Yes. People on here talk about how this program has already lost the casual fan. If the staff came out and said "don't expect much, you're all in for a long season" those casual fans wouldn't have bothered showing to any of the games this season. Attendance would be even worse than it currently is and they quite honestly would probably be lost forever. When have you ever heard any organization flat out say we suck, we're going to suck, this season will be looooong? I presume never, but that's just me.
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Yes. People on here talk about how this program has already lost the casual fan. If the staff came out and said "don't expect much, you're all in for a long season" those casual fans wouldn't have bothered showing to any of the games this season. Attendance would be even worse than it currently is and they quite honestly would probably be lost forever. When have you ever heard any organization flat out say we suck, we're going to suck, this season will be looooong? I presume never, but that's just me.
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He's been saying it. Over and over again. Some folks just didn't/don't want to hear it or believe it. Others said he was just setting expectations low for self serving reason. He knew what he had in the locker room.
- "We're in Year One," he said. "As has been articulated over and over again, we have so, so far to go. So this whole year is going to be about getting better. It will always be about getting better, but we're not going to compromise anything for getting better."You might want to write something contrary to that or the people want it to be different. I don't know what to tell you. Too bad, it's not."
- "We're taking over a downtrodden, losing program that was losing in almost every area. [We are] working on winning; it's going to take some time and everybody understands that inside and everyone understands how far we have to go. We have a long way to go."
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Bob is a new coach and deserves extra leeway no doubt. As a fan I will support him this year and all of next year despite his deplorable results to date- and then I'm done. I think that is more than fair. That said we are arguably the worst team in Division 1 and he is the head coach. Stop making excuses Bob, YOU need to do a hell of a lot better.
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If you had unrealistic expectations based on what the coach was saying, that's on you.
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Watching the game last night, I could call exactly what stupid play would happen when a big play was needed.
How freaking predictable was that the Max run at the one yard line for the safety.
How freaking predictable was that the Max run at the one yard line for the safety.
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I hear you, but its hard to look at this b.s..... Seriously.... Watching with hope that your team show improvement on the scoreboard ad the season goes on as opposed to improving from one play to the next by each game that passes. Its tough to take. Regardless I still bleed UConn Husky blue...
Thank God my Dallas Cowboys are playing well.. I still have decent football to watch on the weekends this year...
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This program is certainly at its lowest point since I've been a Season ticket holders, and really committed a bunch of time to studying the team, and investing myself in being a UConn Football fan in the mid-2000's. It kills me to watch them play this way, and have a really solid defense, but absolutly NOTHING on offense. A terrible O-line, a terrible QB, metiocre WRs and RBs. But if nothing else, I have faith in Diaco. He's the right guy to rebuild this thing, because he'll recruit the right kind of kids we need. It all starts next year for us, and Diaco's recruits coming in.
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I honestly believe the talent at the skill positions is better than they get credit for. It's hard to really gauge or judge the talent in that area with a weak offensive line and below-average quarterback play.
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so you're saying there's a chance....
Someone has to agree.
I was just thinking about the Cowboys when writing reading this post. They are my team in the NFL and over the last few years they have been horrible, the offensive line has sucked, Garrett's decisions have been questionable at best and his game management has been horrible. They couldn't stop a high school teams offense last year. A lot of those things seem very similar to UConn at this point (not necessarily the defense). Jason Garrett was on the hot seat the last few years, but he continued to talk about his process and that it will pay results in the end. I didn't believe him after last year, I almost gave up hope. They dropped their "5 star players" and brought in people who fit the mold of the team. Other teams cast offs, a bunch of guys no one wanted, but guys that fit Garrett's "right kind of guy" philosophy. In a league where passing has become everything, they went with old school ground and pound, just the opposite of everyone else. They don't do anything fancy on defense either. It's still early this year, but it does seem that waiting for the Garrett's process to work its way though was worth it. Maybe even 3 months ago, it seemed the Cowboys were desperate, picking up Roland Mclain and they didn't have the players to do anything special, with coach who was in over his head. Right now everyone would say it looks exactly the opposite.
Because of that experience, I won't judge Diaco for quite a long time to come. It's not his fault that conference alignment has put us in a bad spot, and rebuilding this team comes at a bad time. It's unfortunate that UConn is in the position it is, but I think giving Diaco some time to work on his process and not get too overly bent out of shape is the best way to go for me. I definitely know that everyone feels UConn is in a desperate situation time wise for all this to happen, but from what I know in life, feeling desperate, and taking actions based on that is the only sure fire way not to accomplish what you had planned to. Conference re alignment will come again, the timing is something up for debate. I do know this though, giving Diaco more than a few games before I panic is something I will surely do. You can't do much to change what has happened and you can't predict what will happen in the future, but what you can do is take reasonable action, with a plan in hand and execute that to the best of your ability. It seems from the outside that Warde, Susan, and Diaco are doing just that. So for now, I am hopeful and not willing to feel bad about the direction of the school and football program, no matter how bad it looks on the surface.
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