Bowl media day

Full post at: http://jiblogs.com/jsilvers_uconn_football_blog/2010/12/20/bowl-media-day/

Long day here taking care of football stuff, wanted to hit the blog while at the HCC (doing some freelance work for men’s hoops).

It was a pretty exhaustive media day and the one thing I did come away with is that the Huskies are sick of how they are being perceived. It’s easy for the players to say they are ignoring what others are saying about them, but, when you know someone is talking about you it’s impossible to ignore. Here’s Jordan Todman, who went off on a riff about those saying the Huskies aren’t worthy.

“It makes you smile,” Todman said of the worthiness talk. “Who are (the pundits) to say that type of thing? We are where we are because we worked hard. We won, beat the teams, and won fair and square. This is our reward. For someone to say we don’t deserve it is a smack in the face. We will take that in, and let them say what they want to say. At the end of the day we will see.”

Edsall also boasted a bit about the Huskies’ progress. I always thought people calling the Huskies and “up-and-coming” team was a bit of a slight. You either belong, or you don’t, and Edsall kind of put the hammer down on that. I think the time people marveled that UConn has a football team has long since past.