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Again my overall point is not that Suzie will have to break down game tape of last night. It's that - if we have specific football related targets to meet, and I think that's reasonable to assume - then games as uninspiring as last night's will make it hard, if not impossible, to meet those objectives.
 
Stairmaster said:
If you're going to troll, at least make it clever and give us a few chuckles.
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I'm telling you. Maine isn't a bad team. They can win some games this year. They do have a squad, and this isn't far from the norm now.

App st beat Michigan in the big house. This has happened before and this isn't becoming far from the norm. Many players players at the FCS level fall through the cracks. They have some athletes.
 
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The B12 folks know we're not coming in as a current football power. More important is the commitment, financial and otherwise, to quality football. We have shown that in our athletic funding, quality facilities and willingness to pay for quality coaches and ADs. If personnel changes become necessary, so be it. The commitment is there - right now.
Last night's showing was a disappointment also because of the attendance. But again, our track record shows that with quality football opponents, the attendance will be there. AAC opponents generally won't get us there.
While I wish we had a big turnout last night, in the old Big East days fewer attendees were typical for men's basketball early season games against the likes of Maine, New Hampshire, etc. When the quality opponents like Georgetown, Syracuse and the other Big East teams came to town, then we got the attendance.
Having quality opponents is the key to getting attendance. The waiting to get into a P5 is torture.
 
I don't believe one game will make any difference to the B12. However, it would really help our P5 momentum had we won big. As of right now, all the casual fans and the media are watching us under a microscope. Also, it would really help our own attendance by giving our own fans more hope after last few seasons. Hopefully, last night was just a case of coaches not wanting to open the playbook. We just need to keep winning.
 
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ruthetiger said:
Many players players at the FCS level fall through the cracks. They have some athletes.
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What you say may be true but did you watch the game??

College football is pageantry. Diaco is failing miserably, so far.
 
Maine is good and last year's 3-8 team played Boston College tough (I believe it was 7-3 at half time) in BC's 2015 home opener.
 
Butch said:
What you say may be true but did you watch the game??

College football is pageantry. Diaco is failing miserably, so far.
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Yes, I did see the game. At first I was critical, but noticed UCON PLAYED basically a vanilla offense the while game. At firat my thought was, you guys couldn't beat a jv squad, but your team kept running basic plays all game. No trickery, and it was easy for Maine to defend, which they did. The only problem is that, if a team is given any type of confidence in beating you, that's where problems start to manifest themselves.
 
Butch said:
What you say may be true but did you watch the game??

College football is pageantry. Diaco is failing miserably, so far.
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Btw, DIACO is not failing. I know 2 of the players on the team, very well. They're raving about the defensive prowess of your coach. He is very good. To be perfectly honest, he's not gonna be there very long, but will make his mark.
 
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ruthetiger said:
Btw, DIACO is not failing. I know 2 of the players on the team, very well. They're raving about the defensive prowess of your coach. He is very good. To be perfectly honest, he's not gonna be there very long, but will make his mark.
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I can tell the players like him, but something is missing in Diaco's brain that prevents him from being able to put a reasonable product on the field while there's an actual game going on.

He hasn't shown much over the past 2+ years.
 
A win by no matter how many points doesn't help us one iota.

A loss would have been the official death knell to our miniscule hopes.
 
Butch said:
I can tell the players like him, but something is missing in Diaco's brain that prevents him from being able to put a reasonable product on the field while there's an actual game going on.

He hasn't shown much over the past 2+ years.
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I'd Be Careful. Once it starts rolling it starts rolling. You guys don't necessarily have the players yet. It will come.
 
ruthetiger said:
I'd Be Careful. Once it starts rolling it starts rolling. You guys don't necessarily have the players yet. It will come.
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Noel Thomas and Arkeel Newsome are very good players....
 
BKarchitect said:
Real effect? None, one would hope.

