This. With the exception of the 2nd half of the Temple game, the team played hard and never quit. I forgave them for the Temple collapse after the 2nd half KO debacle. Regrettably, I watched the entire Cincy game yesterday. Team quit. Reminded me of UCF game last year. Flat quit from the opening whistle.
I'm not sure I agree with that extent of it. I didn't stay past the first TD of the second half by Cincy, but I didn't get the impression of partial effort, just disorganized chaos and ineffective football. It's entirely possible that they deflated and started going through motions after - because the majority of the stadium was there was emptied out by then too, and the chances of winning the game were non-existent, in week 10 of a 2-7 campaign to date. They are human beings, and young ones - those players.
Trust me. When you come home to your wife - who is the most accepting and amazing woman you have ever known, and can deal withyour issues and habits and existence - come home hammered and stinking and having forgotten to text or call and she doesnt know if you are alive or in jail or in a hospital or what -after another night out with your old buddies, and the team lost 41-0?
Tough to justify doing it again.
LOL. I would point out, my friend, that the team having mailed it in does probably not explain in your spouse's eyes either not communicating during the game or coming home stinking drunk. But your sentiments are otherwise my sentiments. I expected this to take time, and I'm fine with the team losing a lot, but losing does not mean that playing like we did Saturday is either o.k. or watchable as a form of entertainment.
I refuse to blame the players, they are poorly led. They have as much talent as most of the teams we have played.
I think bizlaw nailed it when he called it an unwatchable form of entertainment. We were never in the game and the effort looked terrible from the stands. I do wonder if Diacos habit of saying the team sucks after losses has worn these guys out. They played hard every game this year except for Saturday night. I wouldn't blame them, after the ucf win he talks about his process is coming together, after the army loss its we suck less then when I got here but we still suck. Its a dangerous line a coach toes when he is constantly puting everything on the players when things go wrong.
Reading your post reminded me of Steve Spurrier after the Birmingham bowl in 2009. Holy cow, that seems like ancient history when we were able to play football like we did that day. I remember being upset and how much Spurrier put the blame for the game on himself, rather than crediting the Huskies. He made it clear we were the better team, but it was mostly because they didn't come to play prepared and ready properly.
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=300020041
"We missed things the whole day. Passes, tackles," Spurrier said. "I'm embarrassed. Blame me. It was a sad, sad effort, especially the offense."
"The first thing I want to do is apologize to about 30,000 Gamecocks who came here to see a football game, and we couldn't put one on," he said. "I thought we were ready to play. But obviously our offense was very sad and our defense wasn't as good as it's been most of the time. We thoroughly got beat by a better team, a better disciplined team."
Somebody needs to write a book called the seven habits of highly effective HEAD football coaches, and give Bobby D the full text, not just the Cliffs Notes.
I wonder if he said any of those things when he started at Duke?
I wonder if he said any of those things when he started at Duke?
My group of 3 ,which meant we had 3 no shows, left after the 41-0 score in the early third quarter. We kept asking ourselves if Joe D was going to do the always weakSad thing is that the crowd took on the demeanor of the team... Didn't cheer for good plays (few and far between obviously) and didn't even boo for the horrid ones (a fair number of them)..
The other thing that ticked me off to no end was the incessant playing of the fog horn / husky dog infomercial when there was a Cincy 3rd down... Being down 41-0 and playing that was somewhat counter intuitive...
I can not believe that I bought a 3 game package based on Diaco's speech at the alumni dinner. I have SMU and Cincy remaining.
I was inspired now I am deflated!
Reading your post reminded me of Steve Spurrier after the Birmingham bowl in 2009. Holy cow, that seems like ancient history when we were able to play football like we did that day. I remember being upset and how much Spurrier put the blame for the game on himself, rather than crediting the Huskies. He made it clear we were the better team, but it was mostly because they didn't come to play prepared and ready properly.
http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=300020041
"We missed things the whole day. Passes, tackles," Spurrier said. "I'm embarrassed. Blame me. It was a sad, sad effort, especially the offense."
"The first thing I want to do is apologize to about 30,000 Gamecocks who came here to see a football game, and we couldn't put one on," he said. "I thought we were ready to play. But obviously our offense was very sad and our defense wasn't as good as it's been most of the time. We thoroughly got beat by a better team, a better disciplined team."
Somebody needs to write a book called the seven habits of highly effective HEAD football coaches, and give Bobby D the full text, not just the Cliffs Notes.
Should of beat Army, USF, and Tulane. Coaches held us back. This team could be bowling, but thats not what Diaco wants.
Should of beat Army, USF, and Tulane. Coaches held us back. This team could be bowling, but thats not what Diaco wants.
I'll see what he does next year.He's got to start demonstrating some learning Duncan.
I agree. Anyone thinking Diaco doesn't want this program/team to win is foolish. Why would you leave ND, to come to Uconn and hope your team loses game after game. Really?!Oh please. Does anyone really believe that? I am 100% positive Coach Diaco wants to win. I am not positive he knows how to get a team to win. And that makes me extremely nervous. We cannot afford a Greg Robinson at this point in time.
J187Money said:Just need to text and check in a couple of times. That's all. Makes a world of difference.
Good grief....
We all want the team to win. They're not. Boo-boo.
If people want to vacate their season tickets, great. Better seats for me.
I will be renewing my tickets.