The View From Section 241 — Central

[AllHusky]

I doubt this is accurate, but if it were, I would entirely agree with the concept. Empty seats, degrade the athlete experience, the fan experience, and the reputation of the school. I see very little point in not filling them anyway you can. That said, you have to respect your season, tickets holders who are the lifeblood of your program by giving them first shot at those tickets, plus a lot of other perks.

Don Canham AD at Michigan eons ago gave away tickets to HS teams, bands, civic organizations to put fannys in the seats in a precursor to the Big House. Canham recognized as the GrandFather of the modern AD as businessman(Wolverine Sports also)

 

[UConnDan97]

I'm not the biggest fan ot it. If the 3-3-5 were a great scheme, better teams with better athletes would use it more often.
The 3-3-5 is designed.to maximize your best talent and use some big uglies to free up that talent.
That being said, Brock's version has worked. It is the prototypical bend but don't break. It gives up yards between the 20's and then gets tougher near the goal line.

I think it's a strategy that works for us because unlike the top 10 football teams, we can't get 4 guys that all play like Travis Jones. We're much more likely to land athletic players than the 320 pound monsters. So it fits our recruiting strategies.

We may have had a bad taste in our mouths from when Edsall - Crocker tried to implement it. It had more holes than Betty Crocker.

Brock seems to be the right guy to do the right thing...

 

[dvegas]

I doubt this is accurate, but if it were, I would entirely agree with the concept. Empty seats, degrade the athlete experience, the fan experience, and the reputation of the school. I see very little point in not filling them anyway you can. That said, you have to respect your season, tickets holders who are the lifeblood of your program by giving them first shot at those tickets, plus a lot of other perks.

In the entertainment business, there's a term for that. "Papering"

 

[freescooter]

In a 3-3-5 scheme the DL won't get many sacks. Their job is to tie up as many of the OL as possible to give blitzing LB amd DB at path to the QB.

I also think maybe we ran a very base version of our defense. We didn’t need to do anything fancy to beat Central Connecticut. So just run the base defense. Try to get guys coordinated. And bring the fancy Dan stuff next week. Offense is a little different. Ours is pretty open so you can’t not run pass plays. Plus at least 3 scores came on plays that were not exactly designed to be huge gainers. 80 yd wide receiver screen, 73 yard breakaway by Edwards anda 45 yard run. Those are designed to get you yards but you don’t expect them to go for tds.

 

[hardcorehusky]

I think it's a strategy that works for us because unlike the top 10 football teams, we can't get 4 guys that all play like Travis Jones. We're much more likely to land athletic players than the 320 pound monsters. So it fits our recruiting strategies.

We may have had a bad taste in our mouths from when Edsall - Crocker tried to implement it. It had more holes than Betty Crocker.

Brock seems to be the right guy to do the right thing...

I think the 3-3-5 we ran last year should have washed that out of the fans systems. But this is Connecticut the land of steady habits!