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UConn football opponent preview: Purdue Boilermakers (UConnBlog)

In the words of Tom Dienhart from the Purdue Rivals site, Bob Diaco’s defense was “a big reason why the team finished 2-4 and lost its last four games.” Dienhart pointed out that in those last four games, the defense gave up conversions on 49% of third downs and only tallied one takeaway and two sacks. After getting fired by Purdue, Bob Diaco has been fired after three one-year defensive coordinator stints.

Bob Diaco ruining college football one team at a time.

(I have to say the 49% rate of giving up third damn down conversions gave me flashbacks.)
 
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Purdue will be a pretty tough opponent but it could be a harbinger of the balance of the season. A victory would signal that we are going to be a pretty solid football team, I think. Plus I am not all that convinced that Brohm is a great head coach. I see this kind of like the Illinois game where we had a shot. This time we need to make a play.
 
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Skiblets said:
Don't think he's coaching anywhere this year
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It’s one thing to be crazy and good (ie John Madden). It’s another to be crazy and bad. His stint at ND carried him for a while. I think now his time is done. He may end up again at a lower tier D1 or FCS school.
 
Coulda SWORN this is a Diaco thread after reading all the comments. Guess not. It's a Purdue thread after all.
 
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Here is an image of Bob doing Bob things while at Purdue to transition to conversation back to the topic at hand
 
freescooter said:
Purdue will be a pretty tough opponent but it could be a harbinger of the balance of the season. A victory would signal that we are going to be a pretty solid football team, I think. Plus I am not all that convinced that Brohm is a great head coach. I see this kind of like the Illinois game where we had a shot. This time we need to make a play.
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I think Free hit the nail on the head here. My friend is a Boiler and he is also not sure about Brohm yet. He yerns for the Brees/Alstott days. An Illinois-type game with us having a better chance of pulling out a W sounds about right.
 
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"After the UConn game, they’ll be traveling to meet their in-state rivals at Notre Dame, so big trap game potential for them against the Huskies, maybe."

Maybe.
 
History Geek said:
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Here is an image of Bob doing Bob things while at Purdue to transition to conversation back to the topic at hand
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All that’s missing are the red pants. I remember that game. The coordinator had the team around him during a time out and the bobster is jumping around outside the huddle. It looked like they didn’t want him inside because he would have screwed things up.
 
History Geek said:
I think Free hit the nail on the head here. My friend is a Boiler and he is also not sure about Brohm yet. He yerns for the Brees/Alstott days. An Illinois-type game with us having a better chance of pulling out a W sounds about right.
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As a Purdue alum, I don’t think we are very good.. probably 5-7 with a strong big ten schedule (and ND and a pac 12 opponent in the OOC), because we hired diaco for last season. Probably was poised to be a solid 7-5 if they had just hired a coordinator like brad lambert a year ago.

that said, we are NOT Illinois lol. Probably easy to look at the Purdue Illinois score from the same year you guys played them and think “oh, like Illinois, only worse.” The game was in a monsoon with OL injuries and new runningbacks.” As a team now, we are a notch up from any illinois team I can remember seeing other than that 2019 team that got on a roll late in the year.

just karlaftis and bell alone…



David Bell || Purdue Boilermakers Wide Receiver || 2019 Highlights
 
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Our d does not match up well with their offense at all. This game will likely get out of hand early - they have excellent wide receivers and will attack from the get go.
 
huskysupporter said:
Our d does not match up well with their offense at all. This game will likely get out of hand early - they have excellent wide receivers and will attack from the get go.
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I’m curious what’s your D and team in general like.

Us ..

strengths
a superstar on each side of the ball
an offense that will always create open receivers even without talent (in 2017 there was no moore or bell, Gregory Phillips was not even P5 level)
a lot of young talent that’s been in the program 1-2 years that’s poised to bust out
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weaknesses
only 7 players who have established themselves as Big ten level quality starters going into this season
OL has not established depth or physicality in the run game at the big ten level to this point since the end of the 2018 season, only 7.. maybe 6 guys ready to play big ten level football.
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we run a 4-3/4-2-5 hybrid that goes back to the year before Diaco but is apparently much more aggressive. George karlaftis cannot be blocked at the G5 level and bell can’t be covered at the G5 level. Probably true for more than half of the big ten too.
 
