Holy Cross at UConn Game Thread

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

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[crusader11]

I think we will stay within two scores tonight.

Our last game against an FBS opponent ended nicely!

[RichH2]

Good luck tonite. Come out healthy

[Fordham]

Let's go HC!! I think Edsall will turn UCONN around again. Not sure they'll get to where he took them last time but they will become respectable again imo. It's great to get them in his first game back, though. He hasn't had time to bring in better players and the ones who are there are learning his system. With a senior, mobile QB, now is the time to get them HC.

I'd like to see Pujols bring this one home.

[Sader87]

Wow....our very own gameday thread on AGS! Stepping up in the world!

The heart obviously hopes for a competitive game/upset....the mind (such as it is :) ) doesn't think our defense could stop the E. Hartford Pop Warner team from putting up 30+ points.

[Son of Eli]

Here is your chance to shine some serious light on your program and on the entire Patriot League. Go Holy Cross! Looking forward to seeing the homers at ESPN in Bristol, Ct have to show highlights of a Holy Cross upset tonight.

[bonarae]

Good luck to the Cross!

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

I always root for Crusaders!

[crusader11]

Playing much better than UConn in the first.

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

This game should be on ESPN3!!

[crusader11]

Holy Cross 10, UConn 7.

Big fumble by the UConn QB in their own territory set up the score. We needed to cash in on those opportunities to have a chance tonight, and we just did there. Playing better than the Huskies so far, dominating the stat sheet for the most part.

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

The Crusaders are looking like the First Crusade did. Badass.

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

The game is on espn3....but it's blacked out in my area !!

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

Needed a TD there.

[PAllen]

To be offside on the kickoff, the kicking team player's entire body must be across the line of the kick. Total BS call.

But it worked out for HC

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

Gotta score a touchdown here!

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Wow! Blatant crooked clock handling right there.

[PAllen]

So the AAC officials call a penalty on HC because they dont have the right ball in? That's really weak.

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

These refs are garbage. And the announcers are biased as hell. Disgraceful.

[crusader11]

20-7...this is fun!

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

No bogus call, refs?

[PAllen]

Wow, the zebras are trying to keep UConn in this game big time.

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

Darn, your feeds are faster than mine.

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

Should have kicked it deep.

[crusader11]

HC up 20-7 with 2:45, and they're getting the ball back. Next drive starts at the HC 15.

[crusader11]

You think Edsall wishes he had Pujals at QB rather than his guy? Pujals playing a near perfect first half.

[TheValleyRaider]

Just flipped this on. Get after it HC!

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Hell yeah Holy Cross!! xsmiley_wix:D

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

The Crusaders are crusading.

[Sader87]

Great 1st H but we'll lose....not my first rodeo here undah Gilmore.

[crusader11]

Great 1st H but we'll lose....not my first rodeo here undah Gilmore.

Good to see you around these parts, indianhoop!

Gilmore get credit for having the boys ready and playing well in that first half?

[Sader87]

Gets credit for getting them there....can he finish the job? He rarely has at HC.

[PAllen]

nice play call there

[crusader11]

Horse **** running into the kicker call extends the drive, and now UConn is driving.

[crusader11]

WHAT A GUTSY STAND!!! HC stops UConn on 4th and 2 inside the ten!

[PAllen]

wow, uconn's feeling the pressure now. going on 4th down there?

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

Every time, the biased refs make a bogus call, a patron saint intervenes!

Go Crusaders!

[Gate83]

UConn looks horrendous, they're going to get seriously beat on as the year progresses. Meanwhile Pujals looks great. Go Saders!

[Gate83]

...aaand, as soon as I post that, UConn changes qb's and goes right down the field. I'll be quiet now...

[PAllen]

The non holding call on the edge helped. these officials are terrible.

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

...aaand, as soon as I post that, UConn changes qb's and goes right down the field. I'll be quiet now...

Is Shireffs in?

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

The non holding call on the edge helped. these officials are terrible.

But terrible on purpose.

[Gate83]

Is Shireffs in?

Yes. Huge difference

[crusader11]

HC is lucky this Shirreffs kid didn't start.

[PAllen]

Sheriffs can throw the quick out.

[Schism55]

Not looking good HC :(

[Schism55]

Pujols just got Deeeeestroyed. Dont want him taking many of those, yikes.

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

The refs just gave the game to UCONN on a fake spot.

[dwtime]

The refs just gave the game to UCONN on a fake spot.
Terrible call, happened all night at the UNH game refs wouldn't review bad calls.

[KnightoftheRedFlash]

Should have been reviewed. If I am Holy Cross and the Patriot League, I am raising hell.

Downside of college football right now.

[PAllen]

Should have been reviewed. If I am Holy Cross and the Patriot League, I am raising hell.

Downside of college football right now.

The problem is the Officials in the AAC all came from the CAA/PL-Ivy group. Part of that move up is the endorsement of an AAC coach, so no way PL officials do any better. That game was handed to UConn on a silver platter and they still almost lost it. That said, if they start Sherriffs, or dont take their foot off the pedal in the 4th, UConn walks away with it.

All that said, great game by HC. If Pujols has Lehigh's receivers, he scores a TD on every drive. That kid is amazing.

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

I thought this one would be interesting and it was! I would have gladly taken a HC win over the creep that is Edsall even if it made the AAC look bad!

[TheValleyRaider]

Tough result, but some good moments for Holy Cross. Pujals played well, though UConn also looks pretty dreadful. That Bucknell game next weekend certainly looks interesting...

