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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 5323196, member: 1414"]
This is true for me. I did go to many games on campus in the 80s and we had some good teams and an exciting QB in Matt DeGenerro.  We also won the NIT, which was huge.

On the football side, the failure to replace Edsall was a problem, but probably less of a problem than the Big East football conference dissolving.  UConn fans just can't handle the feeling that they aren't playing with the "big boys".  It even hurt basketball support pretty dramatically once the high of 2014 wore off, but the football support was more tenuous to begin with and was damaged much more.  Replacing Miami, BC, Pitt and VT with ECU, Tulane and USF was utterly deflating.  Like being moved to the JV team.  Independence has been better.  At least we can maintain some pride that way.  Hockey is the obvious example, a nothing sport at UConn until we got into the best league in the country.

There's a whole scheduling argument on the football board and I think one of things it misses is that UConn fans aren't going to invest in the program if it isn't playing teams they see as legitimate big time teams. It's a delicate high wire act to win enough and schedule big enough at the same time.
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