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UConn Football adding Noel Mazzone as an offensive analyst

JMick said:
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
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It’s funny. People probably expect to see a transformation before the next game.
 
Being in shotgun formation, the QB turning and handing the ball to Mensah who is at a dead stop 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage, and then expecting him to gain yards with 5 guys blocking who struggle to hold their blocks has got to stop. Do we ever block anyone at the second level? I hope Mazzone is better than this.
 
Day one:
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I would be happy with something besides what we have seen the past three weeks. I don't expect any miracles but just something different whether they hurry up, open up the playbook they have, just something different.

Go Huskies
 
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Rosebud70 said:
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
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My bad....I somehow (from a post here somewhere) was under the impression he was your son.....either way, glad he's here, and hoping for good stuff from him and for him.
 
To me, this is a classic Dave Benedict move. Didn’t he try to bring in a new OC for Diaco? It wouldn’t surprise me if some of the conversation that ended Randy’s prolonged final year involved the suggestion to bring in some help to change things up.
 
CL82 said:
To me, this is a classic Dave Benedict move. Didn’t he try to bring in a new OC for Diaco? It wouldn’t surprise me if some of the conversation that ended Randy’s prolonged final year involved the suggestion to bring in some help to change things up.
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He tried to bring in Jerry Kill to help Diaco Diaco refused and got fired.

He got Lashlee for Edsall. Edsall and Lashlee agreed on nothing.
 
Noel Mazzone is the same guy that was at Arizona when they lost 60-0 to Asu and had a guy who was heisman contention Khalil Tate and ruined him. Sorry but why are we excited about this?
 
jchuskie said:
Noel Mazzone is the same guy that was at Arizona when they lost 60-0 to Asu and had a guy who was heisman contention Khalil Tate and ruined him. Sorry but why are we excited about this?
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Because it is someone other than the existing staff who haven’t shown themselves to be competent?
 
CL82 said:
Because it is someone other than the existing staff who haven’t shown themselves to be competent?
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again I am asking, did you see his stint at Arizona? It was BAD.
 
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uconnbill said:
I would be happy with something besides what we have seen the past three weeks. I don't expect any miracles but just something different whether they hurry up, open up the playbook they have, just something different.

Go Huskies
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Or just stop running certain plays like the delayed inside handoff.
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
This is interesting. UConn loses their OC a couple years ago and they don't bother backfilling and they promote Giufre. That kind of made sense because of the timing of Dunn's departure. But...they don't bother fixing this in the off season and they decide to continue with Giufre as OC.

They start the season as probably the worst offensive team in the country...Edsall gets fired and they bring on an offensive assistant.

I wonder if the OC position was a point of contention between Benedict and Edsall? Which of course is deja vu with Diaco and his OC issues. Add in the Lashlee situation...it seems like this position has been a constant issue throughout Benedict's tenure.

While I like this band-aid of hiring mazzone, I really hope the next coach will have some stability in this position.
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I can confirm that yes- Edsall and Benedict had different offensive visions and Edsall’s stubbornness had a direct impact on Lashlee leaving and the way we’ve gone about hiring people at OC since he’s been here.

Fwiw- Diaco also was pissed and wound up fired as a result (refused help from both Jerry Kill + Lashlee)
 
jchuskie said:
Noel Mazzone is the same guy that was at Arizona when they lost 60-0 to Asu and had a guy who was heisman contention Khalil Tate and ruined him. Sorry but why are we excited about this?
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The fact that we wouldn't have a schedule as hard as AZ justifies this move, plain and simple. We'd never have that hard a schedule... because we're still trying to figure stuff out (unfortunately).... We have a schedule where we can potentially win games (if we had a clue.. we have the athletes, IMO).. With all that said, it's gonna be extremely difficult to do now simply because we didn't have an off season to work with the guy properly... BUT, he CLEARLY has way more experience than anybody else we have currently that ran our offense (in the ground)...
 
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Drew said:
I can confirm that yes- Edsall and Benedict had different offensive visions and Edsall’s stubbornness had a direct impact on Lashlee leaving and the way we’ve gone about hiring people at OC since he’s been here.

