Edsall will make us competitive again

[Duncan Idaho]

That's correct. When the Ivy League schools elected to de-emphasize football and dropped from the ranks of national powers, along with the gradual decline of the service academy teams, northeastern CFB became largely irrelevant. Syracuse and later Penn State tried to fill the void but it wasn't nearly enough to keep the high level of interest that existed when all eight Ivy League school were nationally competitive. Now we are over 60 years removed from the formal organization of the Ivy League in 1956 and their decision to do away with athletic scholarships and not play in bowl games. That legacy continues to hurt, as most of the rest of the country became CFB crazy while northeastern markets became apathetic. We're trying to play catch up but it's a huge gap to close.

Hopefully we can get there. We managed to bring New England back into CBB prominence after a really long dry spell, so who knows, maybe we can eventually do it again in another sport.

Area became pro- centric while dominated by smaller liberal arts institutions instead of State U.

 

[businesslawyer]

I noticed the comments on Edsall and the corner backs gaining confidence. Does anyone recall what year it was where Edsall took over the secondary responsibilities?

He did it at the start of 2010. He let go of it about the time that that team turned its season around and made its run to the Fiesta Bowl.

 

[uconndogs]

Edsall will get us competitive in the AAC, but it's going to take some time. Crazy Bob screwed the roster with lumbering slow players. We've already seen attempts to address this, but it will take more time.

 

[jayfromfla]

Please. Give it a break. He has a partial recruiting class. Most of whom will be red shirts. Diaco recruiting was rated 100plus. Re is in the mid 80s. It will take time. Not two games