The picture above was the common site at Saturday’s UCONN football game vs Maine. The grounds crew was out there at every chance they could get replacing the divots. Honestly, you would have thought you were on a golf course with the amount of divots being taken. Nonetheless, head coach Randy Edsall was not pleased, going as far as suggesting they install field turf.
The field suffered more damage during Sunday’s soccer game with Costa Rica and Honduras. Crews have been busy reseeding the field and putting in sod in the bad areas. Stadium officials are doing everything they can to make sure the surface is at it’s best for this weekends game against Temple.
UCONN athletic director Jeff Hathaway had this to say about the Field Turf option:
“I think FieldTurf could always be an option,” Hathaway said. “It could have been an option when we put in the natural grass. I think we’ve had great success with the natural grass in the first four years that we played there. Obviously, the state would have some say in whether we put FieldTurf in or stay with natural grass. I’m not sure that the FieldTurf discussion today is the one that we need to have. What we need to do is get this field back in the best shape possible.”
The Husky Walk will take place at 9:30 AM on Saturday. Huskies officials will do their best to make sure everyone knows about it this time by making announcements over the PA and on WTIC. Honestly, we didn’t even know it had happened last week, mainly because the band was too busy on the field practicing instead of marching with the players.
Christ of King girl’s basketball coach Bob Mackey has coached some of the greats of women’s college basketball in high school and has high praises for 2008 recruit, Elena Delle Donne:
“Elena Delle Donne is the future of women’s basketball and I say that having coached Chamique Holdsclaw, Sue Bird, Tina Charles, Carrem Gay [a junior at Duke] and Shay Doron [of the WNBA’s New York Liberty],” Mackey said. “I had the privilege of coaching her when she was a rising ninth-grader at the All-American camp in Indianapolis. I was just so impressed with the way she can play. She’s 6 [feet] 5 and can see the floor. She handles the ball. She is Candace Parker [the Tennessee All-America center] with a tremendous jump shot. There is no other way to put it.
“And then you add Maya Moore to that mix. Wow. Maya [Moore] and Lorin [Dixon] had a great run together in Cleveland at the McDonald’s All-America game. They hit it off so well and I can’t wait to see how they eventually blend together.”
Mackey’s Christ of King team will take on Delle Donne’s Ursuline Academy team on January 18th at Springfield College.
