Howie Lindsey who runs the Louisville Rivals site said that Randy Edsell gave Taylor a game ball.

IF true, Edsell will need a police escort next year when the Huskies come to Papa John's Cardinal Stadium.

Wow-Andre Dixon, Scott Lutrus and Darius Butler should have gotten game balls for that game, not Taylor.

Honestly, UConn REALLY wanted that Louisville game after the butt-kicking you gave us last year. Wasn't it 48-17? Yowch...it's bizarre that Louisville has lost to two teams it beat by 30+ in UConn and sUcK last year. Louisville should have won at least one. Are you guys content with Kragthorpe right now? The team seems to be improving...

Either that or BE needs to hire better refs.

uconnbaseball Wrote:Wow-Andre Dixon, Scott Lutrus and Darius Butler should have gotten game balls for that game, not Taylor.

Honestly, UConn REALLY wanted that Louisville game after the butt-kicking you gave us last year. Wasn't it 48-17? Yowch...it's bizarre that Louisville has lost to two teams it beat by 30+ in UConn and sUcK last year. Louisville should have won at least one. Are you guys content with Kragthorpe right now? The team seems to be improving...

Man, as a fan base I feel we hate Krapthorpe more then ever now. It has spread to his "OffenSIVE" Coordinator Charlie Stubbs.

Next year's UCONN team should be better than this year's version. We only graduate 4 seniors out of the starting 22 and one of them is Larry Taylor. Next year should be UCONN's big year so that game at Papa John should be interesting.

SF Husky Wrote:Next year's UCONN team should be better than this year's version. We only graduate 4 seniors out of the starting 22 and one of them is Larry Taylor. Next year should be UCONN's big year so that game at Papa John should be interesting.

Only interesting because we have an idiot on the sidelines. Here is the Hartford Courant on giving Taylor a Gameball.

Football: Sunday Leftovers – Game Balls For Larry Taylor, Andre Dixon And Scott Lutrus (And Much More)
Some bits left over from Sunday’s conference call with UConn coach Randy Edsall.

Edsall gave game balls to Larry Taylor (special teams), Andre Dixon (offense) and Scott Lutrus (defense) after Friday's 21-17 victory over Louisville at Rentschler Field.

Taylor returned a punt 74-yards for a touchdown, Dixon has 115 yards on 22 carries - including the game-winning 5-yard touchdown run with under 2 minutes remaining - and Lutrus had a career high 18 tackles and an interception.

During the call Edsall was asked if there was any worry about Taylor taking unexpected hits in the coming games after seemingly calling for a fair catch prior to his punt return touchdown early in the second half, which tied the score at 7.

“All I know is that Larry will go out there and give his best effort and play until the whistle blows,” Edsall said. “All we can do, all Larry can do, is control what he does. He can’t control what anybody else does.”

Edsall wouldn’t say much about the injury that kept fullback Anthony Davis out of the game but did sound as if he was impressed with the first game from replacement Anthony Sherman.

“I thought he played well for his first ballgame,” Edsall said. “We really like Anthony. We really like him. I know he’s only a true freshman but I think he’s made a lot of strides and I think if he continues to really work hard he’s got a chance to be a very good football player. I’m sure we will see more of him as we continue to go. I like him, I like what he does.”

Edsall wasn’t impressed with the performance of UConn punter and Louisville native Desi Cullen against the Cardinals.

“I didn’t think that Desi had one of his better games the other night,” Edsall said. “I thought Desi tried to press too much. I thought we got him out of that in the two previous games. Then playing against Louisville, being from his hometown, I thought he was pressing a little bit too much. I just thought that he was trying a little bit too hard. We’ve got to get him back in the groove that we had him in the previous two [games before Louisville]. He got out of that a little bit Friday night. I think sometimes it’s just human nature when people go against somebody or against a team from their hometown or a former team that they might have played against, sometimes they might try a little bit too hard. I think that’s what Desi was doing. I thought his kickoffs were good but in terms of his punting game, for Desi’s standards, it wasn’t as consistent as we would have liked it to be or as Desi would like it to be. He would be the first to tell you that.”

Edsall said the story of the night was the UConn defense stepping up and the offense coming back.

“I think in the game of football there are going to be 5-10 plays within the game that are going to make a difference in the ball game,” Edsall said. “Some plays might get more magnified due to when they happen, but the one thing is I think our team deserves a lot of credit. We were down 10 points with 12 minutes to go and we came back and scored two touchdowns and held them to nothing in a very small period of time. I think they had 74 plays on offense, we had 57. Every play counts the same. All I know is that we were down 10 points with 12 minutes to go and I think it says a lot about the character and the heart of this team to respond, to come back, to put 14 points on the board and then we go ahead and they have whatever it was left with 1 timeout, with an All-American quarterback to go 80 yards to try to beat us and our defense stepped up to the challenge. I think that’s the story. I think that’s the real story of the whole game, how this team battled from being 10 points down with 12 minutes to go and came back won the football game. In my opinion that’s the story.”