Fwiw- Diaco also was pissed and wound up fired as a result (refused help from both Jerry Kill + Lashlee)
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Knowing the issues Benedict has had when he hires a defensive oriented coach...it would be hard to believe he would do that again.

If he hired an offensive guy he will get that consistent offensive philosophy that he seems to value.
 
jchuskie said:
Noel Mazzone is the same guy that was at Arizona when they lost 60-0 to Asu and had a guy who was heisman contention Khalil Tate and ruined him. Sorry but why are we excited about this?
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He failed in Arizona, but succeeded elsewhere. He basically only has the one trick, but it's a trick that might be quite useful for UConn if the personnel can pull it off.

He's a one-off for this season (or this week) only. New HC will bring in his own people. Meantime, anything to make the current product more watchable and competitive is a good thing, no?
 
storrsroars said:
That kinda puts a damper on my enthusiasm about his "hiring".
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They can’t commit to anything until they do an HC search, so it was a smart move finding interim offensive help that could also interview as an OC on the job. Not sure why Guifre isn’t out the door already but this makes it possible.
 
Mazzone's total offense ranks:

2010 Arizona St. 29
2011: Arizona St. 24
2012: UCLA 24
2013: UCLA 38
2014: UCLA 23
2015: UCLA 28
2016: Texas A&M 24
2017: Texas A&M 56
2018: Arizona 24
2019: Arizona 30
2020: Arizona 86 (Note: only played 5 games due to COVID)

He can't implement his offense at this stage of the season, but he is super qualified to critique the offense and suggest some scheme and play calling improvements.
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
Knowing the issues Benedict has had when he hires a defensive oriented coach...it would be hard to believe he would do that again.

If he hired an offensive guy he will get that consistent offensive philosophy that he seems to value.
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The one thing I’ll say about Benedict is that he tends to be very “hands off” during the season in terms of letting the coaches do their thing. But as far as program building goes- he isn’t afraid to interject when he clearly sees something that needs addressed.

I see it from both sides. As a head coach, you don’t want your AD hiring coordinators for you without your input. At the same time as an AD, you’re not doing your job if you aren’t involved to this level of detail. It’s part of the reason I keep saying we need total administrative alignment from the governor all the way to the support staff. Everyone has to move in lockstep or there is a ton of unnecessary friction.
 
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This is a win win for both sides. UConn hopefully becomes a more competitive offense throughout the remainder of the season and as a result, Mazzone gets to “rehab” his reputation here (look- I actually got them to score a TD versus a FBS team for the first time since 2019!). Giufre is clearly in over his head calling plays and developing a game plan (and its clearly detracting from his OL coaching ability as well)- if this hire helps offload some of the game planning from Frank’s plate and allows him to focus more on the OL then that’s great. If Mazzone winds up as OC, that’s great too.
 
Before we anoint this guy the next OC, lets see what he can do about the QB, RB and OL situation in Storrs.
Whoever it is at QB - that guy needs some sort of protection and time
As a NYG fan, Ive seen some shoddy OL work but UConn is at a level all to itself
The RBs were supposed to be a strongpoint - haven't seen that yet
Best of luck Coach
 
gtcam said:
Before we anoint this guy the next OC, lets see what he can do about the QB, RB and OL situation in Storrs.
Whoever it is at QB - that guy needs some sort of protection and time
As a NYG fan, Ive seen some shoddy OL work but UConn is at a level all to itself
The RBs were supposed to be a strongpoint - haven't seen that yet
Best of luck Coach
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Watch this Mensah highlight film from 2019. You will see quicker developing plays than you see this year. Mensah getting the ball while he has a running start or getting the ball outside quickly. You are not seeing the same play quickness this year. And, when plays develop quickly, the OL's job is much easier as they only need to hold blocks for a short time.

 
My only hope is marginal improvement with Mazzone. Speed things up so the OL isn't under so much pressure, score some points and lift the morale of the players and fans. Maybe even beat UMass and Yale in a perfect world.
 
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