Another huge problem is the stadium location. None of the students want to take a 45 minute bus ride to see their team get dominated, and student sections usually contribute a lot to the atmosphere and pride of a program
exactly. uconn is a huge school and has a ton of potential to be a powerhouse in the northeast but the stadium atmosphere is not attractive to top recruits at all. even ones from new england and new york
@@5552515 Back in the day, they played home games on campus in Storrs at Memorial Stadium. They started playing home games at Rentschler Field (East Hartford) in 2003. Memorial Stadium was demolished about a decade ago now, I think the new basketball practice facilities were built there afterward.
Update: November 12, 2022, with a 36-33 win over Liberty, UConn becomes bowl eligible at 6-5 Jim Mora's 1st year at the helm for UConn, with now upcoming bowl game on the horizon, is a huge upswing for the program from the previous 5 played seasons that garnered only 10 total wins.
I'm a Michigan fan and I've been to games in Columbus, OH and one in CT. The Ohio State fans were nicer than the UConn fans and we had ice cubes thrown at us the entire time in Columbus if that gives you an idea of how bad the UConn fans were to visiting fans.
Went to the Purdue-UConn game this season as a Purdue fan The Husky fans were such a non-factor I had more interactions with fellow Purdue fans, and on the rare times we (me and my party) spoke to a UConn fan it was about how much Purdue was dominating by
this iisint really true at all....im a ct native and have been to many uconn fb games we are really not nasty to opposing fans and we know how bad we suck.
If the game you're referring to is the 2013 game at Rentschler Field, I remember it well. It was the biggest home game in the program's history and they brought in extra seating to bring the capacity up to above 42,000. It was the last sellout UConn had at the Rent since then and was the first and only time the program appeared on Saturday Night Football. All of this is to say that you happened to visit at a particularly charged time for the program and the university. I also imagine that a lot of the anger came from the fact that half the season ticket holders sold their seats to Michigan fans at that game. Anyone who went would tell you that the stadium was almost 50-50 Michigan/UConn fans. Especially considering UConn blew that game at the end, I can understand how you could've come across the worst of the fanbase, but understand that this was probably the biggest moment for college football in Connecticut, and as such there were a lot of emotions running high.
There was no snub, the triangle was never going to let UConn in. And for there to be a fall there first has to be a rise. And I would have loved to have been in the same room when someone at UConn said "Hell yeah, what a great idea for the state to build us a football stadium 24 miles off campus".
School would never gain votes for ACC. Academic prestige escapes UCONN and has, I suggest, since YALE to Morrill Land Grant monies for SHEFFIELD SCIENTIC SCHOOL. CORNELL pulled same trick crippling possibilities for what became SUNY. DUKE, UVA, GT weren't adding to the conference Connecticut's cow school. And ACC doesn't need another basketball power.
@@Lufsixq - Maybe "snub" wasn't the right word. Louisville's invitation to replace Maryland was unanimous, and it was probably the only school they even considered at that time. However, UConn, ESPN, and much of the rest of the college football world certainly did think UConn was the obvious choice for some reason.
@@Lufsixq The problem wasn't so much the "snub" as the Big East exodus from other teams. UConn had a nice niche there for a while and played in some high profile matchups. I'm not sure they ever were in the Top 10 but they were definitely in the Top 20 and played some high profile games against West Virginia, Louisville, USF when those teams were good too. Then Everyone left to chase dollars in the ACC or Big 12 in West Virginia's case. I hate off campus stadiums, but in UConn's case there is no pro team so much of the state adopts it. They used to pack out the Rent, but times have changed.
@@thomasdelcontejr483 it's the relation between the lack of success and the inconvenience of getting to the games. at practically any other FBS school the stadium is likely right outside your dorm
The best team they had was the year they beat South Carolina in the Papa John’s bowl. They were actually a worse team when they went to the Fiesta Bowl. They had a solid 4 years of success that blew up when Randy left. Terrible coaching hires set them back over and over! Hopefully Mora and fix things…
Man I felt bad for Uconn's 1st game back. They had to play Fresno State. Not only did they have to travel across the country but play in weather they weren't used to. Great video!
One thing you neglect to mention at all in this video that was a significant change for the program was the departure of Joe Moorhead. He was the OC and the brains behind that stretch of brilliance in '09-'10, and left in December of 2011 to coach his alma mater, Fordham University. He also took a number of players with him, who proceeded to absolutely thrash the FCS level for several years, until he got poached by Penn State. I think that brain drain really accelerated the downward spiral of the program. But hey, I went to Fordham, so I loved it.
This is 100% on the Trustees. Not the administration, the coaches, the players, or the students. The Trustees. Its always the responsibility of management.
The football facility is actually one of the oldest of all the major teams at UConn with the exception of the new locker room. Was built when they went FCS to FBS many years ago. They have kept up with it well and it’s on par with most P5 facilities. Basketball facilities are brand new and probably the best in the country. They’re committed to being successful in football and have put more money in the program the last year than in the last 5+. Larger coaching and support staff, and they seem to be doing a great job so far. Fans are hopeful this new energy can turn this around. And I love the Indy scheduling options and they’re been doing a decent job setting up some good local rivalry games with the old Big East rivals. The hit rock bottom…only up from here!
This is a top 25 public university with facilities comparable to power 5 schools (check out the RUclips video on the facilities.) Being an independent and still playing a schedule against Michigan, NC State, Utah State, Fresno St, BC, Syracuse will appeal to recruits. CT fans want this team to succeed, we have no pro team and have to drive over an hour to NY or two to Boston for that. When this team is competitive the stadium sells out, let’s get back to even 2013 playing Michigan at home sold out and adding an additional 2k seats. Quote from RG3 when Baylor came to town “When we played at UConn my freshman year, that was the loudest place I've ever been as a football player.” This university 100% has the ability to get back to being competitive, the Mora hire was huge and the program is headed in the right direction.
I am not familiar with the program but in seeing the scores week after week and after the Army game, I remember thinking this was one of worst teams in Division 1 football, keeping company with Kansas, New Mexico State and Florida International.
I’m from CT,I hope one day they’ll play at Tennessee so I can go watch them and sport a UCONN jersey. I’ll probably get jumped but I’ll still root for them 👍🏽👍🏽
Mora was a terrific recruiter at UCLA, problem was player development. For all of the talent he acquired UCLA just slowly declined on the field so for UConn's sake I hope Mora has learned from his mistakes.
Good video. I think you need to go back a little further around 1991 when UCONN was an unknown cow town school in the sticks of CT. After winning the 1991 NIT basketball tournament all of a sudden eyes are on UCONN. A little known entertainment and sports network called ESPN made a deal w big East basketball. If you want to show Georgetown vs St John’s you also have to show Providence vs Seton Hall. It was brilliant exposure for big East basketball They built a basketball empire But they got greedy. Beginning w Boston College, big East teams began to leave the big East for larger more lucrative football conferences. It nearly ruined the big East. BC, Syracuse, PITT, UCONN would all leave for what they believed to be greener pastures. None of them found it
I’m sorry tho those school left for greener pastures because the ACC was just as big of a basketball powerhouse as the Big East and at the time had a better reputation for football than it does now (ACC).
