Things are looking good in the Husky Nation for the football team as yesterday at the team’s banquet, head coach Randy Edsall announced that he has withdrawn his name from consideration at Georgia Tech.
“I announced today at the football banquet, that I’m staying here at the University of Connecticut. I’ll stay here as long as they’d like me to stay. I talked to Jeff (Hathaway). Jeff and Gary O’Hagen and Matt Baldwin, my representation over at IMG, will be getting together to hammer out a contract. It was based on my own family, my son, my wife and my daughter and considerations in terms of my family there and also considerations of my football family, most especially the players here in the program now at the University of Connecticut, and to understand that there’s still quite a bit of work to be done, and I want to continue to do that. We’re working very hard to accomplish that today, even now as I speak.”
Edsall and UConn are said to be working on a contract extension. Edsall had signed a 6-year $5.25 million extension back in 2004 that paid him $920,000 this season and will pay him $995,000 next year.
UConn also found who it’s bowl opponent will be and they will taking on the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. The two teams have faced off before in 2003 and 2006. UConn beat them in 2003 51-17 in Winston-Salem while losing to them last year at the Rent 24-13. You can expect the seniors would love to go out on top by beating them..
“We’re very honored and feel very privileged to be playing against Wake Forest in the Meineke Car Care Bowl on Dec. 29,” UConn head coach Randy Edsall said on a media teleconference Sunday evening. “We know them from a year ago when they came up here to Rentschler Field and beat us. They’re a quality team. They’re well coached. Jim Grobe and his staff do an excellent job. They had another very good year this year and we know that we’ve got to go down and play them in their back yard so it will be a tough environment and a tough game, but we’re looking forward to playing a class outfit and a very good football team in Wake Forest.
A look at the awards handed out at the banquet last night after the jump.
Last night at the UConn football banquet, they handed out some hardware to the team.
- Team MVPs – Tyler Lorenzen, Dan Davis
- Offensive MVPs – Donald Brown II, Andre Dixon
- Defensive MVP – Danny Lansanah
- Special Teams MVP – Tyvon Branch
- The Joseph M. Giannelli Unsung Hero Award – Donald Thomas
- The John L. Toner Scholar Athlete Award – Zack Penwell
- The Football Alumni Award – D.J. Hernandez
- The Kendall Madison Award – Donnell Ford
- The Brian Kozlowski Award – Larry Taylor
To read all about the awards given out, head over to uconnhuskies.com.
