LOL. Yeah not so much. Maybe a few FCS programs. But every major program that recruited him listed him as a tight end. As it turned out he probably wouldn’t have lasted anywhere any way. Didn’t he want to stay with Mommy?
Ok, maybe not hundreds but of his final four two offers were as a QB and two were as a TE. In high school his sophomore year he played as a tight end, but his junior and senior years he was Southington’s QB, passed for 3000 yards and had 47 touchdowns.
He threw for 47 touchdowns and 3000 yards in his junior and senior years. His final four schools were UConn, Syracuse, Wisconsin and Wake Forest, and of those four offers, two were for QB and two were for TE. His sophomore season at Southington he played TE in every game.
Your exaggerations are really getting out of hand these days.
That’s true, Diaco did initially offer him as a QB as did Syracuse. Wisconsin and Wake Forest offered him as a TE.
Yes, Honest Bob D took back the offer as a QB and changed it to TE.
Yeah, but to be fair, every QB Diaco recruited was moved to TE.
It didn't help that the OL received little in-game coaching, their coach being up in the booth and all.
Nothing can significantly change until this changes. That's sad I think our coach would selfishly prefer not to have to play freshman when you have transfers coming in that theoretically should be more experienced. Realistically I don't think he'll be able to make a decision this week but sometime next week It should become clearer. To barely getting to know the playbook and their personnel at this point. The guys deserve a chance to compete and I'm not in a hurry to shut down that process.
How about 10 years of memories of missed tackles down field. I hope Mora can teach our defensive backfield how to make open field tackles. All those memories of our defenders bouncing off the offensive player running in the backfield, like balls in a pinball machine, still give me nightmares.
8 yds/carry.
Eventually selective amnesia will kick in, but that defense was so horrific the memories of how bad they were are still burned like a laser in my mind. The Memphis and Missouri games stand out. Our defense was only marginally better than 11 traffic cones.
People say I’ve become too negative, but there is no way I’d throw 11 random traffic cones under the bus like that.
Wasn't it Whitmer whose concussion protocol involved moving to wideout for a play or two?
Donovan Williams, followed a year later by Tyler Davis were both Diaco recruits and crazy Bobby talked up their abilities. He moved Williama to TE (and said Davis was going to push him out of QB anyway) and then did the same with Davis.
Don't know, but that would violate the intent of any concussion protocol that I am aware of. Even of you are running decoy routes with no intention of the QB to pass to you, you can still get hit. If that happened it was crazy.
Thanks.
Agreed. But regarding run blocking, in the recent past pulling linemen to lead the run blocking sucked. And I am not confident that it will be much better this year (we shall see). In the days of Jordan Todman and Anthony Sherman, having a fullback in the backfield that could hit the point of attack much quicker and with a lot more northbound kinetic energy (like a ton of bricks) was hugely successful. I really wish they would get back to that some. The last time UConn played Temple they killed UConn by doing that. Pulling linemen who have to first run east or west (and often make a cut north) before they make contact is more difficult to execute correctly and with the right timing. Being able to run the ball between the tackles really opens up the passing game as we all know. And it has been a long time since UConn has been able to do that effectively.
True enough. But it allowed us to transport ourselves to the days of the Yankee Conference with that highly entertaining game against Rhode Island, won by the last team to possess the football. The last time I had seen Rhode Island play was in 1967 at Centennial Field, a 0-0 tie against UVM.
Wasn't Donovan Williams the one who Diaco said was the best he had ever seen at his position? Even for Diaco that was crazy talk.
I was being a little flippant calling it a protocol, but they did line him out wide as a decoy when he was too groggy to play his position.
I remember posting on the Courant message board about that and got flamed by the moderator (the beat writer) for even suggesting that. BS, it was an obvious case of mismanagement that would get a coach fired today.
PP liked Tim Boyle. The entire staff at the time was willing to let Boyle develop.