UConn Football: The Bridge Year

[LIUCHusky]

I'm saying we want successful big boy football. Let's stop pretending that we should only recruit Eagle Scouts with straight As who spend their free time volunteering at the little sisters of the poor and live in the 06 zip code. Just like we brought in basketball players from around the world with zero regard for their fitness for college we should approach football the same way. If a guy is scum but can run over linebackers get him to sign in the line and hire a minder if necessary but get him. You think FSU fans cared when Jimbo hoisted the trophy that their star is probably a criminal? That's where we need to be from here on. Or go back to the Yankee Conference[/

Quite an exaggeration regarding the basketball players we recruited. Zero regard for their fitness for college? Bit of a stretch even for you Free. Personally, I don't want scum signing in the line even if we could hire a minder.

 

[freescooter]

Yeah we got banned for APR violation because we had guys who were too good. Did you ever hear of Stan Robinson? Went a full year without taking a single exam. And let's not mention Williams and Price who committed a felony, or the punk from East Hartford or the ever popular at least go the chief, Nate Miles.

 

[sportsart]

Yeah we got banned for APR violation because we had guys who were too good. Did you ever hear of Stan Robinson? Went a full year without taking a single exam. And let's not mention Williams and Price who committed a felony, or the punk from East Hartford or the ever popular at least go the chief, Nate Miles.

I took everyone off ignore. You are going back on.

Yeesh....

 

[Marty Jackson]

Bob Diaco is the head coach, and it's his job to put a team together that can achieve success in #1 the classroom and #2 on the field in the AAC conference. He appears to have taken the past year to squarely address #1 successfully.

He was hired in December 2013, and as of Thursday evening Sept 3, 2015, he will have had essentially 20-21 calendar months on the job to identify and assemble a roster of 105 players, 85 scholarships, for kickoff that night, that fit both #1 and #2. He will have had 2 spring football sessions, 2 fall camps, and 1 full season of practice and game experience as a head coach in guiding his staff in running practices, developing game plans, and competing in games. The majority of his roster will have had at least one full off season strength and conditioning program, and most will have had 2.

On Thursday night Sept. 3 will play Andy Talley's Villanova 1-AA team. The game should be a fight early, but by the second half, we should be dominating them. Their quarterback should come away from this game beaten up and bruised, and their running game held to a very low total. Our offense should be efficient enough to maintain possession and advance the ball and gain first downs (NO TURNOVERS) - and disciplined enough not to be committing procedural and fundamental skill penalties (PLEASE NO MORE CHOP BLOCKS) and win the battle of the line of scrimmage on offense because of strength condition and recruiting of lineman and TE's and backs, and generate high percentage field position scoring opportunities. Then we need to score. The kicking game needs to cover kicks and punts effectively, and catch kicks effectively without turnovers. We do all of that, and this game should be over by middle of 3rd quarter - in our favor. Apologies to JMoney, but if we're relying on our own QB play to win this game - we are in trouble I think.

Following that - we get Army at home. The terrible triple option offense. That will be another fantastic test of where we are at as a coaching staff and a team, and once again, apologies to JMoney, but if we are relying on QB play again to win that game, we are in trouble. We shouldn't really need a great game from the QB position until week 3.

We will know a heck of a lot more about this team, and Bob Diaco as a head coach, by the end of week 2, than we learned all of last season - I think.

fair assessment carl. but disagree on the last comment. RE coached at uconn for how many years and there is still a debate on what type of HC he was?

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Yeah we got banned for APR violation because we had guys who were too good. Did you ever hear of Stan Robinson? Went a full year without taking a single exam. And let's not mention Williams and Price who committed a felony, or the punk from East Hartford or the ever popular at least go the chief, Nate Miles.

We've had hundreds of kids play BB at UConn and you give
4 exaggerated examples of possibly bad kids.
One of which never played a game for us and was dropped from school based
on testimony which was later was rescinded.
We also have examples of lives being changed by UConn BB ie Caron Butler,
Or Excellellent Acedemic's like Emeka Okafor
And you still don't understand the the APR was a ridicules metric.

Even the two caught in Labtop gate
We're not involved until after the fact.
The theft was committed by a friend of Williams . Price roll. Was minimal


I agree athletes are not normally held to the same acceptance standards as regular students. But Once here through tutoring they should not be excluded from an education.
No UConn fan would ever call Stix Stan, Stanley maybe, Stan never

 

[06029]

We've had hundreds of kids play BB at UConn and you give
4 exaggerated examples of possibly bad kids.
One of which never played a game for us and was dropped from school based
on testimony which was later was rescinded.
We also have examples of lives being changed by UConn BB ie Caron Butler,
Or Excellellent Acedemic's like Emeka Okafor
And you still don't understand the the APR was a ridicules metric.

Even the two caught in Labtop gate
We're not involved until after the fact.
The theft was committed by a friend of Williams . Price roll. Was minimal


I agree athletes are not normally held to the same acceptance standards as regular students. But Once here through tutoring they should not be excluded from an education.
No UConn fan would ever call Stix Stan, Stanley maybe, Stan never

Fact remains on Robinson that he never took an exam over 2 semesters and never missed a game after January. He always managed to re-enroll in school in time for second semester games. He never graduated (I'm not sure he even earned more than 6 credit hours while on the team) and the BB team graduation rate during the Calhoun years was never stellar even when you factor out the NBA kids. The number of kids with issues over his tenure is more than 4 and you know it.