Thursday, October 14, 2010

The picks, week 7

It's a bye week (in case you haven't heard), so no injury report or teleconference this week. Also, we're hoping to get a podcast done and posted here by tomorrow.

Edsall said yesterday during his meeting with the beat writers that he feels UConn is close to being a very good team. "We're eighth in the country in productivity in the red zone. We're not turning the ball over, we're plus 3. We're very close. That's the thing that's more discouraging than anything else."

The players haven't "given full attention to detail for 60 minutes", which has led to some big mistakes, Edsall said. But he also admitted the coaching hasn't been perfect, either. "There was a situation during the game where we ran a play the first time, great design, and they played it a certain way. We as coaches messed up because we should have made an adjustment. We came back and ran it later, we didn't make the adjustment where we should have had Kashif, instead of running a corner route, just give it a little bend to the corner and take it right down the pipe. That was coaching."

Often, one little mistake causes a chain reaction of errors as others try to adjust. "We talk about it all the time. I wish I had a dollar for every time we tell them 'just do your job," Edsall said. "Don't do anybody else's, just do your job. Until they understand it and do that, those are the things that will happen."

On to the picks...quickies this week. I should also point out that the reader who won the weekly contest last weekend was the guy who picked the exact opposite of my picks. Pretty good strategy.

Game 1: Pittsburgh (-1) over SYRACUSE
Game 2: Army (+7) over RUTGERS
Game 3: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (-2.5) over California
Game 4: Iowa (-3.5) over MICHIGAN
Game 5: TEXAS TECH (-3.5) over Oklahoma State
Game 6: Ohio State (-4) over WISCONSIN
Game 7: AUBURN (-4) over Arkansas
Game 8: North Carolina State (-7) over EAST CAROLINA
Game 9: South Carolina (-5) over KENTUCKY
Game 10: Baylor (-1) over COLORADO
Game 11: TEXAS A & M (-3) over Missouri
Game 12: DUKE (+19.5) over Miami
Game 13: New Haven (-1) over AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL: (Second-year Chargers could take first-place in the NE-10 outright with a win)...

Last week's results
1. opposite guy (nice) 8-4-1
2. caleb mandrake 7-5-1
govphalen 7-5-1
vinny 7-5-1
5. ian 6-6-1
gary 6-6-1
7. chip 4-8-1
B-stew 4-8-1
gabe 4-8-1
10. Pete 3-9-1
11. sammy 2-10-1

Standings
1. Caleb Mandrake 39-32-4
2. Pete 38-33-4
3. B-Stew 37-34-4
Ian 37-34-4
5. Chip 36-35-4
Gabe 36-35-4
Vinny from East Haven 36-35-4
8. Gary 34-37-4
9. governorphalen 32-39-4
10. sammy 29-42-4
11. Uconnbob 12-9-1
12. Opposite guy 8-4-1
13. Walt 7-4-1
14. harper 6-6
15. Rollo V. 5-6-1
16. seanO 4-6-1
17. BostonDan 3-7-1

14 comments:

  1. Game 1: Pittsburgh (-1) over SYRACUSE
    Game 2: Army (+7) over RUTGERS
    Game 3: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (-2.5) over California
    Game 4: Iowa (-3.5) over MICHIGAN
    Game 5: TEXAS TECH (-3.5) over Oklahoma State
    Game 6: Ohio State (-4) over WISCONSIN
    Game 7: AUBURN (-4) over Arkansas
    Game 8: North Carolina State (-7) over EAST CAROLINA
    Game 9: South Carolina (-5) over KENTUCKY
    Game 10: Baylor (-1) over COLORADO
    Game 11: TEXAS A & M (-3) over Missouri
    Game 12: DUKE (+19.5) over Miami
    Game 13: New Haven (-1) over AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL

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  2. Game 1: SYRACUSE
    Game 2: Army
    Game 3: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Game 4: Iowa
    Game 5: Oklahoma State
    Game 6: Ohio State
    Game 7: AUBURN
    Game 8: EAST CAROLINA
    Game 9: South Carolina
    Game 10: Baylor
    Game 11: Missouri
    Game 12: Miami
    Game 13: New Haven

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  3. Still in the hunt, alllllriiight.
    Syracuse
    Rutgers
    USC
    Iowa
    OSU
    UW
    Arkansas
    East Carolina
    South Carolina
    Colorado
    Mizzou
    Miami
    American

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  4. Game 1: Pittsburgh
    Game 2: RUTGERS
    Game 3: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Game 4: MICHIGAN
    Game 5: Oklahoma State
    Game 6: Ohio State
    Game 7: AUBURN (-4) over Arkansas
    Game 8: North Carolina State
    Game 9: South Carolina
    Game 10: Baylor
    Game 11: Missouri
    Game 12: Miami
    Game 13: New Haven

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  5. Game 1: Pittsburgh
    Game 2: RUTGERS
    Game 3: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Game 4: Iowa
    Game 5: TEXAS TECH
    Game 6: Ohio State
    Game 7: AUBURN
    Game 8: North Carolina State
    Game 9: South Carolina
    Game 10: Baylor
    Game 11: Missouri
    Game 12: Miami
    Game 13: AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL

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  6. Back to the middle of the pack, where I am predestined to reside.

