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UConn Football Fall Camp 2025



Players:
DB Malachi McLean
DB Cam Chadwick
RB Mel Brown
RB Cam Edwards
 
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-> In two-minute drills toward the end of Tuesday’s practice, UConn’s new defensive front made it nearly impossible for the offense to move the ball. But, for as many passes that were batted down at the line of scrimmage, Sammis wasn’t sounding his alarms.

“I get concerned about everything, but it’s something that we can fix now. And if we can’t fix it, we’ll find other ways to do it. Run the ball outside, more screens, roll the pocket more. There’s things we can do if we can’t get it fixed, but there’s no alarm bells currently,” Sammis said. “It’s dealing with how our defense rushes as well, too. We like to get the ball out quick when we can so there’s an understanding (on defense) where if you can’t get home now, get your hands up (and bat the ball).” <-
 
huskymedic said:
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Gotta respect the Intensity…



-> “People say go take them out to dinner, take them to a pool party or paintball or whatever. Well I think the biggest way you bond is doing really hard things with them,” Brock said, covered in sweat after Tuesday’s practice on a hot day in Storrs. “Push them through adversity, because that’s one thing that’s guaranteed in football. That’s what we try to do.” <-

-> “We’ve pushed them harder schematically from a learning capacity standpoint than I did last year with last year’s group. Right, wrong or indifferent, time will tell, but that’s what we’ve done. And they’ve done a nice job of buying into that,” Brock said. “Some of that is, I think back and you’ve got to evaluate yourself too. You go into some of those games and I look back and I think, well, did we have everything we needed? Did I give them every bullet in the chamber to be successful? You never want to overload them, but you want to expose them to enough that you can adapt and be versatile enough to give offenses different looks. So that’s the plan we’ve taken.” <-
 
huskymedic said:
Gotta respect the Intensity…



-> “People say go take them out to dinner, take them to a pool party or paintball or whatever. Well I think the biggest way you bond is doing really hard things with them,” Brock said, covered in sweat after Tuesday’s practice on a hot day in Storrs. “Push them through adversity, because that’s one thing that’s guaranteed in football. That’s what we try to do.” <-

-> “We’ve pushed them harder schematically from a learning capacity standpoint than I did last year with last year’s group. Right, wrong or indifferent, time will tell, but that’s what we’ve done. And they’ve done a nice job of buying into that,” Brock said. “Some of that is, I think back and you’ve got to evaluate yourself too. You go into some of those games and I look back and I think, well, did we have everything we needed? Did I give them every bullet in the chamber to be successful? You never want to overload them, but you want to expose them to enough that you can adapt and be versatile enough to give offenses different looks. So that’s the plan we’ve taken.” <-
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I'm lovin this DC... this group will make or break our season I think (way more bodies to replace on that side of the ball from last year)... Here's hoping all the experience coming translates, keeping us as competitive as last season... or surprisingly much better...
 
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huskymedic said:


-> In two-minute drills toward the end of Tuesday’s practice, UConn’s new defensive front made it nearly impossible for the offense to move the ball. But, for as many passes that were batted down at the line of scrimmage, Sammis wasn’t sounding his alarms.

“I get concerned about everything, but it’s something that we can fix now. And if we can’t fix it, we’ll find other ways to do it. Run the ball outside, more screens, roll the pocket more. There’s things we can do if we can’t get it fixed, but there’s no alarm bells currently,” Sammis said. “It’s dealing with how our defense rushes as well, too. We like to get the ball out quick when we can so there’s an understanding (on defense) where if you can’t get home now, get your hands up (and bat the ball).” <-
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Sounds like the o-line is struggling to get on the same page, which is a little worrisome.
Fagnano has had a couple of season ending injuries in his seven years and we need to keep him upright and healthy to realize the potential of this team.
 
Purple Stein said:
Sounds like the o-line is struggling to get on the same page, which is a little worrisome.
Fagnano has had a couple of season ending injuries in his seven years and we need to keep him upright and healthy to realize the potential of this team.
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I think the o-line is the last thing to worry about.
 
Purple Stein said:
Sounds like the o-line is struggling to get on the same page, which is a little worrisome.
Fagnano has had a couple of season ending injuries in his seven years and we need to keep him upright and healthy to realize the potential of this team.
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Agree, concerning since the front 7 defensively are mostly guys brought in to shore up the D
 
But bro vs bro is always a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation. If the OL was opening up big holes in practice we’d be talking about the DL problems.

I could see a season where the OL is much better by mid year with real game reps leading to real improvement. I also think we might have a bit more depth than usual so that we can really make some moves if some of the guys aren’t clicking by week 4.

Nice to have our FCS game week 1.
 
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The defense usually progresses faster than the offense. However, if the coaches wanted the offense to win a scrimmage or camp battle, they have the power to make that happen.
 
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Palatine said:
The defense usually progresses faster than the offense. However, if the coaches wanted the offense to win a scrimmage or camp battle, they have the power to make that happen.
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Yeah even if you have a ridiculously talented offense, the repetitive situational reps, lack of rhythm, etc. will favor the defense. If offense looks too good you have a problem
 

83
12th highest non P4
Only below 2 FCS (hopefully 0 EOY)
Above 3 P4
 
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Purple Stein said:
I do not understand this tweet and I do not accept that we are 83rd.
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It’s actually 81 for only FBS then add in the two FCS schools (North Dakota State & Montana State) w/ higher SP+ ratings

“As always: SP+ is a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a résumé ranking, and, along those same lines, these projections aren't intended to be a guess at what the AP Top 25 will look like at the end of the year. These are simply early offseason power rankings based on the information we have been able to gather to date.

Here are the full rankings (overall, offense, defense and special teams) along with each team's average projected win total and strength-of-schedule ranking.”



* UConn started 2024 @ 90 and ended up ?64 after all said and done after CFP. *
 
Purple Stein said:
I do not understand this tweet and I do not accept that we are 83rd.
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I have a question on that as well, how did we go down after last year’s finish? It might be just unfamiliarity with the depth that each position.

And it’s at key skill positions, where we really stand out

It’s hard for me to believe that there are ~80 other teams that are better than UConn.

But this should be a great locker room motivation for the team because it is definitely a bit of disrespect for the program. Now, all of this has to play out on the field, of course but if this doesn’t help motivate them, I don’t know what will..

But an over 500 record won’t do it for me. We’ve gotta knock off at least one or two of these ACC teams that were playing, otherwise maybe we do deserve the ranking, We’ll see!
 
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