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September 24, 2002

STORRS, CONN. (September 24) - The University of Connecticut has announced that Saturday's football game between UConn and Ball State is sold out. The only tickets that remain for the game are those that have been reserved for UConn students and parents as part of Family Weekend activities.

A limited number of general admission tickets to UConn's three other home games are currently on sale: Oct. 19 vs. Temple, Nov. 2 vs. Florida Atlantic and Nov. 9 vs. Kent State.
 

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2-2 UConn Looking For First Win Against Ball State
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THE COACHES

CONNECTICUT HEAD COACH RANDY EDSALL
Randy Edsall has compiled a 11-26 career record in his fourth season at UConn and 0-2 against Ball State. A veteran of 19 years of major college coaching with three years in the NFL, Edsall has tackled the challenge of bringing a former NCAA Division I-AA team up to par with the BIG EAST in a six year span head on. Immediately prior to becoming UConn?s 27th head coach on December 21, 1998, Edsall served as defensive coordinator at Georgia Tech in 1998 under George O?Leary. Edsall began his coaching career at his alma mater, Syracuse, from 1980-1990, working under Frank Maloney and Dick McPherson in a variety of capacities. Amongst his highlights at Syracuse was being a part of the 1987 team that went undefeated at 11-0-1, tying Auburn, 16-16, in the Sugar Bowl. Edsall moved on to Boston College where he coached defensive backs under Tom Coughlin from 1991-93 before following Coughlin to the NFL?s Jacksonville Jaguars, staying on the First Coast through the 1997 season. Edsall is a native of Glen Rock, Pa., and graduated from Susquehannock High School.


BALL STATE HEAD COACH BILL LYNCH
Bill Lynch is 32-49 in his eighth season as head coach at Ball State and 68-61-3 in his 13-year head coaching career. He is 2-0 against UConn. Lynch was born in Indianapolis and has not strayed far from his Indiana roots. Lynch graduated from Butler in 1977 and remained in Indianapolis as the Bulldogs? offensive coordinator until 1983. Lynch spent the 1984 season as the offensive coordinator at Northern Illinois and the following winter with the USFL?s Orlando Renegades before coming back home to Indiana that spring as the head coach at Butler. Lynch went 36-12-3 in five years as head coach there. In 1990 he became the offensive coordinator at Ball State, where he has remained except for the 1993 and 1994 seasons, which he spent as quarterbacks coach at Indiana.


RADIO/TV COVERAGE NOTES

RADIO COVERAGE
For the 11th consecutive season, WTIC 1080-AM in Hartford will serve as the flagship station for the UConn Radio Network. WTIC is the state?s only 50,000 watt clear channel 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 Bob Joyce on the sidelines. The UConn pregame show begins one hour prior to kickoff while at home games, the UConn Tailgate Show will air two hours prior with Arnold Dean. The UConn Radio Network is comprised of: WILI 1400-AM in Willimantic, WLIS-1420 AM in Old Saybrook, WMRD 1150-AM in Middletown, WICC 600-AM in Bridgeport and WSUB 980-AM in Groton. UConn football games are also broadcast over the internet, with assistance from Yahoo!, at www.UConnHuskies.com.


BETTER BUY A TICKET IF YOU WANT TO SEE THIS ONE
For the first time this season, a UConn football game will not be televised when Ball State comes to Memorial Stadium on Saturday. ESPN Regional produced the BC game with both NESN and MSG picking up the feed. The YES Network aired both the Georgia Tech and Buffalo games while WFSB TV-3 in Hartford broadcasted the Ohio game, the first of five UConn games that WFSB will broadcast this year.


THE UCONN HUSKIES: MUST SEE TV
UConn will have eight of its 12 games broadcast on live television this year. The BC game was an ESPN Regional production which aired on both NESN and MSG. The YES Network carried UConn?s games against Georgia Tech and Buffalo. WFSB-TV 3, Hartford?s CBS affiliate, is carrying five games as they Huskies battle Ohio, Temple, Vanderbilt, Florida Atlantic and Navy. With eight total TV games, it is by far the most football games that UConn has ever had televised in a single season. Curiously, Don McPherson will serve as UConn?s color commentator for seven of these eight games, appearing on three different networks. McPherson missed the Buffalo game to work the national BET telecast of Jackson State and Tennessee State from the Liberty Bowl in Memphis.


