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Message: [QUOTE="Jetskies, post: 4998413, member: 12253"] thoroughly enjoying the number of pessimistic optimists in the thread - "we suck every year but i'm back!" - lol love u guys, seriously. my feelings after these 72 hours are somewhat more measured. i'm honestly not excited for wins, cuz this team really sucks until they prove otherwise to me. BUT - i'm hoping as a starting point, we can look and feel like an [I][U]actual[/U][/I] FBS team. Wins aside, since i became a fan in 2018, i've gotten seriously tired of being an [B]OBVIOUS[/B] FCS team (and a MID one, at that) who was only [I]dressed [/I]in FBS clothes. I'm tired of sending out boys who have no business being on an FBS field, and to be confirmed in my suspicion when they transfer out just to get picked up by the likes of Merrimack and Fordham. I'm tired of slow receivers, undersized running backs, inaccurate QBs, corners who can't cover, and d-lines that just. don't. get to the QB. My first ever game as a uconn fan was the boise state game, week 2 2018 - absolutely pitiful. Even in our 6-7 2022 season, we did not truly [I]look[/I] the part, which matters to a Big-12 or ACC commish, and which i believe is why that season did not help us land the Power invite everyone was hoping for last summer. please note i'm venting about my entire experience from 2018 to today - i know there are select counter examples to the contrary (Jackson MItchell, Christian Haynes), but the overall theme i saw was this. And all of football america casually saw it too, and have made fun of us ad nauseum in the twitterverse and in media. Those voices matter. Perception matters. And we have lost the battle to this day. I apologize for my pessimistic pessimism. But until I see a UConn team pass the eyeball test, i.e. obvious fully-merited FBS-level competency across all 3 phases of the game, and [I]particularly [/I]in the passing offense, I cannot even begin to expect wins. Rooting for them regardless. let's go Jim Mora & boys, I so want to see you win and celebrate. [/QUOTE]

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