We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

[thesportsguru11]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

*****UCONN ON ANOTHER BYE IN WEEK 5******

NCAA Players of the Week

2014 American Athletic Conference Standings - Updated: Sep 29, 2014
TEAM	REC	PCT	CONF	PF	PA	STRK
Houston	3-1		1-0
Tulsa	2-3		1-0
East Carolina	3-0		0-0
Cincinnati	3-1		0-0
Temple	3-1		0-1
UCF	3-1		0-0
Tulane	1-1		0-0
USF	2-2		0-0
Memphis	1-2		0-0
SMU	1-3		0-1
UConn	0-3		0-0

this is awesome so far! Great work sportsguru. It's definitely been a rough start to the year, but the season isn't over yet. Just gotta put together some wins, and hopefully become bowl eligible! I love the layout bro, keep up the awesome work.

Thank you very much Lop. Glad to hear you like the layout, you inspired me a lot with your old Wichita State 'chise and as a result I have implemented and expanded upon some of your ideas. Getting better with pixlr (free alternative for photoshop) has also helped me out a lot with the layout.

It's really amazing to see all this activity in the thread, it means a lot to me that people are buying into my series, ideas and reporting style.

[RoundingThird]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

My boy Matt Johnson from BG had a big week!

[thesportsguru11]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)





GAMEDAY!

Week 6 for our UConn Huskies sees them facing FCS foe Stony Brook. Not a lot to say about this game other than this is essentially a must-win for UConn to have any shot at a bowl game in 2014.

The Seawolves have had a rough go of things in 2014, falling to 1-4 early in the season.

UConn doesn't necessarily have to play perfect to beat the Seawolves, but Chandler Whitmer, who has been given one last shot at the starting QB gig, has to cut down on turnovers. Tim Boyle played well last week in garbage time and is patiently waiting in the wings.

The assumption is also that the Offensive Line will play better, which has been hard to count on the past 3-4 years.

In addition, the defense will have to stop Stony Brook's scrambling QB Steve Baker. Baker isn't as good as Angel Santiago of Army, but they still struggled defending him nonetheless 2 weeks ago. Jefferson Ashiru has noted through the week he would love to have a big game.

Prediction: UConn 21, Stony Brook 7

I'm willing to bet the farm I do not own that UConn's defense can finally resemble that of an FBS team. Chandler Whitmer comes out with a big chip on his shoulder and does a serviceable job.

My boy Matt Johnson from BG had a big week!

BGSU sadly has a .500 record IIRC...

[RoundingThird]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

UConn actually trailed for most of this one in reality, but won on a Deshon Foxx punt return. Should be a nail biter.

[thesportsguru11]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

Saved from "Boyling" Water

Boyle rallies UConn from down 20 in 2nd half


Somewhere in this heap, Sean McQuillan hauls in the winning score.

I'm not sure which I understand less, giving up 27 points to Stony Brook in one half, or being down by 20 to them at the half without putting up so much as a fight to contend with them.

The only way UConn still had a chance at the half was a miracle play in the first quarter when Chandler Whitmer heave-hoed down field and found Geremy Davis, who outran the secondary for an 85 yard score. Aside from that, UConn, on both ends of the ball, looked like a chicken with its head cut off. 'Nuff said.

Enter Tim Boyle.

Brief Bio on Boyle: 6 foot 3, 216 pounds. True sophomore, played good-but-not-great in a handful of starts last year before being benched for grad assistant Casey Cochran. One-time Boston College prospect.

(Fun fact: It was so widely assumed Boyle was going to BC during 2013 recruiting, that BC didn't look at anyone else at QB. When he committed to UConn, BC had to scramble and ended up with James Walsh and Mackay Lowrie, viewed as similarly talented prospects but each with a little more mobility. Both guys left in the 2013-14 offseason, Walsh left the program and Lowrie left for the U of Rhode Island last spring where he united with...wait for it.. former UConn RB Lyle McCombs. Oh yeah, we just came full circle. I am such a nerd...)

So, instead of riding pine in Chestnut Hill, Boyle got his big chance in East Hartford. To save the hopeless UConn Huskies.. from big, scary Stony Brook, who outgained them by well over 200 yards in the first half.

And boy(le) did he deliver.

Despite not throwing a TD, Boyle kept his composure and guided several methodical drives which led to UConn scores.

Max DeLorenzo got UConn back in the game with a pair of 1 yard TD dives with 2 minutes left in the 3rd and with 4 minutes left in the 4th, leaving UConn with a 7 point deficit and 4 minutes.

Not Max DeLorenzo, but Geremy Davis had his share of big plays.