EDSALL ON THE AIR
UConn head coach Randy Edsall will have weekly television and radio shows this year. The television show will air on Sunday nights at 11:45 pm on WFSB TV 3 in Hartford with Eric Clemons and Joe Tessitore. Edsall, along with a selected player each week, will also be featured on an hour-long radio call-in show Thursday nights from 6:00 to 7:00 pm on WTIC 1080-AM with Joe D?Ambrosio and Arnold Dean.


SERIES NOTES
UCONN-BALL STATE HISTORY
UConn is 0-2 all-time against Ball State, falling 29-0 in 2000 in Muncie, Ind. and 10-5 last year in Storrs. The Huskies are scheduled to return this week?s game in 2005. Ball State is the only team UConn has ever faced from the state of Indiana.


MAC-NIFICENT
The Huskies have become quite familiar with the Mid-American Conference as Ball State is one of four teams from the league that UConn faces in 2002 joining Buffalo (W, 24-3), Ohio (W, 37-19) and Kent State. UConn also faced four MAC teams in 2000, posting a 2-2 record, and three MAC schools in 2001, going 1-2. The Huskies will play four MAC teams in both 2003 and 2004 as well. With their 2-0 mark so far in 2002, UConn now stands at 12-9 all-time against MAC schools. Five of UConn?s last six wins have come against schools from the MAC.


HEY, DON?T I KNOW YOU FROM SOMEWHERE?
UConn has no players from Indiana while the Cardinals have no players from Connecticut. That, when coupled with Ball State boasting an administration and coaching staff that has an incredibly high percentage of its own alums, means that it isn?t surprising that the lone connection between the schools is UConn?s Director of Football Operations Don Corzine who worked as a graduate assistant and video coordinator at BSU in 1998. Corzine also served as a student assistant coach at Indiana in 1997 while BSU defensive line coach Larry McDaniel was the Hoosiers? defensive graduate assistant under Cam Cameron.


SQUAD NOTES

HOPEFULLY, UCONN?S GONNA PARTY LIKE IT?S 1999
The Buffalo game is hopefully evoking a recurrence of the 1999 season, Randy Edsall?s first at UConn. Just like in 2002, the 1999 Huskies opened 0-2 after losing to a pair of tough teams. UConn fell to I-AA power Hofstra in the season opener and then lost 45-14 at SEC member Kentucky against Hal Mumme?s "Air Raid" offense. In 1999, UConn also drew Buffalo in week three and came away with a comfortable win (23-0 in ?99, 24-3 in ?02) that triggered a three-game winning streak. UConn has presently won two straight.


SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST: HUSKIES PROVING TO BE STRONG FINISHERS...
UConn has scored 52 of its 91 total points (57%) in the fourth quarter of games, outscoring its opposition 52-7 in the final stanza. UConn has not surrendered a score in the fourth quarter since the season opener at Boston College when Brian St. Pierre hit Grant Adams for a 14-yard TD with 3:56 to play. The Husky defense has shutout their opponents for the 48:56 of elapsed fourth quarter time since. Meanwhile, the UConn offense has found resurgences during the final quarter of the last three games, outscoring Georgia Tech 14-0, Buffalo 14-0 and Ohio 24-0. The Huskies? 24 fourth quarter points against the Bobcats were the most fourth quarter points UConn has ever scored in a game back to 1961, the beginning of the school?s available quarter-by-quarter records. UConn had previously scored 21 points at Boston University on Nov. 7, 1975.

BUT STUMBLING OUT OF THE GATE
The Huskies have been outscored 28-6 in the first quarter of games this year. UConn?s lone first quarter score came on its opening drive of the season, a 12-play 90-yard march to the end zone at Boston College, with a missed PAT. Since then, UConn has been shutout in the first quarter of its last three games for an elapsed time of 54:40. In that span since the BC touchdown, UConn has posted just 155 yards of total offense.

