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Message: [QUOTE="That Guy, post: 3193853, member: 8905"] I would agree with you if we had some sort of pedigree, history, or tradition as a perennial football power and had just fallen on very hard times, similar to men's basketball. Then I would be all for trying to restore the football program. The fact is that we have always been a mediocre to slightly above-average program with a very low ceiling. Even our best year was mediocre. We had a fluke Fiesta Bowl appearance after an 8-4 season in a down year in the BE and got trounced by Oklahoma. We are located in BY FAR the worst recruiting ground in the country, it's literally a wasteland when it comes to football talent. The few 4* kids that come out of CT every year end up going to Michigan, Notre Dame, Penn State, etc. and that leaves us with no talent in the state. We then go pick up the scraps and leftovers in NJ, PA, FL, and the DMV area. What this move signifies is that the admins finally acknowledged and accepted that we are and always will be a basketball school and everything must be done to return to and maintain our status as an ELITE basketball program with national championship aspirations, something our football program could never achieve or even dream about. [/QUOTE]