Can everyone take a deep breath

[BlueandOG]

There's a bigger problem, guys. Yes, the schedule has been hard. Yes, the players are inexperienced and too small for D1 football.

However, the fact that this comes on top of 6 poor seasons, with increasingly disappointed and uncaring fans, will make it extremely hard to come back from. And how do you convince good recruits to come here when they get one look at the pitiful attendance? Tell me what brings even 30,000 people back into the Rent over the next couple of years. In the meantime, the program continues to bleed money that, frankly, the state doesn't have.

I don't know how this ends well. I hope I'm wrong.

Two things about UCONN fans: we are forgiving and we love a winner. The home opener for most of the past 6 seasons has had a decent crowd, ready to go nuts if they would play well - not even necessarily win, just play tough. Edsall will have them playing tough. It will take another year, but even next year they will be better. When they make a bowl, people will come back.

 

[freescooter]

If we put together a good string. Maybe win 4-5 in a row or start like Cindy has this year the crowds will start to come back. Hard to get excited about a really bad team. In any sport really. Men’s basketball drew under 9000 per game last year and a few times had no more than 5000 actual bodies. Why? They stunk. Winners draw. Losers don’t. Boston Red Sox sell out Cincinnati Reds sell $5 tickets yet don’t. KC Royals of a few years ago were a hot ticket. This year you could get box seats for 10 a game and they weren’t sold out. The difference was that they went to the World Series when tix were scarce. They finished way back when they weren’t.