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UConn Football adding Noel Mazzone as an offensive analyst

HuskiesFan1014 said:
You can (and probably should) tell Spanos directly (or indirectly, of course.) Who would know better than you? (Hoping for a good week for Steve, as always.)
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Haven’t spoke to the young man in quite some time as I’ve stated before he was a great person to our community and took the pack to states I’m just a fan of him for what he did for our community during his time here
 
CTFAN4LIFE said:
At this moment I think there's about a 5% chance Spanos gets the HC job.
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True, however I want, this hire, an offensive minded head coach, who knows quarterbacking. I don't want to see JZ or SK leave, especially SK. Maybe a coach who'd put both of them on the field at the same time...Our offensive plays lately is predicable. We need some trick plays...
 
Blades said:
True, as we've seen to many times before, guys like PP, Diaco and Edsall probably don't want a guy who puts out youtube videos with a title:

Running a Hurry Up No Huddle Spread Offense with Noel Mazzone​

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We've hired three HC coaches in row who were completely unaware of their own shortcomings (offense!). While the smart coaches find talented people to cover theit shortcomings (and try to learn something along the way), the arrogant and foolish ones find yes men they can rule over who ultimately fail them (while never taking the to the big picture lesson).

Three HC coaches in a row with massive failures at the OC position.
 
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Forte said:
Hopefully DB learned his lesson on having DC's running the football program... o wait! :)
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The alternative (to a respected coach with a strong resume) was an “OC” who doesn’t call plays and has failed to score against FBS competition. Seems like an easy choice to me.
 
ZooCougar said:
How about we try scoring a touchdown or a field goal before we complain about scoring too much.

The defense will do better with a sustained drive than a 3 and out.
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True and Randy's team had been getting better and better at that. Which is usually about the time that the D gives up,
(after 2 or 3 series of nada by the O) But you know, let's watch em' play ball control, Head bang....when they're down by 35 .
 
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This move can only help. It may take a while before we see results, but then again, Mazzone may be able to identify some simple, quick changes that will help the O sustain drives, shorten games and score points. I'm excited to have him on our staff.
 
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I wanna believe that we will see a more modern offense but until I see it in a game, I can't buy it.....We've been told this too often by different OC and HC. I'm tired of hearing that we're going to finally bring in a modern offense and then see the same run up the middle garbage.

Here's to hoping we FINALLY see an offense that looks like a modern college offense.
 
Only thing concerning is I just looked up mazzones resume he doesn’t stay put very long. The longest stint I really seen was at UCLA the jets and one other college. Other than that all his stints at a school for one to two seasons with two stints at ole miss but him for a season or two is better than what we have had
 
blue93 said:
Anybody with eyes knew a change needed to be made to the offensive coaching staff. I’ve seen enough shotgun handoffs on 4th and 2 at the 50.

I don’t know how much this will help at this point, but at least they’re trying.
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Or run it up the middle on 3rd and 13
 
SubbaBub said:
Can't run hurry up with a defense that gives up 50 a game. I don't know how many years we have to repeat this.
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Then find a DC who can run one that doesn't. Only at Uconn can a HC get away with this excuse, over and over and....
 
Rosebud70 said:
Only thing concerning is I just looked up mazzones resume he doesn’t stay put very long. The longest stint I really seen was at UCLA the jets and one other college. Other than that all his stints at a school for one to two seasons with two stints at ole miss but him for a season or two is better than what we have had
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Well since he's being paid by the week, I'd guess that shouldn't be a problem , :)
 
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Rosebud70 said:
Only thing concerning is I just looked up mazzones resume he doesn’t stay put very long. The longest stint I really seen was at UCLA the jets and one other college. Other than that all his stints at a school for one to two seasons with two stints at ole miss but him for a season or two is better than what we have had
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He's kind of a jerk. I know people that know him. He's got a good mind for football but he rubs a lot of people the wrong way. But a lot of that is personality. He fits better in the north east than in other parts of the country.
 
UCFBfan said:
I wanna believe that we will see a more modern offense but until I see it in a game, I can't buy it.....We've been told this too often by different OC and HC. I'm tired of hearing that we're going to finally bring in a modern offense and then see the same run up the middle garbage.

Here's to hoping we FINALLY see an offense that looks like a modern college offense.
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We're not going to run a new offense. You can't just switch your offense to a brand new one mid year. He's going to evaluate players and play structure, maybe redefine how we set up certain plays, when we call certain plays etc. But I highly doubt we'll see Nzone in play. Maybe some concepts. All about that triangle.

If anyone is unfamiliar with his passing concepts, it's mostly around flooding zone schemes with triangle based patterns that force defenders to commit to a specific receiver. I took his course when I was coaching a passing league for a HS
 
Rosebud70 said:
Only thing concerning is I just looked up mazzones resume he doesn’t stay put very long. The longest stint I really seen was at UCLA the jets and one other college. Other than that all his stints at a school for one to two seasons with two stints at ole miss but him for a season or two is better than what we have had
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He doesn't have to stay and likely wouldn't anyway with a new HC coming. All he has to do is help AD Dave keep FBS football in CT.
 
JMick said:
He's kind of a jerk. I know people that know him. He's got a good mind for football but he rubs a lot of people the wrong way. But a lot of that is personality. He fits better in the north east than in other parts of the country.
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True, we are much more jerk tolerant here in the northeast as we have a much greater concentration being close to NYC and Boston. And of course, many of them are us ... if the dirty little secret be known. ;)
 
Also to touch on his tweet re John Marinelli, he's known John and Lou personally for a long time. New Canaan has run his scheme for years and John ran it at Greenwich.

Mazzone is very hands on for programs that commit to his scheme. I honestly think it's part of his problem as a coach. He offers a lot of help to HS's when he should probably be concentrating on his own gig
 
Rosebud70 said:
Only thing concerning is I just looked up mazzones resume he doesn’t stay put very long. The longest stint I really seen was at UCLA the jets and one other college. Other than that all his stints at a school for one to two seasons with two stints at ole miss but him for a season or two is better than what we have had
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Ehhh he won’t be here after the end of the season. He’s just another surgeon they brought in to handle the trauma.
 
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