UConn Football Returns To Practice...

[huskymedic]

>>“Okay. Practice four, spring four. A Monday after a spring break always could be a hairy situation for teams across the country but I feel like the team went and handled practice four well. It wasn’t anything that was extraordinary but, I know and the coaches know what it feels like as a player to go on spring break and come back and spring break ends Sunday and to come back on Monday and be electric, it’s just not realistic. So we really set up practice today to not ask the players to have to do that, to really acclimatize a bit and they handled that well. They would be the first to tell you that shaking off the spring break rust took a little bit of time but they did. So it fit the model that the coaches were expecting and we were pleased to have a successful practice four."<<

http://www.uconnhuskies.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/032414aab.html

Des and Fuller have some video on their Twitter feeds.

Just two of a few:
@NHRJimFuller: UConn coach Bob Diaco puts linebackers through drills http://post original url/YMSzJvBZjr

@desmondconner: #uconnfootball this drill ought to pay off @ UConn http://post original url/pn1K5q5o5S

 

[Husky92]

Great article. Good to hear coach talk!

 

[huskymedic]

Diaco: Huskies Had No Trouble Shaking Off Spring Break Rust
http://touch.courant.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-79712389/

 

[DoctorWho85]

"It's a little early to single out anyone, but collectively the wide receivers for example. They're a group that has produced plays and playmakers in the past and it's a pretty veteran group and a pretty good-looking group in terms of sheer numbers. But, if you really watched them practice today, what they did away from the ball was what was most impressive. They were blocking downfield giving great effort trying to shield defenders from other ballcarriers and they really made great, great strides in that today. So as a group, that was impressive to me."

I think, and I may be wrong so feel free to correct me, that this is the first time ever that UConn's receivers as a group has been called impressive. I'm pretty excited to see what they can do this year.

 

[huskymedic]

UConn football back to work after spring break (Chris Elsberry)
http://www.ctpost.com/uconn/article/UConn-football-back-to-work-after-spring-break-5345487.php

>>After a week off to enjoy spring break, the UConn football team returned to work on Monday. But, in Bob Diaco's world, they were never "off." That's part of the new mindset, the new work ethic, the new "all-for-one-and-one-for-all" mentality that Diaco is permeating throughout the Burton Family Football Complex these days.<<

 

[huskymedic]

CoachDCorleyJr Mar 26, 8:42pm via Twitter for iPhone
Building a champion is hard work. @UConnFootball took another step in the right direction today! #TheseDawgsWillHunt pic.twitter.com/TBRuErOFuL