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[Pudge]

funny how the usual arrogant blowhards get quiet on sundays after yet another embarrassing loss.

First week of october - the season is essentially over - five of the last 7 games are walkovers. only the having the worst team in the country on the schedule gives any reason to think they won’t be on a 2.5 season FBS losing streak.

Not quiet. Sad. Wondering what the next move is. But ... WE don't blow smoke insulting folks - as the know-it-all R us - on economic apocalypse collapsing all Capital investment. Like an idiot.

The Big East is clearly the right move. Basketball will fire up the fan base and the State. It will be fairly easy to point out the better regional and national Brand ... versus playing in Tulsa or NO. MSG will be the Rose Bowl of our wishes.

Yesterday was a Big Loss - not unexpected.

 

[storrsroars]

This will probably come off as an overly optimistic, if not naive, post, but what the hell.

Was watching the Steelers game. Mason Rudolph was having a decent game, got knocked out cold. Devlin Hodges, a rookie who was all time FCS passing champ from Samford came on and acquitted himself very well. Drove for a TD and FG, could've won the game if not for Smith-Shuster's fumble.

Quality guys at skill positions exist. Not sure how you find them and convince them to come to UConn vs an FCS school, but there are some quality players out there. Someone like Hodges would be far ahead of any current UConn QB. He was being considered by some SEC schools, but likely wouldn't see the field much. Most offers came from Southern Conference schools.

Not saying UConn would've/should've/could've gotten this particular player, but I'd imagine this sort of thing happens often, and if there's one thing UConn can sell to skill players, it's immediate playing time, or at least the opportunity to seriously compete for starting jobs. I don't know if UConn has ears/feet on the ground in Deep South recruiting areas, but if not, why?

 

[ZooCougar]

Up until this point I cut Edsall some slack. He had two coordinators quit on him. He was paying one from his own paycheck.

But we have only been competitive in one game. We look bad against anyone. Even Wagner. We would look bad against Trinity or Wesleyan of we played them next.

That’s coaching. There are lots of teams that are short on talent, but often times you can tell they are well coached. That’s not the case here.

 

[Milo65]

This will probably come off as an overly optimistic, if not naive, post, but what the hell.

Was watching the Steelers game. Mason Rudolph was having a decent game, got knocked out cold. Devlin Hodges, a rookie who was all time FCS passing champ from Samford came on and acquitted himself very well. Drove for a TD and FG, could've won the game if not for Smith-Shuster's fumble.

Quality guys at skill positions exist. Not sure how you find them and convince them to come to UConn vs an FCS school, but there are some quality players out there. Someone like Hodges would be far ahead of any current UConn QB. He was being considered by some SEC schools, but likely wouldn't see the field much. Most offers came from Southern Conference schools.

Not saying UConn would've/should've/could've gotten this particular player, but I'd imagine this sort of thing happens often, and if there's one thing UConn can sell to skill players, it's immediate playing time, or at least the opportunity to seriously compete for starting jobs. I don't know if UConn has ears/feet on the ground in Deep South recruiting areas, but if not, why?

And Samford finished 4th in their conference last year. With that being said, a diamond in the rough can come out of FCS, or G5, but we are expecting Edsall to find 22 plus diamonds. We can’t even find one. When this thing started, it was competing in a BCS conference, that turned into trying to move the program to a P5. Now that both of these ships have sailed and our school is sitting in the Big East, what’s the point?

 

[Purple Stein]

Wow! Not one positive, hey we can get there, blah blah blah comment and we're 5 pages in. That is the biggest sign that we are a dead program walking.....

The biggest sign is we have no flipping schedule for next season, IMHO.

 

[BlueDogs]

It's absolutely wild that people think firing Edsall at this point will do anything.

Too many mistakes have been made. This all was cast in 2011 when Randy (after many years or searching) finally found his dream job and allowed 12 years of work to go out the window. If this SOB waited 2-3 god damn years we would have had stability when the next round of realignment came around but nope.

You don't recover from this. You just don't. Not in our lifetimes. AD Dave (who outside of women's hoop, field hockey, and baseball) is presiding over a broken athletic department, needs to donate every ounce of time to preserving men's and women's hoop (likely done by moving back to the Big East), restoring men's and women's soccer (40 years of history about to go down the drain if he doesn't do something) and getting serious about actually winning in sports we've done nothing at yet but should be better in (men's and women's hockey, women's lacrosse).

Football is done. It's done for everyone outside the Power 5. Edsall can coach ten more years for all I care. He was there for the start, his ambition and ego helped facilitate the end, and he can be there for the last game.

Yes, women’s sports is really going to to put us over the top.

 

[Pudge]

Up until this point I cut Edsall some slack. He had two coordinators quit on him. He was paying one from his own paycheck.

But we have only been competitive in one game. We look bad against anyone. Even Wagner. We would look bad against Trinity or Wesleyan of we played them next.

That’s coaching. There are lots of teams that are short on talent, but often times you can tell they are well coached. That’s not the case here.

Hyperbolic

Trinity? Wesleyan? Methinks thou should stick to your Eurocentric critique of the MLS & USMNT.

USF is a solid 50-80 FBS. I don’t care if they are at metrics over 100. That ain’t Trinity. To beat them ... or any AAC, this Team has to be on all day. Defense particularly. There’s enough disappointments in positional units. But it is because the Edsall start was to strip away & force youth.

 

[ZooCougar]

Hyperbolic

Trinity? Wesleyan? Methinks thou should stick to your Eurocentric critique of the MLS & USMNT.

USF is a solid 50-80 FBS. I don’t care if they are at metrics over 100. That ain’t Trinity. To beat them ... or any AAC, this Team has to be on all day. Defense particularly. There’s enough disappointments in positional units. But it is because the Edsall start was to strip away & force youth.

