For those of you who missed it Saturday...UCONN's final first half possession Saturday...

[Jimmy Serrano]

Yeah, DeLeone was awful.

I remember at the end Reyes and Rhodes rushing for nearly 1000 yards each. I remember how against BC Rhodes opened with a long 70 yard TD run and then how Ferri came into the game had over 140 yards rushing against BC. I remember the brilliant games that Reyes had for two plus years including that long run on national TV against Auburn and the five TD game on national TV against ND in 2003.

I remember how Dee Brown and James Mungro had 1000 yard seasons toward the end.

I remember how under DeLeone Donnie McPherson became a star QB and how we went the Sugar Bowl and then all of the bowls that followed.

I remember Todd Philcox and Marvin Graves and Don McNabb and even Kevin Mason and Troy Nunes.

Yeah, DeLeone was awful - glad we don't have to have those days again.

I'm guessing you're this board's P & D Apologista? Pasqualista?

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

i usually don't care for uconn fans but i make exceptions for anyone who references the most underrated movie of all time. relax, have a cream soda

Don't say another word or I'll bury this telephone in your head.

It's a great flick. Farina, Grodin, DeNiro, and many more...stellar performances across the board.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

I'm not sure if you knew that you were responding to a UConn fan. Maybe you did. But I don't think you'll get any traction trying to educate them on Deleone's accomplishments at SU. They still don't think college football was really a sport until 2005. Deleone wasn't here at that point.

I couldn't care less what they did here. I care about what they've done the last 2 years. We've regressed so much offensively from year 1 to year 2 it's embarassing. We are running on first down to the tune of something like 80% at an average a little over 2 yards a clip. Our 166 lb RB is being run between the tackles like he's Earl Campbell.

 

[dollarbill44]

And once again I didn't raise the issue - the haters raised the issue - so beat them up about doing so.

I don't believe I beat anyone up with my post. There were more blowouts than the GT Citrus Bowl and '99 VT games. Here is a list:

1993:@Miami 49-0; WVU 43-0.
1994: @BC 31-0
1998:@NCSU 38-17 (maybe the biggest What loss in P's tenure, imo)
1999:@VT 62-0; @Rutgers 24-21 (Rutgers went 1-10 that year!); @Miami 45-13
2001:@Miami 59-0
2002:@BYU 42-21; Pitt 48-24; @Temple 17-16; Miami 49-7 Note: BYU lost 7 games in 2002, including to Nevada, UNLV, Col St and New Mexico. Temple only beat 1 other BCS team - Rutgers.
2003:@VT 51-7; @Rutgers 24-7 (rutgers went 5-7)
2004:@Purdue 51-0; @Temple 34-24 (Temple went 2-9, beating only Fla A&M and SU); and finally GT 51-14

There are other lopsided losses (20+ points to BC, Pitt, etc) in there that I left out because they weren't necessarily humiliating losses.

Sorry to dredge up so many bad memories, but it is what it is.

 

[Fjoinkay]

My guess is that the manic-depressive state of the SU fan base began to take shape with those 2 lopsided losses in '93. GRob followed 12 years later with full on unipolar major depression. And now we are seeking well-being while suffering through old bipolar episodes ingrained from the P & D days.

 

[OttoMets]

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The fact is that after SU got blown out by Va Tech that one year, the Orange came back and beat the Hokies two years in a row - including a great game in 2002 - that's what's important - not the score of a few games.
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Not for nothing, but after SU got blown out at Virginia Tech in 1999, they came back and bungled that end-of-half situation (referenced above) and took a loss, despite a tremendous performance by the defense.

Just because a coach contributed to some great wins and great seasons doesn't mean he didn't make mistakes. Memorable mistakes that turned wins into losses on more than one occasion. Pasqualoni's not alone in this - most coaches have done it.

I'm not saying he's Andy Reid, but his clock management and use of timeouts often left something to be desired.

 

[Scooch]

UConn made a bad decision in hiring P. They completely misread the state of their program, and i said so at the time, this ain't 20/20 hindsight.

