This is what I want to hear from our FOOTBALL coach.

[Bootsthemonkey]

Last time I checked a coach can influence a kid to go to a school, encourage him. But it's the kids decision which school to attend. A coach cannot "send" a kid anywhere unless the coach is his parent. A coach is one of many opinions most kids are going to listen to in the process of recruiting. I'm not making excuses. It is what it is.

As far as Ollie's quote, he can talk about continuing a "standard of excellence" because he's taking over from Calhoun. What standard of excellence has been established at UConn for football? Yes, it would be the goal to get to that place but as far as history goes UConn has a long history of playing .500ish ball on the gridiron.

I'm not sure what the football coaching staff is saying that prompted this. It seems to me they're positive in their public comments. I have problems with the play calling and some of the personnel moves but public statements about the program? Really?

 

[bmayuc]

Last time I checked a coach can influence a kid to go to a school, encourage him. But it's the kids decision which school to attend. A coach cannot "send" a kid anywhere unless the coach is his parent. A coach is one of many opinions most kids are going to listen to in the process of recruiting. I'm not making excuses. It is what it is.

As far as Ollie's quote, he can talk about continuing a "standard of excellence" because he's taking over from Calhoun. What standard of excellence has been established at UConn for football? Yes, it would be the goal to get to that place but as far as history goes UConn has a long history of playing .500ish ball on the gridiron.

I'm not sure what the football coaching staff is saying that prompted this. It seems to me they're positive in their public comments. I have problems with the play calling and some of the personnel moves but public statements about the program? Really?

Randy Edsall had a bunch of 8 win seasons and was a consistently a ... ah. F:ck it your right...

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[noeynox]

Here is what I want to hear from our HC: " WERE NOT RUNNING THE SCORE UP, FOR lords sake, we had our third string in there in the fourth quarter. Its not our fault we kept scoring. I supposed we could have taken a knew every play in the second half, but come on, that team is currently in second place in our conference!"

 

[CL82]

Kevin Ollie - "The standard of excellence that we have at this university is going to continue. We’re not talking about wins and losses, we’re talking about national championships; conference championships. That’s what I signed up for."

That's not like Schiano at Rutgers who PROMISED multiple national championships. Which was and is stupid.

But Ollie sets a goal. And articulates the goal. National Championships.

I want a football coach who knows that a NC is the goal and articulates it. Otherwise, why play? Even if you never make it, that should be the reason you step on the field.

Nice. Time to change my signature.

 

[Nostical]

Actually, the most interesting coach to listen to this week was David Shaw of Stanford. He was responding to questions about the impact of having more than the average complement of high IQ players on his team and how he sells recruits on coming to Stanford. This essentially was his response: "Well, we have a big NFL playbook. It's complex. We demand a lot from these kids but its important that they have the smarts to master it. Both of our Coordinators have NFL experience. When a kid with talent comes here and learns he can master that playbook and execute those schemes, they know they have a better shot at the next level."

So here's the hope. Could it be that PP was correct in his assessment that our O-Line was trying hard but was simply not up to mastering the more complex NFL schemes? While its hard not to argue that he and GDL may have been foolish trying to use such a complex system with the personnel they inherited, is it just possible that with his own recruits in place........next year we might actually win some of those WTF losses? I remain a skeptic about that, but it may be our only glimpse of hope right now.

 

[noeynox]

I'm in the same boat nostical. There has been a major change in the philosophy of our passing game. The first part of that equation, the line, has struggled mightily and if they struggle your effed.

Problem I see is that I don't necessarily see that the next guys in are big enough, let alone talented enough to to play at this level. So either P will shock us next year in terms of wins and losses, or he will be gone.

 

[CAHUSKY]

Wasn't trying. I just dont see how you get top talent in the door with the current circumstances. I really don't. P.S. Boise State just dropped...

Ironic you mention Boise and then say you don't see how Uconn can recruit in a crappy conference. Boise is the prime example of a team that did