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES!
Thus far in 2002, Connecticut has shown a marked improvement over it?s four game totals from the 2001 season in almost every major category. An impressive facet of this dramatic improvement is that the first four games of 2002 have been played against a harder schedule to the first four games of the 2001 slate. The 2002 slate features two 2001 bowl teams in BC and Georgia Tech plus two MAC schools. Last year to date UConn had faced just one national power in Virginia Tech and also lost at home to I-AA Eastern Washington.

HUSKIES SHOW VAST IMPROVEMENT AT BOSTON COLLEGE
Throughout the course of its 24-16 loss at Boston College on August 31, UConn demonstrated dramatic improvements over its 55-3 loss at the Heights on Oct. 7, 2000. In its first apples vs. apples comparison game (same opponent, same stadium) since beginning its march to Division I-A, the 2002 Huskies came out ahead in this, their first season with a full compliment of 85 available scholarships.

YOUTH IS SERVED
Five true freshmen appeared in the Huskies season opener at Boston College, including an all-true freshman starting back field featuring fullback Deon Anderson and tailback Terry Caulley. Overall, seven true freshman have played for UConn this season. Brandon Young earned a slot in the wide receiver rotation while also serving as UConn?s top punt returner and a gunner on the team?s punt unit. James Hargrave plays a backup role at Husky linebacker and on special teams. He started for the injured Jamal Lundy against Ohio and led UConn with 17 tackles. Ernest Cole has also seen time, mainly on special teams, while Rhema Fuller and Cathyln Clarke made their Husky debuts against Georgia Tech.
 

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OFFENSE NOTES

HUSKY GROUND GAME SHUFFLES THROUGH BUFFALO
When UConn posted 187 rushing yards in its 24-3 win at Buffalo on Sept. 14 it proved to be a pretty significant total in the program?s recent history. The sum marks the best single-game rushing output for the Huskies since running for 192 in a triple overtime loss to Villanova on Oct. 16, 1999. It marked the most rushing yards for UConn in a road game since racking up 203 in a triple-OT game at Maine on Oct. 11, 1997. For a higher total from a regulation road game you only have to go back a couple of weeks from there to when UConn rushed for 283 at Hofstra in a 35-31 win on Sept. 20, 1997.


WHO YOU GONNA CAULLEY?
True freshman tailback Terry Caulley had a breakout game at Buffalo, rushing for 136 yards on 26 carries and followed that up by rushing for 117 more with two TDs against Ohio. He became the first Husky to rush for 100 or more yards in consecutive games since Barry Chandler topped the century mark against Colgate and Maine on Sept. 5 and 19, 1998. His 105.0 ypg average ranks 31st in the nation overall and third amongst true freshmen, behind only Ohio State phoneme Maurice Clarett (157.0). Caulley has also caught nine passes out of the backfield for 59 yards, even leading UConn with five receptions during the win at Buffalo. UConn now has three running backs on its team with a 100-yard game to their credit as joining Caulley and Chandler Poole (100 vs. MTSU, 2001) and Evan Benson (119 vs. South Florida, 2000).


DAN-O PUTTING ON A SHOW
Sophomore Dan Orlovsky, a high school All-American and the Connecticut Player of the Year in 2000 at Shelton High School, has been steady as the Huskies? starting quarterback this season, posting solid numbers. Orlovsky has hit on 70-of-121 passes (57.9%) for 814 yards with four touchdowns and three interceptions. His 120.31 passing efficiency rating ranks 61st in the nation. He had a streak of 77 consecutive passes without an interception snapped when throwing the ball up for grabs on a Hail Mary play at the end of the first half of the Ohio game. Orlovsky started the season off on the right foot as he showed great poise in leading UConn on a 12-play, 90-yard TD drive on the game?s opening possession at Boston College?s Alumni Stadium. That drive was UConn?s longest TD drive since going 92 for a score against Northeastern on Sept. 23, 2000 and for Orlovsky was part of a monster half that saw him hit on 14-of-17 attempts (82%) for 132 yards. Helping make Orlovsky more effective has been both his improved running ability and UConn?s ability to mix up the team?s offense by spelling Orlovsky with the capable and option-oriented play of Keron Henry.