UConn didn't leave the Big East, they were shown the door because they weren't a Catholic school and also were moving forward with their football program. These were incompatible with the vision for the Big East Conference at that time. Funny how it's come back full circle, and they're back, obviously except for football.
Never forget him having Jordan Todman stand in front of the team and tell them he was turning pro right after the Fiesta Bowl, while not telling anyone that he was hopping on a plane to interview for the Maryland job. Nice accountability, Coach.
The problem is that UConn is an independent, and thus receives no conference TV deal, or really any TV deal at all. What separates UConn, UMass, and NMSU (to an extent) compared to the other independents is the fact the other independents are either backed by an entire religious following (BYU, ND) or the government (West Point). This combined with the presence of the CAA, which is one of the power FCS football conferences, and UConn has competition not just in FBS, but also from successful FCS programs
@@thomasdelcontejr483 how do you figure that? First, the AAC doesn't have ESPN+ deal. They have a media rights deal with ESPN, which includes ABC, all the ESPN cable networks, and ESPN+. The AAC distributes on average, about $6 million per year, to each member from the media rights revenue. Now that might change, if the media rights get renegotiated before the media rights contract expires in 2035, since the AAC's top 3 products are moving on to the Big12. It will still likely be higher per member than what UConn is getting from CBS. In comparison, the CBS Sports deal will net UConn on average, about $100,000 per game, depending on the quality of the opponent. As part of deal, CBS Sports will broadcast up to 5 games per year for an estimated $500,000 per year, which would put the deal in the range of four years, $2 million. So in four years, UConn's media deal with CBS Sports will net them about 1/3 of what AAC members are getting per year.
If you’re talking about good FCS programs, don’t forget the Ivy League. Yale and Harvard are honestly as good as UConn and UMass Honestly UConn and UMass should join the ACC
I live in Connecticut and all my life I cheered for UCONN cause if i remembered, i began watching them when they were in the bowl games in 2008+. And even every year if we sucked i kept watching their games, last season we had good chances to win more games we could of finished with an extra 2-3 wins on the year. UCONN is such an interesting football program, they have had hits in the program with Bryon Jones being the biggest most recent and soon Travis Jones in this years NFL Draft. I think with the legendary football coach Jim Mora coming in could definitely help out the program and we can get better. Like we are getting players from Texas, Connecticut, New York, South Carolina, California, Florida, Alabama and others. Like these kids who want a football career shouldn't come here and go to other top football preforming schools right? Well there's something that's attracting these kids to UCONN, maybe its an easier spotlight to be on a bad team or something else.
It all depends on one’s expectations. I wound not expect Mora to take UConn to a New Year’s Day bowl. I see him maybe getting UConn consistently to bowl games but not major bowls games consistently
@@sococomfort22s34 Hopefully, a minor bowl bid in Mora's 2nd season, and then build from there to get some major ones. One can only hope, and they've done it before.
Fun Fact: From the first season after the first ACC raid of the Big East (2004) to the last season before the original Big East broke up (2012), the Big East went a respectable 5-4 in BCS bowls. The conference went a combined 5-0 when the BCS representative was either West Virginia or Louisville (3-0 for WVU, 2-0 for Louisville), and they were 0-4 when the representative was anyone else (0-2 for Cincinnati, 0-1 for Pitt, 0-1 for UConn).
Another fun fact is that the Big East really didn’t deserve to make a majority of those BCS bowls as there were multiple teams with better records, better wins, and overall better teams that didn’t make a BCS bowl because the Big East was gifted an automatic qualification. Very often the MWC got absolutely screwed over in favor of the Big East. G5 teams outranked Big East teams in 05, 08, 10, 11 and 12, yet in 4 of those years Big East teams made it over them. Two years where the most ridiculous when #9 TCU in 2005 didn’t make a BCS bowl and in 2011 when #6 Boise State didn’t make one and in fact zero G5 teams made a major bowl, despite the fact that at least one of them were supposed to. 2011 wasn’t even close as Boise State outranked 4 teams that made BCS bowls over them. WVUs best win on the season was a 3 point win over #25 Cincinnati whereas BSU beat #16 Georgia by 21. In 2010 6 G5 teams outranked the Big East Champion, but yet an unranked 8-5 UConn magically beat out #7 12-1 Boise State for the Fiesta Bowl. UConn got demolished in 2 games by 20+, whereas BSU beat 4 Top 25 teams, and averaged more points than UConn could score in any season, and allowing over 8 points less on defense per game. 2009 even has some confusing elements in which the MWC Champion had better stats in literally every category both physically and from a scheduling standpoint yet magically ranked behind Big East Champ Cincinnati. The WAC Champ in 2009 had unquestionably a far superior better victory (beat PAC Champ #7 Oregon by 18, whereas Cincinnati’s best win was against #15 Pitt by 1), demolished common opponents of Cincinnati by a score of 100-20 vs Cincinnati beating them 65-43, and where statistically better then on both sides of ball yet also magically ranked lower than them.
Building your stadium over 20 miles, and a 30 minute drive, from campus does not create a football culture on campus, nor build a fanbase among alumni.
@@JKJ002 that would be incredible. Me and my grandma went to the first ever UAB home game in 1991 and there was about 4k to 5k people there, so I’ve been a fan since literally day 1.
I worked at UAB when they cancelled the program, and it did not go over that well. The primary reason (that they provided) for doing that was $$$$ that it took to maintain the healthcare of the players and so many injuries. Sounded funny since UAB was a major hospital and provided the care themselves. Anyway, UAB got lucky hiring the right head coach, and that is the key to any good program. Mora at UConn is NOT going to help. He's made some of the worst HC decisions in his career. I thought he would be good at first, until I watched him blunder away too many games.
Hiring fired retreads is almost 100 percent to fail. Why programs continue to do it? Just for some baseline of 4-6 win mediocrity? You're better off hiring young coaches and hoping they build something they remain loyal to.
I'm trying to put this video together on UAB, and since you're a season ticket holder, what is some information about the program that I should know and include in the video? It can be anything from their early days to the decision to cut football to the present day.
I think a key thing for UConn to continue to do is to strengthen and maintain it’s rivalry with Umass football. Both are pretty good basketball programs, with similar tough times in football this decade. They do have a nice geographical and historical rivalry going with Umass, so if they grow that, suffer and hang together, then when they see some sort of up turn, perhaps they could sell themselves as a package deal to a suitor conference. Recall something like Oklahoma and their Rival, Texas, did. Something like that. Just a random thought though, haha.
