Going to close my eyes on Sat and pretend it is 2008

[nycscooby]

The good old days...will they be back?

 

[Dooley]

Man, I sure do miss those years of trekking out to Middle-of-Nowhere, NY to clobber the Fruit.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

Sigh.

When you have the drip...drip...drip...of a slowly decaying football program, it's hard to remember how good they were at one point. Watching that was depressing...UConn is so far from getting back to that level.

RE did it once....let's hope he can do it again.

 

[mike012]

What's that sport UConn is playing in that clip? I haven't seen it around these parts in a long time.

 

[Bezzz]

Donald Brown's stiff arm was a shotgun.

 

[manbyrd]

That clip is missing the part of 2008 where the US economy collapses and sets off the largest global financial crisis since the great depression.

But those were good days, when a bowl game was expected not hoped for.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

We took it all for granted.

 

[DoctorWho85]

Likely not and were they even that good? We beat 1 ranked team.

They were still under Greg Robinson I believe. Which was their Diaco after Pasqualoni.

 

[Carl Spackler]

it still hurts to watch Tyler Lorenzen throw a ball.

 

[uconnfan68]

The good old days...will they be back?

Thanks, loved it.

 

[jbdphi]

Lots of unfinished drives in that game. FG’s...sigh.

 

[Scoe]

The glory days when we actually had a defense, haven't had one since Don Brown.

 

[uconnbill]

it still hurts to watch Tyler Lorenzen throw a ball.

True but victory was so sweet

I want to see the defense stop the fruit a few times and to see UConn score as well.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

The glory days when we actually had a defense, haven't had one since Don Brown.

I mean, we’ve been bad overall, but PP and Diaco both had some good defenses.

 

[DoctorWho85]

I mean, we’ve been bad overall, but PP and Diaco both had some good defenses.

Diaco never had a good defense here. At best it was on par to when Hank Hughes was DC. PP had one good year of a defense in year 2 of Don Brown's tenure.

 

[Excalibur]

Diaco never had a good defense here. At best it was on par to when Hank Hughes was DC. PP had one good year of a defense in year 2 of Don Brown's tenure.

The defense in year 2 was decent. In year 3 it was a preview of what was to come.