Among casual fans in Big 12 country and sports talk hosts in this area? Trust me, they are loud on their platforms today screaming about how UConn and Cincinnati are terrible G5-level programs who suck and don't draw well. Even Houston fans are feeling their oats, simply because they have a show case game in their home city against football royalty to open the season.

I had to remind them that last year, the best year in their entire modern history and in a brand-new stadium - they averaged a whopping 33,000 per game and that their season opener last year - with the benefit of being on a Saturday and not Thursday but facing FCS competition like UConn just did - they drew 30,000.
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God I hope Houston gets their doors blown off. I don't care if it hurts the league
 
Do we have any pictures of the stadium when it is more full vs. the pre-kickoff one that's been sharing around the Internet? We are being pounded to pieces by bunch of idiot Memphis fans on CSNBBS.
 
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Last night will have zero impact on Big 12 decision makers... it will feed trolls and other who thrive on snark in the various social media platforms (including here).
 
ruthetiger said:
Btw, DIACO is not failing. I know 2 of the players on the team, very well. They're raving about the defensive prowess of your coach. He is very good. To be perfectly honest, he's not gonna be there very long, but will make his mark.
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He may not be here very long for reasons other than what you suggest.
 
There will not be any real effect of last nights close game. But if you think Big 12 big wigs ARENT paying attention to scores and shooting texts to other trusted people in decision making, your delusional. I'm sure many big 12 leaders checked their phone and saw the score of the UConn game last night and rolled their eyes. Many probably don't even know that Maine has a football program. Like it or not- it's a football first conference. Improving in basketball every year- but they want it to stay football first.

I realize the importance of game days for us, I realize the importance of filling the rent (4 game mini pass purchaser here) but at what point is being down to Maine (truly a bad football program) in the 4th quarter and pulling out a squeaky win just not good enough to be in a P5 conference against teams of Big 12 stature. We need to start winning games that should be won, convincingly. Our defensive backs (something Diaco hangs his hat on) were useless last night.
 
ruthetiger said:
Btw, DIACO is not failing. I know 2 of the players on the team, very well. They're raving about the defensive prowess of your coach. He is very good. To be perfectly honest, he's not gonna be there very long, but will make his mark.
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People aren't going to be beating down his door if he only delivers mediocrity (and that's being kind), no matter how nice a guy he is. I want him to deliver the goods here, the jury is still out, but he's running out of excuses.
 
CTMike said:
People aren't going to be beating down his door if he only delivers mediocrity (and that's being kind), no matter how nice a guy he is. I want him to deliver the goods here, the jury is still out, but he's running out of excuses.
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When the "nicest guy on the Boneyard" is starting to be critical of our football coach, you know he needs to produce.
 
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Haven't we been to like 6 bowls since we went D-1 in 2004 ish? That's pretty respectable given our programs short history and horrible Pasqualoni era. We probably would have been to another bowl during Orlovsky's time here if we weren't in Football limbo and no conference at the time. Not sure what else we could do. We hired a better coach, he just needs to get some W's now.
 
I think we're a lock for Yankee Conference expansion.
 
WestCoastHusky said:
Do we have any pictures of the stadium when it is more full vs. the pre-kickoff one that's been sharing around the Internet? We are being pounded to pieces by bunch of idiot Memphis fans on CSNBBS.
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Ah, the Memphis fans who averaged about 15K until the last two years?

If Memphis wants to talk, they don't have much to say. Just four short years ago, they drew 67K...

FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR.

Which actually marked an improvement as in 2011 they drew 62K (!!!!!!!!).

Actual Tiger 2012 Football Attendance: 67,181 | City Beat Blog | Memphis News and Events | Memphis Flyer
 
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I can't help but feel like the longer B12 expansion drags into football season, the more it hurts us.

In the offseason, we can talk all we want about being a program on the rise with major growth potential. These are abstract concepts.

But performance during the season is concrete and brings it all back to earth -- Texas and Oklahoma will receive a stark reminder of what UConn football would actually look like as a representative of their conference, and it's not pretty.
 
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