Tough crowd tonight.

[noeynox]

Couldnt believe the booing at the end of the 1st half.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Booing the coaches for the end of the half decision to not try to score, not the players.

 

[Chin Diesel]

They were booing the coaching staff and it was deserved.

They coached like cowards all half.

 

[whaler11]

They are coaching afraid of Maine. Maine!

 

[wethyhusky]

The conservative style of Diaco is awful, and deserves to be booed. I'm at the game and we aren't booing the players

 

[noeynox]

I get it. Very conservative for sure. That is as loud a booing i remember during an opener.

 

[Skiblets]

I was booing. This is crap. On top of five years of crap Batman is also booing

 

[uconnfan68]

Couldnt believe the booing at the end of the 1st half.

Gutless play calling.

 

[amory]

I get it. Very conservative for sure. That is as loud a booing i remember during an opener.

Mmm...Towson was pretty bad lol

 

[lavuuk153]

Totally booing the coaches.

 

[CTMike]

Embarrassing that we can't push around Maine.

 

[CTMike]

"Coach, what's your plan to score more than the opponent? Because right now you don't seem to have one."

 

[Hoophound]

Unfortunately, UConn has a habit of being totally disappointing in openers in most sports. Even our national championship basketball teams start out flat as a pancake. Weird.

Not throwing in the towel yet.

 

[John]

All those people with free tickets getting what they paid for.

 

[housekeys]

Totally booing the coaches.

Someone should ask BD what he thought of the booing at the half. If he does not recognize the booing was for him and his staff, it will be proof he is clueless.

 

[TRest]

This is miserable coaching.

 

[CTMike]

He couldn't care less about scoring points.

 

[John]

I'm seeing long lines at the box office after this game, people demanding refunds for the free tickets.

 

[RSTuthill]

I was one of the first to start booing. There were 16 seconds left for goodness sakes!! Take a shot at the endzone. The booing was well deserved.

 

[ninety-nine]

If UConn's offensive clock management gets any worse, we're gonna start getting penalized for missing the coin flip. The coaches seem to have no instincts at all in this area, and it's amazingly frustrating when you're sitting in the stands watching opportunities slip away.

 

[Caronimo]

As enthusiastic as Bob is, he is the most boring in game coach in the history of Football.

 

[coachcap]

Watching UConn's offense vs. watching paint dry: The paint is more exciting.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Well, Benedict knows from his time at Auburn how bad coaching can cripple a program.

I'm glad Benedict could hear the fans' frustrations with the coaching staff at the end of the first half. Hopefully it shows him fans of the program expect more from a staff than what we get to see on the field.

 

[noeynox]

Just finished the first half on DVR. Noel Thomas dropped a long pass at end of the 1st half that would have changed the complexion of the 1st half. Very next play Shirrefs misses on a play that would go a long way or possibly score. 2nd half to go, but my impression is that there were a couple of physical mistakes that can be corrected and that game last night is not as close.

 

[Excalibur]

Just finished the first half on DVR. Noel Thomas dropped a long pass at end of the 1st half that would have changed the complexion of the 1st half. Very next play Shirrefs misses on a play that would go a long way or possibly score. 2nd half to go, but my impression is that there were a couple of physical mistakes that can be corrected and that game last night is not as close.

If Thomas catches that ball or Shirreffs hits him on the next play, or if we don't get the bad PI call, or Shirreffs simply takes a sack on the stupid play action and doesn't fumble, the score is probably more comfortable, but I'd still be worried. Even if all of those things go right and we win by 10 or 14 points, it wouldn't have changed the fact that:

1) We failed to push around Maine's defensive front until 2/3 of the way through the game,
2) The safety position looks to be a huge issue as we got burned deep over the middle several times,
3) We generated zero pass rush (even rushing 3-4 we should have been able to get some pressure),
4) The same coaching/game management brain farts are present, and
5) The offense is still overly reliant on QB scrambles