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Message: [QUOTE="8893, post: 2513369, member: 93"] That's what I thought at the time, but I remember hearing resounding laughter nationally and being cited as the prime example of what a mess the then-current bowl and conference system was if a team as weak as UConn could be in a major bowl. Even some CT people suggested that making that bowl was the worst thing that ever happened to us because it exposed us nationally and made us a punchline, just at the time when the P5 were deciding who else to let into the club. I also remember thinking, and probably even typing on this board, that going to Maryland was a lateral move at best for Edsall. But then it quickly seemed that he had seen the writing on the wall and knew that UConn had gone about as far it could go, and that the landscape was changing rapidly. So, in retrospect, I think Edsall leaving then was more symptom than cause in terms of the limits of UConn football. [/QUOTE]