting together the best schedule for the program possible. I know there’s many challenges but 7 of our 12 games were either on ESPN+ (3) or no TV (4). The other 5 games were on CBSSN. To achieve our high level objectives we need a better TV outcome. Additionally, our University President needs to be more effective too networking in the Presidents Club to give us a better chance to land a top conference spot. At the end of the day her peer group are the decision makers.
When I look at what Dave’s done playing OOC national basketball games in TD North and MSG, I think he has done a great job of establishing our regional footprint for conference expansion in basketball.
Our marketing narrative in football needs to include better attendance, TV exposure and filters on games we play. To your point top conferences recent expansions with more conference games mean less schedule dates for us to compete for.
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You know how you build the brand? You win games. You know how Jim Calhoun built the basketball brand from a UMass level? He won games. UConn was rarely the BIG Monday game and if we were it was because of who we played, not us. Then Calhoun won the NIT. Then made the shocking run in the NCAA tournament in the Dream Season (it was called that because nobody thought UConn was capable of such a run) when Jim Nance didn’t even know UConn was the Huskies. He kept referring to them as the UConns. All that is laughable now. And what this program needs is to win a bunch of games. Beat a bigger name in a bowl. Maybe be in the discussion for the CFP with a 10-12 win season. But win regularly.
 
Each FBS game this year (CCSU was available but I'll let others decide their opinion of the WAX/UConn+ broadcast) will be available either through a network or via streaming services, the games without broadcast listed (BC, Rice, FAU) will be ESPN+ presuming they aren't picked up by a network (perhaps the BC game sneaks onto the ACC Network).

What is spot on is that UConn needs to build its football profile to achieve the best possible outcome for the athletic department, that includes everything listed above particularly attendance and most importantly, winning football games, as many as possible, with a smattering of P4 wins in that mix.

UConn home games which they have direct control of are on linear TV with CBS Sports...

Given UConn's current profile it's extraordinarily difficult to avoid streaming networks..

Play the ACC teams? ESPN property and it's headed to the CW, ACC Network or ACC Network+ (ESPN+)
Play the Big Ten teams? Fox/CBS/NBC property headed to the Big Ten network or Peacock
Play the SEC teams? ESPN headed to SEC Network or SEC Network+ (ESPN+)
Play the Big XII teams? ESPN/Fox joint property, likely headed to ESPN+, but outside chance of ESPNU or FS1
Play C-USA? ESPN+
Play MAC? ESPN+
Play AAC? ESPN+
Play Sun Belt? ESPN+
Play the Mountain West? Might be the best bet blend of FS1, CBS Sports and TNT... if the game is picked up.

The Basketball Program is a blue-blood; the TV partners come to UConn with options to participate in major Neutral Site matchups; it's not UConn going to them. The Football Program isn't going to get the same treatment from the networks. UConn football does not have the cache to demand that kind of treatment right now, even if they signed up for a game with a football blue blood (i.e. the Tennessee game was sent to the SEC Network, the Michigan beatdown did at least get a regional ABC spot).
 
Palatine said:
One thing that could of really bitten us but wasn't called is a player kicking the ball. We had just stopped them and the ball was lying on the field and one of our DBs kicked it out of bounds. That is a 15 yard unsportsman penalty if the ref wants. Dumb thing to do. It could have been huge and very bad. Shouldn't happen.
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I was really surprised that we did not screw ourselves with that move. Just total lack of self control there by our DB.
 
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