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Message: [QUOTE="MadDogRevival, post: 2568984, member: 8028"] We are currently in the most rapidly changing culture that the world has ever known. I think your point sums up the transition. The Internet has taken over everything. Why even go out anymore? Maybe to scarf down some cruddy food at a cruddy chain restaurant that uses the same Martian seasoning packet on both beef and broccoli? The Internet immersion started with the teens, then spread down to pre-teens and crept up through older folks. In another 20 years, only some Amish and some centenarians won't be under it. It's the way the world has gone. Sports will continue to contract. UConn should consider getting out of big time sports all together, and focus on education. And no, I'm not a believer that UConn, in today's world, with today's trajectory, has any chance at all of becoming a football power, thereby creating a symbiosis whereby sports begets education begets sports. UConn is never going to be Michigan or Ohio State or some water down version thereof. I know that's not a popular opinion, but I personally peaked on UConn sports round about the Edsall Fiesta bowl, was still riding high in 2014, but have recently gone off a cliff because the whole thing is behind us. All of it. I'm about 50. Many of us who have posted on this board for 10 years or more were at UConn or started following around when JC was launching the program for the first 10 years. The golden years. The fuel ran out, the rocket went off course, momentum netted one more great result, and now we're lost in space. Danger Will Robinson. Danger. UConn sports changed just as the world was changing. It's over. Most people on this board are hard core fans, and so it's hard to see it. It's like a relationship that was great. The one in your early 20s, when you were ripped and she was hot and the world was always sunny and bedroom life was top shelf and you didn't worry about mortgages and fed rates. Then one day you wake up and it changed and you can't get it back. Ever. And you have all these great memories and you can't hold back the sadness and you keep trying to find ways to rationalize how you can get it back. But you can't. It's over. [/QUOTE]

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