[Son of Eli]

The outcome became evident as soon as Sheriffs was inserted. The stage was set for him to make the comeback. Holy Cross had that game but they couldn't put UConn away.

[Sader87]

Tom Gilmore should be fired tomorrow.....

[ElCid]

God this game made me ill.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

That running into the punter call was one of the absolute worst calls I've ever seen.

[Go...gate]

Even with the loss, some encouraging signs from HC.

[Sader87]

What's it like to have a good head coach? It's been so long I forget.

[RichH2]

Some takeaways.
Refs were abysmal .UCONN got a lot of WTF calls.
Pujols is phenominal. Give him some receivers and some semblance of a running game and Cross beats UCONN and refs.
Cross has no run game.
Cross D is game but 2ndary is shaky to say the least.

[CFBfan]

Tom Gilmore should be fired tomorrow.....

365 tomorrow's ago!!

[Fordham]

Some takeaways.
Refs were abysmal .UCONN got a lot of WTF calls.
Pujols is phenominal. Give him some receivers and some semblance of a running game and Cross beats UCONN and refs.
Cross has no run game.
Cross D is game but 2ndary is shaky to say the least.

Agree all around. They really played well overall and I also thought they had a good gameplan with a good balance of going for it with creative/aggressive play calls and formations without being goofy about it. Proud of how they played overall but they really should have had the W imo. Some really untimely mistakes between penalties and the fumble put them in a position to allow the refs to impact the game.

McBeath was a beast and Pujols was tremendous along with his WR's playing very tough and smart imo.

[The Boogie Down]

Some takeaways.
Refs were abysmal. UCONN got a lot of WTF calls.
Pujols is phenominal. Give him some receivers and some semblance of a running game and Cross beats UCONN and refs.
Cross has no run game.
Cross D is game but 2ndary is shaky to say the least.


God this game made me ill.


Tom Gilmore should be fired tomorrow.....


365 tomorrow's ago!!

+1 for everyone!!! Refs + Gilmore (specifically that last call where Pujols ran into UConn's entire D-line on 4th down) + some defensive deficiencies colluded to steal a win. Since UConn brought back Edsall, how 'bout HC bring back the Duff?

[Schism55]

Some of the HC play calls were serious head scratchers.
Painful how the HC WR couldn't make a play seemingly at all in the second half.
I was really pulling for the 'Saders, very tough loss.

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Boogie,

I know it says "Top 20 Ranking" but didn't Fordham finish in the final TSN Poll in 2003?

[Go Lehigh TU Owl]

Some of the HC play calls were serious head scratchers.
Painful how the HC WR couldn't make a play seemingly at all in the second half.
I was really pulling for the 'Saders, very tough loss.

This game was certainly there for taking once Edsall decided to bench Shireffs to start the game. WTH was he thinking? Holy Cross has two great individual pieces in Pujals and McBeast but are still in need of more. UConn was as bad a FBS team as you'll ever see. They reminded me of Buffalo in 2002 and 2003. Just completely inept. They'll get better as the year goes on because Edsall is a maniac but they're terrible right now. 2013 Towson beats last night's UConn team by 21 points...

[DFW HOYA]

Since UConn brought back Edsall, how 'bout HC bring back the Duff?

Uh-oh. Excepting Bill Snyder, second tours for college coaches almost never end well. Bill Walsh comes to mind. So does Mark Whipple.

Mark Duffner's not 35 anymore. He's 64, or the same age as Frank Tavani. (He's available for coaching, too.)

[Schism55]

This game was certainly there for taking once Edsall decided to bench Shireffs to start the game. WTH was he thinking? Holy Cross has two great individual pieces in Pujals and McBeast but are still in need of more. UConn was as bad a FBS team as you'll ever see. They reminded me of Buffalo in 2002 and 2003. Just completely inept. They'll get better as the year goes on because Edsall is a maniac but they're terrible right now. 2013 Towson beats last night's UConn team by 21 points...
You are probably right. I was shocked at how crappy UConn looked and played.

[Sader87]

Duffner is currently the LB coach with Tampa Bay...you can see him in snippets on HBO's "Hard Knocks" this year.

I don't think Gilmore lost or blew the game last night...but, for whatever reason, his teams just seem to disappear/falter in 2nd halves of ballgames....it's just been EXTREMELY frustrating to watch ovah the years.

[The Boogie Down]

Boogie,

I know it says "Top 20 Ranking" but didn't Fordham finish in the final TSN Poll in 2003?

No, we did have a good Sagarin rating that year (higher than 2007 or 2015 actually) but getting killed at home to Bucky and outmuscled against you guys and Gate kept us off the polls.



Uh-oh. Excepting Bill Snyder, second tours for college coaches almost never end well. Bill Walsh comes to mind. So does Mark Whipple.

Mark Duffner's not 35 anymore. He's 64, or the same age as Frank Tavani. (He's available for coaching, too.)

I was only 1/2 joking but never woulda imagined that Tavani (who to me always looked 64) is actually younger than Duffner! Yikes! xnutsx xnutsx xnutsx

[Go...gate]

Why was Shireffs benched?

[ElCid]

Some of the HC play calls were serious head scratchers.
Painful how the HC WR couldn't make a play seemingly at all in the second half.
I was really pulling for the 'Saders, very tough loss.

More like butt scratchers.

[UNIFanSince1983]

More like butt scratchers.


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