UCONN (0-1, 0-0 BE) vs. TEXAS SOUTHERN (0-1, 0-1 SWAC) GAME 2 w Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 w 12:00 P.M. RENTSCHlER FiEld (40,000)
SNY w WTiC-UCONN RAdiO NETWORK
UConn Schedule/Results Date Opponent (TV) Score/Time 9/4 at Michigan (ABC) L, 30-10 9/11 TEXAS SOUTHERN (SNY) 12:00 PM 9/18 at Temple (SNY) 12:00 PM 9/25 BUFFALO TBA 10/2 VANDERBILT TBA 10/8 at Rutgers* 7:30 PM 10/23 at Louisville* TBA 10/29 WEST VIRGINIA* (ESPN2) 8:00 PM 11/11 PITTSBURGH* (ESPN) 7:30 PM 11/20 at Syracuse* TBA 11/27 CINCINNATI* TBA 12/4 at USF* (ABC/ESPN/ESPN2) TBA * Denotes BIG EAST Conference game
Texas Southern Schedule/Results Date Opponent Score/Time 9/5 vs. Prairie View A&M* L, 14-16 9/11 at Connecticut (SNY) 12:00 PM 9/18 ALABAMA A&M* TBA 10/2 at Alabama State* 8:00 PM 10/9 at Alcorn State* 3:00 PM 10/23 JACKSON STATE* TBA 10/30 MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ST.* 3:00 PM 11/6 at Southern University* 7:00 PM 11/13 GRAMBLING STATE* TBA 11/20 ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF* TBA * Denotes SWAC Conference game
GAME STORYliNES
w UConn starts its eighth year at Rentschler Field and has won two games in a row there dating back to last year. w Running back Jordan Todman rushed for
105 yards vs. Michigan last Saturday -- marking the sixth 100-yard game of his career.
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UConn played before 113,090 fans at Michigan last Saturday -- the largest crowd to ever see a college or professional football game in the modern era.
w UConn meets Texas Southern for the
first time and plays its first game ever against a SWAC team.
THE COACHES CONNECTICUT HEAD COACH RANDY EDSALL UConn Randy Edsall has tackled the challenge of bringing a former NCAA Division I-AA team up to par with the BIG EAST in a 10-year span head on, guiding the Huskies to the 2007 BIG EAST Championship, three bowl games in the past five years with two bowl wins. He is beginning his 12th season at UConn and has led the Huskies to wins in 55 of the UConn’s last 91 games dating back to the ninth game of the 2002 season. He has a 57-42 (.575) mark through the first 99 games of UConn’s tenure at the FBS level. His overall career mark at UConn stands at 66-66. Saturday’s game against Texas Southern will be the 133rd of his UConn career --the most of any coach in UConn history. He topped the mark of 121 set by J.O. Christian (1934-49). His 66 career coaching wins at UConn is tied as the most in school history along with Christian. Immediately prior to becoming UConn’s head coach in 1998, Edsall served as defensive coordinator at Georgia Tech in 1998 under George O’Leary. Edsall began his coaching career at his alma mater, Syracuse, from 1980-1990, working under Frank Maloney and Dick MacPherson in a variety of capacities. Edsall moved on to Boston College where he coached defensive backs under Tom Coughlin from 1991-93 before following Coughlin to the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, staying on the First Coast through the 1997 season. Edsall is a native of Glen Rock, Pa., and graduated from Susquehannock High School. He was inducted into the York Area Sports Hall of Fame. TEXAS SOUTHERN HEAD COACH JOHNNIE COLE Johnnie Cole is in his third season in charge of the Texas Southern program and led the school to a 6-5 record last year, the best in school history since 2006. He came to Texas Southern after serving as the head coach at Lane College from 2005-07 and led the team to a pair of winning records in his final two seasons there. Cole served as an assistant coach at a number of schools before becoming a head coach, including BIG EAST member Cincinnati. Cole is a Dayton, Ohio, native and graduated from Texas Southern in 1986 with a degree in civil engineering. He was a quarterback on the football team. M
RAdiO & TV COVERAGE TELEVISION COVERAGE Saturday’s game will be televised live by SportsNew New York (SNY). Bob Picozzi is on play-by-play while Jay Taylor is on color. Darren Chiappetta is the producer and Dave Tasca is the director. The game will also be replayed on SNY in its entirity on Sunday, Sept. 12 at 9:00 a.m. The game will also be rebroadcast in a condensed mode on the “Husky Power Hour” on Sunday, Sept. 12 at 7:00 a.m. RADIO COVERAGE For the 19th consecutive season, WTIC 1080-AM in Hartford serves as the flagship station for the UConn Radio Network. WTIC is the state’s only 50,000 watt signal and can be heard in 23 states and parts of Canada. Veteran UConn announcers Joe D’Ambrosio (play-by-play) and Wayne Norman (color commentary) return to call the action with Kevin Nathan on the sidelines and E.B. Davis on production. The UConn pregame show begins 90 minutes prior to kickoff, while home games, the UConn Tailgate Show will air two and a half hours prior to the game with Arnold Dean.