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The elephant in the room is that, with all due respect to field hockey and women's basketball, UConn had arguably it's worst year in the 2 big boy sports in more than a decade in 2014-2015. I would have to go back to the 2000-2001 school year when both the football team and the men's basketball team had such poor seasons the same year.
Is this year an anomaly? The football team is dealing with a coaching change and the men's basketball team did graduate a lot. But why do I feel this dramatic drop off in level of play by both teams could be also due to the years of conference uncertainty? The fact we are not a Power 5? It certainly effects the type of talent/athlete we can recruit. And if the AAC is a step down in prestige it doesn't appear to be in competition because we are struggling to compete and be in the top half of the standings.
After sitting through 4 days of the AAC Tournament in Hartford I left pretty startled. The teams and games I saw left me feeling like we we're in a mid major conference and UConn fit in alarmingly well into it. Watching the NCAA Tournament, besides Gonzaga and Wichita I'm not sure any of the non power 5 schools compare to the top Power 5. The difference in athlete is striking. Louisville bullied Northern Iowa around the other night like I haven't seen done in a while. Our conference champ, who had a 25 pt lead on us this year, couldn't make it past UCLA.
We've suffered through some pretty underwhelming football seasons since going 1-A but nothing like the last one. Losses to some terrible teams like SMU and Army. An all out white flag of surrender so our QB wouldn't get killed at USF. It was quite the experience.
Will things be different next year for our cash cows? Are you alarmed by what you saw this year? Chalk it up to just a bad year for both teams or the warning signs of the decade long struggle we have been swimming upstream against and the reason this board we are posting on was created for in the first place? If that's the case, can anything be done to at the very least perform better in the AAC and so we don't have another repeat of this lost year?
Is this year an anomaly? The football team is dealing with a coaching change and the men's basketball team did graduate a lot. But why do I feel this dramatic drop off in level of play by both teams could be also due to the years of conference uncertainty? The fact we are not a Power 5? It certainly effects the type of talent/athlete we can recruit. And if the AAC is a step down in prestige it doesn't appear to be in competition because we are struggling to compete and be in the top half of the standings.
After sitting through 4 days of the AAC Tournament in Hartford I left pretty startled. The teams and games I saw left me feeling like we we're in a mid major conference and UConn fit in alarmingly well into it. Watching the NCAA Tournament, besides Gonzaga and Wichita I'm not sure any of the non power 5 schools compare to the top Power 5. The difference in athlete is striking. Louisville bullied Northern Iowa around the other night like I haven't seen done in a while. Our conference champ, who had a 25 pt lead on us this year, couldn't make it past UCLA.
We've suffered through some pretty underwhelming football seasons since going 1-A but nothing like the last one. Losses to some terrible teams like SMU and Army. An all out white flag of surrender so our QB wouldn't get killed at USF. It was quite the experience.
Will things be different next year for our cash cows? Are you alarmed by what you saw this year? Chalk it up to just a bad year for both teams or the warning signs of the decade long struggle we have been swimming upstream against and the reason this board we are posting on was created for in the first place? If that's the case, can anything be done to at the very least perform better in the AAC and so we don't have another repeat of this lost year?
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