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If I am Benedict, I have to wonder why Diaco is the head coach. Why? He is looking to sell tickets and increase enthusiasm. Diaco is tamping it down by using UCONN as his test tube for 60's style football. No punt returns. Ultra conservative play calls. Bend don't break defense. In today's age, that equates to 20k for a home game. Add on his lunatic fringe comments and the task gets taller.

If by G-d's grace we get into the Big 12, Diaco will have no choice but to play football - not manage it.
 
uconnbaseball said:
Booing the coaches for the end of the half decision to not try to score, not the players.
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Lousy decision. The odds of Maine scoring in that situation were worse than the Powerball odds. Take a chance...a first down in FG range or a lucky TD throw and Maine goes in at half deflated instead of encouraged.

But I'll be honest Belichick does the same thing all the time and it pisses me off. My view is that a play with 16 seconds in the half is no riskier than one with 5 minutes. Play the game.
 
I was one section up from the band. They had tons of energy. When the crowd booed that was when knew there was a crowd at all.
 
Diaco is not fit for Big 12 football. Time to boot him.

There's no way he'll fit into that conference unless he comes up with some all-time defenses. Diaco really is over his head, anyway. I have no idea how people see potential competency in him.
 
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hardcorehusky said:
If I am Benedict, I have to wonder why Diaco is the head coach. Why? He is looking to sell tickets and increase enthusiasm. Diaco is tamping it down by using UCONN as his test tube for 60's style football. No punt returns. Ultra conservative play calls. Bend don't break defense. In today's age, that equates to 20k for a home game. Add on his lunatic fringe comments and the task gets taller.

If by G-d's grace we get into the Big 12, Diaco will have no choice but to play football - not manage it.
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I'm not fully there with you... Yet. But the spidey senses are tingling as the excuses fall one by one.
 
The playcalling couldn't haven't been any worse last night. I tried like hell to find excuses or somewhat logical reasoning...there isn't any. I understand vanilla playcalling against FCS teams to not put plays on film. But last night was different - the game was in question until the final play of the game. At some point, you have to go grab a game by the friggin' horns, build up a big lead, then you can conserve as much as you want.

Taking a knee at the end of the half was brutal. Equally brutal - calling timeout with 13 seconds left on the game clock to kick the FG. Why give Maine any time whatsoever after the kick??? We gave them an opportunity to run back a kick AND run a fumblrooski lateral play. Unacceptable.
 
Dooley said:
Equally brutal - calling timeout with 13 seconds left on the game clock to kick the FG. Why give Maine any time whatsoever after the kick??? We gave them an opportunity to run back a kick AND run a fumblrooski lateral play. Unacceptable.
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Thought process is if you are going to kick on third down (or less) to account for a bad snap and re-kick then you need to leave time on the clock for that to happen. Not 13 seconds but closer 7 +/-?
 
huskymedic said:
Thought process is if you are going to kick on third down (or less) to account for a bad snap and re-kick then you need to leave time on the clock for that to happen. Not 13 seconds but closer 7 +/-?
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But you're out of timeouts, so you won't have enough time to re-set after the first bad snap. You run the clock down and take the timeout with :04 left.
 
Excalibur said:
But you're out of timeouts, so you won't have enough time to re-set after the first bad snap. You run the clock down and take the timeout with :04 left.
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Exactly. That was our 3rd and final TO. I understand that you leave some time to account for a bad snap. But in the event of a bad snap and if our holder can't throw the ball away, the clock runs out anyway. If we had an extra emergency TO, then I have no problem with leaving a little time on the clock to account for bad snaps.
 
RSTuthill said:
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.
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There was a lot more than that. It was closer to 30 seconds.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Lousy decision. The odds of Maine scoring in that situation were worse than the Powerball odds. Take a chance...a first down in FG range or a lucky TD throw and Maine goes in at half deflated instead of encouraged.

But I'll be honest Belichick does the same thing all the time and it pisses me off. My view is that a play with 16 seconds in the half is no riskier than one with 5 minutes. Play the game.
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Belichick doesn't do it within field goal distance
 
Excalibur said:
But you're out of timeouts, so you won't have enough time to re-set after the first bad snap. You run the clock down and take the timeout with :04 left.
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You should be able to set up for a kick without having a timeout. Especially if the kicking team is still on the field.
 
