UConn vs. USF Football Media Notes

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CONNECTICUT (2-4, 0-1 BE) vs. USF (4-1, 1-0 BE) GAME 7 w Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011 w 3:30 P.M. RENTSCHLER FIELD (40,000)

SNY w WTIC-UCONN RADIO NETWORK

UConn Schedule/Results Date Opponent (TV) Score/Time 9/3 FORDHAM (ESPN3) W, 35-3 9/10 at Vanderbilt (SNY) L, 24-21 9/16 IOWA STATE (ESPN2) L, 24-20 9/24 at Buffalo (SNY) W, 17-3 10/1 WESTERN MICHIGAN(SNY)L, 38-31 10/8 at West Virginia*(SNY) L, 43-16 10/15 USF* (SNY/BE Reg.) 3:30 PM 10/26 at Pittsburgh* (ESPN) 8:00 PM 11/5 SYRACUSE* TBA 11/19 LOUISVILLE* TBA 11/26 RUTGERS* TBA 12/3 at Cincinnati* (ESPN/2) 12:00 PM * Denotes BIG EAST Conference game

USF Schedule/Results Date Opponent Score/Time 9/3 at Notre Dame W, 23-20 9/10 BALL STATE W, 37-7 9/17 FLORIDA A&M W, 70-17 9/24 UTEP W, 52-24 9/29 at Pittsburgh* L, 44-17 10/15 at Connecticut* 3:30 PM 10/22 CINCINNATI* 12:00 PM 11/5 at Rutgers* TBA 11/11 at Syracuse* 8:00 PM 11/19 MIAMI (FL) TBA 11/25 LOUISVILLE* TBA 12/1 WEST VIRGINIA* 8:00 PM * Denotes BIG EAST Conference game

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GAME STORYLINES

UConn is 6-1 in BIG EAST Conference home openers and has won league titles in two of the past four years.

w Senior kicker Dave Teggart has kicked last

second field goals for wins in each of the last two meetings with USF.

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UConn has had fourth quarter leads in three of its four losses this season.

w UConn’s defense continues to be stingy as it is ranked sixth in rushing defense.

w Redshirt freshman Llyle McCombs is tied as the 34th leading rusher in the country.

THE COACHES CONNECTICUT HEAD COACH PAUL PASQUALONI UConn head coach Paul Pasqualoni made his Husky head coaching debut a successful one on Sept. 3 as the Huskies topped Fordham of the FCS. The Cheshire, Conn., native was named the 28th head football coach in UConn history on January 14, 2011. Pasqualoni has had a highly-successful career on all levels of football -- professional, college and high school. He was the head coach at Western Connecticut from 1982-86 and led the team to the NCAA Division II playoffs in 1985. He had an extremely successful tenure as the head coach at Syracuse from 1991-2004. Pasqualoni led the Orange to 107 wins, four BIG EAST titles and a 6-3 postseason record. Among his bowl appearances at Syracuse were two Fiesta Bowls (1992 and ‘97) and an Orange Bowl (‘98). Pasqualoni is the all-time winningest coach in BIG EAST Conference league wins with 62 and overall wins with 109. He is just one of two league coaches in history to win four BIG EAST Championships. His overall college coaching record stands at 143-80-1 (34-17 at WCSU, 107-59-1 at Syracuse and 24 at UConn). For the previous five seasons, Pasqualoni had served on NFL staffs -- with Dallas in 2005-07 and ‘10 and with Miami in 2008-09. His first coaching job was an assistant coach at Cheshire HS from 1972-75. He is a 1972 Penn State graduate. USF COACH SKIP HOLTZ Skip Holtz is in his second year as the head coach at USF and in his first year he led the Bulls to an 8-5 record and defeated Clemson in the Meineke Car Care Bowl. Prior to the USF position, he was the head coach at East Carolina for five seasons at the Pirates won back-to-back Conference USA Championships in his last two years there. Holtz led ECU to appearances in the Liberty Bowl after the 2008 and ‘09 seasons and the Hawaii Bowl following the 2007 campaign. Holtz was also the head coach here at UConn from 1994-1998 and led the Huskies to a 10-3 mark in 1998 and earned a trip to the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs -- the school’s first-ever postseason appearance. From 1999-2003, he was on the coaching staff at South Carolina and from 199093 was an assistant at Notre Dame. He also coached at Colorado State (1989) and Florida State (1987-88). He is a 1986 Notre Dame graduate.

RADIO & TV COVERAGE TELEVISION COVERAGE Saturday’s game will be televised by SNY in the Connecticut and Northeast region as part of the BIG TEAST Television Network. Jim Barbar is on play-byplay while Christian Fauria is on color. Howard Miller is the producer. The game will also be replayed on SNY in a condensed mode on the “Husky Power Hour” on Sunday, Oct. 16 at 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., Monday, Oct. 17 at 8:00 a.m. and Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 12:30 p.m. The game will be replayed in its entirity on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 1:30 p.m. and Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 7:00 p.m. RADIO COVERAGE For the 20th 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.


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