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UConn football is ahead of schedule headed into spring ball (McFarlane/Courant)

Bongo Fury said:
Of course more money is better, just don’t think he is desperate to keep a job or this job particularly for financial reasons.
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As if the head coaching jobs are lined up at his doorstep. UConn got him on the relative cheap, simply because of the law of supply and demand. Little demand for his services.
 
Chief00 said:
Randy is practically confessing what many of us thought. His Covid excuse was BS as 127 D1 other schools knew how to manage. Contrary to the NYTs article Randy was all about the money - receiving another $1M year and a $300k retention bonus while he had a year of immunity from loses and being fired. It’s funny how they could practice, live and workout together but couldn’t play games. Rather than talk about how he kept them safe from Covid - and that’s not true either cuz over 20 guys got it, he’s talking about how everyone used that time in the gym together getting bigger and stronger.
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Practice, working out and even living together was a complete shxt show. If they tried to play this past season they would have either cancelled more games then they would have played or they would have run out walk-ons to field a team. They were contact traced to death. Your narratives continue to be false. There was no way UConn had the depth to make it through the season.
 
UConnJim said:
I don’t think you read the article closely to come to your conclusions. Without a conference, the schedule blew up. I guess you could have winged it for a few games like UMass, but I’m not sure what that would have accomplished. And, as it has become obvious during the basketball season, Connecticut’s COVID rules has made it very difficult to practice and play games. (Case in point is Butler played basketball on Saturday, but UConn could not.). Remember, 23 UConn football players tested positive for COVID and 70 had to isolated at some point in the fall. And, some football players ended up going home. As for practices, they practiced in smaller groups to limit COVID risks.

As a development program, UConn needs to redshirt almost every football player, but Edsall has not been able to do that because of the lack of depth from Diaco but that is what Edsall did during his first stint. This past year has allowed UConn to catch up from a physical development standpoint, but we need to see the on field results this year.
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Jim. You nailed it. You seem very reasonable which makes me wonder why you bother with this clown and all his insecurities
 
Chief00 said:
Randy is practically confessing what many of us thought. His Covid excuse was BS as 127 D1 other schools knew how to manage. Contrary to the NYTs article Randy was all about the money - receiving another $1M year and a $300k retention bonus while he had a year of immunity from loses and being fired. It’s funny how they could practice, live and workout together but couldn’t play games. Rather than talk about how he kept them safe from Covid - and that’s not true either cuz over 20 guys got it, he’s talking about how everyone used that time in the gym together getting bigger and stronger.
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As they got bigger did they have to move farther apart to maintain "social distancing?"
 
Hornet22 said:
Practice, working out and even living together was a complete shxt show. If they tried to play this past season they would have either cancelled more games then they would have played or they would have run out walk-ons to field a team. They were contact traced to death. Your narratives continue to be false. There was no way UConn had the depth to make it through the season.
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Stop using those pesky facts to dismantle his distorted view
 
I am was upset but the year off and working out should help this upcoming season. If not my guess is HCRE will be moving on
 
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Hornet22 said:
Practice, working out and even living together was a complete shxt show. If they tried to play this past season they would have either cancelled more games then they would have played or they would have run out walk-ons to field a team. They were contact traced to death. Your narratives continue to be false. There was no way UConn had the depth to make it through the season.
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Remember with no conference we had a huge chunk of our schedule cancelled, not by us but by ACC, Big 10, and SEC teams we were scheduled to play. Could we have scrambled together a 5-6 game schedule? Oh maybe but with infections and various travel restrictions it is likely some of those would have been scrapped too. UMass played what, 3 or 4 games? None against teams anyone cared about and all on the road. How valuable was that? And if we did it the same people complaining we didn’t play would be saying if that was the plan we should have closed it down.
 
Hornet22 said:
Practice, working out and even living together was a complete shxt show. If they tried to play this past season they would have either cancelled more games then they would have played or they would have run out walk-ons to field a team. They were contact traced to death. Your narratives continue to be false. There was no way UConn had the depth to make it through the season.
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The objective is to play and win your share of games. Contact tracing is only effective when there are isolated outbreaks. At 8-10% infection rates that’s not longer operable. Fortunately, Hurley’s thinking has won out now and teams will be expected to play.
 
UMass 2020 schedule
Georgia Southern
Marshall
Florida Atlantic
Liberty
all on the road

That is what we were looking at. Maybe we get a2 at Home. UMass and Nowhere St. Not playing was the right decision every way you look at it.
 
Chief00 said:
The objective is to play and win your share of games. Contact tracing is only effective when there are isolated outbreaks. At 8-10% infection rates that’s not longer operable. Fortunately, Hurley’s thinking has won out now and teams will be expected to play.
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Hogwash Hurley’s thinking... he has 12 guys not 100, and a league to deal with scheduling and it’s still a shtshow. Plus the knowledge base is 6 months further along on how to deal with this virus. And if you see Hurley tell him to wear his freaking mask. They do no good just covering his chin
 
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freescooter said:
Hogwash Hurley’s thinking... he has 12 guys not 100, and a league to deal with scheduling and it’s still a shtshow. Plus the knowledge base is 6 months further along on how to deal with this virus. And if you see Hurley tell him to wear his freaking mask. They do no good just covering his chin
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As I stated, the obstacle to playing games has now been neutralized. I can’t go into further detail.
 
