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The first game will be telling. If we do not have a runner with 100 yards and or the QB is fatigued because he has been running around all day or he has dirty pants then we are in for a long season
 
jayfromfla said:
The first game will be telling. If we do not have a runner with 100 yards and or the QB is fatigued because he has been running around all day or he has dirty pants then we are in for a long season
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I've said it a few other places but this is as good a thread as any to repeat it. It's really hard to make predictions based on where we're coming from so I'm holding off until after week one.

Lose to Nova by any score, and 2 wins or less is likely. Barely beat them and we're looking at 3-4 wins. Beat them easily and we're probably getting 5+ because Nova in week one is probably as good as or better than USF, Army, and a couple others on the schedule. If you can beat Nova by 14+ in week one, you can/should beat USF, Army, etc. throughout the season.
 
mets1090 said:
I've said it a few other places but this is as good a thread as any to repeat it. It's really hard to make predictions based on where we're coming from so I'm holding off until after week one.

Lose to Nova by any score, and 2 wins or less is likely. Barely beat them and we're looking at 3-4 wins. Beat them easily and we're probably getting 5+ because Nova in week one is probably as good as or better than USF, Army, and a couple others on the schedule. If you can beat Nova by 14+ in week one, you can/should beat USF, Army, etc. throughout the season.
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Be careful with this. You are never as good or as bad as your week 1 performance.
 
Guys...trying to reason with Nelson is like talking to a cast iron radiator...only the radiator has more absorption power and common sense!
 
Last time for the muntzes of this world, Diaco tore it down. His call. Potential wins were left on the table. I'm betting this was discussed and approved by his boss. Lets see if he can build it back up before crapping on him. It is going to take some time for the coach and program. P left an undisciplined mess.
 
blue93 said:
You can't say that Pasqualoni's recruiting wasn't that bad, then completely ignore what happened from the time they stepped on campus to the time HCBD arrived. I dont think anyone would say that Diaco didn't make mistakes in year one, but you can't put the entirety of the blame on him either and say that PP's recruiting wasn't that bad... Rome wasn't built in a day.... Let's see how the players have developed. This year will be a much better indicator of Diaco's ability to coach guys up.
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I am not saying Pasqualoni was a good recruiter. I am saying that even a bad Big East class in 2011 should have been good enough to make UConn .500 in the AAC in 2015. Weist beat 3 good teams at the end of 2013. Last year was a train wreck, and that was with UConn playing a much softer schedule.

Or you can look at the play on the field. DeLeone gets fired, and the Offensive Line play improves almost immediately (not surprising), and then Diaco changes the offense and it gets worse. Then Diaco fires the only coach on his staff, Foley, who had the slightest idea what they were doing. I expect opposing defensive linemen and linebackers to be receiving mail in our backfield they will be there so much. Diaco's first move as HC was to can Weist and bring in his buddy from Central Michigan who had never called plays, which led to offensive chaos. I brought up the Army debacle earlier in the thread. These problems are not the players' fault or Pasqualoni's. UConn has a coach that has not shown a shred of competence in a year on the job.

2014 was Diaco's mulligan. He has to produce something this year.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
UConn is one of the worst teams in FBS right now. There is no way Pasqualoni's recruiting was so bad that we should be worse that most of the AAC, MAC, Sun Belt and MWC. None.

My schtick is that this board refuses to set any milestone by which to measure success or failure for the coaching staff. Do I have to pull up Pasqualoni threads where I was one of a handful calling for his head by the last two months of his second year?

Weist has been the only decent Head Coach since Edsall left, and Warde had to show how much smarter he was than everyone else and hire Diaco. Maybe Diaco will figure out how to be a Head Coach, but in the meantime, he is making the Pasqualoni look like the Calhoun of football.
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Glad you have schtick....but a true evaluation of any head coach will not be made in year one! Looking at Charlie Weiss, and yet they kept him, Why? the evaluation process as painful as it can be still requires hard fast data! Granted, so far Diaco, has shown us noting! BUT he will be our head coach for the entirety of this year. He will likely be the UConn football head coach starting next year - and if he remains as consistent during that entire time as he was in his first year, he will be gone. And Ward will have to answer to that - he himself could be out next year too. SO let's keep chewing on your negative pill and force it down, or maybe just maybe with the start of another year, we can at least muster support for this team and adjust our support for the coach and for the team as each game is won or lost!