    All home teams this week... but I'll make it official..

    Game 1: Syracuse (+1)
    Game 2: Rutgers (-7)
    Game 3: USC (-2.5)
    Game 4: Michigan (+3.5)
    Game 5: Texas Tech (-3.5)
    Game 6: Wisconsin (+4)
    Game 7: Auburn (-4)
    Game 8: East Carolina (+7)
    Game 9: Kentucky (+5)
    Game 10: Colorado (+1)
    Game 11: Texas A&M (-3)
    Game 12: Duke (+19.5)
    Game 13: American International (+1)

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  7. Game 1: Pittsburgh
    Game 2: RUTGERS
    Game 3: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Game 4: MICHIGAN
    Game 5: TEXAS TECH
    Game 6: Ohio State
    Game 7: AUBURN
    Game 8: North Carolina State
    Game 9: South Carolina
    Game 10: Baylor
    Game 11: Missouri
    Game 12: Miami
    Game 13: New Haven
    Caleb Mandrake

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  8. Game 1: SYRACUSE
    Game 2: Army
    Game 3: California
    Game 4: Iowa
    Game 5: TEXAS TECH
    Game 6: WISCONSIN
    Game 7: Arkansas
    Game 8: EAST CAROLINA
    Game 9: KENTUCKY
    Game 10: COLORADO
    Game 11: TEXAS A & M
    Game 12: DUKE
    Game 13: AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL

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  9. Game 1: Pittsburgh
    Game 2: RUTGERS
    Game 3: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Game 4: MICHIGAN
    Game 5: TEXAS TECH
    Game 6: Ohio State
    Game 7: AUuburn
    Game 8: North Carolina State
    Game 9: South Carolina
    Game 10: Baylor
    Game 11: Missouri
    Game 12: Miami
    Game 13: New Haven

    B-Stew

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  10. Game 1: SYRACUSE
    Game 2: RUTGERS
    Game 3: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Game 4: Iowa
    Game 5: Oklahoma State
    Game 6: Ohio State
    Game 7: AUBURN
    Game 8: North Carolina State
    Game 9: South Carolina
    Game 10: COLORADO
    Game 11: TEXAS A & M
    Game 12: Miami
    Game 13: AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL

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  11. Game 1: SYRACUSE
    Game 2: RUTGERS
    Game 3: California
    Game 4: MICHIGAN
    Game 5: Oklahoma State
    Game 6: WISCONSIN
    Game 7: Arkansas
    Game 8: EAST CAROLINA
    Game 9: KENTUCKY
    Game 10: COLORADO
    Game 11: Missouri
    Game 12: Miami
    Game 13: AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL

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  12. Vinny from East HavenOctober 16, 2010 11:09 AM

    Vinny's picks:
    1. Pittsburgh
    2. Rutgers
    3. Southern Cal
    4. Iowa
    5. Oklahoma St.
    6. Wisconsin
    7. Arkansas
    8. NC State
    9. South Carolina
    10. Colorado
    11. Texas A&M
    12. Miami
    13. New Haven

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  13. Results
    1. Ian 9-4
    2. Chip 8-5
    3. Pete 7-6
    4. Gabe 6-7
    govphalen 6-7
    gary 6-7
    caleb 6-7
    sammy 6-7
    B-Stew 6-7
    Vinny 6-7
    11. Huskyraymond 5-8
    12. Sean O 4-9

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  14. Standings
    1. Ian 46-38-4
    2. Caleb Mandrake 45-39-4
    Pete 45-39-4
    4. Chip 44-40-4
    5. B-Stew 43-41-4
    6. Gabe 42-42-4
    Vinny from East Haven 42-42-4
    8. Gary 40-44-4
    9. governorphalen 38-46-4
    10. sammy 35-49-4
    11. Uconnbob 12-9-1
    12. Opposite guy 8-4-1
    13. SeanO 8-15-1
    14. Walt 7-4-1
    15. harper 6-6
    16. Rollo V. 5-6-1
    17. Huskyraymond 5-8
    18. BostonDan 3-7-1

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