Stony Brook, as they did most of their other drives in the second half, went 3 and out.

Boyle again completed a number of short passes, but on a scramble was hit hard and left the game.

Re-enter Whitmer.

Boyle had gotten UConn down to the 30, so Whitmer just had to hand off a few times, then fire a TD on an out to Sean McQuillan to put UConn up 28-27.

But the mission was still not yet complete. The Seawolves still had 1:45 and 75 yards to try to score again.

Steve Baker did a good impersonation of Boyle, finding his open men and marching Stony Brook down to the 10 quickly. However, with no timeouts and 10 seconds they had to stop the clock to try to get a field goal up.

On a straight ahead run from Lamar Collins, UConn stuffed the running back in an attempt to center the ball.

UConn sat on the ball and nonchalantly switched to their field goal unit as Stony Brook rushed out to try to get the kick up.

Time ran out right before the snap, and UConn held on, albeit barely, for the win.

If we don't win this one....

So we won. We should be happy. We solved the QB dilemma (We hope) with Tim Boyle. But I still am on edge from this quote I left in the last recap. We barely beat a crappy FCS team. This doesn't inspire much confidence. However, I'm a pessimist, so take it how you may.

We have Tulsa next. Another must-win in my eyes. And I think we can win it. But enough of the future.

WE WON!!!!!! Bob Diaco got his first head coaching win!!! HELL YEAH!!!!

See you next week.

Stony Brook Seawolves at Connecticut Huskies
Oct 4, 2014	1ST	2ND	3RD	4TH	SCORE
Stony Brook Seawolves (1-5)	14	13	0	0	27
Connecticut Huskies (1-3)	7	0	7	14	28

Scoring Summary
FIRST QUARTER SCORING		STON	CONN
5:21	(STON) Baker 3 run (Harris kick)	7	0
3:22	(STON) Baker 11 pass Jones (Harris kick)	14	0
1:53	(CONN) Whitmer 85 pass Davis (Puyol kick)	14	7
SECOND QUARTER SCORING		STON	CONN
5:48	(STON) Baker 11 pass Jones (Harris kick)	21	7
1:14	(STON) Harris 17 FG	24	7
:00	(STON) Harris 30 FG	27	7
THIRD QUARTER SCORING		STON	CONN
1:56	(CONN) DeLorenzo 1 run (Puyol kick)	27	14
4:39	(CONN) DeLorenzo 1 run (Puyol kick)	27	21
FOURTH QUARTER SCORING		STON	CONN
1:51	(CONN) Whitmer 8 pass McQuillan (Puyol kick)	27	28

Stony Brook Seawolves

Connecticut Huskies PASSING C/A YDS TD INT Tim Boyle 7-11 198 0 1 Chandler Whitmer 10-22 172 2 4 RUSHING ATT YDS AVG TD Max DeLorenzo 16 56 3.5 2 Tim Boyle 5 39 7.8 0 RECEIVING REC YDS AVG TD Sean McQuillan 6 56 9.3 1 Deshon Foxx 4 135 33.7 0 Geremy Davis 2 128 64.0 1 DEFENSE TACK SACK INT TD Kenton Adeyemi 9 1 0 0 Jefferson Ashiru 8 0 0 0 Jamar Summers 5 0 1 0

UConn actually trailed for most of this one in reality, but won on a Deshon Foxx punt return. Should be a nail biter.

Was a close one here too...

[djp73]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

Way too close in that one...

[RoundingThird]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

Fun fact: Tim Boyle played high school football with my cousin, the kicker, who was a senior when Boyle was a freshman.

Nice win. It ain't pretty, but you'll take it, right? All you're trying to do is get to 6 wins.

[thesportsguru11]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

NCAA & American Players of the Week

2014 American Athletic Conference Standings - Updated: Oct 5, 2014
TEAM	REC	PCT	CONF	PF	PA	STRK
UCF	4-1		1-0
Houston	3-1		1-0
USF	3-2		1-0
Tulsa	2-4		1-1
Cincinnati	3-1		0-0
ECU	3-1		0-0
Tulane	2-1		0-0
Temple	3-2		0-1
UConn	1-3		0-0
SMU	1-3		0-1
Memphis	1-3		0-1

Way too close in that one...

I feel we did get a little too lucky with the comeback. Hopefully we don't need that going forward. Thanks for checking in, djp!

Fun fact: Tim Boyle played high school football with my cousin, the kicker, who was a senior when Boyle was a freshman.

Nice win. It ain't pretty, but you'll take it, right? All you're trying to do is get to 6 wins.

Very neat..

Yeah, just 5 wins in AAC play is all we need...

[rackadmin]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

Thank you very much Lop. Glad to hear you like the layout, you inspired me a lot with your old Wichita State 'chise and as a result I have implemented and expanded upon some of your ideas. Getting better with pixlr (free alternative for photoshop) has also helped me out a lot with the layout.

It's really amazing to see all this activity in the thread, it means a lot to me that people are buying into my series, ideas and reporting style.

*****UCONN ON ANOTHER BYE IN WEEK 5******

NCAA Players of the Week

2014 American Athletic Conference Standings - Updated: Sep 29, 2014
TEAM	REC	PCT	CONF	PF	PA	STRK
Houston	3-1		1-0
Tulsa	2-3		1-0
East Carolina	3-0		0-0
Cincinnati	3-1		0-0
Temple	3-1		0-1
UCF	3-1		0-0
Tulane	1-1		0-0
USF	2-2		0-0
Memphis	1-2		0-0
SMU	1-3		0-1
UConn	0-3		0-0

Hello Sports guru i am new to this forum. Just browsing and find your post, the layout is really very good. The reason i posted here is because to share some thing with you. As i am photo editor and graphics designer from last 7 year. Hence i must say that you put a great skill in your layout being not using any photoshop editor, With just pixlr you turned the layout very good. I amazed to see, that. Just recenlty some one has lauch a toolpic which is more better free Photoshop Online editor alternative. You will not find difficulty using toolpic because it is similar to pixlr, almost same., but the most i like about toolpic about it's ready made special effect function which we can direclty apply on the pics, and also it has animation template which we can put on our pics to have a final GIF file Which is animated.
Hope it help for your further photo editing.

[djp73]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

it's 2015, why are we still quoting posts with pictures?

[thesportsguru11]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

Hello Sports guru i am new to this forum. Just browsing and find your post, the layout is really very good. The reason i posted here is because to share some thing with you. As i am photo editor and graphics designer from last 7 year. Hence i must say that you put a great skill in your layout being not using any photoshop editor, With just pixlr you turned the layout very good. I amazed to see, that. Just recenlty some one has lauch a toolpic which is more better free Photoshop Online editor alternative. You will not find difficulty using toolpic because it is similar to pixlr, almost same., but the most i like about toolpic about it's ready made special effect function which we can direclty apply on the pics, and also it has animation template which we can put on our pics to have a final GIF file Which is animated.
Hope it help for your further photo editing.

First off, welcome to OS and thank you for the kind words.

I can't tell you how much Pixlr and Google Presentation (slide show creator) have helped me out in my past 3 projects, it's really allowed me to step up my presentation. It's really nice that people are enjoying the meshing of good layouts in the Around the NCAA, yet a simple recap, pics and box score in game recaps.

I'll have to check out the site further when I have a little more time, but it is quite similar like you said. May help me a little.

it's 2015, why are we still quoting posts with pictures?

I wish I could answer this. New guys, maybe?

[thesportsguru11]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

Pair of 3* recruits sign Letter of Intent with UConn

Good news comes in pairs apparently.

After winning their first game of 2014 over Stony Brook, a pair of recruits on their official visits committed to UConn and coach Bob Diaco.




The first of these prospects is 3* New Jersey corner Derek Robinson, a very talented corner who will bolster the group of very raw youngsters out in the secondary. His commitment further assures that both corner spots will be in good hands for years to come despite the departure of team captain Byron Jones at the end of the season. Robinson will join freshman Jamar Summers, and sophomores Jhavon Williams, John Green and Javon Hadley.

Robinson also has the potential to play receiver, which could come in handy as UConn will lose both of their starters next year.

The other commit is 3* DT T.J. Newell, a hometown prospect who is a welcome addition to an otherwise mediocre defensive line. Newell, who stands tall at 6'5, 250 pounds-plus, is a bruiser who has talent in the pass rush as well. Like Robinson, Newell could be an anchor for several years to come.

[beekay415]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

Hope those guys pan out for you!

[RoundingThird]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

You use Google Presentation? I might have to look into that. It would certainly make things quicker. My Browns recaps sometimes take upwards of an hour to write.

[thesportsguru11]

Re: We have a football team too... Guru's UConn Huskies (NCAA 14)

Hope those guys pan out for you!

I think they should, I don't have full scouting unlocked but unless both guys are gems, I think both may redshirt next year, then contribute in 2016.

You use Google Presentation? I might have to look into that. It would certainly make things quicker. My Browns recaps sometimes take upwards of an hour to write.

Yes, that's how I did the recruiting posts, AP Top 25, Heisman Watch, and those little scorecards at the top of game recaps. It's a very useful tool and it's not too hard to figure out. I just screenshot my work, put it on photobucket and post.