Miami, Florida St., Penn State, Pitt, Syracuse, BC all built their football marquees as independents, carefully scheduling teams they could compete with, then challenging top tier teams when they were ready. All also had school administrations/trustees that were FULLY committed, and unobstructive, in helping to build those programs. UConn (the university) has a national name, and has spent the money to provide top tier facilities to develop players -- their football facility has consistently been voted, by NFL scouts and player personnel, as only trailing Oregon's as the best in college football; and, they have produced 28 draft picks that have been selected since moving to FBS, despite their 10 year drought. Also of note, UConn trails only Penn State (30) and BC (17) for players drafted in the first 3 rounds since 2004 from programs located in the Northeast (UConn: 12; more than Rutgers (11), Temple (7), Buffalo (1), Syracuse (5)). Connecticut also has more sleeper recruits in high school than it is given credit -- the starting QB's for Kentucky and Miami (who was Frosh of the year in the ACC) came from CT. If they get the right coach, make the positive in roads in CT with the h.s. coaches (which all previous coaches did a TERRIBLE job with), continue to take advantage of facilities and develop players; and, can be competitive recruiting in the rest of the northeast (all of which they seem to be off to a great start doing), they will turn the program around.
No, because they don't play in a Power Five conference, they don't have any program prestige and most of all they are located in the north east which typically has the least talent in the country when it comes to recruits. You hit some gems every once in a while but most of the real talent is down south. As a life long Boston College football fan, I can confirm this. UConn is a basketball school, that it their niche and they should stick to it.
As a Kentucky fan, college football needs a successful UCONN Football program. I hope and wish the BEST for the UCONN Football program. I am rooting for them.
Why does college football need UConn? It's a lower-tier program with no significant history situated in the Northeast, a region that produces the least amount talent and has the least amount of interest in college football.
I can see where you're coming from in that the program never really got over the hump of achieving major success on a consistent basis. But after the bowl wins with Orlovsky in the early 2000's, and the Fiesta Bowl appearance in 2011, the program was certainly in a spot where getting over that hump was a genuine possibility - then it fell apart. The program spent about a decade on the rise, just to spend the subsequent decade crashing and burning entirely.
Greatest college football rivalry of all time! A rivalry so intense that it gave everyone at UCF collective amnesia, and they completely forgot that they were in a rivalry.
UConn got lucky with ONE Fiesta Bowl appearance.... they are like Kansas, Kentucky, UNC, Duke and Indiana...THEY ARE BASKETBALL SCHOOLS with occasional success in football
Not Indiana but I might be biased as a BIG10 guy but I feel like Indiana has a lot more football success than any other team you named except maybe North Carolina
The year that UConn won the Big East (along with nearly half the conference) was the low point for the BE. Their BCS representative was a 4 loss team that was nowhere near the top 25. There were a few years early on after the first ACC raid of the BE where it looked like the BE would recover and was going to be OK, but the bottom fell out after that season.
Kansas got every conceivable break in 2007. No Texas, Oklahoma or Texas Tech on the Big 12 schedule. A&M was in the wilderness. Oklahoma State had to rebuild. Nebraska was terrible. K-State was in the middle of the Ron Prince ERROR. Colorado was hot garbage. Iowa State and Baylor were two of the worst power conference teams in the nation that season. An absolutely shitty non-conference slate. The Jayhawks only got the Orange Bowl bid because Lew Perkins (ironically, the former UConn AD) bribed the Orange Bowl committee to take them instead of Mizzou.
Basketball will always be king at UConn as moving back to the Big East for their other sports proves that, maybe they get an invite to a Group of 5 as a football only member which would be very unlikely since they left the AAC, the dumpster fire they call Conference USA may be their only chance.
Basketball wasn't always king at UCONN. Prior to the change in the 80s it was just one of the sports we had that competed with soccer, baseball and football. And the women's sports were popular as well, winning national titles in field hockey and such. Basketball didn't become dominant until they state cut UCONNs tax allotment and new funding needed. The school somehow got Calhoun to coach, and the rest was history. Football kind of sneaked in the back door in the 90s, hit a brief period of success, then returned to its current status. The trouble with football at UCONN has always been recruiting. Whereas Calhoun was successful getting top recruits, the football team wasn't. Until that changes, it's all academic.
I know and understand that in College Football that programs are all at different levels. But how on earth does a team give up 400 rushing yards in a GAME? Like jeez. I would be focused on the rush stopping then.
Being a Connecticut native, I can honestly say I've never met anyone who gives a damn about UConn football. They have never had sustained success, and it doesn't help that their stadium is pretty meh while being a 45 minute drive from the school's campus. As far as the state of Connecticut is concerned, its all about UConn basketball, plain and simple.
First of all, Rentschler Field is only 30 minutes away from the campus in Storrs. Not ideal, but still fairly close. Secondly, I know plenty of UConn football fans who have stuck with the program. Many have been understandably discouraged by the program's poor performance over the past decade, but there is a hunger and excitement for something good to happen. Remember, there is no pro football in Connecticut, so UConn is it, and they do have a loyal following which will only expand with success on the field. I am hopefull that 2022 will be the start of it.
FB facility build in early 00's back when fb was ok. MBB/WBB practice facility NOT built until 2014, both practiced at home court before then...along with volleyball team...AND YET wildly more successful. Otherwise, good video!
Army is the only football stadium I have in†rest visiting here in the north. Matter of fact im not too far away as i live near waterbury CT. its only 1 hr away.
UConn, like UMass, prioritize their basketball programs. Those two need to find somewhere to put their football or keeping scheduling other eastern schools and hype their game against each other as a post Thanksgiving rivalry.
Their mistake was to leave the Big East Conference. It messed up their men's basketball team and to be honest UCONN feels more of basketball school than a football one.
UCONN is a basketball powerhouse. I was born and raised in NYC and can attest to RESPECT accorded the men's program and the woman's program is beyond excellent. Poor on-field and sports executive management has destroyed the football management. Last year's roster was choked with prep school grads. Wtf? I captained a prep school football team. I co-edited the sports section of a Connecticut college's weekday daily newspaper. No way a program wins with that type of roster in collegiate professional football, I suggest. UCONN might do well to drop football. High Schools there don't produce collegiate professional talent and the football management doesn't fathom how to recruit talent from other regions of the USA.
UConn didn't really leave the Big East. The non-football members split off and formed their own conference. After some negotiations they were able to take the Big East name and logo with them, but the AAC retained the Big East's headquarters (which they've since moved from) and existing infrastructure. I don't think UConn was initially invited to the new Big East, since all of the founding members of the new BE we're small schools, mostly private, and they all had either FCS football programs or no football at all.
@@ethanhill9460 UConn won't drop Football...I think the realignment game is going to continue and I think the ACC will be looking for members when FSU, Clemson and VA tech sue to get out of the GOR of the ACC. VA tech wants to move to the Big 10, Clemson and FSU want to join the SEC. Miami is asking the Florida legislature to help them. Boston College plays us in Ice Hockey and now we are playing them in Football, which is great for the 3 FBS teams in New England. I think Syracuse and Pitt will welcome us. Playing ND would be fun too...UConn beat ND. We even beat Michigan, we have a game scheduled with Ohio State soon. Don't think that northeast high school football is bad. We might not be Texas, however we have private schools that take our best players away. Connecticut high schools can not get a player from another district and our school districts average 18 square miles, yet the private schools can. Some of our rivalry games are some of the oldest games played, which is usually around Thanksgiving week. I have faith in Jim Mora. He's using the transfer portal, something that Randy Edsall said he would never do. We might be known as a basketball school, yet soccer, hockey, baseball are champions, too. Football will not be easy, however we can win...
