Look, all you people who have the rose colored glasses on year after year ... WHAT WERE YOU THINKING????? Personally I chose 2 wins this year and, in a moment of unbridled and ill advised enthusiasm, ratcheted that prediction up to three wins after Illinois or some other game. I had to quickly walk that back.
The rationale was that the OL would be really good this year (even with a replacement center and TE) and even if the QB's and receivers were terrible UConn could still grind out the yards on the ground and score points. Well, that hasn't really happened. Mensah is getting his hundred every game but he isn't getting two hundred. And Thompkins is a make 'em miss guy but they can't spring him into the secondary where he has a little space. And the only reason UConn got a second win is that UMass was so god-awful compared to last year. If they were the same as last year it would have been a 50 point loss and UConn would have one win right now.
Which brings us to where we are now. If the players stay for the full five years (a big IF) as the piece points out, we are still three years away from seeing Edsall recruited players as redshirt seniors. It takes intestinal fortitude NOT to replace a coach. But I think that is what UConn must do, stand pat. Make a change now, and all the quality players recruited to this point will have other options and leave before they get here.