When Jake made P the head coach in '91 it made a lot of sense. We had a lot of talent developing in the program, and he knew that the best course was for consistency. You can't argue with the results, it was the right call, we went 20-4 and won 2 New Year's bowl games against high profile opponents.

For some reason UConn thought they were in a similar spot. I guess coming off the 2nd least-deserved BCS berth in history (#1 being Pitt in 2004) they thought a "care taker" was the right person to bring in. Clearly it wasn't, they should have been bringing in an innovative, dynamic FCS or non-BCS conference head coach. Maybe a young coordinator from a major program.

Oh well, I'm glad they did it and I hope they rot.

 

[CusefanATL]

ugh... i am just guessing, but this has to be by far the most lopsided college gameday game of all time.

 

[JOC44]

Don't say another word or I'll bury this telephone in your head.

It's a great flick. Farina, Grodin, DeNiro, and many more...stellar performances across the board.

You ever had sex with an animal, Jack?

 

[SWC75]

I don't believe I beat anyone up with my post. There were more blowouts than the GT Citrus Bowl and '99 VT games. Here is a list:

1993:@Miami 49-0; WVU 43-0.
1994: @BC 31-0
1998:@NCSU 38-17 (maybe the biggest What loss in P's tenure, imo)
1999:@VT 62-0; @Rutgers 24-21 (Rutgers went 1-10 that year!); @Miami 45-13
2001:@Miami 59-0
2002:@BYU 42-21; Pitt 48-24; @Temple 17-16; Miami 49-7 Note: BYU lost 7 games in 2002, including to Nevada, UNLV, Col St and New Mexico. Temple only beat 1 other BCS team - Rutgers.
2003:@VT 51-7; @Rutgers 24-7 (rutgers went 5-7)
2004:@Purdue 51-0; @Temple 34-24 (Temple went 2-9, beating only Fla A&M and SU); and finally GT 51-14

There are other lopsided losses (20+ points to BC, Pitt, etc) in there that I left out because they weren't necessarily humiliating losses.

Sorry to dredge up so many bad memories, but it is what it is.

OrangePA has descibed those games as "molehills" that we try to make mountains of. And many of them were on national TV. I think they were the primary reason for the decline of the program. Recruits saw them and wondered why they should come here. OrangePA believes that a decline in our facilities was the real reason. Of course those factors are not mutually exclusive.

 

[wfschrec]

Don't say another word or I'll bury this telephone in your head.

It's a great flick. Farina, Grodin, DeNiro, and many more...stellar performances across the board.

It's under D as in jerk

 

[rrlbees]

There were few "bad times." There were many, many, many great times. Pasqualoni and DeLeone were great for the program.

The eight years that have followed have simply underscored that fact.

The BS about the scores of a few losses - is just that BS. A loss was a loss regardless of the score.

I don't recall the haters conceding that the loss to Florida State in 2004 or the loss to Auburn at Auburn on national TV in 2002 were really great losses - that the coaches should have been commended for how the team competed.

The fact is that after SU got blown out by Va Tech that one year, the Orange came back and beat the Hokies two years in a row - including a great game in 2002 - that's what's important - not the score of a few games.

There was one bad year - 2002 when the Orange won I think four games - with losses to BYU and Auburn and others.

The final year was 6-6 with a bowl - not great, but not bad and with what the coaches had to work with - with no money in the program - the season was a success.

Blow-outs in bowls happen all the time - see Clemson last year.

I am very content with Marrone and look forward to success in the future, but the BS on this board about P&D has been and remains nonsense.

And once again I didn't raise the issue - the haters raised the issue - so beat them up about doing so.

16-20 the last 3 seasons with several embarrassing blowouts. It was time.

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[orangecuse]

It would've been interesting to see how P would have done if the University hadn't dropped the ball in getting behind the times resource, facility wise, etc. Undoubtedly, that had a huge impact and the significant drop off in talent and product on the field.