GChatting the Eagles #8: UMass Preview: Does Spaz Eat Babies?

percDM UConn = pack of cheaterstimstwrt did they do something new, or just their history of being terrible cheaters who steal laptops and lionize a cheating gasbag who even god (despite His best efforts) can't take down?

 percDMtate george was arrested for a $2 million ponzi scheme

i just don't know where he would learn to cheat like thattimstwrt$2m? that's the sort of not-all-that-lucrative level of ponzi schemes you get with a top notch uconn education

 percDM haha

timstwrti like that they're complaining that we're blocking their entrance to the ACC over that pesky "you and your AG sued us for doing the same thing" thing

which would be fair

  in my opinion

  but the reality is that perhaps we don't want to share new england with them

 percDMall of that makes sense

timstwrtspeaking of local state schools, how stoked are you for umass?

 percDMwhen these two teams meet, hide the women and children

timstwrtmy assumption is that we'll losepercDMthat should be my assumption timstwrtbut we'll probably win 24-23 on eight nate freese field goals

 all of them from 50+

 because why not with this season

percDMi still think we will winof course, i thought we'd be in 3-0 right now

  and picked that way each week

 timstwrt

the biggest issue in this game isn't whether we win or lose

  losing would further embarrass the team, of course

and pantale said "there's a little bit of added pressure (playing an FCS team),"

  which is mystifying

 percDMyeah, a loss means there is no saving this season

  but, we already think the season is losthe said that because of the playing not to lose culture that spaz has createdtimstwrt here's the biggest issue: make an argument for playing montel harris, who's listed as probable

 

  percDMwell, its a hard argument

but the argument has to be that not playing harris if he is healthy is equal to giving up on the guys playing right now

  how can you ask these guys to go out and play hard if you are basically saying that the season is over

in the world of could have beens, this team might be 2-1 right now if they had harris all season

timstwrtthat's quite a could-have-been, involving several plays in the northwestern game having a different outcome

  which i think strains the could-have-beenometer

 percDM fair enough

but if he doesn't play harris, can't people criticize spaz for giving up on the season?

 timstwrtwell, you could just say he's not 100%

  and that it would be unfair to the player to press him back

 percDMok, but what if he is 100%

or 95%

  what does that say to the players?

 timstwrt "be better at football"

 percDMthey'd be better with harris

  without harris, they might quit, and be even worse

  and then you have a broken team heading into next year

timstwrtwell, maybe montel can carry us to 4 wins and another year of spaz

percDMbut 0-12 is an ugly stain

  one that recruits won't miss

  lots of good programs have down years

  years they aren't bowl eligible

  not a lot of good programs go 0-12 or 1-11

timstwrtour nation's finest purveyors of linkbait slideshows, bleacher report, had something about us going winless

  i couldn't be bothered to click through to the end

 percDMso, would you definitely not play harris, assuming that he is healthy?

timstwrtif he's 100%, nine games still gives him a reasonable shot at the ACC rushing record

  i suppose it's in everyone's best interests to let him play

  but this is the end of the road, in my book

if he can't play tomorrow, give him the redshirt

 percDMis he too many yards away to get the record if he plays 8 games?

really, i think the priority list has to be Harris's health, winning games, and then the ACC rushing record

timstwrtwell, sure, but this season's going to suck. all we potentially have is kuechly being kuechly and the ACC rushing record

 percDM if harris comes back, and we still suck, how ridiculous would that be?

two record breaking caliber players playing at the same time, and we can't win football games

  and they are on opposite sides of the ball

timstwrtif we were to beat umass by, say, 20+ points, would it change how you feel about how the season will play out?

percDMits a fcs team

  and so, not that much

  i guess if the offense is sharper, that's something

  but just putting up points isn't enough to make me feel better

no matter what happens, i won't be excited about the wake forest game

 timstwrti'm looking forward to watching this on the grainy film of espn3, lead cameraman abraham zapruder

percDMyeah, i'm sure we'll get all the best angles

  the only person faked out by a play action will be the cameramanso, what's your score prediction? are you actually predicting an Eagles loss?timstwrtsigh

  no

  24-9 eagles

  a win and a cover, which is a terrible prediction

 percDMi say 24-10 Eagles without Harris, 31-10 with him

our line has to be good enough to push around a fcs team d-line

 timstwrtif we lose to umass, are we obligated to give up this wildly popular blog?

 percDMand cause even more sadness amongst the bc faithful?

 timstwrtgood point

  we shall soldier on

percDMwe're a lifeline in dark times

 timstwrthey, at least spaz is treating the maintenance crew to lunch!

 percDM

  i don't even want to get into that ridiculouness

nobody is saying spaz is a bad guy

  just that he's a bad head coach

 timstwrt i don't know....if the season keeps going this way, i might start telling people that he eats babies

 percDM and shares them with the maintenance crewthat way, he is a devious monster

  but nobody will believe it, because that's way too creative for him