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For UConn Football Not Just A Losing Season, It Was A Lost Season
This was a bad season for the team, which lost its final six games and finished 3-9, and a bad season for the program. Efforts to get into the Big 12 were stonewalled, and in much more dramatic fashion so was the UConn offense, the worst unit in the nation. It all became annoying, then worrisome, then really problematic, then debilitating, then depressing — and then almost irrelevant.
That's the most damaging part. UConn football lost itself and lost the public in the process, it seems. There was indifference. By the end, though coach Bob Diaco insists players gave their all through the final snap, it appeared as though players quit, or quit caring. Maybe they didn't. But the losses piled up in such a ridiculous way — the "how" being much more telling than the "what" — that it just looked and felt that way.
There were no more than 5,000 fans at Rentschler Field Saturday night, a quiet gathering that was a top-of-the-lungs scream of disappointment and apathy. There was room for 35,000 more. That's a lot of old concrete to stare at. It wasn't pretty, and neither was the product on the field.
At least it's over. Diaco cites the strength of the defense, special teams, overall talent and culture in explaining that the team and program do not require a rebuild.
This was a bad season for the team, which lost its final six games and finished 3-9, and a bad season for the program. Efforts to get into the Big 12 were stonewalled, and in much more dramatic fashion so was the UConn offense, the worst unit in the nation. It all became annoying, then worrisome, then really problematic, then debilitating, then depressing — and then almost irrelevant.
That's the most damaging part. UConn football lost itself and lost the public in the process, it seems. There was indifference. By the end, though coach Bob Diaco insists players gave their all through the final snap, it appeared as though players quit, or quit caring. Maybe they didn't. But the losses piled up in such a ridiculous way — the "how" being much more telling than the "what" — that it just looked and felt that way.
There were no more than 5,000 fans at Rentschler Field Saturday night, a quiet gathering that was a top-of-the-lungs scream of disappointment and apathy. There was room for 35,000 more. That's a lot of old concrete to stare at. It wasn't pretty, and neither was the product on the field.
At least it's over. Diaco cites the strength of the defense, special teams, overall talent and culture in explaining that the team and program do not require a rebuild.
