UCONN has never beat West Virginia
Hey i remember watching College Football Live a few weeks back and Randy Edsall was on and they were talking about the Big East and opening up with Michigan, and he made the comment that he has yet to beat West Virgina. So I was thinking will this help Michigan this saturday considering that West Virgina still runs Rich Rods system. What do you guys think? I think the lack of experience on defense is the main factor. Sorry guys i know this isn't a great post just trying to get threw till saturday.
August 30th, 2010 at 11:05 AM ^
So that's why Tate had no wings on his helmet... he's going to come out with the 1st team offense wearing a "WV" helmet.
RR is tricky tricky
I hope UConn doesn't counter by putting numerous buckeye stickers on their helmets. The chess match has started!
August 30th, 2010 at 11:10 AM ^
thus begins the longest 5 days of my life
August 30th, 2010 at 11:31 AM ^
August 30th, 2010 at 11:18 AM ^
go on...
August 30th, 2010 at 11:21 AM ^
I'm sorry, but I just dont think your effort as volunteer OP is working out. We're going to have to let you go.
August 30th, 2010 at 11:30 AM ^
UConn will have not beaten us either.
August 30th, 2010 at 11:32 AM ^
Luckily, I guess, for UConn they are not playing WVA on Saturday
August 30th, 2010 at 1:13 PM ^
in which case, not only do I know what the implication of that would be, but not sure exactly what that means since I am tragically unhip.
August 30th, 2010 at 11:45 AM ^
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it doesn't matter that UConn has never beaten WVA. Seeing as they'll be playing UM and all.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:04 PM ^
RR pasted Edsall's team a couple of times (66-13 one year, I think). I'll take it at this point, and hopefully it means that Edsall doesn't know how to defend a Rodriguez spread offense.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:13 PM ^
Right, because our coaches are the only ones who learn from past losses? These arguments are laughable. It woudl be better for us if Edsall had NEVER played RR rather than if RR had beaten him four times. Edsal et al. have now had much to learn from, and they will be playing a less-developed RR team. That is what we should take from the past RR vs Edsall contests.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:34 PM ^
We'll find out on Saturday.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:51 PM ^
I prefer to think of it as past games don't mean much of anything going into Saturday. Yes Edsall has had ample opportunity to learn from past match-ups, but so has Rich Rod. Just because he won doesn't mean he didn't learn anything. It's a two way street.
August 30th, 2010 at 1:12 PM ^
Agreed that this can cut both ways, but it's more useful information than the more generalized stats that will get trotted out in in the media guide (e.g. M's record all-time against Big East schools, M's record all-time at home openers, etc.)
Either way, just get this thing started already.
August 30th, 2010 at 4:15 PM ^
Amen.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:47 PM ^
I understand that Edsall and RR have a history and that history heavily favors RR. I also understand the point that sometimes coaches never learn to defend a certain style of offense (e.g. Carr and mobile QBs). But every game is different.
It sounds like UConn has undergone a rough off season (injuries, suspensions, etc) that has hurt their depth and experience, but UM is still an incredibly young team with a lot of holes in the depth chart and even more question marks.
Don't get me wrong, I fully expect UM to beat UConn, but I just think it will have little if anything to do with UConn's past record against WVA.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:25 PM ^
when they faced WVa. If anything, this hurts Michigan because they faced that similar offense the last two years.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:36 PM ^
Stats like that do nothing for me. College football always has those WTF moments where you ask yourself, "How could this team beat that team but at the same time lose to this other crappy ass team?"
It's kind of like looking at this past decade. We own the SEC, the SEC owns Ohio State yet we're 2-8 against OSU. (Excuse me a minute while I throw up.)
I think the majority of WVU's wins over UConn were during the time the Huskies were building their program up from 1-AA status, or whatever they were prior to 2002. UConn is much better these days. But I still expect us to win.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:38 PM ^
"UConn football moved up to Division I-A status in 2000, was included in official NCAA Division I-A statistics for the first time in 2002, and became a full Big East member in 2004."
So I wouldn't get too excited by that stat, we're working with an awfully small sample size, and the fact that UConn is even mildly competitive 10 years after moving up to FBS is actually kind of impressive.
August 30th, 2010 at 1:34 PM ^
I fully expect Edsall to remain winless against Rich after this Saturday.
August 30th, 2010 at 4:25 PM ^
The WVU teams that RR coached were far greater in talent then UConns teams were. Having said that, there is a coaching advantage that RR has over Edsall, and that will certainly help us to some degree. GO BLUE