Tuesday presser

Jeff Hathaway was there to speak about the field debacle (he didn't know until Saturday when he saw the field) and it's safe say UConn isn't too happy, though they are monitoring the situation.

The fied is getting partially re-sodded this week, and if necessary, UConn has requested the entire field be re-sodded if it doesn't come out well after Saturday. Hathaway has made a trip down to look at the field every day.

AEG is also looking at all the work done on the field since Aug. 1. From what AEG is telling Hathaway, they could redo the entire field after this week and it would be ready and take hold.

On a side note: It isn't grubs or lack of water or something simple like. The field had something attack its roots and AEG isn't sure what happened the last couple of weeks. It would have been nice if AEG could have alerted UConn before Friday and Saturday.

On to football, Danny Lansanah is walking around OK and he will try and go in practice. He said that when he saw the film it was a cheap shot hit, one of several. Danny mentioned he may have targeted him because he was talking some trash on Saturday. It's a good thing Randy Edsall got those starters out there then.

Lansanah is more likely to play then Ryan Henegan. We'll see later in the week.

That's it, for now.

Update: Some more nuggets.

• Jasper Howard, Marcus Campbell, Kijuan Dabney, Greg Lloyd, Anthony Sherman and Aaron Bagsby are the only true freshmen who have seen time, and if Edsall has his way, will be the only ones to see time. It is all injury permitting, but Edsall doesn't want to blow a redshirt year unless there are injuries out front.

• Edsall is looking for a 4th and 5th wide receivers. Marcus Easley and Rob Theuodele both saw time against Maine. Don't discount Ellis Gaulden, who is rounding into form. Edsall is just waiting for Gaulden's "burst speed" to return.

• Edsall carefully stayed away from answering questions about the 8 CT recruits on the Owls. Edsall has come under criticism in the past for not taking some CT recruits or not going at them aggressively enough. Edsall maintained that he goes after players that are best for the program, regardless of geography.
  

• Temple coach Al Golden and UConn tailback Donald Brown are family friends. Golden tried to recruit Brown to Virginia several years ago. They both went to the same high school, Red Bank Catholic in High in Red Bank, N.J.