Except you need to be able to replace them constantly. That's not easy and lacks any cohesion. Finding diamonds in the rough are tough. Striking gold twice, not likely
How about we get there first before we start worrying about it??
Isn’t he like a 1000 years old?
Exactly. It's like being skittish about recruiting Jordan Hawkins because he's only staying 2 years. UConn has do to whatever it takes to win games. Good kids may get lured away but until UConn is ranked every year, that's the way it's going to be. And if P5 programs are getting kids in the portal, they're also losing kids to the portal.
Don’t put this loss on D. The offense was putrid.
Terrible officiating helped.
It's insane to me that anyone could think otherwise. It's like we are giving up before we even get anywhere
If they could make a bowl game every year — even if it’s the Nobody Cares Bowl — I would be satisfied. Just win 6-7 games a year, consistently. That is our ceiling right now, unfortunately.
I’m still salty about a handful of things from NC State who is actually trrrible. Could 5-2 easy
Yea, but how many games did we win last year with Carter and Marion? Marion got hurt game 1 and we didn't see him until the end of the season and Carter went down against Michigan and that's the last time we saw him, I think, wasn't it? I haven't been following Cincinnati, but doesn't look like Turner is getting much run there.We do know what our record is without Carter, Marion and Turner.
No argument that the timing of Mora’s comments can easily be described as being tone deaf @ this point if not considering future impact.
Sounds like you’re spinning an argument for bringing Randy back!
I’m really tired of reading crap like this. Carter didn’t help us win any games last year before his injury. Marion didn’t help us win any games last year before his injury. And Aaron Turner did help us win some games last year, but Cam Ross plays his role in the lineup and is better. And we won 6 games anyway.
They aren’t that good. We shot ourselves in the foot and the refs jobbed us again.
Lew Perkins was saying it before we won our first NC.
At the end of the day, yes. Going FBS was supposed to insure the viability of the BB programs. Instead football became a millstone; an albatross that almost killed out BB programs.
Carter is a significant talent. But he only played for us last year in early season losses. He did not contribute to any of our 6 wins. So would we have been better with him — absolutely. But not having him is not why we have lost to three crap teams at home.
Bill, while I agree with with the premise, I want to point my finger directly at the athletic director's (read that Jeff Hathaway, Warde Manual ) office:
We only seem like a grind it out team because we only throw LOS passes, and run into stacked defenses twice before throwing the pass.
Football has the capacity to sink our athletic department at some point in the future, but that’s purely speculative. That would require another 5 years of losing in front of an empty Rent. Non-revenue programs will suffer. Basketball will be fine as long as March Madness exists. The general public’s investment in UConn bball is everything. The road forward in football outside of “win more” is in need of transparency and open debate if we keep losing and sucking up resources. And no, that is not a “drop football” suggestion, just a call for the laying out of viable options. I don’t see us paying players $35k/year as something viable for UConn football. The college sports world is moving fast, especially for public universities. We still don’t have substantive public comments from our AD or President on the B12 fiasco or our road forward in the pay-to-play world. Average P5 scholarship player making NIL $100k/yr and rising. 85 of them on a team.