In a time when we're trying to sell as many tickets as possible it's tough to have a coach who makes Hank Stram look daring running the team.

This is supposed to be entertainment. And the display last night was anything but entertaining.

For all the preseason hype the coach , staff and players laid a giant egg.

Last nights win felt like a loss to me.
 
upstater said:
There was a lot more than that. It was closer to 30 seconds.
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It was whatever the playclock is + 7 seconds. They let the play clock expire and the 10 second runoff for the penalty took it to half time.
 
Watching that offense last night made me think the old ball coach PP and GD had kidnapped BD and staff....
 
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Irish Loop said:
I thought the crowd was better than the performance deserved. I didn't boo, but I understood why people did. It was a shameful end to the first half. At least try to kick the ball, .
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did anyone notice that Puyol tee'd one up from 52 when they came out after the half for warm ups and hit it comfortably? That's where the ball would have been spotted had they tried at the end of the half.
 
HartfordHank said:
You should be able to set up for a kick without having a timeout. Especially if the kicking team is still on the field.
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The clock is running from the snap. There is no way to set back up and execute the kick. None.
 
Excalibur said:
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
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The biggest problem is#3. Nonexistent rush. Can't allow this against good QB.
 
Butch said:
Diaco is not fit for Big 12 football. Time to boot him.

There's no way he'll fit into that conference unless he comes up with some all-time defenses. Diaco really is over his head, anyway. I have no idea how people see potential competency in him.
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I'm quickly getting to your position
 
hardcorehusky said:
If I am Benedict, I have to wonder why Diaco is the head coach. Why? He is looking to sell tickets and increase enthusiasm. Diaco is tamping it down by using UCONN as his test tube for 60's style football. No punt returns. Ultra conservative play calls. Bend don't break defense. In today's age, that equates to 20k for a home game. Add on his lunatic fringe comments and the task gets taller.

If by G-d's grace we get into the Big 12, Diaco will have no choice but to play football - not manage it.
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Diaco is not a Benedict hire. Good points that Disco's rhetoric doesn't match his game day performance.
 
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What is bothering me is Diaco's assertion that he is not looking for an explosive high scoring offense but more of a "grind it out, ball control, let our defense win it for us" offense. Why is that? I want a team that can score 50-60 points a game. That should be the goal. Why shoot for grinding out a win when you can blow out a team and look good and exciting doing it?
 
I was wondering what Benedict was thinking watching that game especially the end of first half and the crowds reaction
 
EJHarrington said:
What is bothering me is Diaco's assertion that he is not looking for an explosive high scoring offense but more of a "grind it out, ball control, let our defense win it for us" offense. Why is that? I want a team that can score 50-60 points a game. That should be the goal. Why shoot for grinding out a win when you can blow out a team and look good and exciting doing it?
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Obviously if they could do that they would. They don't have the players to do that.
 
kemba said:
Obviously if they could do that they would. They don't have the players to do that.
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I'm sick and tired of hearing this excuse. If we don't have the players, who's freakin' fault is that? Bobby D needs to look in the mirror on that one. This is his team now. Either he can't recruit to save his life, which means he doesn't deserve to have a job coaching at the FBS level, or he just can't figure out how to coach his players to learn how to execute something more than three yards off tackle or up the middle.

Besides, how do we even know if we don't have the players when you never try to do anything that's the slightest bit unusual or, dare I say it, daring? Would it kill us to run a reverse every once in a while, perhaps just to keep opposing defenses slightly off balance? That's still just a running play, but I guess it's too high risk for Bobby to even contemplate.

I guess Diaco must have read biographies of Darrell Royal and Bo Schembechler. "Only three things can happen when you pass a football, and two of them are bad."

That's Bobby D in a nutshell.
 
Fishy said:
The game should never have been that close - eliminate some pure idiocy and the game is a 31-14 type of win.
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Agreed, although I don't agree with Diaco's method grinding down Maine the first half, we should have had that game won 28-14 or 31-14.
 
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