FELDEISEN SLICIN? AND DICIN?
Shaun Feldeisen had a breakout game against Georgia Tech hauling in six passes for 101 yards with a long play of 49 yards, all comfortably career highs. The performance matches UConn?s 100-yard game total from all of last season with the lone century-mark receiving effort coming from Wes Timko with his 109 yard day at Cincinnati on Nov. 3. Feldeisen, a redshirt junior, walked on to the team in 1999 and was rewarded with a scholarship on August 26, 2002, just five days before catching his first career touchdown at Boston College, less than an hour from his Stow, Mass., home.


CALLING CAPTAIN COLLINS
Senior tri-captain Tommy Collins has been an integral part of the UConn passing attack from his tight end post this season. Collins is second for the Huskies wit 190 receiving yards and is tied for second on the team with 12 receptions. He and Shaun Feldeisen are both two behind Matt Cutaia?s team high 14 catches. Collins? 190 receiving yards already establishes a new seasonal high while he stands just four catches shy of his career seasonal best of 16 set in 2000 with eight games to play. Collins also has a pair of TD catches to his credit this year, tops on the team, including a career-long 50-yarder at Buffalo. Doing a little bit of everything, Collins has also done a fine job as a blocker at tight end, serves as the punt team?s long snapper and has made four tackles on special teams, including three solos.


YOUTH REIGNS IN CONNECTICUT BACKFIELD
UConn is starting true freshmen at both fullback and tailback in Deon Anderson and Terry Caulley, respectively. The diminutive, 5-7 Caulley dazzled in the fall camp, demonstrating the solid instincts that led him to be named last years? Maryland offensive player of the year. Anderson took charge early on at the fullback spot. The three sport (football, wrestling and track) standout at Providence?s Hope High School and Connecticut?s Avon Old Farms Prep picked up the Husky offense quickly and won a starting nod. In addition to the young running backs, both of the team?s top two quarterbacks, Orlovsky and Henry, are true sophomores.


DEFENSE NOTES

HUSKY DEFENSE AMONGST THE TOP THIRD IN NCAA
A much-improved UConn defense is starting to ascend up the NCAA leaderboard. At 312.25 ypg in total defense, UConn ranks 32nd in the nation while the Huskies check in at No. 36 in pass efficiency defense (103.98) and 39th in scoring defense (19.25 ppg). The Huskies would rank fourth in the BIG EAST in all three categories behind Miami, Pittsburgh and Virginia Tech.


UCONN FORCES BUFFALO TO GO THE DISTANCE
Critical to the success of the Husky defense at Buffalo was its good work on first and second down in forcing the Bulls into several third-and-long situations. UB was forced to convert on third-and-10 or more eight times against UConn and were denied on all eight attempts. Against BC and Georgia Tech combined, UConn?s foes only faced double-digit distances on third down five times (converting two). The Bulls faced third-and-15 or more four times. UB was 1-for-14 overall on third down (7%) after BC and Georgia Tech converted on a combined 32% (9-for-28) of its total tries. As a result of their tough defense, UConn forced six three-and-outs at Buffalo, a percentage that represents 40% of UB? 15 possessions. UConn forced five more three-and-outs against Ohio.


RUNNING OF THE BULLS ONLY IN PAMPLONA, NOT BUFFALO
UConn?s defense stuffed Buffalo?s rushing offense that had rushed for a solid 284 yards in its first two games. The Bulls posted just 45 yards on the ground, the fewest allowed by UConn since Eastern Michigan was held to 31 last year. Buffalo did not gain yardage on 13 of its 25 rushing attempts against UConn with six rushes for loss and UConn stopping UB for no gain seven times.