Right now, I have at least 2-3 videos I would like to get out beforehand, so maybe sometime in June or July. But I will definitely make a video on them because they are on the rise
These videos are never meant to be disrespectful, but It’s been a decade of mediocrity, I think I did “due diligence”. However, I’m very happy for the football team & I alluded to the fact that Jim Mora could (and hopefully would) change the trajectory of the program in due time
UConn is a school that will always be overlooked by the bigger conferences. That’s a huge problem for football. If they stayed in the AAC they would have been left behind with what it will be in 2023 but moving back to the basketball Big East essentially killed their football program. They also didn’t keep up with their former football Big East counterparts that are mostly all in P5 conferences now.
I don't think being an Indy is a death sentence for the program. With good leadership and recruiting, and savvy scheduling, they can build something. It can be done.
I just want to point out that not every venture a business like a public university makes has to be profitable, so the fact UConn's football program operated at a $13M+ loss won't hurt them in the long run when their other programs operate at ~$100M+ gains annually. For example, gaming consoles are sold at a net loss because Sony and Microsoft have other divisions of their respective business that can cover the loss, on top of monetizing the ownership of an Xbox or PlayStation. Universities subsidizing programs that aren't profitable are no different.
So this is interesting as we are hearing about UConn to the Big XII. But all the Big XII fans are saying the football team sucks and would add nothing to the program. However, when they were in a legitimate conference (The Original Big East), they brought a lot to the table....and against teams that are now Power 5. It's interesting that their downfall in both football and basketball came via the Big XII taking West Virginia, which led to a lawsuit followed by Louisville and Pitt to the ACC, and eventually dissolution of the Big East. The basketball team returned from obscurity to the New Big East in 2019 and they are now back to being one of the preeminent teams in the NCAA (currently the apex predator). Perhaps the football team would see a return to being a solid team too.....but you gotta get the stadium on that fantastic UConn campus. Also UConn adds to Big XII in baseball as that is a solid program.
I remember getting the letter and i put it in the maybe maybe pile because off \def and kicker scholarship with the double decker stadium with fans really close. If the girls cant get a new stadiumi see no updates in the athletics field Enters water boy
It's not UConn's fault in the program failure-its the whole northeast desirability to play college football. All southern states facilitate the success of programs whereas football in the New England region is an after thought. UConn has many great athletic programs and where football would typically be many states top attraction unfortunately its the least popular. UConn has an excellent baseball program and Hockey Program as well where the school rather build new facilities for those programs which they have or in the process. Reichler field is a underwhelming division 1 stadium but not hopeless. If they install seats on half the stadium it would look more appealing. In addition -to a few more tweaks like club seating and lets face it more color . geez that stadium looks so bland. W=Ucoon needs to look at the formula that makes Southern states so successful and apply it to their basic needs. I think a lot of the issue is scouting and coaching. Going to states that have statistically better players such as Texas or Florida instead of our own backyard in a state where football isn't popular.
During the breakup of The Big East, going to Ivy schools only the UCOON president stated we are not about sports. That my be fine but a lot of buster members also donated to the library. Let's also remember before the breakup Boston College left The Big Easter, UCONN insisted they be fined, and they where. When the breakup happened nobody wanted UCONN. Left in the dark.
Another huge problem is the stadium location. None of the students want to take a 45 minute bus ride to see their team get dominated, and student sections usually contribute a lot to the atmosphere and pride of a program
only reason I go near that place is because Cabelas lol
exactly. uconn is a huge school and has a ton of potential to be a powerhouse in the northeast but the stadium atmosphere is not attractive to top recruits at all. even ones from new england and new york
If this is true, this is absolutely insane. I had a 5 minute WALK from my college stadium, in an off-campus apartment!
@@5552515 Back in the day, they played home games on campus in Storrs at Memorial Stadium. They started playing home games at Rentschler Field (East Hartford) in 2003. Memorial Stadium was demolished about a decade ago now, I think the new basketball practice facilities were built there afterward.
If Uconn was better I think more locals would show as well. Locals just go to Yardgoats instead.
Update: November 12, 2022, with a 36-33 win over Liberty, UConn becomes bowl eligible at 6-5
Jim Mora's 1st year at the helm for UConn, with now upcoming bowl game on the horizon, is a huge upswing for the program from the previous 5 played seasons that garnered only 10 total wins.
...annnndddd they're back to losing. Was 2022 a fluke?
@@dogg-paws no
Damn it's been almost two years glad your back 😃😃
Yessir. Thank you for the continued support m
I'm a Michigan fan and I've been to games in Columbus, OH and one in CT. The Ohio State fans were nicer than the UConn fans and we had ice cubes thrown at us the entire time in Columbus if that gives you an idea of how bad the UConn fans were to visiting fans.
Tbf they have to watch UConn
Went to the Purdue-UConn game this season as a Purdue fan
The Husky fans were such a non-factor I had more interactions with fellow Purdue fans, and on the rare times we (me and my party) spoke to a UConn fan it was about how much Purdue was dominating by
this iisint really true at all....im a ct native and have been to many uconn fb games we are really not nasty to opposing fans and we know how bad we suck.
i'm shocked we had fans there. lol
If the game you're referring to is the 2013 game at Rentschler Field, I remember it well. It was the biggest home game in the program's history and they brought in extra seating to bring the capacity up to above 42,000. It was the last sellout UConn had at the Rent since then and was the first and only time the program appeared on Saturday Night Football. All of this is to say that you happened to visit at a particularly charged time for the program and the university. I also imagine that a lot of the anger came from the fact that half the season ticket holders sold their seats to Michigan fans at that game. Anyone who went would tell you that the stadium was almost 50-50 Michigan/UConn fans. Especially considering UConn blew that game at the end, I can understand how you could've come across the worst of the fanbase, but understand that this was probably the biggest moment for college football in Connecticut, and as such there were a lot of emotions running high.
Who’s here after UConn became bowl eligible?
I'm back after UConn began to suck again (0-5)
I'm surprised that you made a fall of UConn football video without mentioning their ACC snub. It was a significant factor in their downward trend.
There was no snub, the triangle was never going to let UConn in. And for there to be a fall there first has to be a rise. And I would have loved to have been in the same room when someone at UConn said "Hell yeah, what a great idea for the state to build us a football stadium 24 miles off campus".
School would never gain votes for ACC. Academic prestige escapes UCONN and has, I suggest, since YALE to Morrill Land Grant monies for SHEFFIELD SCIENTIC SCHOOL. CORNELL pulled same trick crippling possibilities for what became SUNY. DUKE, UVA, GT weren't adding to the conference Connecticut's cow school. And ACC doesn't need another basketball power.
@@Lufsixq - Maybe "snub" wasn't the right word. Louisville's invitation to replace Maryland was unanimous, and it was probably the only school they even considered at that time. However, UConn, ESPN, and much of the rest of the college football world certainly did think UConn was the obvious choice for some reason.
