Randy Edsall leaving after 2010 happened.
He took us to a major bowl game, Fiesta after he and the Huskies won the Big East Conference.
2010 it was still the Big East Conference, we won the league by tie breaker rule.
2010 Big East ended up in a three way tie, UConn, Pitt, and West Va. were all five and two.
UConn started out shitty, had to rip off five straight wins at the end of the season, the win in overtime (how ironic) against West Virginia, was the win that was the tiebreaker.
Big East was still considered a 'power five' conference then, the weakest, but still a power five, so we get to represent as Conference champs in the Fiesta against Oklahoma.
We lose to the Sooners, 100 to 0 (that's hyperbole, but you get my point)
I'm digressing here, I am after all the king of digression as brevity has never been my forte, the story line in sports land was UConn became the fastest team in NCAA history to go from FBS (D2 if you will) to a major bowl.
That was the story line, but Edsall made it all about himself, after getting curbed stomped by Bob Stoops on national TV on New Years Day he decides to up and leave for Maryland. Going from Big East to ACC with a to be fair at the time Edsall was an OK coach, but that was over a decade ago in a weak conference had disaster written all over it.
He pissed off UConn nation, me included with that carpet bagging horseshit move, but it was more than that, it sent the program back to the ice age, and we've still haven't hit rock bottom yet.
Besides pissing of millions in the fan base, boosters included their were other ramifications.
Recruits that signed letters of agreement to come here were leaving after the Edsall news, so the 2011 recruits (the better ones) left us with nothing.
Now we have to replace Edsall with somebody, in a hurry we had to scramble.
Huskies settled on clueless Paul Pasqualoni, and followed up that disaster will Bob Diaco.
Diaco was the epic fail, to be fair to Paul, he never had head coaching experience before, he's a D-Line guru, not a head coach.
Final point, everyone of us knew exactly what was going to happen at Maryland when Edsall took over there.
Epic fail, Shocker, right?
Two and ten. And we laughed and laughed and laughed.
The real mystery is why did the U of Connecticut re-hired this asshole again in 2017
Made zero sense, still a mystery, he sent us back to the stone ages by leaving, we're still digging out, and then the University takes him back to make us a bigger laughing stock.
UConn needs to stick with hoops, hockey, and baseball.
We don't know how to to college football.
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