If body language told the entire story, UConn football’s season looks over before ever starting.
The reality of the situation, however, is the season is already two weeks in. And the Huskies look like a team which already knows their fate.
This is only my second week writing about UConn football, my early observations are this program’s in serious need of a rebuild.
And not the rebuild they’re apparently going through right now, because that’s not working.
The Huskies need a total overhaul of how they go about college football. That’s the early take on what’s gone wrong for them this season.
What other conclusion can be reached after watching them lose to Fresno State last week, 45-0? Or this past weekend, when Holy Cross spoiled their home opener? Losing, 38-28, to the defending Patriot League champions dropped UConn to 0-2 on the season.
And then it got worse.
24 hours later, head coach Randy Edsall announced he’s retiring at the end of this season. The track record for Edsall, since returning to the Huskies in 2017 for a second stint as coach, hasn’t been good. UConn has won only six games in that span.
Two games into the season — a blowout loss in the season opener and an embarrassing home loss to an FCS team — and now their head coach suddenly decides he’s ready to retire.
Perhaps Edsall, when watching game film from the Holy Cross game, saw what the nation eventually saw when video of his pep talk to a lifeless huddle of players went viral.
And wait, there’s more…because on Monday, Labor Day, it got worse.
24 hours after Edsall announced his plans to retire at the end of this season, UConn announced Edsall will instead step down immediately.
“Upon further reflection by both Randy and I, and after having the opportunity to visit with Randy today, we are both in agreement that it is in the best interest of our student-athletes to have a new voice leading UConn football,” UConn athletic director David Benedict said in a statement.”
Defensive coordinator Lou Spanos will take over as interim coach of the Huskies.
What I see of UConn after two weeks of covering their games for Baseline Sports NY, can be best described in this column.
Because at no point in this column has there been room to discuss UConn’s loss to Holy Cross.
No analysis of their quarterback’s performance. And no breakdown of what went wrong in their defensive game plan.
Because what’s wrong with UConn this season, doesn’t appear to be on just the players.
And now the dominos are beginning to fall.
Image: AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian
