Game One: Pitt

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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by ZooMass84 » Sun Sep 05, 2021 7:58 am

stevemaz wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 6:36 am My optimism has been increased ten fold as I think the defense is far better than they were two years ago. Sure, they gave up 51, but if the offense was at least decent they would have held them in the 30s. I expect another drubbing next week, but the game vs Eastern Michigan will be competitive and then in week 6 the program officially turns the corner with a trouncing of UConn. Hang in there boys... the Brady "Doug Flutie part 2" Olson era will be a fun one..
Hope you are right but the final score is all that matters: we still suck and the OL is horrendous. Our secondary is excellent but our offense is a joke. Yesterday Pitt's DE kept getting around our LT all day and Lytle was getting knocked around. Only possible wins will be against UConn, UMaine, NMSU. Don't know about URI. Granted Pitt is actually a top 35 team but unless the OL gets fixed, it's going to be the same old story: our defense gets gassed by halftime and then we get blown out, week in, week out.

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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by photoman » Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:07 am

Bell quote from the game story in Gazettenet:

“You always learn lessons when you get the sting of a loss,” Bell said. “We got to see somebody with a real fastball, and that’s going to help us next week when we see another team with a fastball.”

That's a lot of lessons at this point. What have they learned?

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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by stevemaz » Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:17 am

Let's see what happens vs EMich in a few weeks..

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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by Jack » Sun Sep 05, 2021 9:04 am

We seemingly have a legit FBS QB and a decent defense for the first time since 2017. Overall the team looks to be improved....not good, but improved. Hopefully they can get better this week and get ready to play BC.

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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by tdmass » Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:15 am

How much "Optimism" can you have when the opposing coach who just clobbered you calls the game a "scrimmage"? . . . more like a skirmish!

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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by Berkman » Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:44 am

Considering that they had at least 7 5th year seniors to a majority of our younger inexperienced players we did pretty well. Did not like the running plays on 1st down up the middle. Thought we should have learned from past years that we don't have the line to do it. However with a game under our belt there should be plenty of film to show where we had problems and work to improve. Hopefully we will be in better shape to put up a better battle against BC.

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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by jjmc85 » Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:00 am

stevemaz wrote: Sun Sep 05, 2021 6:36 am My optimism has been increased ten fold as I think the defense is far better than they were two years ago. Sure, they gave up 51, but if the offense was at least decent they would have held them in the 30s. I expect another drubbing next week, but the game vs Eastern Michigan will be competitive and then in week 6 the program officially turns the corner with a trouncing of UConn. Hang in there boys... the Brady "Doug Flutie part 2" Olson era will be a fun one..
This bold part is a pretty good summary of the past decade of UMass football in a nut shell
UMass Football: 22-3 at home when I was a student.

Leave the A-10!

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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by vanmeter » Mon Sep 06, 2021 4:39 pm

Hard to be optimistic when you lose by 44. Imagine if they played a top 10 team

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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by eldonabe » Tue Sep 07, 2021 12:53 pm

vanmeter wrote: Mon Sep 06, 2021 4:39 pm Hard to be optimistic when you lose by 44. Imagine if they played a top 10 team
Or even just a ranked team...........

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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by Steve81 » Tue Sep 07, 2021 3:11 pm

eldonabe wrote: Tue Sep 07, 2021 12:53 pm
vanmeter wrote: Mon Sep 06, 2021 4:39 pm Hard to be optimistic when you lose by 44. Imagine if they played a top 10 team
Or even just a ranked team...........
This is from the coaches poll for week 2, Pitt received 20 top 25 votes, BC 19, Florida State 34, and Liberty 78. Scheduling as an independent gets ugly, but do like our home slate this year. Then the next 3 years we only have 5 home games. Wish we had a conference schedule, perhaps someday.
Others receiving votes: Auburn 123, Michigan 99, LSU 95, NC State 81, Liberty 78, BYU 65, Indiana 58, TCU 49, UCF 48, Florida State 34, Michigan State 33, Kentucky 28, Pittsburgh 20, Kansas State 19, Louisiana 19, Boston College 19, Appalachian State 15, SMU 14, Rutgers 11, Arkansas 11, Maryland 9, Tennessee 7, Nevada 7, Army 7, Fresno State 7, Tulane 6, Ball State 5, Virginia 5, Missouri 5, San José State 5, Marshall 3, Air Force 2, UAB 2, Charlotte 1
https://www.espn.com/college-football/r ... asontype/2
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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by econalum » Tue Sep 07, 2021 8:47 pm

On what planet can a team build a team/successful brand with only 5 games at home from 2022-2024? That is nuts.
Feeling entitled is JUST a feeling...

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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by photoman » Wed Sep 08, 2021 5:42 am

econalum wrote: Tue Sep 07, 2021 8:47 pm On what planet can a team build a team/successful brand with only 5 games at home from 2022-2024? That is nuts.
And it will completely mess with our home field advantage. Oh.... nevermind.

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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by Old Cage » Wed Sep 08, 2021 7:10 am

^ & ^^ Just in case econ thinks it is five total:

Five per year:
2022: https://fbschedules.com/ncaa-2022/team/umass
2023: https://fbschedules.com/ncaa-2023/team/umass
2024: https://fbschedules.com/ncaa-2024/team/umass

photoman: excellent!
"Jack didn’t have any envy in him," Calipari said. "He was the greatest coach to ever coach here."

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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by photoman » Wed Sep 08, 2021 7:16 am

Only 11 total games for 2022, 2023 and 2024?
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Re: Game One: Pitt

Post by Worcester_To_Amherst » Wed Sep 08, 2021 7:17 am

I definitely see more potential wins on the schedule in 22 and 23. If the team turned half decent they could even hit .500.

For now, we can worry about beating 2 FCS teams and the 2 worst FBS teams in the country (not including UMass).

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