FINCHER PHENOMENAL IN NEW STARTING ROLE
Sophomore Alfred Fincher, a native of Norwood, Mass., made the most of his opportunity after beating out incumbent middle linebacker Razul Wallace this fall. Fincher leads UConn with 42 total tackles on the year with three tackles for loss. At BC, in his first career start, Fincher tied for the team lead with seven solo tackles and was credited with a team-best 15 total to accompany a pair of tackles for loss, a pass deflection and his first career interception which he ran back 19 yards to the BC 42 yard line late in the third quarter.


MY OH MEYER
Junior safety Chris Meyer has made his presence known both with some hard hits and also with the sheer quantity of them. Meyer leads the team with 32 solo tackles on the year and is second to Alfred Fincher with 38 total tackles. In addition to his 10 solo tackles, Meyer made his first interception of the year late in the Ohio game. The pick, plus a 17-yard return, was one of the most important factors in the momentum swing that secured a Husky victory.


AND THE BIG MAN (RE)JOINED THE BAND
The Huskies welcomed back 6-4, 268 pound defensive tackle Ryan Bushey against Ohio after missing the first three game while serving a suspension. Bushey made just one tackle but helped greatly boost the UConn depth at defensive tackle against the option-oriented Bobcats who ran the ball 49 times against UConn.


THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
UConn welcomed back 10 of its 11 defensive starters from the 2001 season and each of its top eight tacklers. Amongst the returnees is strong safety and 2001 team MVP Chris Meyer who led UConn with 94 tackles and four interceptions last year. Senior Jamal Lundy leads the defense from his husky (strongside) linebacker post. Lundy topped all Huskies with his 102 tackles as a sophomore in 2000 and last year claimed the team lead in solo tackles (66) and tackles for loss (eight).
 

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SPECIAL TEAMS NOTES

CONNECTICUT KICKERS READY FOR ACTION
The Huskies have a matter of continuity in their kicking game as UConn returns both its starting punter and place kicker from a year ago. Senior Marc Hickok handles all placement kicks after going 18-of-19 on PAT tries last year and 12-of-17 on field goal tries, including a 4-for-5 mark from between 40 and 49 yards. Hickok continued his good field goal work at Boston College where he his a career-long 48 yarder in his first attempt of the season. His previous career-long of 47 yards with 3:04 to play at Rutgers gave UConn its first ever win over a BIG EAST team, 20-19. He was a perfect 3-for-3 against Ohio, including a crucial 47-yarder with 3:32 to play that made it a two-score lead for UConn. Junior Adam Coles returns to punt for UConn this year, the tall, 6-5, former Australian Rules Football player from Gladesville kicked for a 39.2 average on 81 punts last year. Coles booted a 71-yarder against Middle Tennessee (sixth longest in school history) and placed 32 balls inside the 20 yard line. Coles appears on several seasonal and career punting record charts at UConn. He has hit for a 40.8 average so far in 2002.


COLES NAMED TO RAY GUY AWARD WATCH LIST
Junior Adam Coles was named to the preseason watch list for the Ray Guy Award on August 27. The award is given annually by the Augusta (GA) Sports Council to the top collegiate punter and named for Guy, the former Southern Miss. All-American, Oakland Raiders? Pro Bowl selection and native Georgian. The 34 preseason candidates will next be pared to 10 semifinalists in October.


SCHEDULE NOTES

WHO ARE YOU? WHO? WHO? WHO? WHO?
As a part of their move to Division I-A status the Huskies will face a revamped schedule in 2002, one which features six first time opponents for UConn. The Huskies oppose Georgia Tech, Ohio, Miami (Fla.), Vanderbilt, Florida Atlantic and Iowa State for the first time ever on the gridiron this season. In fact, fellow-Division I-A neophyte Buffalo is the only 2002 opponent that UConn has faced more than 10 times with the Huskies and Bulls playing for the 13th time on Sept. 14. Entering the season, a total of just 36 games had been played all-time between UConn and its 2002 opponents combined, fewer than its series with six individual schools, a list led by Rhode Island with 92 meetings. In addition to its new opponents, UConn will face its first ever member of the Big 12 Conference (Iowa State) and only its second ever foe from the Southeastern Conference (Vanderbilt). UConn travelled to SEC member Kentucky in 1999. The Georgia Tech game marked UConn?s second ever game against an active Atlantic Coast Conference opponent with the Huskies having faced North Carolina in 1990. UConn also played then-Southern Conference member Maryland in 1942 prior to the ACC?s formation in 1953.


