An indictment of UConn football, with mystery charts
by Kevin Meacham on Sep 19, 2010 1:10 PM EDT
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PrintSee if you can figure out what specifically these two charts are referring to in the comments. For a bonus point, find the related link I'm reaching for here. Other than the headline, I will present these charts without further comment:
EDIT: Commenter fergy figured out that the second chart is UConn's out-of-conference record (wins in the left column, losses in the right, with end-of-season records for those teams.) For the Big East version, click the jump:
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can;t make a guess to the first one
but the second one is easy. left column: OOC teams UConn has beat and their records on the season. right column: OOC teams UConn has lost too. Apparently we have trouble with teams that win.
Unless that team is from Ohio*
*This stat brought to you by the merciful fact that we’ve never scheduled OSU
by Andrew Porter on Sep 19, 2010 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions
You are correct on the second chart
They are indeed out-of-conference results since 2004. They are ugly:
—1-9 against above .500 teams not from the MAC
—8-9 vs. BCS teams overall, but that includes 2 wins vs. awful Baylor teams, 2 wins vs. awful Duke teams, 1 awful win vs. a bad Indiana team, 1 win vs. a bad Virginia team, 1 win vs. the Notre Dame team that got Charlie Weis fired, and a nice win over South Carolina a month after the 2009 season ended.
And we expected this team to just be awesome out of nowhere? Ugh. Chalk that up to blind homerism, I guess.
I am kinda surprised no one’s gotten the first chart yet, but I’ll let that stay a secret for now. When someone guesses that, I will regale you with my latest theory.
Orange Bowl/dual Final Fours or bust in 2011. We're going all-in.
Let me guess
Player A is the theoretical results of a student picked at random from the Rentschler crowd to play quarterback and Player B is Zach Frazer.
by Andrew Porter on Sep 19, 2010 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Half-correct
There’s no way some random kid from the Rent would have that many intangibles.
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by Kevin Meacham on Sep 19, 2010 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Got it
A is Lorenzen, B is Frazer…two UConn quarterbacks who throw / threw better and more accurate passes with their feet.
Ding ding
The thing that killed me while I was making this chart was that Lorenzen’s 2007 season was fairly swank by UConn standards (2000+ yards, 13 TD, 6 INT), but everyone only remembers his hysterically bad 2008.
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by Kevin Meacham on Sep 19, 2010 3:57 PM EDT up reply actions
The injury to the hand/wrist
ruined Lorenzen’s career. I think it happened in the blowout loss to Cincy, yes? He was awful in every game thereafter, except for the blowout win vs UVA the following season. We never got the full story there, but Lorenzen simply couldn’t throw from that point on…
Almost positive it was the Cincy game
And you’re right. It’s also instructive to note that Edsall, even with (presumably) knowledge of the injury, stuck with Lorenzen the whole year. This does not make me confident going forward.
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by Kevin Meacham on Sep 19, 2010 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions
No, it doesn't...I was sure we were stuck w/ Frazer
But today Edsall said change is coming. Hopefully he’s not just trying to light a fire under Zach. I’m sure Frazer is a nice kid and all, but it’s time. He’s not the caliber of QB we hoped he’d be. Weiss knew it…we should have too. Saturday would be a great game to start Box…at home, against a team we should handle.
Agreed
But I think Edsall left it vague enough – “there will be changes on the depth chart Tuesday” – to allow him to just re-add Endres to the No. 2 position and change nothing else. But maybe he’ll surprise us.
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by Kevin Meacham on Sep 19, 2010 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
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