I do not care what the predictions are or are not - we were aweful last year, that is what our first games of this season will be judged on! One win especially if it is a dominating win, will change all perception. I hope we win every qrtr of this game. I would make that the challenge against Villanova, it is four games in one! And we need to win all four! That is is how we dominate, that is how the Uconn Football Team needs to win this game against an FCS opponent!
 
FDNY99 said:
Guys...trying to reason with Nelson is like talking to a cast iron radiator...only the radiator has more absorption power and common sense!
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Ours is not to reason why but to do or die! - I hope we win big on Thursday, then we can hear him tell us how Villanova was not that good to begin with and that this victory is hollow at best! Or worse, I can continue to predict his negativity and feel my own character being tarnished by it! hmmmm....think I'll listen to anyone else, at least I know they will have original thoughts and not diatribes borrowed from our competition or other negative media outlets!
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
I am not saying Pasqualoni was a good recruiter. I am saying that even a bad Big East class in 2011 should have been good enough to make UConn .500 in the AAC in 2015. Weist beat 3 good teams at the end of 2013. Last year was a train wreck, and that was with UConn playing a much softer schedule.

Or you can look at the play on the field. DeLeone gets fired, and the Offensive Line play improves almost immediately (not surprising), and then Diaco changes the offense and it gets worse. Then Diaco fires the only coach on his staff, Foley, who had the slightest idea what they were doing. I expect opposing defensive linemen and linebackers to be receiving mail in our backfield they will be there so much. Diaco's first move as HC was to can Weist and bring in his buddy from Central Michigan who had never called plays, which led to offensive chaos. I brought up the Army debacle earlier in the thread. These problems are not the players' fault or Pasqualoni's. UConn has a coach that has not shown a shred of competence in a year on the job.

2014 was Diaco's mulligan. He has to produce something this year.
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How in the world did WEist win 3 straight with constant passing and then Diaco couldn't throw the ball a lick last year. Anyone able to think of anything other than coaching?

It's hard to take you seriously when you don't bother to mention that the QB who turned our season around at the end of '13 got hurt on opening day under HCBD. None of us have any idea what last year would have looked like had Cochran been healthy.
 
businesslawyer said:
How in the world did WEist win 3 straight with constant passing and then Diaco couldn't throw the ball a lick last year. Anyone able to think of anything other than coaching?

It's hard to take you seriously when you don't bother to mention that the QB who turned our season around at the end of '13 got hurt on opening day under HCBD. None of us have any idea what last year would have looked like had Cochran been healthy.
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The line would have made sure that whoever played QB would have had a rough go.
 
businesslawyer said:
How in the world did WEist win 3 straight with constant passing and then Diaco couldn't throw the ball a lick last year. Anyone able to think of anything other than coaching?

It's hard to take you seriously when you don't bother to mention that the QB who turned our season around at the end of '13 got hurt on opening day under HCBD. None of us have any idea what last year would have looked like had Cochran been healthy.
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Because no other team in college football had injuries last year.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Do you think Warde approved the Army debacle? Warde strikes me as the kind of guy that plays video games, so even Warde would know from Madden or NCAA Football 13 that you defend the option with safeties right on the line of scrimmage. The Army game was not playing for next year, it was just pure stupidity.


Because no other team in college football had injuries last year.
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Duncan Idaho said:
Last time for the muntzes of this world, Diaco tore it down. His call. Potential wins were left on the table. I'm betting this was discussed and approved by his boss. Lets see if he can build it back up before crapping on him. It is going to take some time for the coach and program. P left an undisciplined mess.
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Even Diaco has come out and said the transition period from the P debacle is over. Last year is over, this year all the wins and losses and everything in between is on Bob.
 
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Last year I said I had one goal for the season. I wanted it to be the 4th quarter before I had a facepalm.

The team went out and fumbled the ball for a defensive TD on the first play. Then repeated four straight games.

No goals, no expectations this year. Forest Gump box of chocolates this year. Go with the flow one pkay at a time.
 
businesslawyer said:
We went 0-8 without Cochran starting in '13, and 3-1 with him starting. After everyone thought we were dead.

Everyone has injuries. Not all teams can survivive losing their QB. Ohio State could. We're not Ohio State.
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We also aren't playing Ohio State's schedule. It is amazing the lengths people will go to make excuses for Diaco already.

If UConn is a P5 caliber program, it should finish Top 4 in this s***box of a league in its down years. UConn was the worst team in the league last year. Maybe you don't think UConn is a P5 caliber program.
 
