heading to Toronto

Update: Here is Monday's column on the ineptitue of the passing game.

Just got off the conference call that and have a lot of ground to cover.

The Huskies will of course play Buffalo Jan. 3 in the International Bowl. The Huskies are on the hook for 10,000 tickets to the game and tickets will go on sale on Tuesday through UConnbowl.com.

UConn AD Jeff Hathaway got the call from Ken Hoffman around 11:30 a.m. this morning while at church. He left his phone on, and left the pews to accept the bid.

The Huskies felt for some time that this would be the destination. The potential to switch this game with the Motor City Bowl was an option, but not really with UConn. Rutgers was the team that was going to be swapped and play in Detroit.

The payout for UConn will be $1.1 million from the Big East. Hathaway said they should be able to play this ball game in that amount. Payouts from bowls are made directly to the Big East, which pools money and sends it out to the teams in the league.

There are some logistical issues. The Huskies will fly into Buffalo and bus over to Toronto instead of flying in internationally. That way, the Huskies won't have to get passports for the coaches and players.

That's about it here. I will try and find Ken Hoffman somewhere. He wasn't on the call.

More tidbits:

*Edsall said right that Tyler Lorenzen will be his starting QB in the bowl game. "We will end that right here."

*The Huskies will have 15 practices and will start practicing Dec. 15 for the game after being off for finals. They will go home Dec. 23 for Christmas and then reconvene Dec. 26. Huskies will head up to Toronto Dec. 30.

* Huskies have had several players invited to All-Star games. Cody Brown has been invited to the East-West game, the Senior Bowl, and the Texas vs. Nation game. Darius Butler has also been invited to all three games. Will Beatty has been invited to Texas vs. Nation game. That's a pretty impressive list. Butler and Brown figure to be very high draft choices.

*On the subject of Butler, he will start running this week and Edsall said it is a strong likelihood that he will be ready to play.

* Huskies had three bad plays defensively, the McCoy TD run, the 61 yard TD and the 28 yard TD pass. Offense was as bad as it appeared in the passing game.