@@Lufsixq The problem wasn't so much the "snub" as the Big East exodus from other teams. UConn had a nice niche there for a while and played in some high profile matchups. I'm not sure they ever were in the Top 10 but they were definitely in the Top 20 and played some high profile games against West Virginia, Louisville, USF when those teams were good too. Then Everyone left to chase dollars in the ACC or Big 12 in West Virginia's case. I hate off campus stadiums, but in UConn's case there is no pro team so much of the state adopts it. They used to pack out the Rent, but times have changed.
@@thomasdelcontejr483 this is correct. The ghost of Calhoun
If you are a true UCONN fan go to the game. Stay the whole game. No matter what. Full stadames help in tv time and recruiting.
I doubt any school that plays its football off campus would ever have a full stadium
I’d love to go to the games, but when the stadium is over half an hour away from my campus? It’s worthless if I know we’re going to lose.
@@ospraey02 yeah I applied to UConn this year and was very impressed by their campus when I visited but the football situation I couldn't deal with
@@thomasdelcontejr483 that's when they were worth taking a bus from campus to see because there was a legitimate chance they'd win
@@thomasdelcontejr483 it's the relation between the lack of success and the inconvenience of getting to the games. at practically any other FBS school the stadium is likely right outside your dorm
Welcome back! You’ve been missed!
As a Georgia Tech fan I feel your pain UCON
Im sure they still fill up more seats during home games despite that
I'm sure you don't
It sounded like a "one-class wonder" -- where one recruiting class did well.
One phenomenally good class(for a program like UCONN..) but a few really good ones strung together by Edsall, yeah.
@@baldwinserrantshot365 I thought I remembered it right. I did.
The best team they had was the year they beat South Carolina in the Papa John’s bowl. They were actually a worse team when they went to the Fiesta Bowl. They had a solid 4 years of success that blew up when Randy left. Terrible coaching hires set them back over and over! Hopefully Mora and fix things…
Man I felt bad for Uconn's 1st game back. They had to play Fresno State. Not only did they have to travel across the country but play in weather they weren't used to. Great video!
Who is hear after uccon beat liberty 36-33 to be bowl eligible for the first time since 2015
One thing you neglect to mention at all in this video that was a significant change for the program was the departure of Joe Moorhead. He was the OC and the brains behind that stretch of brilliance in '09-'10, and left in December of 2011 to coach his alma mater, Fordham University. He also took a number of players with him, who proceeded to absolutely thrash the FCS level for several years, until he got poached by Penn State. I think that brain drain really accelerated the downward spiral of the program. But hey, I went to Fordham, so I loved it.
That West Virginia game was bonkers. Drove to the fiesta bowl that year as well. What a shame
This is 100% on the Trustees. Not the administration, the coaches, the players, or the students. The Trustees. Its always the responsibility of management.
Sense trustees are fine with success in basketball, football be damned.
UConn is like duke, you kinda forget they even play football
The football facility is actually one of the oldest of all the major teams at UConn with the exception of the new locker room. Was built when they went FCS to FBS many years ago. They have kept up with it well and it’s on par with most P5 facilities. Basketball facilities are brand new and probably the best in the country. They’re committed to being successful in football and have put more money in the program the last year than in the last 5+. Larger coaching and support staff, and they seem to be doing a great job so far. Fans are hopeful this new energy can turn this around. And I love the Indy scheduling options and they’re been doing a decent job setting up some good local rivalry games with the old Big East rivals. The hit rock bottom…only up from here!
Maybe the coaches can suit up for the money lol
The only memory I have of Uconn was when I was a kid and they Beat South Carolina in a Bowl Game
This is a top 25 public university with facilities comparable to power 5 schools (check out the RUclips video on the facilities.) Being an independent and still playing a schedule against Michigan, NC State, Utah State, Fresno St, BC, Syracuse will appeal to recruits.
CT fans want this team to succeed, we have no pro team and have to drive over an hour to NY or two to Boston for that. When this team is competitive the stadium sells out, let’s get back to even 2013 playing Michigan at home sold out and adding an additional 2k seats. Quote from RG3 when Baylor came to town “When we played at UConn my freshman year, that was the loudest place I've ever been as a football player.”
This university 100% has the ability to get back to being competitive, the Mora hire was huge and the program is headed in the right direction.
Not a UConn fan but this is a good video. Hope y'all get rolling again soon!
6 Months later. Bowl Eligible!
I’m from south Florida born and raised. I lived in Connecticut for 11 years. UConn needs to recruit heavy in south Florida.
Texas too. The southern states invest in more football youth programs. Over here in CT its everything else but football.
I agree
They just recruited this super star QB out of Fort Lauderdale.
Heavy on this 💯
I am not familiar with the program but in seeing the scores week after week and after the Army game, I remember thinking this was one of worst teams in Division 1 football, keeping company with Kansas, New Mexico State and Florida International.
At least Kansas has the excuse of only investing in men's basketball and being a constant powerhouse there
Hey don’t knock Army. They really are not trash. Heck they almost beat Michigan a few years back and lost by 7 to Oklahoma in 2018.
@@sococomfort22s34 Uh, he didnt knock Army. He mentioned a UConn game against Army.
I’m from CT,I hope one day they’ll play at Tennessee so I can go watch them and sport a UCONN jersey. I’ll probably get jumped but I’ll still root for them 👍🏽👍🏽
They will actually play at Tennessee on November 4th!
@@dylanshort1661 👍🏽👍🏽
We are now one win away from a bowl game!!!! Him Mora!!
Mora was a terrific recruiter at UCLA, problem was player development. For all of the talent he acquired UCLA just slowly declined on the field so for UConn's sake I hope Mora has learned from his mistakes.
Good video. I think you need to go back a little further around 1991 when UCONN was an unknown cow town school in the sticks of CT. After winning the 1991 NIT basketball tournament all of a sudden eyes are on UCONN. A little known entertainment and sports network called ESPN made a deal w big East basketball. If you want to show Georgetown vs St John’s you also have to show Providence vs Seton Hall. It was brilliant exposure for big East basketball
They built a basketball empire
But they got greedy. Beginning w Boston College, big East teams began to leave the big East for larger more lucrative football conferences. It nearly ruined the big East. BC, Syracuse, PITT, UCONN would all leave for what they believed to be greener pastures. None of them found it
The NIT win was in 1988. Won the Big East and went to the Elite Eight two years after that.
I’m sorry tho those school left for greener pastures because the ACC was just as big of a basketball powerhouse as the Big East and at the time had a better reputation for football than it does now (ACC).
UConn didn't leave the Big East, they were shown the door because they weren't a Catholic school and also were moving forward with their football program. These were incompatible with the vision for the Big East Conference at that time. Funny how it's come back full circle, and they're back, obviously except for football.
They were beating Clemson this past year... for like five minutes. On a kickoff return.
Might've been the only five minutes they were in the lead all season
@@nefgoods3117 it was the opening kickoff. I was at the game in disbelief.
Their new coaching staff will turn the program around
Edsall thought he was more important than Auriemma and Calhoun. How stupid.
Never forget him having Jordan Todman stand in front of the team and tell them he was turning pro right after the Fiesta Bowl, while not telling anyone that he was hopping on a plane to interview for the Maryland job. Nice accountability, Coach.
