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UConn football has been around since 1896. As a Division IAA team, it was a member of the Yankee League and won 15 league championships. In 1998, UConn went 10-3 under Skip Holtz and won the A10 championship. UConn became a Division IA (FBS) team in 2000, 13 years ago. It joined the Big East as a full member in 2004.
The Huskies have been in 5 bowls (seasons 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) and have shared the Big East title twice, in 2007 and 2010. This is not a new football team and your repeating that bit of fiction time and again will not change that.
The above sounds a bit like disagreement for its own sake, IMO. In the post to which the above was a response, it was stated:
"Hating on PP, without taking into consideration uconn's lack of football experience at the top level is not a hallmark of a supportive fan base IMO. If it were that easy to develop a top 25 football program, all teams would be top 25. Oh, wait, only 25 of <120 can achieve that status."
Thus it was clear the reference to UCONN experience in football meant football in the fbs division and not football experience dating from 1896.
Moreover, in citing uconn's bowl experience, absent a list of what bowls they were can serve to overstate the matter, and that for two reasons:
First the sheer number of bowls allows about 1/2 of the total number of colleges that compete in the fbs to go to a bowl game.
Second the $ payout range for bowls varies from a low of a few hundred thousand to nearly $20million. Only once so far has UCONN gone to a big pay bowl. And that was pretty remarkable.
The issue is whether fans can accept and appreciate early success on one hand and a recognition of the validity of the old saying "Rome wasn't built in a day" on the other?