We looked bad against Wagner. We are hot garbage.

Hyperbole works in this case. We haven’t yet hit rock bottom.

Eurocentric. More like reality centric. MLS is soccer in the USA’s biggest barrier now. FACT. It’s like having 30 Jeff Hathaways in charge of a league.

 

[Pudge]

We looked bad against Wagner. We are hot garbage.

Hyperbole works in this case. We haven’t yet hit rock bottom.

Eurocentric. More like reality centric. MLS is soccer in the USA’s biggest barrier now. FACT. It’s like having 30 Jeff Hathaways in charge of a league.

Trinity? How about Union, RPI, Hobart, zTufts & Saint Lawrence?

That’s crazed.

Getting whipped by - at best - mid level AAC is sad. But it’s light years above where you put the bar. We can compete with MAC or Some others.

I have spent a lot of time on Broad Street in Temple classrooms. And toured their football facility. We distinctly are light years beyond on Capital invested. So Al Golden to Steve Addazio to Matt Ruhle to Todd Collins to Rod Carey > Randy PP DiacoRedPants Randy. Why?

It’s the evaluation of Talent. And years 2010-2017 was a UCONN wasteland.

 

[ZooCougar]

Trinity? How about Union, RPI, Hobart, zTufts & Saint Lawrence?

That’s crazed.

Getting whipped by - at best - mid level AAC is sad. But it’s light years above where you put the bar. We can compete with MAC or Some others.

I have spent a lot of time on Broad Street in Temple classrooms. And toured their football facility. We distinctly are light years beyond on Capital invested. So Al Golden to Steve Addazio to Matt Ruhle to Todd Collins to Rod Carey > Randy PP DiacoRedPants Randy. Why?

It’s the evaluation of Talent. And years 2010-2017 was a UCONN wasteland.

It doesn’t matter. Scraping by against Wagner isn’t much worse that losing to Trinity. It really isn’t. Just stop.

 

[Pudge]

It doesn’t matter. Scraping by against Wagner isn’t much worse that losing to Trinity. It really isn’t. Just stop.

Pfft

In the last 7 years - since losing to Towson - they’ve scraped every FCS. What are you trying to prove? Inane thoughts and bloviating blogospheres are created and controlled by a different poster.

Next week they face a very improved Tulane. Ain’t Trinity.

 

[zls44]

Hell, I'd start recruiting in Japan for sumo wrestlers and martial arts experts.

Reminds me of the late Charles Wang, Islanders owner, who seriously believed in the idea of using a sumo wrestler in net.

 

[Northbound]

Hey, Yale is in one of the warmer climates in it's conference. Maybe we can create a conference with UB and McGill, and other Canadian schools and dominate that conference!

Perfect - then Randy’s recruits are closer to home and good poutine.

Well, that is the conventional wisdom. But if that is not what they are doing, I won't criticize for trying to think outside the box.

Goodness RE tries has never found a box he didn't want to jump IN and if there is no box that guy will build a box and voluntarily jump in it.

 

[John]

The AAC didn’t work out for UConn. Change is good when you are at the bottom, and independence is a chance for a new start and a new direction.

There is nothing to lose at this point and nothing to hang onto of the AAC.

I look forward to UConn making the most of this new start and rebuilding a competitive program.

Welcome to the small time.

 

[Woof 101]

Yeah, I didn’t express what I was feeling correctly. Of course, I am very proud to have earned an undergrad and masters from a great school like UConn. I guess I wanted students to also be proud to have a great athletic department too. I have a daughter the same age who just graduated from Notre Dame. She has already been back to South Bend for a game and is going next week (she lives in Chicago now). I know we will never be in the same class as Notre Dame’s AD. But I was hoping we could have a football program that is at least not an embarrassment.

Anyway, I agree with others on this thread. Just better things to do on the weekend than supporting a program that just keeps going backwards.

Have you lost your marbles???
Come on Marbles90, a bad football team does not define your school or the overall athletic program.
If I understand your avatar correctly you were a music major?
Right or wrong I leave you with this.......

 

[Marbles90]

Have you lost your marbles???
Come on Marbles90, a bad football team does not define your school or the overall athletic program.
If I understand your avatar correctly you were a music major?
Right or wrong I leave you with this..

Was not a music major - but I am a semi-professional part time bass player. I tried to better explain my feelings in my second post. Obviously proud to be a UConn alum but embarrassed when it comes to the product on the football field. And I do think a historically bad football team does define your overall AD. Yeah, I grew up on UConn basketball but I wanted us to be more than just a basketball school.

 

[Zissou]

Welcome to the small time.

When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose.

Embrace the new path.

 

[ASweet3781]

Yes, women’s sports is really going to to put us over the top.

Yeah we should be good at nothing instead. That’s great for morale.

 

[Waquoit]

Yes, women’s sports is really going to to put us over the top.

Women's sports pretty much paid for the Neag School of Education and the Werth BB facility.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Yale coach is talking he wants to play UConn but they offer no scholarships.

 

[Adios]

Lol @ Zissou saying we got nothing.

That's why you'd live here, hoping for UConn to rejoin the basketball schools. The only pro is we are restarting at the FBS level as Syracuse and BC used to live prior to joining the Big East for football.

Once the BE becomes a powerhouse in bball again, UConn will be ripe for the picking again, as long as we right the football program.

 

[ZooCougar]

Pfft

In the last 7 years - since losing to Towson - they’ve scraped every FCS. What are you trying to prove? Inane thoughts and bloviating blogospheres are created and controlled by a different poster.

Next week they face a very improved Tulane. Ain’t Trinity.

We would lose to Trinity but maybe we would have a shot against the Coast Guard Academy.