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freescooter said:
UMass 2020 schedule
Georgia Southern
Marshall
Florida Atlantic
Liberty
all on the road

That is what we were looking at. Maybe we get a2 at Home. UMass and Nowhere St. Not playing was the right decision every way you look at it.
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Not to mention scored a total of something like 12 or 15 points combined in all 4 games and gota absolutely destroyed in every game.
 
freescooter said:
Virginia Tech was awful for a number of years before and then after Beamer took over. His philosophy was schedule for success. He followed it and set his schedule so that he would have a great chance at a winning record every year. When they joined the Big East he kept that philosophy. Figured even if he went 3-4 in the league he could go no worse than 3-1 in an 11 game season. We need to emulate that. As VaTech got better the non league schedule did too but always it was designed for 3 wins. We need to be scheduling for 5 wins, 5 toss ups and 2 stretch games.
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Agreed. We just gotta start winning winnable games again in order to get this thing jump started all over again...
 
Chief00 said:
As I stated, the obstacle to playing games has now been neutralized. I can’t go into further detail.
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Hogwash. Nothing he can do if Providence or Marquette or Seton Hall shut down due to an outbreak. As happened earlier with several schools. Now it seems that the post holiday crush has simmered down so things might be better for a bit. So some games might indeed get played. But it will be based on facts on the ground, not Hurley’s wants and desires.
 
freescooter said:
Hogwash. Nothing he can do if Providence or Marquette or Seton Hall shut down due to an outbreak. As happened earlier with several schools. Now it seems that the post holiday crush has simmered down so things might be better for a bit. So some games might indeed get played. But it will be based on facts on the ground, not Hurley’s wants and desires.
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I am limited to what I can respond on this subject. I am referring to going by the national standard rather than the former outlier CT one. That’s been put to bed.
 
Chief00 said:
The objective is to play and win your share of games. Contact tracing is only effective when there are isolated outbreaks. At 8-10% infection rates that’s not longer operable. Fortunately, Hurley’s thinking has won out now and teams will be expected to play.
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I am telling you- At any given time multiple key players at a time were contact traced for two weeks a pop. The right call was made to not play. We held on and signed some really good looking recruits who obviously didn’t care that we didnt play. I think it’s tired to keep rehashing that we didn’t play.

Even if we did play I’m pretty sure most on here would be looking forward to 3/1 and then 8/28 way more than caring about what we did last season. I for one am not saying “kudos to UMass for showing their commitment to trying to play” who cares?
 
freescooter said:
Hogwash Hurley’s thinking... he has 12 guys not 100, and a league to deal with scheduling and it’s still a shtshow. Plus the knowledge base is 6 months further along on how to deal with this virus. And if you see Hurley tell him to wear his freaking mask. They do no good just covering his chin
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This
 
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Hornet22 said:
I am telling you- At any given time multiple key players at a time were contact traced for two weeks a pop. The right call was made to not play. We held on and signed some really good looking recruits who obviously didn’t care that we didnt play. I think it’s tired to keep rehashing that we didn’t play.

Even if we did play I’m pretty sure most on here would be looking forward to 3/1 and then 8/28 way more than caring about what we did last season. I for one am not saying “kudos to UMass for showing their commitment to trying to play” who cares?
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As of today, 43% of UConn's men's basketball games have been either cancelled or postponed with only 14 to 15 players on the roster. Never mind that UConn football has over 100 players, would not have been allowed to play home games, and had no conference to help schedule games, COVID positives and contact tracing would have probably ended the season anyway.
 
Hornet22 said:
I am telling you- At any given time multiple key players at a time were contact traced for two weeks a pop. The right call was made to not play. We held on and signed some really good looking recruits who obviously didn’t care that we didnt play. I think it’s tired to keep rehashing that we didn’t play.

Even if we did play I’m pretty sure most on here would be looking forward to 3/1 and then 8/28 way more than caring about what we did last season. I for one am not saying “kudos to UMass for showing their commitment to trying to play” who cares?
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So by you, 127 D1 schools messed up and UConn, NM State and I forgot will lead them out of the football irrelevancy wilderness.
 
freescooter said:
And if you see Hurley tell him to wear his freaking mask. They do no good just covering his chin
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Amen. If he is going to be a tool about it, then take it off completely and make your statement. Otherwise wear it like the guidelines state.,...and like other coaches do.

Be a role model.

I love Hurley...but the mask thing is frustrating.
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
Amen. If he is going to be a tool about it, then take it off completely and make your statement. Otherwise wear it like the guidelines state.,...and like other coaches do.

Be a role model.

I love Hurley...but the mask thing is frustrating.
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Really the Big East should make it grounds for a technical on the bench or outright rejection. Of course first they should fire any ref who doesn’t Wear on too.
 
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freescooter said:
Who were we going to play, chief? 3 games agaist UMass? Given all the circumstaces, yeah not playing was the right thing
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Free scooter don’t be to hard on Chief. He just doesn’t realize that Randy had NO OPTIONS. State of ct department of health would never let them play. Edsall has no say and we were definitely not going to be able to find many teams to play.
 
So, back on topic, did I miss the part where someone asked Randy what was the original schedule and what efffect will the "ahead of schedule" schedule have on on-field performance?

Or did everyone just compliantly sit there and jot down "ahead of schedule" and leave it at that?
 
Chief00 said:
Randy is practically confessing what many of us thought. His Covid excuse was BS as 127 D1 other schools knew how to manage. Contrary to the NYTs article Randy was all about the money - receiving another $1M year and a $300k retention bonus while he had a year of immunity from loses and being fired. It’s funny how they could practice, live and workout together but couldn’t play games. Rather than talk about how he kept them safe from Covid - and that’s not true either cuz over 20 guys got it, he’s talking about how everyone used that time in the gym together getting bigger and stronger.
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Please stop. UMass played 4 games If we play they would have had 5. We would have done no better.
 
Bobol said:
pull the plug.
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Pull the plug on your self, if your so miserable to dog out kids that try they’re hardest but play for a coach that doesn’t know how to win find a new team we don’t need you
 
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