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    Do I dare say it?

    The UConn Huskies are officially bowl eligible at 6-5, which is about six wins more than the 'experts' were calling for at the start of the season.

    Big time home upset over #24 Liberty.

    Huskies are bowl eligible?
    What's next? Space monkey's going to fly out of my butt.

    Coach Mora IMO is your NCAA coach of the year, what he's done here with this program is unbelievable, two years ago no available head coach didn't even want this job.

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    They have been bad for so long

    Who was the last decent coach they had before Mora ?

    Maybe Randy Edsall the first time

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    Solid year
    What bowl?
    Yankee Stadium?

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    Quote Originally Posted by asiagambler View Post
    They have been bad for so long

    Who was the last decent coach they had before Mora ?

    Maybe Randy Edsall the first time
    Edsall took them to the Fiesta Bowl in 2011, only to get schooled by a real program by a real coach (Stoops)
    Don't get me wrong, Edsall did all the right things in 2011 with a *very* talented defensive group.
    That team was all defense, I bet you couldn't even name the starting QB, WR1, or RB1 from that year.
    (Hint, wasn't Dan Orlavsky either, the best QB ever out of UConn but he was '04)

    Any way, in 2011 Edsall got blown out opening day to Michigan, was like 4-1 or so when we got blown out by Louisville, had to run the table (which he did) to win the Big East, but had to pull a miracle out of his ass to beat Pitt at the final whistle.

    Then Edsall carpet bagged it to Maryland, he believed the hype that he as 'all that' and by doing so pissed off every football fan here, got crushed in the ACC, Maryland couldn't fire him fast enough.

    When Edsall left, he bludgeoned the program back to the stone ages, what happened was when Edsall quit, all the 2012 recruits rescinded as well. PoS.

    I'm still scratching my head why the AD, President, and board brought him back the second time.

    Mora's got the whole state buzzing again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Solid year
    What bowl?
    Yankee Stadium?
    I'll take any bowl Coach, including the Toilet Bowl against a MAC runner up.

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    Somehow, so are the eating bielema's. really does not mean much at the end of the day

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    Mora has done an unbelievable job very quickly, that program had literally hit rock bottom.

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    Look out if UCONN can win the transfer portal next few years.

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    I bet them supposed to a see it won

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    Incredible season.Still can't believe they beat Fresno

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    What a fantastic coaching job. This is what real coaching is without getting top recruits.

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    Army (@West Point) opens -10, 43.5

    I may be long winded (the hell you say)?
    I'm not the end all, be all, hardly.
    But I do watch as much of the academy games as I can being from a career military family.
    You all know by now I am an all everything Connecticut homer.

    What am I missing here?

    Forget we are a Navy family and can't stand Army (football only) and give West Point 3.5 points for their home field advantage.

    Having said that, putting this game on a neural field, Army (IMO) is still not a TD better than UCONN.

    Army is three and six, they beat a real crappy Villanova team, an even crappier Colgate team, and UL Monroe that couldn't win a game outside of Louisiana even if you spotted them 4 TD's, and lost to Troy last week, even though 8-2 Troy is not a bad loss.

    Army was hanging 40 plus burgers at the start of the year has all of a sudden stopped scoring, they're not my daddy's wishbone triple set offense any longer, but still, +10? Either the books think UCONN is still not all that and Army is better than what they've shown, or the books think UCONN is ripe for a let down, I'm still missing something here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Covering the # View Post
    What a fantastic coaching job. This is what real coaching is without getting top recruits.
    exactly. these are the coaches who deserve accolades.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DiggityDaggityDo View Post
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    Go Huskies!!!

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    Early in the season UConn had 1H Team Totals of +0.5, -0.5 or +1, -1.
    Crazy

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