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giddyup said:
Not to piss on the parade, but we lost the second half which just fries my backside. Need 4 quarters of sustained intensity and execution vs Duke. We can get it done. We just can’t shrink in the moment.
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Weren’t we up 38-6 after three quarters? Why in the world would your backside be fried by what happens in garbage time?
 
Palatine said:
UAB was terrible. But the team deserves credit, they took full advantage.
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They were but they did manage to beat Memphis. The G5 games are wild like that.
 
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Alum86 said:
Noon start, the students are eating a bowl pf Cap n Crunch and firing up a fatty. They ain’t getting on a bus. It is what it is.
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I dunno if it's that dire.. but I'd say last night being Halloween and the proclivity of college aged students to dress up and drink heavily had more to do with it than a wake and bake bowl with the Cap'n. Those crunch berries are hard to deny though.
 
How Sway?! said:
Love that the team played pissed. Now we need to figure out how to make the team played pissed every game. Can't just be after losses.
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Coach pissed practice pissed and play pissed.
 
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HCCForever said:
And Dom and some of media were pissed. Sounds like recipe for success.


Not sure if everyone saw this on broadcast but Mora did his Pete Carroll impression prior to fourth quarter. Jumping up and down firing up his team. Great to see that enthusiasm.
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You got a time stamp?
 
Hamms30 said:
I dunno if it's that dire.. but I'd say last night being Halloween and the proclivity of college aged students to dress up and drink heavily had more to do with it than a wake and bake bowl with the Cap'n. Those crunch berries are hard to deny though.
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I'll say it.

Any excuse is soft. If they were trying to hook up, they'd find a way to be there.

Make your own value judgment but bottom line is students aren't invested in this team.
 
Why don’t we utilize Honig more? Guy is 6’7 and 270 or something crazy. Seems to have decent hands. Only gets one or two targets. I know we have a lot of options but kid seems like a monster. And should get his number called more than one or two times per game
 
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uconnyankee said:
Why don’t we utilize Honig more? Guy is 6’7 and 270 or something crazy. Seems to have decent hands. Only gets one or two targets. I know we have a lot of options but kid seems like a monster. And should get his number called more than one or two times per game
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I’ve wondered why we don’t give him the ball in short yardage situations, I feel like he would be good there. Used to be a QB so he could even line up under center
 
Chin Diesel said:
For the record, 0% of my energy or joy was, or is, affected by student section attendance.
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Student section 4th quarter at today’s game
 
Some interesting observations:
1) UConn did not run out of the tunnel. They gathered near the entrance and started one on one hittting drills.
2) #21 Graves gave us the burner out of the backfield replacement for Mel Brown. Good to get him action without burning the redshirt.
3) Smith in the wildcat was a new wrinkle and something to build off of.
4) some of our downfield passes require the Oline to hold up a very long time. They usually have 2 guys going down the sideline against zone and one goes toward the post and the other to the sideline. They are very effective as Neider and Bell had great production off of them.
5) the dl takes the worst angles to a qb i have ever seen. They made the backup qb look like Fran Tarkenton(for the young uns, look him up on you tube).
6) student section has to fill up at least half a section. Long gone are the days they caused Pitt to have 3 false starts due to noise.
7) we have a lot of good tight ends!
 
giddyup said:
Not to piss on the parade, but we lost the second half which just fries my backside. Need 4 quarters of sustained intensity and execution vs Duke. We can get it done. We just can’t shrink in the moment.
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You're pissing into the wind on this one. 38-6 after 3. You can substitute and keep guys healthy and feel pretty confident about a win...the last TD wasn't a TD, but honestly, who cares. The execution already happened in this game. I agree that against Duke, it will take all 4 quarters.
Just enjoy a solid win and rub some aloe on your backside. 😁
 
Khal Drogo said:
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Student section 4th quarter at today’s game
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Some of y'all must have never been to college. This is the game after a Friday night Halloween... That's the biggest party night of the year. Give the kids a break. You all expect a sell out crowd for every game but don't understand the difficulties of students getting to the game.
 
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Great win by the fellas. Great job by Mora and company, getting us 3 bowls in 4 years with a program that was on life support.

As for the attendance; I'm guessing that the Duke game will be a much higher attendance in all sections. Close to 30k is my bet. A winning team playing against a recognizable name. I'm guessing Duke was included in almost every "3-game package" that was sold...
 
Chin Diesel said:
If they were trying to hook up, they'd find a way to be there
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Isn't driving to Hartford to hook up what got Clyde Vaughan in trouble?

(FWiW I wandered into many UConn football games hungover. If I had to get up early and ride a bus for a half hour first, it wouldn't have happened.)
 
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UConnDan97 said:
Great win by the fellas. Great job by Mora and company, getting us 3 bowls in 4 years with a program that was on life support.

As for the attendance; I'm guessing that the Duke game will be a much higher attendance in all sections. Close to 30k is my bet. A winning team playing against a recognizable name. I'm guessing Duke was included in almost every "3-game package" that was sold...
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Currently, weather forecast is in 50s for game time. High of 60 for pregame. Good weather for this time of year.
 
On UAB's first score where they lined up in that strange formation, what was the mistake that led to the receiver being so wide open? Should the linebacker on that side have dropped into coverage instead of rushing? Should Chadwick have not tried to break up what looked like a wide receiver screen by coming across the LOS?
 
gopher2 said:
On UAB's first score where they lined up in that strange formation, what was the mistake that led to the receiver being so wide open? Should the linebacker on that side have dropped into coverage instead of rushing? Should Chadwick have not tried to break up what looked like a wide receiver screen by coming across the LOS?
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I’m over the attendance complaints. Boise St didn’t have anyone in the stands for their game and that’s a football centric school with great tradition and spirit. Tons of P4 games have sparse attendance too. Times have changed. People watch at home…or in the car….or while camping in the woods….or while at their kids’s soccer game. The internet changed everything.

We need to be good and play name schools to fill seats. This is truly a spoiled fan base and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. If we never have a P4 schedule, we’ll never have the attendance people want. We’ve been there. We were sold out in the old Big East. We’ve got an elite, championship winning athletic dept and UAB doesn’t move the needle for our fans. Big deal. We all understand why, we just need to accept it. The B12 doesn’t need to see sell outs against Buffalo to give us an invite. All they need to do is look at how we showed up for Baylor and Iowa St etc. We’ll be there.
 
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