Nice to have an off week. I think working 11 out of 13 Saturdays is a bit much. No weekend what so ever. You get so much tunnel vision covering football you forget about other things that used to be important.
I miss going to high school football games. My wife was at Windsor-New Britain, she said Windsor looked decent. She was down on New Britain though (1995 alum, I on the other hand am a St. Thomas Aquinas grad).
This week is also my favorite cross country race -- Wickham Invite. I still have nightmares when I ran at that course in high school (and no, I wasn't any good). Lot's of fun. That's the thing you would never think you would like as a sportswriter. I love covering cross country. I was covering some state meet a couple of years ago and a girl collapsed from exhaustion 10 feet from the finish line. It cost her team the state title as 20-30 other runners went by her. She tried to get up, and collapsed again. You could see her mind saying get up, and her body shut down. I never forget seeing her get up and fall right back down on her face. Painful to watch. Legs were like rubber. She crawled to the finish, touched the line, and had to have her coach come out and pull her away. Toughest athlete I ever saw.
And I can't wait to Thanksgiving and covering same meaningless high school game. I don't know what my Thursday would be without heading to some football game (Enfield-Fermi is a great game even if they only have 1 win between them).
I complained 3 times to Comcast and suddenly everyone has TBSHD. Good job if you complained. I should never have to watch a game in blurry vision mode again. Can't believe I paid for analog TV. Now, if everyone can just request FSNE in HD in Central Connecticut for Comcast then I will be happy. Gotta get those Celtic games on HD (I am a crazy hoops fan. I watched nearly very Celtics game last season on DVR. Now I won't be alone).
Enough about me:
Saw the sporting news article and the scuttlebutt about Randy Edsall to Syracuse. How silly is that? First off, coming off a pair of losing seasons, there is no way Randy Edsall is getting hired anywhere. Who gets hired off a 4-8 season unless your name is Norv Turner? Imagine the press conference, "And now, the guy who led UConn to a 4-8 2006 campaign"...the alumni would go nuts.
So Huskies go 5-0 and suddenly he is hot again? I thought he was a coach on the hot seat? National writers have no clue. You can't be a hot coach and on the hot seat at the same time. How fickle a month is. It's ridiculous.
I guess it makes sense if Edsall is really loyal to the his alma mater and this is a job he coveted for a long time. Not sure it's a better job than the one he has however. Isn't the problem with the 'Cuse facilities? You got everything you want at UConn and let's be honest, not a ton of outside pressure yet though it is starting to turn up. This is the silly part: Edsall's people? Does he have a posse are something? Who is in Edsall's entourage is talking to Syracuse? Yes, I am laughing.
Which leads me to a great point. Talked to Dahna Deleston on Tuesday and we talked about a wide range of subjects. Mostly me just fishing for future stories, but what struck me was how the team tries to ignore what's going around. They got a saying -- "Don't drink the poison."
Should be on a t-shirt.
Lastly -- CFN is predicting that bye week defeats the Huskies with a late field goal.
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