The View From Section 241

[Uconnalliance]

Take a deep breath we have a long season before we hit bottom great part is at some point P and GDL will be gone and we can rebuild,maybe sooner than later god willing.

 

[Dooley]

The D Line was blown up on just about 75% of their running plays. And not just one or two guys, their entire O Line was pushing our D Line back a good 2-4 yards on the majority of running plays. Of course, it was completely reversed when we had the ball. Their D Line was in our backfield before Whitmer could take 3 steps in his drop.

 

[sportsart]

I think our rose colored glasses kept us from the obvious....

You can't subtract Gratz, BWW, Trevardo, Sio, Wirth, Jory, Griffin, Delahunt and Nick and then lose your DC, add a new OC and keep GDL with the OL.

Pretty obvious isn't it?

Top it off with no in game adjustments from an old coach and you just can't win.

 

[uconnfan68]

I watch DeLeone a lot from my position behind the Uconn bench. He is a fireball of energy, always talking to the kids, with a board in his hand, showing them photos, plays. The kids never really look at him or move in response to his animated style. He is clearly trying, but you can tell from the body language - he's lost them. The whole team's body language is just down, down, down. Football is a tribal thing; the tribe has to be hootin and hollerin and jumping up and down and ready to go take some scalps. Folks, we ain't hootin and hollerin. We ain't jumpin up and down. This is a management style issue, and our manager is just too old for this line of work . . .

Please don't use age as a qualifier. He's younger than Tom Coughlin, and you're not getting any younger either. It's the style, not the man.

 

[NEforceUConn]

First and foremost, I love UConn football.

I've had season tickets for 9 years, been to the last 4 bowl games and am the "die hard" in my season ticket group.

The joy of going to the games and rooting for a program that was going places has been completely drained from me during the P era.

It's not so much the losing, which does suck, it's the overall incompetence of a coaching staff and an athletic department that is seemingly ok with what is going on.

The losing is painful, the conference situation is bad, but what is worse is that aside from a couple hundred of us on here, nobody seems to even care.

THIS IS MY NOMINATION FOR POST OF THE YEAR. PLEASE PIN THIS POST, ITS MESSAGE SHOULD BE THUNDEROUS!

 

[uconndogs]

Early in the game last night Byron Jones was in a position to take out a receiver who was exposed going up for a ball. He made a poor wrap tackle and never sent a message. I'm not talking dirty football, I'm talking physical football. Butler or Gratz or Branch would have bruised a bunch of ribs.....just say'in.

Biz, thanks for doing this, painful as it must have been.

There may be two wins somewhere this season, but there won't be more than that. Not a singe RB other than LM took a hand-off. We're going to ride a 165LB fly weight back with a big heart but some significant limitations. The OL is just a passive group and to my eye I can't even understand what they hope to accomplish. Hemmingway was not even remotely ready to be on the field. Not even close. So that tells me this staff is incapable of evaluating and developing young talent and that is just frightening. And for those who want to throw the ball all over the field, you got some of that last night. But, when you can't run the ball and you have no play action and your TEs don't have a single reception you get DLs teeing off.

It never made sense to me that the defense would be what it was last season given the talent lost. That it would regress to this I find almost unbelievable. If Stegg, Ashiru and Vahn couldn't beat out Graham and Donahue I shudder to think what's in store for us next season when Yawin takes his game to the NFL. And I could really give a duckk how many stars a kid has on the recruiting sites or who recruited them, give me Lutrus or Wilson or Lansanah or any number of other UCONN great LBs who made plays.

Obi is the real deal. That was a hell of first showing and for someone that long to move the way he does is simply remarkable.

P will blame this on talent, but he's not being truthful (probably with himself). There was excellent talent last season on both sides of the ball and certainly enough to win many more game than we did. Now, with a younger less experienced group that flaws become glaring. I do think there is a scenario where P doesn't make it through the season. That scenario being a team that throws in the towel early and starts getting into off field issues. I certainly hope that does not happen, but I certainly do not see it as out of the realm of possibility.

Huge setback for a new program that was very well positioned to two season's ago.

 

[jdb50]

Max caught a pass but I was very surprised no one but McCombs was allowed to run with the ball. No Knappe on kick block if I saw correctly, Why? Or better said, "What the hell is going on around here?"

 

[FfldCntyFan]

No Knappe on kick block if I saw correctly, Why? Or better said, "What the hell is going on around here?"

Hey, the one area where we easily surpassed any reasonable expectations last night was our extra point defense.

