I re-watched the game this morning (Thanks, tcf15 and UConnhuskygames.com). Looks like sportsmanship is high on the Officials' priority list this year. Melifonwu's taunting penalty was deserved. He stood over the Cadet and presumably was jawing at him. That HAS GOT to stop. That's two in two games. Can't have it. However, besides that penalty and the missed INT (which wasn't really a miss. He got beat), Obi played well, as did Adams (aside from his missed tackle). UConn was dominating the 2nd half. Get rid of those mistakes and Army scores 3 points.
As I said, Army's first TD was as preventable as their second. It was a combo of good blocking by Army and a bad wiff by Adams.
Two missed PAT's in two games. Nightmares of Matt Nuzie are dancing in my head. Though this one was on interior line.
Diaco was great with Lauren Gardner at halftime. Saying basically the same as what I just wrote in the first 2 graphs. The 1st half came down to a poor tackle and taunting. He said that taunting happens all over the country, but they were trying to coach the players out of the habit. Obi is a great kid who Gardner would let babysit her kids.
UConn's Defense took Diaco at his word earlier in the week. Aside from the TD that Adams wiffed on, UConn didn't give up many yards up the middle. If Carrazola did his best JJ Watt impersonation last week, then Campenni did one heck of a Vincent Wilfork.
Johnson ran like he was afraid to make contact. He looked like Lawrence Maroney, and not in a good way. The run on 3rd a 1 with 2 1/2 to go was ill advised with the way he was playing and the way the O-line seemed to get gassed as the half went on. It looked like Newsome got banged up on 2nd down. If I were to second-guess I think play action would have been a better way to go. Newsome earned it this week. He's a much better player than he was last year.
On the other hand, it looked like the O-line got tired as the 2nd half went along. Too many negative plays.
The best part about the receivers this year is that they can catch. I don't care how fast you can run 40 yards, their main job is to catch the ball. I'm don't remember a single dropped pass and that includes the negated one-handed grab by Noel Thomas. That was absolutely not the case last year. Does it have to do with who is throwing the ball? Yes I think it does. Not that Whitmer or Boyle did not throw catchable balls, but the constant QB substitutions made throws inconsistent for the receivers and QBs could not get into a rhythm.
I'm not one to really care about uniforms (though I did not really like UConn's former design), I think it's kinda of cool how Army put the players name on the chest, where his name would go if he were wearing utilities.
Amy's coach (Jeff Monken) has a potty mouth. The cameras caught him on at least 2 occasions drop F bombs. How do I ever explain that to my child?