The problem is that UConn is an independent, and thus receives no conference TV deal, or really any TV deal at all.
What separates UConn, UMass, and NMSU (to an extent) compared to the other independents is the fact the other independents are either backed by an entire religious following (BYU, ND) or the government (West Point). This combined with the presence of the CAA, which is one of the power FCS football conferences, and UConn has competition not just in FBS, but also from successful FCS programs
Never thought of that before.
EXCELLENT comment!
@@thomasdelcontejr483 how do you figure that? First, the AAC doesn't have ESPN+ deal. They have a media rights deal with ESPN, which includes ABC, all the ESPN cable networks, and ESPN+. The AAC distributes on average, about $6 million per year, to each member from the media rights revenue. Now that might change, if the media rights get renegotiated before the media rights contract expires in 2035, since the AAC's top 3 products are moving on to the Big12. It will still likely be higher per member than what UConn is getting from CBS.
In comparison, the CBS Sports deal will net UConn on average, about $100,000 per game, depending on the quality of the opponent. As part of deal, CBS Sports will broadcast up to 5 games per year for an estimated $500,000 per year, which would put the deal in the range of four years, $2 million. So in four years, UConn's media deal with CBS Sports will net them about 1/3 of what AAC members are getting per year.
If you’re talking about good FCS programs, don’t forget the Ivy League. Yale and Harvard are honestly as good as UConn and UMass
Honestly UConn and UMass should join the ACC
As long as I can remember UCONN has always been a basketball school, not a football school.
I live in Connecticut and all my life I cheered for UCONN cause if i remembered, i began watching them when they were in the bowl games in 2008+. And even every year if we sucked i kept watching their games, last season we had good chances to win more games we could of finished with an extra 2-3 wins on the year. UCONN is such an interesting football program, they have had hits in the program with Bryon Jones being the biggest most recent and soon Travis Jones in this years NFL Draft. I think with the legendary football coach Jim Mora coming in could definitely help out the program and we can get better. Like we are getting players from Texas, Connecticut, New York, South Carolina, California, Florida, Alabama and others. Like these kids who want a football career shouldn't come here and go to other top football preforming schools right? Well there's something that's attracting these kids to UCONN, maybe its an easier spotlight to be on a bad team or something else.
It all depends on one’s expectations. I wound not expect Mora to take UConn to a New Year’s Day bowl. I see him maybe getting UConn consistently to bowl games but not major bowls games consistently
@@sococomfort22s34 Hopefully, a minor bowl bid in Mora's 2nd season, and then build from there to get some major ones. One can only hope, and they've done it before.
Fun Fact: From the first season after the first ACC raid of the Big East (2004) to the last season before the original Big East broke up (2012), the Big East went a respectable 5-4 in BCS bowls. The conference went a combined 5-0 when the BCS representative was either West Virginia or Louisville (3-0 for WVU, 2-0 for Louisville), and they were 0-4 when the representative was anyone else (0-2 for Cincinnati, 0-1 for Pitt, 0-1 for UConn).
Another fun fact is that the Big East really didn’t deserve to make a majority of those BCS bowls as there were multiple teams with better records, better wins, and overall better teams that didn’t make a BCS bowl because the Big East was gifted an automatic qualification. Very often the MWC got absolutely screwed over in favor of the Big East.
G5 teams outranked Big East teams in 05, 08, 10, 11 and 12, yet in 4 of those years Big East teams made it over them.
Two years where the most ridiculous when #9 TCU in 2005 didn’t make a BCS bowl and in 2011 when #6 Boise State didn’t make one and in fact zero G5 teams made a major bowl, despite the fact that at least one of them were supposed to. 2011 wasn’t even close as Boise State outranked 4 teams that made BCS bowls over them. WVUs best win on the season was a 3 point win over #25 Cincinnati whereas BSU beat #16 Georgia by 21.
In 2010 6 G5 teams outranked the Big East Champion, but yet an unranked 8-5 UConn magically beat out #7 12-1 Boise State for the Fiesta Bowl. UConn got demolished in 2 games by 20+, whereas BSU beat 4 Top 25 teams, and averaged more points than UConn could score in any season, and allowing over 8 points less on defense per game.
2009 even has some confusing elements in which the MWC Champion had better stats in literally every category both physically and from a scheduling standpoint yet magically ranked behind Big East Champ Cincinnati.
The WAC Champ in 2009 had unquestionably a far superior better victory (beat PAC Champ #7 Oregon by 18, whereas Cincinnati’s best win was against #15 Pitt by 1), demolished common opponents of Cincinnati by a score of 100-20 vs Cincinnati beating them 65-43, and where statistically better then on both sides of ball yet also magically ranked lower than them.
Orange bowl was usually the worst 2 teams in the bcs bowl games. Sometimes you get 2 teams ranked high teens to 20s going against each other.
I am so angry because a few weeks ago I wrote down some ideas for videos I could do one day and this was one of them. Great video.
Building your stadium over 20 miles, and a 30 minute drive, from campus does not create a football culture on campus, nor build a fanbase among alumni.
great video! an interesting program to follow
They won’t be down for long! We rebuild them in ncaa 25
I wish you’d do more videos
More videos are coming soon for sure
Do UAB. Season ticket holder here and our new stadium is incredible and we did this after dropping football all together.
Coming soon
@@JKJ002 that would be incredible. Me and my grandma went to the first ever UAB home game in 1991 and there was about 4k to 5k people there, so I’ve been a fan since literally day 1.
I worked at UAB when they cancelled the program, and it did not go over that well. The primary reason (that they provided) for doing that was $$$$ that it took to maintain the healthcare of the players and so many injuries. Sounded funny since UAB was a major hospital and provided the care themselves. Anyway, UAB got lucky hiring the right head coach, and that is the key to any good program. Mora at UConn is NOT going to help. He's made some of the worst HC decisions in his career. I thought he would be good at first, until I watched him blunder away too many games.
Hiring fired retreads is almost 100 percent to fail. Why programs continue to do it? Just for some baseline of 4-6 win mediocrity?
You're better off hiring young coaches and hoping they build something they remain loyal to.
I'm trying to put this video together on UAB, and since you're a season ticket holder, what is some information about the program that I should know and include in the video? It can be anything from their early days to the decision to cut football to the present day.
I think a key thing for UConn to continue to do is to strengthen and maintain it’s rivalry with Umass football. Both are pretty good basketball programs, with similar tough times in football this decade. They do have a nice geographical and historical rivalry going with Umass, so if they grow that, suffer and hang together, then when they see some sort of up turn, perhaps they could sell themselves as a package deal to a suitor conference. Recall something like Oklahoma and their Rival, Texas, did. Something like that. Just a random thought though, haha.
