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[QUOTE="cuseguy, post: 5485545, member: 524"]
OK, I’ve read through thread and here’s my thoughts

No surprise, but this was probably too big of a stage for a young, inexperienced team. But you can’t control the schedule based on your personnel.

This is probably the biggest and fastest SU team in history, but we’re still lacking in rangy athletic players like Tennessee. That will need to be Fran’s objective.

Comparisons of Angeli to McCord will persist. It’s not fair to Angeli, who demonstrated he can manage an offense and make the necessary throws. Keep in mind he was facing one of the nation’s top defenses. Angeli will improve with each game, but it isn’t tight to criticize his performance today.

Tennessee’s offense is probably better than we think. The Vols lost a lot from last year, but they’ve reloaded with a lot of talent. We need to improve tackling and our pass rush, but I’m not ready to push the panic button.

We need to get away from giving up big plays and committing mental mistakes.

I see it as a good sign that we were able to run the ball against a very good Tennessee defense.

We essentially outplayed Tennessee in the second half. One more stop, one more play on offense, and it would have got interesting.

The crowd of 45K was disappointing considering Tennessee is 3 hours from Atlanta. Really poor turnout.

UConn won’t be a pushover. We struggled at times against them last year. Coming off a physically draining game, I suspect we may find ourselves in a fight.
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