When the team and the program needs you the most you want to bail? Please spare me the "I've been a season ticket holder for years." You can certainly do as you wish but if you think you're voting with your feet to send a message you strike me more as the equivalent of army deserters in the heat of battle.
THis is baloney. The only way that people like him, like me, like you and others, can makes statement is by where we decide to park our asses, and when and to whom we open our wallets. Army desertion - no, friend, not like that at all.
This season - is the first time, ever - that I have ever felt like the entire season was a throw away. That, my friend, is unacceptable - to me - and I will make my statement.
So have you chosen not to renew your season tickets? Not going to SMU, a game you already paid for, doesn't really say anything.
whaler is right. UCF had a lot of aluminum bleachers on TV today.
I will make the choice when the time comes. First time ever, that I've even considered it as a choice. For now, I'm not going to the SMU game. I have a family and can do other things. It's that simple. My butt will be parked elsewhere. It's the only statement that matters. We all can write and complain all day long - doesn't matter.
All I was responding to was this "army desertion" analogy. That's bull. The only message that really counts, from a fan, is where they decide to spend their time and money. THat's all I was saying.
I said in the other thread I got the chance to go to the Harvard/Yale game today and it was really refreshing. Just a genuine rivalry between two teams with a long history playing in close proximity to one another. Not great talent but all the pomp and tradition you could want and the game was actually fun to attend, which is something I haven't been able to say about UConn football in what seems like forever.
The AAC is purgatory. If it ever becomes evident that realignment is well and truly over and we're not getting a seat at the big boys' table, I hope at that point UConn drops FBS football and gets us back into a regional league where we can at least enjoy the rivalries again. I don't care to see us playing Memphis and Houston and SMU and Tulane and Tulsa and even the Florida teams over the long term if it isn't getting us to a better place. If this crappy hodge-podge of a league isn't a means to an end it's not worth it just to have a chance to go to the Quizno's Sandwich Bowl every few years.
If that's how you really feel, then please stop with all the pontificating during the pre-season, all the rah rah, the multi-paragraph avalanches of free-flow musings about fighting spirit and all that. I'm in on Diacco and this team because at this point, we need blind, knee-jerk positivity to fuel our revival. That's all we've got. We don't have the Big East, we don't have the BCS, we don't have anything to promise anyone. All we have can have at this point is unfettered, unqualified belief. That's what Diacco brings. Recruits like him. Parents like him. That's what he brings. And if we didn't have that, we'd have nothing at all. So, stay in.I will make the choice when the time comes. First time ever, that I've even considered it as a choice. For now, I'm not going to the SMU game. I have a family and can do other things. It's that simple. My butt will be parked elsewhere. It's the only statement that matters. We all can write and complain all day long - doesn't matter.
All I was responding to was this "army desertion" analogy. That's bull. The only message that really counts, from a fan, is where they decide to spend their time and money. THat's all I was saying.
We are not getting a seat at the P5 table no way no how as long as football drives the bus. It's over. The laughingstock that this football program is killed our chances. The saddest part is that the rest of the athletic department is so strong, probably as strong as ever in school history. Is there any doubt whatsovever that Cincinnati, BYU would get the call ahead of us? Probably Houston too if B12 expands. Just a really dark time, couldn't even enjoy Rutgirls getting waxed yesterday.
My advice to the AD is to reach out to every season ticket holder, let them sit wherever they want to sit, no priority points BS. Give a free jersey, helmet, whatever for every four season tickets. Right now there is zero value to being a season ticket holder, and not much more in attending these games. Getting blown out by no name programs and spending 8 hours watching it unfold doesn't scream value or entertainment to me. In 2005 & 2006, when we all knew Dan O was gone and wins were going to be hard to come by we still had hope of winning each game, we knew the names across the field, played every game tough, and won a few we had no business winning, (Hi. Larry Taylor).
Right now there is no emotional payoff in attending these games other than, "I'm a fan and this is my job." That's not nearly enough for anyone who works all week and is looking for some recreation on a fall Saturday. This is not that difficult to put a competitive team on the field, lesser schools do it every year.
This sucks, and the AD needs to work very hard this off season.
We are not getting a seat at the P5 table no way no how as long as football drives the bus. It's over. The laughingstock that this football program is killed our chances. The saddest part is that the rest of the athletic department is so strong, probably as strong as ever in school history. Is there any doubt whatsovever that Cincinnati, BYU would get the call ahead of us? Probably Houston too if B12 expands. Just a really dark time, couldn't even enjoy Rutgirls getting waxed yesterday.
OTOH, I'm not sure that 7-5 with a couple of minor bowls would have made any difference anyway. I don't like this, but I have a hard time believing that Delany and company have alerts on their phone for UCONN Football. This will be an issue the next time it comes up (conference realignment, that is) and if we are moving in the right direction we will get all due consideration.
We are not getting a seat at the P5 table no way no how as long as football drives the bus. It's over. The laughingstock that this football program is killed our chances. The saddest part is that the rest of the athletic department is so strong, probably as strong as ever in school history. Is there any doubt whatsovever that Cincinnati, BYU would get the call ahead of us? Probably Houston too if B12 expands. Just a really dark time, couldn't even enjoy Rutgirls getting waxed yesterday.
Would have made a HUGE difference. A bowl game this season would have launched the Diaco era. Now we are reliving the last PP year with no hope of him being fired next year. I have no idea what BD is doing, unless there is a massive turnover and improvement of players, next season won't be any better. I saw about 5 guys on the field last night that looked like they belonged and two of them are graduating. That leaves Thomas, JH Williams, and Adams. That's it, that's the list.
Just ing brutal. Done. Done. Done. Next years home schedule is brutal and this team is gutless and leaderless. I'm out. Love all the crazies here on the yard but I'm out. Two weeks to prepare for this and we get an absolute abomination. Sorry all. Out
I wish people would stop with this crap. None of us are going to stop being UConn fans. Most fans of any team don't have season tickets. This program isn't simply entitled to our money year after year.You're not going anywhere! As soon as they start winning again in the next year or so and spring an upset or two, you'll be back on the bandwagon. And you'll call yourself a fan, a long time season ticket holder, but we'll all know what you are...
I guess you couldn't have been a Red Sox fan over the past hundred years...only the last few where they've actually won something.
I like this post, but Diaco talks out of both sides of his mouth and that is part of what is driving people off the ledge. His constant the players suck theme has soured me on him some.If that's how you really feel, then please stop with all the pontificating during the pre-season, all the rah rah, the multi-paragraph avalanches of free-flow musings about fighting spirit and all that. I'm in on Diacco and this team because at this point, we need blind, knee-jerk positivity to fuel our revival. That's all we've got. We don't have the Big East, we don't have the BCS, we don't have anything to promise anyone. All we have can have at this point is unfettered, unqualified belief. That's what Diacco brings. Recruits like him. Parents like him. That's what he brings. And if we didn't have that, we'd have nothing at all. So, stay in.
Last question is Diggs playing or RS?