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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3282950, member: 833"]
UConn football has several problems, but the biggest is the collapse of youth football in the state.  How many Connecticut towns have combined teams with other towns just to field a high school football team?  How many more will do that in the next 10 years.  Where are the Orlovskys and Lutruses and Krugs?  These guys were high D1 level talent out of Connecticut, and helped make UConn competitive in football very quickly after UConn upgraded 20 years ago.  How much more talent back then came from surrounding states that are going through similar collapses in high school football in the late 2010s?

Every team that rises up is at least partially dependent on getting something from its local recruiting area, and UConn leaned pretty heavily on it the first time around.  I don't see that working for UConn again given the decline in high school football in the region.

This is a problem for Syracuse and BC too.  College football programs are going to be increasingly dependent on recruiting a shrinking number of states as youth football participation continues to drop in the northeast and west.
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