Filed under: Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Big East
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. – Randy Edsall said it wasn’t that big of a risk. He said that more than once, so he must believe it. Take a poll of his peers in the football coaching fraternity and they might disagree. In fact, they might vote him the most unorthodox coach this side of LSU‘s Les Miles.
Edsall hasn’t been spotted eating grass during games – at least not yet. But Thursday night at Rentschler Field, with Connecticut leading Pittsburgh 30-28 and 2 minutes, 50 seconds left on the game clock, Edsall decided against punting on fourth-and-one from the UConn 19. He called timeout, looked into the eyes of his offensive lineman and sent them back on the field with the entire season hanging in the balance for the Huskies.
“The best thing is not to think too much about it,” Edsall said. “You take your guts and you take your instincts and you see what’s happening during the game. When you look at it, to me, it wasn’t that big a risk. I just saw Pittsburgh take the ball down against our defense … boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I saw what our offensive line was doing and had done.”
The Huskies put the ball in the hands of tailback Jordan Todman, the leading rusher in the Big East. And Todman, who established personal highs with 37 carries for 222 yards, gobbled up four yards to the UConn 23. First down. And the crowd of 35,391 went crazy.
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