HUSKIES PLAYING THE BCS FIELD
UConn faces opponents from four different conferences this season that are amongst the six members of the Bowl Championship Series as the Huskies face foes from the ACC (Georgia Tech), BIG EAST (Boston College, Miami, Temple), Big 12 (Iowa State) and SEC (Vanderbilt). Facing four different BCS conferences ties UConn for the most of any school in the nation in the 2002 season joining Florida State, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Texas Tech, Virginia and Virginia Tech. The one common denominator is that all seven schools play at least one ACC team while all but the Red Raiders face a BIG EAST squad.


ON THE ROAD AGAIN...AND AGAIN
With the decrease in regional scheduling brought about by UConn?s independent status, the Huskies will make some historic road trips in the program?s lineage which dates back to 1896. UConn?s game at Miami will mark the furthest south the team has ever travelled for a game, eclipsing its trip to Tampa?s Raymond James Stadium for a game last year against South Florida. This mark should hold forever as the Orange Bowl is the southernmost stadium in the continental United States for a I-A school although it is a couple of miles north of the actual UM campus in Coral Gables. UConn?s game at Iowa State in Ames just narrowly misses being its furthest ever western destination, a nod that goes to Dallas, Texas where the Huskies faced SMU in 1989.


SET YOUR WATCHES
The team?s games at Vanderbilt (Nashville, Tenn.) and Iowa State (Ames, Iowa) are significant as they mark just the third and fourth times, respectively, that UConn will ever play outside of the Eastern time zone. Both schools are located in the Central time zone. The Huskies have twice previously played an hour behind Storrs, losing at SMU in Dallas in 1989 and at Middle Tennessee in Murfreesboro in 2001. UConn has never played in either the Mountain or Pacific time zones.


LOOKING AHEAD
The 2003 and 2004 Connecticut football schedules feature teams from the BIG EAST, Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conferences and also include a home-and-home series with Army. The schedules, which were announced in mid-September, will mark the first two years of play for UConn at Rentschler Field in East Hartford and are also the final schedules before the Huskies enter BIG EAST Conference play in 2005. Of the 23 games UConn will play in 2003 and 2004, ten of them will be against teams from Bowl Championship Series Conferences, while two others will be the Army series. The complete 2003 and 2004 Husky football schedules are shown to the right with times and television information to be announced at a later date.


STADIUM NOTES

MEMORIAL STADIUM SOON A MEMORY
The 2002 season is the Huskies? final at Memorial Stadium after a 50 year run. UConn has posted a 129-100-4 (.562) record all-time in the 16,200 seat facility that opened on October 10, 1953 with a 26-6 win over St. Lawrence. UConn has not been shutout at Memorial Stadium since 1978, a 30-0 loss to Navy. Memorial Stadium will soon be torn down to make room for the Burton Family Football Complex which will house coaches? offices, meeting rooms, locker rooms and other football-related facilities. To help recognize the 50th and final season at Memorial Stadium, UConn is wearing commemorative patches (pictured) on the right chest of their 2002 game uniforms.


MOVIN? ON UP TO THE EAST SIDE
The Huskies will move into brand new Rentschler Field in East Hartford for the 2003 season with the stadium set up open its doors on August 30 for a game against the Big Ten?s Indiana Hoosiers. Conveniently located within miles of Interstates 91, 84 and 384, Adriaen?s Landing and downtown Hartford, the new home of the Huskies lies on 75 acres of land donated to the State of Connecticut from the historic Pratt & Whitney Airfield by company founder Frederick Rentschler. The new stadium will hold approximately 40,000 seats and 40 luxury suites in a massive press box tower which will help enclose the natural grass field. The $91 million construction project, part of Governor John Rowland?s economic development program for the Hartford metro-area, is currently past the half way mark and on schedule.
 

