(07-14-2017 12:43 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  In fairness to UConn, they have never had a high recruiting ranking in football-- even in the Big East when they could see being in an AQ Conference. OTOH, they have placed a lot of guys into the NFL.

A big issue is simply location. They are not in a recruiting hotbed, and they have to compete with Penn State, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Syracuse, Maryland and BC for the few highly ranked guys in their footprint.

The true measure of "what's going on with UConn" won't be known for a couple of years. Edsall is going to have to recruit the right kind of guys to fit his system. He was able to do this during his first run in Storrs, we are just going to have to see it play out to see if history repeats itself.

Pretty much this. We've always relied on under the radar and diamond in the rough types of guys who were under-recruited, even when we were having moderate success. That is not going to change now coming off of 6 losing seasons. With improvement on the field, I think we'll see improvement in our recruiting but it's going to take time and I don't expect us to ever be consistently near the top of the league.