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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 4049264, member: 549"] [MEDIA=twitter]1435939895281917955[/MEDIA] -> … And speaking of basketball, it’s worth pointing out that most of the schools best known for that sport have relatively anonymous football programs. Think of Kansas, Duke, Kentucky and Indiana and you don’t connect them with gridiron excellence, even if their teams make a run every now and then. Ultimately, that’s probably the most that can be expected of UConn — general mediocrity and a decent team every so often. What’s easy to lose now is how recently that happened. UConn football was good, in the not-so-distant past. Randy Edsall, the recently departed coach who is leaving the team at its worst, in his first stint with the team led the school to now-unimaginable heights, including a top-25 ranking, a packed stadium and even a New Year’s Day game alongside the sport’s top programs. It’s been a long slide since then, but the team has proven capable of reaching great heights. It won’t be there again for a long time. Maybe it will never happen. But for the foreseeable future, continuing to try to regain that status remains the school’s best option. Mediocrity would be about 10 steps up from its current position, but what’s left of the fan base would take that in a second. UConn football isn’t going away. Just let the team be bad without questioning its existence. [I]Hugh Bailey is editorial page editor of the Connecticut Post and New Haven Register. <-[/I] [/QUOTE]

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