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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 5283051, member: 549"] [MEDIA=twitter]1924924019154858041[/MEDIA] -> Glover was competing for a starting spot when he tore his hamstring right after the spring game in 2023. He missed that season but came back even faster and more focused than he was before. He put together the highlight tape that defensive coordinator Tim Cooper ended up showing UConn’s staff, which was also looking into a Gardner Webb defensive lineman, Marquis Black. [URL='https://www.printfriendly.com/print?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.courant.com%2F2025%2F05%2F20%2Fthe-winding-path-of-college-football-journeyman-diondre-glover-has-led-him-to-perfect-fit-at-uconn%2F']“We got on the phone and they got me up (to Connecticut) the next day,” Glover said. His IQ and his hunger, both fueled during the season he missed, stood out and impressed the coaches. “The place was amazing. I felt like that was the right fit and the right situation for me with two corners leaving. They wanted to bring in an old, experienced guy like me.”[/URL] Glover committed to UConn on May 2. Black committed May 11. <- ->Glover sees the role in UConn’s system under defensive coordinator Matt Brock being similar to the one he had at Central Missouri, where he finished the 2022 season with 22 total tackles, 15 pass breakups and two interceptions. He had 17 tackles, 16 solo, a forced fumble and two passes defended last year at Gardner Webb. “That’s when I had my best year, when I was in a scheme like that,” said Glover, who will enter his final year of eligibility in 2025 “Sometimes you play off, sometimes you press. You might be in cover two but you make it look like you’re in cover four, so it’s like just switching up how it looks and the scheme of it. I feel like I’m gonna be very effective. Because at the end of the day, I’m a press corner. So I like to just go up and just X one receiver out and that’s gonna be that.” [/QUOTE]

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