You know I thought really though Carter leaving was a dumb move on his part. But he's even better for MSU and honestly that makes me happy for him. He stuck it out through all the garbage here and he deserves to show his stuff in the lime light. He's their top rb now.
UConn Football has done more than enough over the years to STILL be fighting for survival. The people at the top don't have the opportunity for growth of ALL student athletes as their primary goal. Their own personal interests are all they understand.
I think Victor was 3rd string to motivate him. As for Brewton, he wasn't going to get many touches on offense. He averaged less than 2 carries and 1 reception per game for his career. Honestly, I like the way Edwards runs over Houston. He cuts inside instead of bouncing outside and it looks like he is harder to bring down. Maybe there was another way to utilize Houston, but I think his touches were going to go down and would he accept it? I don't think he is a better slot receiver than Ross, so I'm not sure where you would play him. Would he accept 5 to 7 touches per game or should he get some NIL on another team where he is going to get 5 to 7 touches per game?
I was hoping to see some Jalen Mitchell in short yardage situations but it appears that he may have some fumble issues. And Stafford is much bigger and has assumed that role. Victor had a good game and was the leading rusher with 15 carries for 92 yards but was not mentioned by Mora in the press conference. Perhaps more motivation for Victor.
I think Mitchell's issue is two fumbles in limited carries this year.
My main point was both Victor and Houston should be on the field at the same time.
The running backs a year ago were so much better than our receivers, Making them mutually exclusive and not getting 2-3 of them on the field at the same time, was a big fail by Charlton, who Mora hired.
Chief, this is way off the mark. UConn had 5 scholarship RBs to start the season and 3 out of the 5 were injured at one point during the season. Brewton played 5 games, 4 games plus the bowl. Carter played first 3.5 games. Houston missed 3 games in October. Rosa was a true freshman so at the beginning of the season, they didn't know how he would perform. And, besides the RB injuries, UConn lost their QB starter and 2 best receivers at the start of the season so UConn had to start a true freshman QB who did not participate in Spring practice. Yet, you think Charlton had available talent at RB to have 2 or 3 on the field at a time (even though for most games, we only had 2 or 3 healthy RBs) and he had the ability to adjust the offense on the fly while trying to keep it simple for a very inexperienced QB? Why do you think they moved Edwards to RB during the season and toyed with the idea of moving Stafford to RB as well? They lacked RB bodies. That said, they did run some plays with 2 RBs on the field last year with Burns.
Difference is basketball is one player. And, that is a poor example anyway because we just lost a player we wanted to Kansas because of NIL in Nick Timberland.
They should have been. Now Rosa and Edwards should be.
Put Rosa in the slot as a WR. Have him run end arounds and be the guy who gets WR screens.
If that is what it takes to get him, is it above market rate?
what are you talking about? He can catch wud receiver screen passes. Can go cover the middle, they can also run him in the slot on crossing patterns against linebackers and safeties. He is certainly athletic enough.
I can't believe what some of you guys are saying. For a play or 2 sure, play 2 RBs, but UConn has 3 scholarship RBs on the roster. We have no depth after losing Brewton and Houston.
Yeah, I'm sure he could don't well. But he did drop a screen that could have gone for a big gain.
BTW who’s left to block if you play multiple backs at once? We were most successful in heavy packages with additional linemen and TEs.
So you are doubling down on the OC schemes. College football 2023, you need multiple play makers on the field. You are too focus on official positions when in my view we need to get what talent we do have on the field. And now we have lost some of the precious talent we do have as a result of our Sri on labeling multi faceted players.
Well now in fact we only have a couple talented ones left. True injuries always play a role in football but on a talent deficient team you got to be flexible and get the healthy guys on the field together.