Miami, Florida St., Penn State, Pitt, Syracuse, BC all built their football marquees as independents, carefully scheduling teams they could compete with, then challenging top tier teams when they were ready. All also had school administrations/trustees that were FULLY committed, and unobstructive, in helping to build those programs. UConn (the university) has a national name, and has spent the money to provide top tier facilities to develop players -- their football facility has consistently been voted, by NFL scouts and player personnel, as only trailing Oregon's as the best in college football; and, they have produced 28 draft picks that have been selected since moving to FBS, despite their 10 year drought. Also of note, UConn trails only Penn State (30) and BC (17) for players drafted in the first 3 rounds since 2004 from programs located in the Northeast (UConn: 12; more than Rutgers (11), Temple (7), Buffalo (1), Syracuse (5)). Connecticut also has more sleeper recruits in high school than it is given credit -- the starting QB's for Kentucky and Miami (who was Frosh of the year in the ACC) came from CT. If they get the right coach, make the positive in roads in CT with the h.s. coaches (which all previous coaches did a TERRIBLE job with), continue to take advantage of facilities and develop players; and, can be competitive recruiting in the rest of the northeast (all of which they seem to be off to a great start doing), they will turn the program around.
It wasn't all that great when I was there in the late 70s, either. We suffered through a 1-10 season in 1977, and that followed a 2-9 campaign in '76.
Will Jim Mora help UCONN get back to a bowl game?
Update: Jim More & co are one game away from doing something special
I think mora could do it but as a independent it's going to be tough.
yes
How did UConn tie for the best record in 2009, when Cincinnati was undefeated and won the conference that season?
No, because they don't play in a Power Five conference, they don't have any program prestige and most of all they are located in the north east which typically has the least talent in the country when it comes to recruits. You hit some gems every once in a while but most of the real talent is down south. As a life long Boston College football fan, I can confirm this. UConn is a basketball school, that it their niche and they should stick to it.
@@Chris-tq1jy dawg all a bowl takes is a 6-6 record
As a Kentucky fan, college football needs a successful UCONN Football program. I hope and wish the BEST for the UCONN Football program. I am rooting for them.
Why does college football need UConn? It's a lower-tier program with no significant history situated in the Northeast, a region that produces the least amount talent and has the least amount of interest in college football.
UConn is a basketball school their football will always take a back seat.
I didn't know it had ever risen to a point that you could say it fell. 😕
or they could do one about basketball
@@davidholtz3885 ?
@@bonjourphoenix7487 uconn is more known for basketball than football
I can see where you're coming from in that the program never really got over the hump of achieving major success on a consistent basis. But after the bowl wins with Orlovsky in the early 2000's, and the Fiesta Bowl appearance in 2011, the program was certainly in a spot where getting over that hump was a genuine possibility - then it fell apart. The program spent about a decade on the rise, just to spend the subsequent decade crashing and burning entirely.
Two words: CIVIL CONFLICT.
Greatest college football rivalry of all time!
A rivalry so intense that it gave everyone at UCF collective amnesia, and they completely forgot that they were in a rivalry.
UConn got lucky with ONE Fiesta Bowl appearance.... they are like Kansas, Kentucky, UNC, Duke and Indiana...THEY ARE BASKETBALL SCHOOLS with occasional success in football
Not Indiana but I might be biased as a BIG10 guy but I feel like Indiana has a lot more football success than any other team you named except maybe North Carolina
Stay tuned with UNC football we are up and coming 💪🏾.
The year that UConn won the Big East (along with nearly half the conference) was the low point for the BE. Their BCS representative was a 4 loss team that was nowhere near the top 25. There were a few years early on after the first ACC raid of the BE where it looked like the BE would recover and was going to be OK, but the bottom fell out after that season.
Kansas got every conceivable break in 2007. No Texas, Oklahoma or Texas Tech on the Big 12 schedule. A&M was in the wilderness. Oklahoma State had to rebuild. Nebraska was terrible. K-State was in the middle of the Ron Prince ERROR. Colorado was hot garbage. Iowa State and Baylor were two of the worst power conference teams in the nation that season. An absolutely shitty non-conference slate. The Jayhawks only got the Orange Bowl bid because Lew Perkins (ironically, the former UConn AD) bribed the Orange Bowl committee to take them instead of Mizzou.
Indiana isn’t even much of a basketball school lol
Listen I’m a Gen Xer and I didn’t know UConn even had a football teem until 2005 and I live in Connecticut
I saw UConn win @ Iowa State, it was the best!
Basketball will always be king at UConn as moving back to the Big East for their other sports proves that, maybe they get an invite to a Group of 5 as a football only member which would be very unlikely since they left the AAC, the dumpster fire they call Conference USA may be their only chance.
Basketball wasn't always king at UCONN. Prior to the change in the 80s it was just one of the sports we had that competed with soccer, baseball and football. And the women's sports were popular as well, winning national titles in field hockey and such. Basketball didn't become dominant until they state cut UCONNs tax allotment and new funding needed. The school somehow got Calhoun to coach, and the rest was history. Football kind of sneaked in the back door in the 90s, hit a brief period of success, then returned to its current status. The trouble with football at UCONN has always been recruiting. Whereas Calhoun was successful getting top recruits, the football team wasn't. Until that changes, it's all academic.
I always thought UCONN had clean unis.
I know and understand that in College Football that programs are all at different levels. But how on earth does a team give up 400 rushing yards in a GAME? Like jeez. I would be focused on the rush stopping then.
Yet in 2010 UConn was considered to be at a higher level than a team that ranked #8 in the country
Being a Connecticut native, I can honestly say I've never met anyone who gives a damn about UConn football. They have never had sustained success, and it doesn't help that their stadium is pretty meh while being a 45 minute drive from the school's campus. As far as the state of Connecticut is concerned, its all about UConn basketball, plain and simple.
First of all, Rentschler Field is only 30 minutes away from the campus in Storrs. Not ideal, but still fairly close. Secondly, I know plenty of UConn football fans who have stuck with the program. Many have been understandably discouraged by the program's poor performance over the past decade, but there is a hunger and excitement for something good to happen. Remember, there is no pro football in Connecticut, so UConn is it, and they do have a loyal following which will only expand with success on the field. I am hopefull that 2022 will be the start of it.
FB facility build in early 00's back when fb was ok.
MBB/WBB practice facility NOT built until 2014, both practiced at home court before then...along with volleyball team...AND YET wildly more successful.
Otherwise, good video!
Can you do one on New FBS Additions Sam Houston, JMU and Jacksonville State aka the team to upset Florida State 😂😂 twice in football and Baseball
I was at the Army game... it was a slaughtering
Army is the only football stadium I have in†rest visiting here in the north. Matter of fact im not too far away as i live near waterbury CT. its only 1 hr away.
@@danielflynn8530 the campus is beautiful on the Hudson River Valley
@@SINcitySEAL I recently passed by Newburgh which is nearby and saw the castle from the bridge on my travels from PA a couple weeks ago
It happened when Randy Edsell left for Maryland.
Can you do a piece on the comeback of Penn State Football??
Do a video on FSU next, please
6-6 this year beat all odds
When UCONN replaced Temple the programs went in different directions....
He’s backkk
Would love to see a video on Michigan
Definitely got one planned
One word Realignment….. when big east got raided….
That was the Nail in coffin
Sad to see I remember The Rent packed
UConn, like UMass, prioritize their basketball programs. Those two need to find somewhere to put their football or keeping scheduling other eastern schools and hype their game against each other as a post Thanksgiving rivalry.
