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UConn @ Georgia State Panthers - Saturday 9/9/23 @Center Parc Stadium @7p on ESPN+

Very good press conference by Coach Mora. He addressed all issues Yarders were complaining about after game one. Hopefully our fanbase can step up and really get behind the team. There were a number of questions about the fans from the press. He addressed those issues well. Have to play exciting ball. On to the next game.
 
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ktuck911 said:
If our OL plays dominant, it's gonna be a nice day for us...
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That’s a big if, I like lundt but he struggled on pass pro last week. His run blocking was good but he was giving up pressures on pass pro far to often
 
RE: Tackling. How many days in a game week do they practice in full pads with full contact at game speed? The reason I ask is that it is awfully hard to improve tackling skill under other conditions. It's a complicated physics problem and has to be done at full speed and full force to get better. Anyone have expertise in this area? Can they ever practice under those conditions? If not, that is a fundamental problem.
 
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RSTuthill said:
RE: Tackling. How many days in a game week do they practice in full pads with full contact at game speed? The reason I ask is that it is awfully hard to improve tackling skill under other conditions. It's a complicated physics problem and has to be done at full speed and full force to get better. Anyone have expertise in this area? Can they ever practice under those conditions? If not, that is a fundamental problem.
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I actually thought it would be difficult too, but I heard a few good coaches this week claim that fixing tackling is not a huge deal in a week if you focus on it. Not sure if that is some coach BS or not, but I would have thought that it took some time.
 
Lot of good happy talk, it's all about offensive play/passing. Looked up on "Team Rankings" for how many plays teams run per game. 2022 UConn was 128th with 61.8 and 55 for 1st game of 2023 was very low. Not something would expect from team that is run 1st, reinforces concept that UConn's run stats are skewed to few big runs and lot of short runs leading to not moving chains.

Since was there looked at "average team passer ratings" (whatever that means) and for 2022 UConn was 88.5 which was last for all FBS teams, 2023 was 102.4 which was 125th and one game in 2023 was 84.1. Just to show how poor UConn is/was for 2022 the high was almost 180 and the median was about 130. Most of the good teams were at the top.

Yards per pass attempt 2022 was 5.1 which was 129th with other team highs of 10.0 and median of 7.3. 1st game of 2023 was 4.2 for UConn.

Current college football is passing orientated and UConn's plan of running 1st (especially with smaller backs and tight formations) is counter to what most college teams are doing. We shall see how that works in year 2. Can only shorten game so much by lot of runs and taking 39.5 seconds on each snap, got to score more than 18.7 as was the per game in 2022 (against 5 top 85 teams in 2022 averaged little over 11 points per game with some of those teams playing 2nd/3rd string for much of the second half).
 
Dizzy21 said:
I actually thought it would be difficult too, but I heard a few good coaches this week claim that fixing tackling is not a huge deal in a week if you focus on it. Not sure if that is some coach BS or not, but I would have thought that it took some time.
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I have a hard time thinking it won't be Mora's point of focus now...

-> “I’m always very critical of myself,” Mora said Tuesday. “If they didn’t tackle well, that means I didn’t do a good job during the week of emphasizing it. If I don’t put them in a good call and it puts them in a bad position, that’s something else I look at. But ultimately when you get out on the field – great defenses tackle. Great defenses tackle, they swarm and they tackle, and we missed way too many tackles so that was probably the genesis of it all.”

“First week, usually tackling is not the best thing, but we can’t use that as an excuse, we gotta use that as just a watch film, learning situation,” linebacker Noah Plack said. “(It is) just pursuit to the ball, really, and playing together more. I feel like sometimes we kind of do our own thing a little bit, just sticking to the plan and just doing what we’ve got to do.” <-
 
PNolanFan said:
I saw we are 3 or 4 point underdogs in this game. I think I will put a small wager on the ML for us
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I'm not much of a gambler, but the boys covering the spread last week earned me enough scratch to pay for NFL Sunday Ticket on Youtube (which I was really waffling about) and a month of ESPN+ so I can watch the GSU game :)

Think I'm going to quit while I'm ahead for now.
 
Dizzy21 said:
I actually thought it would be difficult too, but I heard a few good coaches this week claim that fixing tackling is not a huge deal in a week if you focus on it. Not sure if that is some coach BS or not, but I would have thought that it took some time.
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Maybe. But if that was true then all teams would be great tacklers. I suspect improvement comes only with game snaps.
 
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I just realized that this game is scheduled for 7 PM. I have a quasi-business/social thing that I can't get out of. Does anyone know how replay works on ESPN +? Can I just log on the following day? Can I just record it, via Hulu?
 
CL82 said:
I just realized that this game is scheduled for 7 PM. I have a quasi-business/social thing that I can't get out of. Does anyone know how replay works on ESPN +? Can I just log on the following day? Can I just record it, via Hulu?
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From what I know and have experienced, the games are avaiable for replay the next day or two.
 
Dizzy21 said:
I actually thought it would be difficult too, but I heard a few good coaches this week claim that fixing tackling is not a huge deal in a week if you focus on it. Not sure if that is some coach BS or not, but I would have thought that it took some time.
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It’s usually a little bit of both, some things are easily fixable, some stuff is coach speak. They gotta swarm to the ball, did not see that last week.
 
ktuck911 said:
I think we are little more talented than URI.. no disrespect to URI whatsoever.. I'll leave it at that.
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I am not so sure. They almost made the playoffs last year and may this year. Can't find the combined rankings.
 
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I long for the day this game isn't anything but a sure win. Hopefully, Saturday is that day.
 
This is definitely gonna be a measurement game. As someone said, game two of a season is rarely critical. But this one is. Evenly matched teams. The result is gonna mean something. The huge challenges are later in the season this year compared to last. A game like this UConn has to win.
 
Mora4Prez said:
To be fair I don’t remember the last time we put up 45 points against anyone much less an FBS team
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Would be nice to see, but, unfortunately, I don't think we're ready to be that team (offensively) just yet... I see us putting up some points this weekend though.. way more than last week...
 
RSTuthill said:
I am not so sure. They almost made the playoffs last year and may this year. Can't find the combined rankings.
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Massey:
UConn - 145
Georgia State - 94
Rhode Island - 171

Sagarin:
UConn - 124
Georgia State - 108
Rhode Island - 165

RPI:
UConn - 116
Georgia State - 82
Rhode Island - 161

Massey is pretty good for basketball...
 
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