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September 4, 2008
There's a 5 a.m. now?
It's been a long day for those enterprising young scribes who try and cover the UConn men's basketball team AND the UConn football team.
OK, so there's not too many of them left. And yes, they're not that young anymore.
Just let me rant for a moment.
Anyway, in case you need a quick run-down of the news today:
-- The UConn football team has signed a two-game series to play Tennessee in 2015 and 2016.
It's quite a little coup for Mr. Hathaway and his Husky boys. It's the program's first true home-and-home with a college football big boy.
(I'm obviously not counting Notre Dame, though I don't subscribe to the 'You're selling your soul to the devil to play these guys' theory. It's not a terrible deal for UConn. And I'm obviously not counting the Georgia Tech deal (a 2-for-1 and the Yellow Jackets aren't quite college football royalty), though it was something to see a program like that playing in Memorial Stadium.
-- Also, the UConn men's basketball schedule came out Thursday. No surprises, but it's not exactly a cake walk.
If you have relatives in Chicago, you've got three good excuses to visit them. The Huskies hit the Windy City to play DePaul on Jan. 28, they play Marquette (an hour or two north in Milwaukee) on Feb. 25, and play Notre Dame (an hour or two southeast in South Bend) on Jan. 24.
If you have the means, I highly recommend going to the Virgin Islands. If you don't, like me, enjoy the games on TV.
-- My third job of the day was talking to UConn football coach Randy Edsall on his weekly conference call (conviently before the Tennessee news was announced and Edsall could be questioned on such matters).
No real news there.
WR Brad Kanuch might play. DE Lindsey Witten could play. QB Zach Frazer might be the backup.
The coach was as insighful as ever.
Sorry, I'm a little cranky. Need to get some sleep before driving to Philly Friday morning.
- Neill
Posted by Neill on September 4, 2008 8:57 PM
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