Do this and get into a power 4!

[HuskyHawk]

True.

We also aren't homeless because Randy Edsall decided to cancel football during Covid, but neither decision makes us look particularly serious or committed about playing football.

If we go back to the early ACC invite, when Pitt was chosen over UConn, most of us blame BC. But I think the truth is that Pitt had a football culture that appealed to FSU, Miami, Clemson, GT etc. and UConn didn't. Not that we couldn't build one, but we didn't already have one. Pitt had Marino, Dorsett, and enough history. So did BC, however UConn fans view it now.

I think it still haunts us when either the ACC or Big XII considers UConn. Not enough people in Storrs wake up Saturday morning and go "yeah, it's game day!" There aren't many home football games, it's supposed to be a big deal. Even in Lawrence it was.

 

[billybud]

UConn needs current football success to wipe out the perception created by past seasons...the last ten seasons, UConn went 1-13 against the ACC...in last season's 9 win season there was a glimmer of rebound, although there were still the losses to Duke, Wake, and Syracuse.

Once good seasons come regularly, a team can quickly rebound, in perception, from a bad season. Become a desired TV match...Wins are not discounted. The ACC football schools may begin to see UConn as more than a great basketball power.