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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3602, member: 289"] Saturday November 5th Time TBA at Connecticut No TV or TBA Randy Edsall, who had built this program up from the small college level, shockingly left for Maryland. The school then turned to two native Connecticut men, former SU head coach Paul Pasqualoni and his best coaching buddy, George DeLeone, who now re-enter college ball and the Big East from the pros. At Syracuse that team went 107-59-1, which looked pretty good after his successor went 10-37. P-D had exactly one losing season in 14 years, so we know they can coach. There did seem to be a ceiling on what they could accomplish. They always seemed to lose to somebody we never should have lost to and get blown out by someone we should have been competitive with. In four years with Donovan McNabb, they went 35-14. In two years with Michael Vick, Virginia Tech went 22-2, beat us 62-0 and played for the national championship. P-D’s supporters attribute this to the lack of up-to-date facilities at SU. There will be no such problem at Connecticut, who’s football plant may be the best in the conference. I think they will at least continue Edsall’s level of success, ((a very P-Desque 9, 8, 8 and 8 wins in the last four years), It will be interesting to see if they can exceed it. They will certainly want to beat Syracuse, which hasn’t beaten Connecticut in five years. In fact, we’ve been out-scored 58-148 in that time. Ironically, Edsall was a former Syracuse guy himself who was mad that Pasqualoni got the job instead of him. So the UCONN game will continue to be a grudge match. The Huskies were another one of those teams that ground us up with a power running game last year. Jordan Todman, the nation’s second leading rusher with 1695 yards, jumped to the pros a year early. Then his back-up, Robbie Frey, also lefty. But they have DJ Shoemate, a transfer from USC and most of that big, punishing line is back along with all their receivers. They need to find a new quarterback. All four of their defensive line starters come back including NFL prospect Kendall Reyes. All four starters in the secondary are back, too. Linebacker Sio Moore was second in the country with 110 tackles. They had a huge +12 difference in turnovers. They have excellent kickers in Dave Teggart and punter Cole Wagoner but need to kind some kick returners. This will be a good team and tough road opponent. Their stats from last year: Offense- rushing 174.7 (35th ) passing 151.1 (110th), total 325.8 (96th) scoring 26.4 (63rd) Defense- rushing 143.2 (51st) passing 223.5 (67th) total 366.8 (58th) scoring 22.0 (35th) Turnover margin: +12 (11th) [/QUOTE]

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