Bob did not have a good first season. A coach is supposed to make his team better and in the sole context of last seasons games that didn't happen by any measure. In the grand scheme it no longer matters. We'll see what he has this season. At minimum he has to not give away four games that he punted last season.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
We also aren't playing Ohio State's schedule. It is amazing the lengths people will go to make excuses for Diaco already.

If UConn is a P5 caliber program, it should finish Top 4 in this s***box of a league in its down years. UConn was the worst team in the league last year. Maybe you don't think UConn is a P5 caliber program.
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UConn is not a P5 caliber football program right now. If we were, we'd probably be in the P5 by now. Diaco is trying to change that by cleaning up PP's mess. We'll find out this year if we're trending in the right direction. It's really not rocket science, don't overthink it.
 
Everyone thinks Diaco has cleaned up the mess. No one is convinced he can coach.

He's done everything you can do to right the ship except show that he can coach a game. He can build a program, he can recruit, he can motivate and he is a great person. Im just not sure he can tie it all together on the field. If he can, we'll start rolling.
 
Hoophound said:
Everyone thinks Diaco has cleaned up the mess. No one is convinced he can coach.

He's done everything you can do to right the ship except show that he can coach a game. He can build a program, he can recruit, he can motivate and he is a great person. Im just not sure he can tie it all together on the field. If he can, we'll start rolling.
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This.

Not saying he isn't a good game day coach, but based on last year he either has 1) a steep learning curve to overcome or 2) made the conscious decision to choose development over wins/losses last year. I'm hoping (and my gut tells me) its #2. However, without enough evidence the jury is still out. We should be more competitive in more games this year, which in turn will lead to situations that will better inform our perception of him as a game day coach. I'm hoping (and my gut tells me) he will make more mistakes early, but learn from them as the season wears on. I will withhold any evaluations I make until the end of the season.

Having said all that, Hoophound is right. If he proves to have/develop the game day chops, watch out. This year will have signs of hope, and next year should be very good.
 
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There is a pretty big difference between a program and a team.

Did Michigan stop being a great program because they had some bad teams?

If you don't have the players to have a good team it doesn't matter what caliber your program is.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
We also aren't playing Ohio State's schedule. It is amazing the lengths people will go to make excuses for Diaco already.

If UConn is a P5 caliber program, it should finish Top 4 in this s***box of a league in its down years. UConn was the worst team in the league last year. Maybe you don't think UConn is a P5 caliber program.
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You are insufferable.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
We also aren't playing Ohio State's schedule. It is amazing the lengths people will go to make excuses for Diaco already.

If UConn is a P5 caliber program, it should finish Top 4 in this s***box of a league in its down years. UConn was the worst team in the league last year. Maybe you don't think UConn is a P5 caliber program.
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YOU are seriously accusing anyone of thinking uconn isn't p5 caliber? You want to go Indy!

Forget insufferable, you're certifiable!
 
This is a hard season to predict on many levels: the unknown factor of Diaco year 2, coaching staff and quality of opponents.

Here is how I look at it: phase 1: Villanova and Army - When you are a TOP FCS team as Villanova, the starting lineups match up well with TOP 40 - 122 teams. It's the depth that the FBS teams have that make the difference. I think our D line will do well but their quarterback is an elite runner and if this defense is not disciplined, he can gash us. Our O line will hopefully make a difference and BS doesn't have nerves throughout the game.
Army - it comes down to Defending. We did not do that at Yankee Stadium but we should be able to beat them.

Phase 2- Missouri, Navy, BYU, UCF - we are the underdogs in each game- win at Missouri and the country will be watch us. Best publicity opp this year. Navy is good, BYU is good and UCF will be better than last year and now that we have annoyed them with the rivalry, they won't overlook us.

Phase 3 : 7 conference games - Other than Cinnci, no one will be the caliber of phase 2, so the experience of going at those teams will help us. If we have a relatively injury free season on the O-Line and QB, we can beat USF, Tulane and ECU. ECU built up to last year with the QB and receivers but they are gone and have just lost their starting QB for the year.

So , to me, it is 4 wins at least, 5 on par and 6 with an upset somewhere along the road and a feeling within the fanbase that we are back on track.
 
How many of PP's recruits left the program or were buried on the depth chart in his last year / BD's first year? How many of them would have cracked the 2 deep at a peer institution, whether that be a former BE school like Pitt/Cuse or an AAC school like Temple? If PPGDL's recruiting wasn't the problem, then player development certainly was. It's probably both.
 
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