To be honest, UConn and UMass should go back down to FCS. They're too apathetic and they need to be kicked out of FBS as a wake up call.
Jim Mora is the head coach at UCONN
How can something at the bottom fall?
Today I learned that there was once a RISE of Uconn football
Your back I’m suprised
Finally in a spot where I feel I can upload again, really glad to be back. I plan to post a lot this summer. Thank you for the continued support
Oh okay well I hope it goes well for you
Big East falling apart. It was an easy conference that looked good.
Awesome vid
Thank you!
Their mistake was to leave the Big East Conference. It messed up their men's basketball team and to be honest UCONN feels more of basketball school than a football one.
UCONN is a basketball powerhouse. I was born and raised in NYC and can attest to RESPECT accorded the men's program and the woman's program is beyond excellent.
Poor on-field and sports executive management has destroyed the football management. Last year's roster was choked with prep school grads. Wtf? I captained a prep school football team. I co-edited the sports section of a Connecticut college's weekday daily newspaper. No way a program wins with that type of roster in collegiate professional football, I suggest.
UCONN might do well to drop football. High Schools there don't produce collegiate professional talent and the football management doesn't fathom how to recruit talent from other regions of the USA.
UConn didn't really leave the Big East. The non-football members split off and formed their own conference. After some negotiations they were able to take the Big East name and logo with them, but the AAC retained the Big East's headquarters (which they've since moved from) and existing infrastructure. I don't think UConn was initially invited to the new Big East, since all of the founding members of the new BE we're small schools, mostly private, and they all had either FCS football programs or no football at all.
@@ethanhill9460 UConn won't drop Football...I think the realignment game is going to continue and I think the ACC will be looking for members when FSU, Clemson and VA tech sue to get out of the GOR of the ACC. VA tech wants to move to the Big 10, Clemson and FSU want to join the SEC. Miami is asking the Florida legislature to help them. Boston College plays us in Ice Hockey and now we are playing them in Football, which is great for the 3 FBS teams in New England. I think Syracuse and Pitt will welcome us. Playing ND would be fun too...UConn beat ND. We even beat Michigan, we have a game scheduled with Ohio State soon.
Don't think that northeast high school football is bad. We might not be Texas, however we have private schools that take our best players away. Connecticut high schools can not get a player from another district and our school districts average 18 square miles, yet the private schools can. Some of our rivalry games are some of the oldest games played, which is usually around Thanksgiving week.
I have faith in Jim Mora. He's using the transfer portal, something that Randy Edsall said he would never do. We might be known as a basketball school, yet soccer, hockey, baseball are champions, too. Football will not be easy, however we can win...
Uconn is one of those football teams you forget even exist. It’s ok, UConn has basketball
Like Temple
U Conn has a football team?
Speed. UConn needs it and has rarely had it.
First off, the school's name is Connecticut. "Yukon" is a remote Arctic region.
U and then Conn. Nobody says connecticut
It’s abbreviated UCONN stop being obtuse
It's University of Connecticut really
can you do one on the vandals
You should make a vid about the rise of utsa football
Definitely got something coming for UTSA
@@JKJ002 let’s gooo
Awesome when will it come out@@JKJ002
Right now, I have at least 2-3 videos I would like to get out beforehand, so maybe sometime in June or July. But I will definitely make a video on them because they are on the rise
Welcome back bro!
Appreciate it! Glad to be back. A lot of work to be done but excited to be back making videos
i don't think i've ever seen an unranked 8-4 team make a new years six bowl
When has UConn been anything but a basketball school?
When were they really up?
What is the song in the background?
It’s an instrumental for Pride is the Devil by J Cole
This video isn’t aging well and you just created it! Just do some due diligence next time foo! UCONN IS ON THE COME UP!
These videos are never meant to be disrespectful, but It’s been a decade of mediocrity, I think I did “due diligence”. However, I’m very happy for the football team & I alluded to the fact that Jim Mora could (and hopefully would) change the trajectory of the program in due time
Fam this comment isn't aging that well either, as I am typing this they are 0-5.
Coach O finna come save UConn
UConn is a school that will always be overlooked by the bigger conferences. That’s a huge problem for football. If they stayed in the AAC they would have been left behind with what it will be in 2023 but moving back to the basketball Big East essentially killed their football program. They also didn’t keep up with their former football Big East counterparts that are mostly all in P5 conferences now.
I don't think being an Indy is a death sentence for the program. With good leadership and recruiting, and savvy scheduling, they can build something. It can be done.
I just want to point out that not every venture a business like a public university makes has to be profitable, so the fact UConn's football program operated at a $13M+ loss won't hurt them in the long run when their other programs operate at ~$100M+ gains annually. For example, gaming consoles are sold at a net loss because Sony and Microsoft have other divisions of their respective business that can cover the loss, on top of monetizing the ownership of an Xbox or PlayStation. Universities subsidizing programs that aren't profitable are no different.
So this is interesting as we are hearing about UConn to the Big XII. But all the Big XII fans are saying the football team sucks and would add nothing to the program. However, when they were in a legitimate conference (The Original Big East), they brought a lot to the table....and against teams that are now Power 5. It's interesting that their downfall in both football and basketball came via the Big XII taking West Virginia, which led to a lawsuit followed by Louisville and Pitt to the ACC, and eventually dissolution of the Big East. The basketball team returned from obscurity to the New Big East in 2019 and they are now back to being one of the preeminent teams in the NCAA (currently the apex predator). Perhaps the football team would see a return to being a solid team too.....but you gotta get the stadium on that fantastic UConn campus. Also UConn adds to Big XII in baseball as that is a solid program.
I remember getting the letter and i put it in the maybe maybe pile because off \def and kicker scholarship with the double decker stadium with fans really close.
If the girls cant get a new stadiumi see no updates in the athletics field
Enters water boy
You guys want to hear a very specific throwback UCONN name?
Jordan Todman
It's not UConn's fault in the program failure-its the whole northeast desirability to play college football. All southern states facilitate the success of programs whereas football in the New England region is an after thought. UConn has many great athletic programs and where football would typically be many states top attraction unfortunately its the least popular. UConn has an excellent baseball program and Hockey Program as well where the school rather build new facilities for those programs which they have or in the process. Reichler field is a underwhelming division 1 stadium but not hopeless. If they install seats on half the stadium it would look more appealing. In addition -to a few more tweaks like club seating and lets face it more color . geez that stadium looks so bland. W=Ucoon needs to look at the formula that makes Southern states so successful and apply it to their basic needs. I think a lot of the issue is scouting and coaching. Going to states that have statistically better players such as Texas or Florida instead of our own backyard in a state where football isn't popular.
This is spot on
During the breakup of The Big East, going to Ivy schools only the UCOON president stated we are not about sports. That my be fine but a lot of buster members also donated to the library. Let's also remember before the breakup Boston College left The Big Easter, UCONN insisted they be fined, and they where. When the breakup happened nobody wanted UCONN. Left in the dark.
UConn took this video personally 😂
Let’s go UConn let’s go !!
They may be on their way up next year
also, you totally forgot to mention how conference realignment completely left uconn behind
UConn has a football team?