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Blocked Punts, Bowl Eligibility, Lorenzen is back, Moody Reporters -- and not just the Hartford Courant, Cuse Coach fired, Randy Edsall very interested, Edsall is not interested -- never was, message boards have gone bat shart since Saturday...

All the fun started on Saturday night when the Huskies took the field for their first series with good old Tyler Lorenzen behind center. Pretty surprising and pretty cool news for Husky supporters. Upsetting to the beat writers of Uconn football who were lied to on Thursday about Tyler's availability by the Uconn HC... not only them, but resident asshole Jeff Jacobs couldn't miss a chance to knock down a prominent Uconn figure -- could he?

Let's see, he kills: Jimmy, Gino, Edsall...Ray Reid better watch his back.

Usually level headed beat writers Desmond Connor and John Silver take some shots at the coach's decision making and Des even goes after his character (just terrible). Unbelievable if you ask me. What is not unbelievable was Jeff Jacobs "piece" on Sunday. Par for the course...Does the Courant realize that the reason any male between the age of 17-65 reads their paper is because of Uconn athletics? Its has got to the point where the New London Day and New Haven Register are much better reads if you want Connecticut sports news. I have linked below some quotes from Edsall that talks about all these subjects...

On the field there were some pretty good stories as well.

• Uconn (7-3, 3-2) assured themselves they would making their third bowl appearance in school history this December
• Donald Brown (131 yards, one TD), ran for 100-yards for the ninth time this season and became the school's all-time leader in rushing yards, now with 3,254 yards
• Future star, Jordan Todman, ran for 78 and a TD

After the game the action began to heat up. Not only where the reporters upset about not knowing about Tyler, they would not let it go. Do they really think the public cares? Uconn won the game boys, i'm sorry if being a beat writer is a tough job -- made tougher by a less than forthcoming coach. But these guys are ridiculous. Uconn won and if Edsall doesn't want to talk to a reporter for the rest of the season -- fans don't really care. This nonsense seems very childish and totally bush league..

The Orange on the other hand have a great guy for a coach, one who the reporters really love...one slight problem he is 9-36 overall and 3-25 in conference play at the once proud football program. An unnamed source yesterday told the Syracuse Post-Standard that Edsall was very interested in taking the job at his alma mater. On Sunday, Edsall had no comment and on Monday he said there was no interest on his part, all due respect to Syracuse.

Sunday Uconn travels to Tampa to take on USF on national TV and RE will talk about that...

Edsall Quotes:

on the 39-14 victory:

"Seven was the magic number for us but we're not stopping there, we want to get eight, we want to get nine, we want to shoot for 10, but we knew seven was the first and foremost number we had to get to"

asked about possibly being on the Orange sideline next year:

"You know, that's really bad. That's not appropriate at all. That's not very appropriate at all."

to the reports post game about hiding Lorenzen's availability:

"and again guys, to the Connecticut media, I guess I can apologize but I'm not going to apologize because there's certain strategical situations that go through with the quarterback situation. I knew when he was going to play but I didn't want it out there because he means so much to us and I think when you play Tyler, your game plan changes a little bit than if we're playing Zach [Frazer] or Cody [Endres] so, again, sorry, but it's a competitive game and we're judged on wins and losses. I'm not going to give up anything from a competitve edge when it's so tough to win."

when told that Robinson was fired:

"I've been watching film and everything I haven't heard that. Is that what happened? Oh. Greg's a good guy, he's a good coach, things like that happen in our profession."

then when asked about being a candidate for the vacancy Sunday:

"I don't talk about personnel issues and never will"

statement on Monday (to the New London Day, a newspaper that does not attempt to create scandal to sell newspapers):

"There has been speculation in various media outlets that I am a candidate for the job. But with all due respect to my alma mater and the people at Syracuse, I am not interested in being a candidate"

Desmond Conner's blog, in case you've missed it

Big East Standings

*Cincinnati	4-1	8-2
*Pittsburgh	3-1	7-2
*West Virginia	3-1	6-3
Rutgers	4-2	5-5
*Connecticut	3-2	7-3
*South Florida	1-4	6-4
Louisville	1-4	5-5
Syracuse	1-5	2-8

* bowl eligible