Thoughts on the 2015 season ( v long)

[Jimmy Serrano]

Yes. That's the game that tweetledee and tweetledumb lined up our concussion prone QB out wide on the same trick play that they put on film towards the end of a 30-0 win over UMass.

That play call still pisses me off to no end. I would not have allowed P in the locker room after that. And would've walked over to the coaches box and had GDL escorted from the stadium immediately.

 

[pepband99]

I refuse to believe that Pasqualoni's recruiting was so bad that a team that was competitive in a BCS league just a couple of years ago is now on the verge of a 1-2 win season and multiple curb stompings in a mid-major conference. I hate Diaco blah blah blah...

You only need look at our OL to see why you're wrong. You won't, because your schtick is your UConn and Diaco hate, but it's clear as day. We haven't been able to block or protect for the better part of 2-3 years.

 

[whaler11]

Yes, on a two-game win streak after that win and after handling Pitt. I was so excited for that game, until I went to the Husky Walk.

Those 100+ kids who got off the bus looked like they wanted to be ANYWHERE other than East Hartford on that morning. If it would accomplish anything, I'd name names, but it won't and I won't. After they all filed past us, my buddy and I -- with whom I've been watching games for two decades -- turned to each other and said, "that's not good."

The results on the field matched the looks on their faces. I wish I had been wrong.

The 2011 season they were 5-6 after beating RU and went to Cincinnati and got beat up.

You are remembering them sleepwalking through the 2012 finale at home against Cincinnati.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

It was 2012, not that long ago. Hung with them til the fourth. Mac came in, threw a couple INTs. Few personal fouls. Debut of Puyol.
P went for it on 4th and long well inside Cincy's 40.
Edit. I do remember the discussion we had on here about the teams energy level that game given its importance for bowl eligibility.

 

[UConn9604]

The 2011 season they were 5-6 after beating RU and went to Cincinnati and got beat up.

You are remembering them sleepwalking through the 2012 finale at home against Cincinnati.

That's right. I was remembering 2012 even though BL said 2011.

2011: http://espn.go.com/college-football/team/schedule/_/id/41/year/2011/connecticut-huskies
2012: http://espn.go.com/college-football/team/schedule/_/id/41/year/2012/connecticut-huskies

Those two teams played some seriously uninspired football and were still a handful of missteps away from qualifying for a bowl game.

 

[noeynox]

The 2011 season they were 5-6 after beating RU and went to Cincinnati and got beat up.

You are remembering them sleepwalking through the 2012 finale at home against Cincinnati.

They made a nice comeback in that game at Cincinnati. If only Tebucky Jones hung on to that TD.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

You only need look at our OL to see why you're wrong. You won't, because your schtick is your UConn and Diaco hate, but it's clear as day. We haven't been able to block or protect for the better part of 2-3 years.

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.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

What does it say about you that you watched this team the last two years and don't believe that P didn't leave this team with less than a mediocre FBS roster?

This is the first year that the team has no player who at least got to redshirt under Edsall and his staff. If HCBD is a fine, but not great, coach, it might take more than this year before we know it.

I would celebrate mediocrity at this point. UConn went from being a competitive BCS conference team to being one of the worst teams in FBS in 1 year. Weist's three wins look pretty impressive considering what the 3 opponents did the following year compared to what UConn did the following year.

 

[pepband99]

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.

I set one. The OL. You know, the one that was controlled by PPs buddy? It's also a trailing indicator that happens to impact Diaco, but predictably, you ignored it.

 

[blue93]

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.

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.

 

[jayfromfla]

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

 

[mets1090]

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

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.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

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.

Be careful with this. You are never as good or as bad as your week 1 performance.

 

[FDNY99]

Guys...trying to reason with Nelson is like talking to a cast iron radiator...only the radiator has more absorption power and common sense!

 

[Duncan Idaho]

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.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

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.

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.

 

[UConn9604]

2014 was Diaco's mulligan. He has to produce something this year.

He's going to get 2016, too. Barring a felony conviction by him or a player.

 

[NYUConn]

Nicely done, sir.

 

[Stray_Dog]

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.

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!

 

[Stray_Dog]

Guys...trying to reason with Nelson is like talking to a cast iron radiator...only the radiator has more absorption power and common sense!

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!

 

[whaler11]

Um the three teams that TJ beat were 5-19 in the AAC and 11-26 overall.

The 5 Conf wins were 2 against each other, 2 against USF (2-6) and SMU.

 

[blue93]

Um the three teams that TJ beat were 5-19 in the AAC and 11-26 overall.

The 5 Conf wins were 2 against each other, 2 against USF (2-6) and SMU.

Not to mention TJ had a QB (CC) that Diaco had for a couple quarters of last year. But we'll ignore that too.

 

[businesslawyer]

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.

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.

 

[CTBasketball]

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.

The line would have made sure that whoever played QB would have had a rough go.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

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.

Because no other team in college football had injuries last year.