Ric Serritella on UConn’s Upcoming Season, Correcting Public Narrative On The Program, Quotes From Mora

[Drew]

Really really good stuff from Ric here. Highly recommend the read

 

[huskymedic]

Here’s the opinion piece referenced above:

 

[CTBballfan243]

Just win and then narrative will be corrected

 

[gsmooth]

Just win and then narrative will be corrected

exactly win and have loud raucous crowds at the Rent.

If you go to the Conference Realignment board everyone there is talking about all these different scenarios, "if this, if that happens UConn will get an invite". If UConn was averaging between 6-8 wins the last few years and selling out the Rent there won't be a need to analyze all these permutations for UConn to get an invite-they will get invited, full stop.

 

[Plebe]

exactly win and have loud raucous crowds at the Rent.

If you go to the Conference Realignment board everyone there is talking about all these different scenarios, "if this, if that happens UConn will get an invite". If UConn was averaging between 6-8 wins the last few years and selling out the Rent there won't be a need to analyze all these permutations for UConn to get an invite-they will get invited, full stop.

UConn went 33-19 in 2007-2010 and made 4 consecutive bowl games and it all meant nothing when the golden tickets were doled out in 2012.

The media narrative always latches onto the trope of "bad football" but the decisions of conference presidents are driven by business and politics.

 

[gsmooth]

UConn went 33-19 in 2007-2010 and made 4 consecutive bowl games and it all meant nothing when the golden tickets were doled out in 2012.

The media narrative always latches onto the trope of "bad football" but the decisions of conference presidents are driven by business and politics.

Yes they were better than Syracuse and Pitt during those years. These decisions are driven by politics, but UConn football was trending downward after Edsall's departure and Louisville was trending upwards with Teddy Bridgewater at 10-2 when they were added. If UConn maintained their trajectory or stayed around 7 wins per season after the Fiesta Bowl, even with the BS politics, FSU and Clemson would not have been so quick to dismiss UConn.

Look at the Big 12 snub. UConn paid dearly with Edsall 2.0. 4 years of that god awful football is unacceptable. Here is hoping to Jim Mora and crew can right the ship.

 

[UConnJim]

Shutting down the football program in 2020 was a monumental mistake.

 

[gsmooth]

Shutting down the football program in 2020 was a monumental mistake.

Hiring Randy Edsall the 2nd time was a ginormous mistake. I called that in real time when it happened.

 

[Patman]

exactly win and have loud raucous crowds at the Rent.

If you go to the Conference Realignment board everyone there is talking about all these different scenarios, "if this, if that happens UConn will get an invite". If UConn was averaging between 6-8 wins the last few years and selling out the Rent there won't be a need to analyze all these permutations for UConn to get an invite-they will get invited, full stop.

I wouldn't go as far as "selling out Rentschler" but yes.

 

[Patman]

Hiring Randy Edsall the 2nd time was a ginormous mistake. I called that in real time when it happened.

I thought Randy was going to work out but I didn't realize how much of a doof he was. I knew PP was terrible from the start

 

[Plebe]

Yes they were better than Syracuse and Pitt during those years. These decisions are driven by politics, but UConn football was trending downward after Edsall's departure and Louisville was trending upwards with Teddy Bridgewater at 10-2 when they were added. If UConn maintained their trajectory or stayed around 7 wins per season after the Fiesta Bowl, even with the BS politics, FSU and Clemson would not have been so quick to dismiss UConn.

UConn went from 8-5 in 2010 to 5-7 in 2011. Not exactly falling off a cliff.

All of the ACC invites except Louisville's were handed out by September 2012, so it's quite debatable whether the 2012 season had any impact at all, but even then, it was another 5-7 season, not by a long shot the worst UConn's seen. And Louisville's 2012 season was the first time they'd been more than one game over .500 in six years. The big advantage they had was that no existing ACC members were blackballing them.

I'm not convinced that the difference between 8-5 and 5-7 was the difference between in or out. Especially when you see how mediocre Syracuse and Pitt were leading up to their invites.