Dez does a good job producing material but none of it is adventurous and most of it is publicly available or released by the team. I read his stuff but rarely does it provide new insight.
Since it almost all comes from P or GDL, watching Dez carry material onto the web is like watching Lyle McCombs or Scott McCummings carry the football into the line. It's very predictable, and on the rare occasions when it looks like Dez has broken a big play, like the GDL to the Giants scoop, you soon realize that actually it wasn't Dez's story, he was just carrying out GDL's play call, and GDL screwed up the play by running it at the wrong time.
He could have developed other, non-UConn sources, and run stories on conference realignment showing us how TV networks and other conferences/schools regarded UConn. That would have attracted a big readership. He didn't.
There's another side to this. The Boneyard culture has decayed since its early days, when it was full of excited fans having fun together. Now it displays a lot of the things I dislike about Connecticut culture; a lot of negativity, a lot of critics who do nothing themselves, discouraging people who are actually trying to achieve something. It's why things rarely get done in Connecticut -- look at all the uncompleted highways, for example. So I sympathize with people like Pasqualoni and Dez who are trying to do something. Still, they could do better. There was no excuse for last year's offense, and Dez's writing defines prosaic.