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Was just imformed of 2 big loses for the Huskies

Starting Left Tackle Ryan Krug a 6-4 300lbs Sophomore will be out

along with

Starting WR Matt Cutaia 5-11 176lbs Sophomore who I think is leading the team in receptions...
 

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UConn lineman out for 2 weeks
By NEILL OSTROUT

STORRS -- Already hurt by the news of a possible season-ending injury to one of its wide receivers, the UConn football team also found out this week that its best offensive lineman will be forced to miss time.
Ryan Krug, the Huskies' 6-foot, 300-pound left tackle, will be out two weeks after having surgery to repair a fractured bone in his right hand.

Wideout Matt Cutaia will have his injured right knee scoped on Friday and could miss the remainder of the season.

Krug, a sophomore from Pine Beach, N.J., started all 11 games as a freshman and each of UConn's first four this season. His right hand has been ailing him for some time, often forcing Krug to play with a cast on it.

"It's very disappointing news," UConn coach Randy Edsall said. "It's a clear setback for our team. Ryan was becoming one of the leaders of this line with his play at left tackle and we'll miss having him out there for us."

UConn (2-2) takes on Ball State (1-2) Saturday at Memorial Stadium at 1 p.m.

In place of Krug, UConn will start redshirt freshman Mike Henry. Henry has already seen action this season at right tackle, filling in for the injured Steve Cully against Georgia Tech and Buffalo.
 

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This should not matter that much considering the size (or lack thereof) of the Ball St def line. At least that is what I am led to believe. Ind St ran for 4.7 ypc vs them, and I THINK Missu and Clemson did even better. Granted they have bigger olines but I rate the Uconn qb better than the Clem and Missu qb's so Conn should be able to keep 'em honest. Interesting matchup here. Thanks for your info and your input. If you ever come to Vegas let me know here and I will see what I can do about you getting a room and all of your meals for free, you should not have to spend a penny. Good luck this weekend.
 

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Snakeoiler said:
If you ever come to Vegas let me know here and I will see what I can do about you getting a room and all of your meals for free, you should not have to spend a penny. Good luck this weekend.

Thank You :D :D :toast:
 

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Why oh Why did I have to read where Ball St has huge revenge game next week with No Ill. The team that prevented Ball St from getting to Mac championship game last year. Seems thay have not forgotten. Conn much to good a team for a clup of Ball St caliber to look ahead. That and I see Conn gives up only 4.3 yrds per play and Ball St gives up 6.6 yrd per play on df's. This info will make me take a harder look. I may have to pass.
 

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I seriously think you need to re-evaluate your like.If this story is true...and if all your other stories are true then you need some help.If you, a college student, just spent 13 hours scouting a game then you need help.I hope you bet this game big cause you could have been either working during these 13 hours making money or studying which is why you are in school.I think you are confused that you are some MAC secret spy.You always try and tell us that you got reasons to bet a certain team but you cant tell us cause you'll get in trouble.LMAO!!!You got inside info...hmmmh!!!!I hope if you really did play for Toledo as a walk-on kicker and got kicked off the team for bad grades.Then you wouldnt be on here everyday spending many hours of research and for sure you wouldnt be spending a whole day SCOUTING a team for your bet.But Im not your dad and I think your 21 so you can do what you want to do with your life.Good luck.I hate for you to lose this game after so much work.............
 

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What gives? Live your life the way you want. This site is about sharing information on sports and gambling, not tips on life and what is right and what is wrong! No offense to you but we really appreciate the info. Hellah provides.:thefinger
GL & PEACE, HAIL:D
 

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excellent wirte-ups hellah, I sure hope u rock 'em up with this play.

I will be curious to see the outcome.

GOOD LUCK :) :) :toast: :drinky:
 

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Good luck tomorrow Omar,

Coat tailed you on this play!


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BTW... just got this game: Ball ST +6 -105 at WWTS. Seems people are hammering UCon. I bought Ball St small now, will see if it continues to go up.
 
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