I actually think the oline was better this year than the past few years. Pretty low bar to pass, but I thought they were simply below average, as opposed to dreadful, this year.
WAY OVER Confident Carl...No personal attack as I realize your a fan but you have to read what you print some times. As for hypothetical conjecture you are the master. Reading many of your posts leads me believe if you were sent to prison for oh say a simple 10 years it would be a wonderful thing because the diet would keep your cholesterol down.
Been avoiding the topic as it simply is rock bottom but maybe Carl has the bright side of this one....
Totally agree.....had the OLine been any good, Newsome easily is a 1,000+ yard rusher, Sherriffs stays healthy (and upright), Williams keeps his red-shirt, and this team at the very least is. 500 and bowl eligible. There's a reason none of those things happened. Most of us know the cause, except those that have to power to stop the bleeding. It's time to stop putting bandaids on bullet holes.
I would respectively disagree. The oline pass blocking was definitely better this year over last year to my eyes although arguably the run blocking was worse. More and more teams rush anywhere between 5 and 7 players on every play because they know that we are very slow to throw the ball ( quarterback with a slow release and offense strategy that doesn't appear to provide our quarterback dump off pass option when the primary receiver is covered may explain this). Pass blocking depends on everyone playing well not just the 5 offensive lineman. I watched Houston play at least 7 times this year and their o-line is no great shakes. The difference though is Ward is very elusive and was able to run away from the pass rush and then find a open receivers down field even though he was running for his life. Shirreffs on the other hand wasn't nearly elusive as Ward but more importantly did not throw very well on the run. Further, our wide receivers were no where near fast Houston's wide receivers and as such Sherriffs probably didn't have as many open targets as Ward did. I am not arguing that our oline doesn't need to improve a great deal for this program to get better but I think its unfair to point to the statistics and blame just the lack of improvement in the oline. A lack of a real OC doesn't help either. I am, however, in no way defending any of the coaches here. It appears that UConn football program has made 2 bad hires in a row for their head coach.
What I will say is that the number of sacks don't line up with improved pass blocking. They just don't. You only take sacks when you're passing, and we were almost the worst in the country. And as you mentioned, the run blocking was not better either. 
Yeah, but who will go on vacation with the Diacos if they replace Cummings?
Jesus i read your first sentence and almost had a heart attack. Thought you typed George Deleone
I do this as well. Gets me every time.
My very limited point was that the 5 offensive linemen did a better job pass blocking this year over last despite the fact our quarterback was sack more times. Shirreffs ran for his life two years ago on most pass plays. This year our quarterbacks had more time to throw. Too many times Shirreffs pulled the ball down to run even though he had more time to throw. Further, the running backs missed a lot of pass blocks during the first half of the season which may have help inflate the sack number. Nevertheless, we can all agree that this was a god awful offensive team that needs both better players and better coaching.I respect that you disagreed respectfully.
When you have a relatively veteran line like we did this year, and they haven't improved over the last three years of coaching, one has to deduce that the primary problem is the coaching...
the unsettling part about that is how much bigger he is than Newsome
To be fair to both of them, it seemed like either the QB was calling the wrong protections or the line was messing up their assignments a lot of the time. Rushers were coming from different places than where the backs were stepping up to.
