Utah State Post Game Thread

[MKH2317]

Exciting game! The offense did their job today, shame nobody else did. I don’t even care if we lose anymore, it doesn’t bother me. If they can make every game that exciting, they’re worth watching.

 

[Hamms30]

Roberson was good for the most part. Unfortunately 3 bad plays by him probably was the difference in game. 2 missed wide open screen passes to Rosa which would have led to big plays and the decision to throw the ball to Joly between 2 defenders when he didn't have anyone within 30 yards of him and could have run easily for a first down late in 4th.

That and I still go back to the 4th and almost 2 that he tried to sneak instead of setting up a different play or kicking the FG and the possession before half where he ran out of bounds to stop the clock.. then missed Rosa on the screen pass to stop the clock. There was a minute left and we had 3 time outs. Utah St strikes before halftime and they were off to the races with the momentum.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

Jim needs to “Coach Prime” 50% of the roster. There are players stealing scholarship money.

They get nothing off the bench, and special team is terrible.

John is right. Let's hit the portal big time.

 

[Scoe]

Did Mora not pick all of those coaches?

Yep this is on Mora.

 

[Dizzy21]

This loss was all on the defense and special teams. Pretty much every touchdown in this game and a good amount of them in others have been on explosive plays, mostly busted coverage or from horrible special teams issues giving good field position to them.

 

[uconnbill]

Special teams and the defensive backs lost the game today.
Three blown coverages and two special team mistakes led to this loss.

 

[JohnFSilver]

He needs a DC and a ST coach, badly. Oh, another OC was a given.

What would coaching help with? I am sorry, so down on players. Poor angles, boneheaded decisions, mixed up assignments, missed tackles, easily beaten, blown coverages and blocks, dropped passes.

Coaching doesn’t guarantee execution.

 

[Scoe]

Exciting game! The offense did their job today, shame nobody else did. I don’t even care if we lose anymore, it doesn’t bother me. If they can make every game that exciting, they’re worth watching.

Umm no You play to win the game Hello you play to win the game.

 

[noeynox]

What would coaching help with? I am sorry, so down on players. Poor angles, boneheaded decisions, mixed up assignments, missed tackles, easily beaten, blown coverages and blocks, dropped passes.

Coaching doesn’t guarantee execution.

I'm with you here. That wasnt coached to be executed like that. Neither the end of half breakdown or bubble screen that went down the sideline for a TD. Just losing plays all over the field.

 

[MKH2317]

Umm no You play to win the game Hello you play to win the game.

I play to win? I sit to watch. THEY play to win. THEY are my entertainment. I was entertained

 

[Punkbo]

Sorry to the naysayers, but I don’t think it’s fair to second-guess a guy for trying to kick an extra-point in a 1-point game.

 

[Scoe]

I play to win? I sit to watch. THEY play to win. THEY are my entertainment. I was entertained

Good for you being entertained so glad you were happy. Are you happy about being 0-5? We lost so your cool with winning participation trophies smdh.

 

[WNConn]

Jim needs to “Coach Prime” 50% of the roster. There are players stealing scholarship money.

They get nothing off the bench, and special team is terrible.

To do that you've got to have guys who actually want to replace the players that leave. Colorado knew they could replace the dead weight with better talent. We'll be filling out the roster with a whole slew of Brett Buckmans

 

[How Sway?!]

What would coaching help with? I am sorry, so down on players. Poor angles, boneheaded decisions, mixed up assignments, missed tackles, easily beaten, blown coverages and blocks, dropped passes.

Coaching doesn’t guarantee execution.

Then bench the players that keep making the same mistakes. Change the playcalling to hide the deficiencies. Let's not forgot this is Moras roster now. Yes, the players deserve the criticism but so does the coaching.

 

[freshler40]

Should’ve gone for 2 at the end and I was saying it during the last drive.

Mora stealing a win from his kids, having no situational awareness at the end of the half.

Strange that your playing against a team with a losing record and you don't go for the win. A big problem was a failure of the defensive backs to cover. Missed covers all over the field.

Our game showed some spunk and we put some points on the board. Overall play calling is too conservative.

 

[Bomber36]

Defense too. Lots of mistakes there too.

Agreed. The d line and the backers seemed solid. Way too much confusion in the defensive backfield.

 

[WNConn]

What would coaching help with? I am sorry, so down on players. Poor angles, boneheaded decisions, mixed up assignments, missed tackles, easily beaten, blown coverages and blocks, dropped passes.

Coaching doesn’t guarantee execution.

You realize that the players don't just magically appear at UConn, right?

 

[Patman]

Sorry to the naysayers, but I don’t think it’s fair to second-guess a guy for trying to kick an extra-point in a 1-point game.

there's a lot of things that I think people say are unfair, I think its fair to question that one when you're searching for a win. For morale's sake I'd rather take the shot than try to rely on a college kicker and overtime. Naturally this one's not the kicker's fault, but point remains. Could be our runner gets stuffed, but this group needed a morale boost.

 

[J187Money]

0-12 is more than probable at this point. Too bad it won’t result in draft picks.

 

[Waquoit]

UConn football in a nutshell

I was gonna say UConn football in a nutshot.

 

[Bomber36]

0-12 is more than probable at this point. Too bad it won’t result in draft picks.

Unfortunately, the way the college game is now, it will result in quality players running anywhere but to Uconn.

 

[JohnFSilver]

This is on Mora we have lost our last 8 games and been outcoached in every single one of them.

Kind of sick of blaming coaches. People Been blaming coaches for 10 years. How about players stop making ridiculous plays?

 

[Scoe]

Kind of sick of blaming coaches. People Been blaming coaches for 10 years. How about players stop making ridiculous plays?

Both things can be true.

 

[JohnFSilver]

There is enough talent to win games I specially mean games as in 2 wins certainly enough to win a game, it’s harder to win when you have coaches who are losing games, Mora isn’t doing anything about it.

That is where I disagree. I don’t think there is.

 

[RioDog]

No, usually we’re non-competitive the whole game. This was just a ridiculous ending for a hard-luck program.

I'll respectfully disagree. We had a lucky, random-walkish combination of good effort from the O and D in the first half, combined with scheisen play by the D backs in the second half, combined with mixed bag of good and bad play calling throughout the game, all topped of by the cherry-on-top new way to lose- open the flood gates and let the conversion get blocked. Overall a continuing combination of incosistent play combined with the ongoing litany of simply stupid play against a NOT-GOOD team. If USU had a decent D we would have lost by three TDs.

Sorry- no solace and no moral victory here.

Beleive me I wish it were otherwise.