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I don’t think you read the article closely to come to your conclusions. Without a conference, the schedule blew up. I guess you could have winged it for a few games like UMass, but I’m not sure what that would have accomplished. And, as it has become obvious during the basketball season, Connecticut’s COVID rules has made it very difficult to practice and play games. (Case in point is Butler played basketball on Saturday, but UConn could not.). Remember, 23 UConn football players tested positive for COVID and 70 had to isolated at some point in the fall. And, some football players ended up going home. As for practices, they practiced in smaller groups to limit COVID risks.Randy is practically confessing what many of us thought. His Covid excuse was BS as 127 D1 other schools knew how to manage. Contrary to the NYTs article Randy was all about the money - receiving another $1M year and a $300k retention bonus while he had a year of immunity from loses and being fired. It’s funny how they could practice, live and workout together but couldn’t play games. Rather than talk about how he kept them safe from Covid - and that’s not true either cuz over 20 guys got it, he’s talking about how everyone used that time in the gym together getting bigger and stronger.
As a development program, UConn needs to redshirt almost every football player, but Edsall has not been able to do that because of the lack of depth from Diaco but that is what Edsall did during his first stint. This past year has allowed UConn to catch up from a physical development standpoint, but we need to see the on field results this year.