Wow, Purdue is really , really good. Records as follow going back to 2012. 2012 4-8/ 2013 1-11/2014 - 3-9/ 2015- 2-10/ 2016 - 3-9/ 2017 7-6 ( championship year)/ 2018 - 6-7/ 2019 - 4-8/ 2020 - 2-4.
 
chalk1 said:
Wow, Purdue is really , really good. Records as follow going back to 2012. 2012 4-8/ 2013 1-11/2014 - 3-9/ 2015- 2-10/ 2016 - 3-9/ 2017 7-6 ( championship year)/ 2018 - 6-7/ 2019 - 4-8/ 2020 - 2-4.
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We are gonna go 5-7 this year. I lead with that lol.

if you guys were Iowa I’d be sounding like we were gonna play the Tampa bay bucs
 
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chalk1 said:
Wow, Purdue is really , really good. Records as follow going back to 2012. 2012 4-8/ 2013 1-11/2014 - 3-9/ 2015- 2-10/ 2016 - 3-9/ 2017 7-6 ( championship year)/ 2018 - 6-7/ 2019 - 4-8/ 2020 - 2-4.
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By the way.. same message for your championship team from ten years ago as I’d give to Boise state fans…

When you win a big game as a big ten team and both of your tackles are dinged up and your 3rd and 4th tackles aren’t big time players, there ain’t no hiding against New Mexico State or Syracuse. You just beat Wisconsin in a big match up of ranked teams? Well now you’re at Iowa and those tackles are gonna be the focal point of a loss.
 
boilerD said:
I’m curious what’s your D and team in general like.

Us ..

strengths


weaknesses


we run a 4-3/4-2-5 hybrid that goes back to the year before Diaco but is apparently much more aggressive. George karlaftis cannot be blocked at the G5 level and bell can’t be covered at the G5 level. Probably true for more than half of the big ten too.
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In general UConn's strengths have been allowing teams to score efficiently against the UConn defense. Most drives are done in 6-8 plays. This keeps the UConn defense fresh since it isn't on the field that often.

UConn's biggest weakness is sustaining drives on offense. While the play calling and execution is usually good for one play of 10-12 yards, penalties, inside hand offs, delayed draws and QB's missing targets usually reigns in any positive yardage.
 
Chin Diesel said:
In general UConn's strengths have been allowing teams to score efficiently against the UConn defense. Most drives are done in 6-8 plays. This keeps the UConn defense fresh since it isn't on the field that often.

UConn's biggest weakness is sustaining drives on offense. While the play calling and execution is usually good for one play of 10-12 yards, penalties, inside hand offs, delayed draws and QB's missing targets usually reigns in any positive yardage.
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So you also not only have had bob Diaco but Darrell hazell coaches for you now?
 
The big ten is a very good conference at the top. The bottom where you live is beatable. We understand where we are and going into this year have no idea what will happen. We have made improvements in recruiting have had time in development of players. Doesn't mean a thing until you play a game. I look forward to playing Purdue and I don't think you can predict anything until a few games have been played.
 
We are probably a year away from having a legit shot against Purdue. However, so much of my opinion is based on the last 6-7 years rather than legitimate analysis. Randy Edsall can put together a good football team when given the time. When he does, it tends to look a lot like a Big Ten team. We just aren’t sure where our guys are in the development process. We played a bunch of freshmen and sophomores and then took a year off. While our younger guys are now in their third year, they’ve only played one season. We just have no idea what third and fourth year players with only one season of game play under their belt will really look like on the field.
 
chalk1 said:
The big ten is a very good conference at the top. The bottom where you live is beatable. We understand where we are and going into this year have no idea what will happen. We have made improvements in recruiting have had time in development of players. Doesn't mean a thing until you play a game. I look forward to playing Purdue and I don't think you can predict anything until a few games have been played.
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Of course we are beatable. Brohm tried to play 1994 football against eastern Michigan and got beaten. If he just plays you guys like he plays northwestern it should be a 10 point win.. well, before I saw the fresno state result. I think that instead of playing a rich man’s eastern Michigan it’s gonna be more like playing a Mac team headed in the wrong direction short term. But I honestly have no idea why we play these games on the road.

as far as the conference.. it’s a lot harder to be in it than play a team from it. Like I’ve said, take the best boise state teams. Say they beat Oregon and now they’re going to play a garbage schedule until their BCS game. It doesn’t go like that in the big ten. You beat Oregon and next week you’re headed to happy valley for a white out game and the officials are gonna let penn state hold onto your receivers for dear life all day.

that team you had ten years ago likely loses at least 2-3 games in the big ten
 
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