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Message: [QUOTE="Nostical, post: 3237144, member: 749"] After reading this gem from Illinois, I’m about to predict a 2-0 start by the Huskies this fall. July 11, 2019 Know Your Illini Opponent----Week 2: UConn Huskies UConn Athletics have been in the news this summer, probably as much as any other athletic program in the country. Unless you missed it, the Huskies are moving back to the Big East except it's a bunch of different teams, a basketball tournament nobody cares about, and no football. Other than that, UConn’s on track to be back baby! Hopefully UConn keeps its football program up and running and doesn’t UAB-it-up before the 2020 matchup in Champaign. The good news is that Illinois has finally found a school you’ve actually heard of— that’s even worse than Illinois. So what happened to the Huskies last year??????? I don’t think you want to know. You do? Ok, I’ll tell you. Gulp. The Huskies went 1-11. The one win was a 56-49 victory over FCS rival Rhode Island. You don’t want to know anything else about that game. Bill Connelly’s preview says the Huskies can’t get any worse. They’ve hit bottom. That doesn’t mean it’ll get better though. Head coach Randy Edsall, now in his second tenure with UConn, had to hire new coordinators for this season because it was so bad last year. On defense, the Huskies allowed over 50 points per game. That actually makes Illinois’ 2018 defense seem good as they allowed just under 40 an outing. Connelly says the Husky offense was their best of the decade but when you’re allowing that many points, it doesn’t matter. So will it get better? Probably not. According to 247Sports, the 2019 Huskies have the 126th best freshman class in the country! Their best croot is three-star CB Myles Bell from St. Thomas Aquinas. So don’t look for much of a freshman impact here. Especially at quarterback, where David Pindell was the best Husky under center in years, running for a single-season UConn record 1,100 yards. But Pindell graduated, and now new offensive coordinator Frank Giufre is left with 2 true freshmen, 1 redshirt freshman, 1 redshirt sophomore, and grad transfer Mike Beaudry. Beaudry played his undergrad at the University of West (??????) Florida in Pensacola where he was the FIRST-EVER signing for the program that started playing in 2016. He didn’t play too much though. He redshirted in 2015, sat out 2016 with a leg injury, led the Argos to the national championship game in 2017 and then only played in one game last year. He’s West Florida’s late-blooming Mike Dudek. So to recap, the 2018 offense was alright but the defense was historically bad. This year the defense won’t be better. As for the offense, the new QB is oft-injured and he’s backed up by a bunch of younglings. I don’t care what you say, this is a must-win. Illinois kicks off with the Huskies 3:30pm Sept. 7 in East Hartford on CBS Sports Network. [/QUOTE]

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