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Message: [QUOTE="UConnJim, post: 3176550, member: 1559"] Football programs, especially if you are not a traditional power, require significant time to turn around. If your school has high academic standards and limits JUCO recruitment, the rebuild is even harder. Frank Beamer was 24-40 his first 5 years at VT. Greg Schiano went 3-24 in the Big East his first 4 years. Both turned the programs around, but it took patience and the powers to be had patience. The key to Edsall’s program is he develops players over time. He needs RS Senoirs and RS Juniors for his teams to win. With the type of player UConn recruits, you are not going to win starting lots of freshmen and sophomores and UConn played a number of them. Will UConn be better this year over last year? In some areas a clear yes. In other areas, unknown and could be worse. The key to the season will be QB play and none of us know how that will shake out. [/QUOTE]