 

[Whale22]

don't you mean the busway?

Sorry yes the busway to the "bridges to nowhere" to the non-existent interstate loop around Hartford that every other "Big City" has. Oh wait.......

 

[jdb50]

Hey, the one area where we easily surpassed any reasonable expectations last night was our extra point defense.

I was as excited about their kicker missing kicks as Bart was in your avatar. We must be saving Knappe for Randy.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

The D Line was blown up on just about 75% of their running plays. And not just one or two guys, their entire O Line was pushing our D Line back a good 2-4 yards on the majority of running plays. Of course, it was completely reversed when we had the ball. Their D Line was in our backfield before Whitmer could take 3 steps in his drop.

They seemed unsettled many times at the snap of the ball. especially when Towson got close on the third TD.

 

[joey3$trike$]

Early in the game last night Byron Jones was in a position to take out a receiver who was exposed going up for a ball. He made a poor wrap tackle and never sent a message. I'm not talking dirty football, I'm talking physical football. Butler or Gratz or Branch would have bruised a bunch of ribs.....just say'in.

Biz, thanks for doing this, painful as it must have been.

There may be two wins somewhere this season, but there won't be more than that. Not a singe RB other than LM took a hand-off. We're going to ride a 165LB fly weight back with a big heart but some significant limitations. The OL is just a passive group and to my eye I can't even understand what they hope to accomplish. Hemmingway was not even remotely ready to be on the field. Not even close. So that tells me this staff is incapable of evaluating and developing young talent and that is just frightening. And for those who want to throw the ball all over the field, you got some of that last night. But, when you can't run the ball and you have no play action and your TEs don't have a single reception you get DLs teeing off.

It never made sense to me that the defense would be what it was last season given the talent lost. That it would regress to this I find almost unbelievable. If Stegg, Ashiru and Vahn couldn't beat out Graham and Donahue I shudder to think what's in store for us next season when Yawin takes his game to the NFL. And I could really give a duckk how many stars a kid has on the recruiting sites or who recruited them, give me Lutrus or Wilson or Lansanah or any number of other UCONN great LBs who made plays.

Obi is the real deal. That was a hell of first showing and for someone that long to move the way he does is simply remarkable.

P will blame this on talent, but he's not being truthful (probably with himself). There was excellent talent last season on both sides of the ball and certainly enough to win many more game than we did. Now, with a younger less experienced group that flaws become glaring. I do think there is a scenario where P doesn't make it through the season. That scenario being a team that throws in the towel early and starts getting into off field issues. I certainly hope that does not happen, but I certainly do not see it as out of the realm of possibility.

Huge setback for a new program that was very well positioned to two season's ago.

In regards to your first paragraph about Jones and his shy-away missed tackle when he should of knocked the crap out of the receiver, maybe even dislodging the ball. I was thinking the same exact thing, and I even said he used to be a safety; blow that guy up, set the tempo... Then I remember earlier in the day watching one of these cfb shows and they were saying if you hit a defenseless player high( the wr was in the air facing the sidelines if I remember correctly) you get expelled from the game.
I think Jones being the smart player in my mind, had that in the back of his head and seemed to be "afraid" to make the big hit. I think these kids are getting the wrong advice, true you don't want to hurt these kids, but he could of made a solid hit when the wr toes hit the ground. Now I saw the kid from Ole miss lay out the kid from Vandy with a huge hit over the middle, which made the kid puke on the field. A good clean hit, maybe the mack hit on Mcquillan was on Jones's mind as well, I don't know but this team is too passive.
Then I also saw Whitmer rolling out and instead of gun-slinging and trying to make a play (either with his feet or in the air) I saw absolutely nothing, I think he's told to do nothing, so therefore not putting the players in a position to win. The thing I liked most about Whitmer was his ability to try to make a play, yes trying to throw it away, and not actually doing it bothers me, but you can't win a game by putting restrictions on a qb and expect to win. Especially in a pro-style offense, this kid is a gun-slinger, let him play to his ability. If you have a concern he's too turnover prone or not tall enough to see over the o-line, and can't step up into the pocket, then put someone else in who can do what you want. Clueless...

 

[Chief00]

Whitmer can't throw on the run and can't step up in the pocket and see receivers. Coupled with a poorly coached OL and a 165 pd back asked to be a workhorse - you get the results one would expect.
It is never a healthy thing to let a poor performer hang around - Coach P and D's departure time is long overdue.