Shawn Courchesne, 3:15 p.m.

http://blogs.courant.com/sports_uconn/20...unday.html

I see UL fans are already hitting the blog with their comments. The writer is a known anti-uconn guy and people on the UCONN board are not too happy with his UCONN football coverage.

This is a dangerous precedent. Since the player admitted at least an intent to create confusion he's offered up that such base mindgames are in vogue for cbf, the BE, and/or at least games against UConn. He sure made it sound like he was willing to flout the rules if he can get away with it, which in my book is poor sportsmanship. "Yes," the refs botched the call and "No," that's not the reason Louisville lost. But if I'm with a team playing UConn I've now got a mindset that the Huskies aren't above breaking the rules. Thoughts like that in the heads of powerful young kids could lead to ugly stuff, such that I wouldn't be surprised to see this guy get tackled by the facemask once or twice.

Sending a message often means getting a reply.

I will relish every decleating hit that hurts that kid. Maybe some sense will get knocked into him. I don't want him to be injured, that's a whole different story, but I do hope he gets hit hard enough to get his attention and sting a bit!

I wonder what would have happened if UL played to the whistle on that play. Would the ref through a flag against UL because the UCONN player was motioning for a fair catch. I know UCONN would be pissed off if UL would have kept playing because there was no whistle blown. Bottom line is the ref blew that call big time which was a no win situation. Either UCONN gets pissed if a fumble occurs from the UL players hitting the UCONN returner, or UL gets pissed because they thought the play was dead by a fair catch. Bottom line is that you are going to have to play for the whistle. The thing is what if a player cant hear the whistle because of crowd noise?? This blown call is going to get some players hurt because teams are not going to take chances anymore like UL did by not hearing a whistle.

Let's move on. UCONN needs to focus on USF and UL needs to think of ways to beat Pitt. We need a new topic since none of us ever gonna change the score no matter what.

Bad calls are part of sports. It was a bad call. Watching on TV the kid and his teamates knew the call made was bad from watching their reaction on the sidelines. However, don't blame the kid and wish bad for him blame the refs. He was just doing what he could do to help his team win.

Tigeer Wrote:However, don't blame the kid and wish bad for him blame the refs. He was just doing what he could do to help his team win.

I wouldn't wish him ill just for running, but I do for his admitted intent to deceive and cheat a rule designed specifically so he and his ilk aren't paralyzed by a guy tackling him with 40 yards of speed built up while he's looking skyward. Karma will be Taylor muffing a punt to give UConn a loss this week.

CollegeCard,

I hope that you are right about USF winning this week because we sure do need to win in the worse way after that game against Rutgers. This game against UCONN worries me.

Tigeer Wrote:Bad calls are part of sports. It was a bad call. Watching on TV the kid and his teamates knew the call made was bad from watching their reaction on the sidelines. However, don't blame the kid and wish bad for him blame the refs. He was just doing what he could do to help his team win.

So, if I'm hungry and decide to break into your house and steal some money so that I can go out to eat and satisfy my hunger, you aren't going to blame me right? I was only doing what it takes to keep me alive and not hungry. Rules are made to be broken right? I'm glad you don't have a problem with rule breakers. What's your address again?

Bull Daly Wrote:I wonder what would have happened if UL played to the whistle on that play. Would the ref through a flag against UL because the UCONN player was motioning for a fair catch. I know UCONN would be pissed off if UL would have kept playing because there was no whistle blown. Bottom line is the ref blew that call big time which was a no win situation. Either UCONN gets pissed if a fumble occurs from the UL players hitting the UCONN returner, or UL gets pissed because they thought the play was dead by a fair catch. Bottom line is that you are going to have to play for the whistle. The thing is what if a player cant hear the whistle because of crowd noise?? This blown call is going to get some players hurt because teams are not going to take chances anymore like UL did by not hearing a whistle.

I never really thought about it but when do they blow the whistle on a fair catch? I'm assuming that they do it after the ball is secured. Am I wrong?

If the whistle should be blown after the catch a returner has already gained an edge if the referee misses the fair catch signal since the defending team has slowed down.

Maize Wrote:Howie Lindsey who runs the Louisville Rivals site said that Randy Edsell gave Taylor a game ball.

IF true, Edsell will need a police escort next year when the Huskies come to Papa John's Cardinal Stadium.

I think we should put a bounty on frickin cheating Taylor next year! I also hope we kick the brains outing of UConn cheating football program!

Tigeer Wrote:Bad calls are part of sports. It was a bad call. Watching on TV the kid and his teamates knew the call made was bad from watching their reaction on the sidelines. However, don't blame the kid and wish bad for him blame the refs. He was just doing what he could do to help his team win.

BS that was cheating!

Wilkie01 Wrote:

Maize Wrote:Howie Lindsey who runs the Louisville Rivals site said that Randy Edsell gave Taylor a game ball.

IF true, Edsell will need a police escort next year when the Huskies come to Papa John's Cardinal Stadium.

I think we should put a bounty on frickin cheating Taylor next year! I also hope we kick the brains outing of UConn cheating football program!

Wow - some of you guys changed your tune pretty quickly. The night the game was over some of you congratulated us on this board, but now you want a bounty out on Taylor(who is a senior this year, so you won't get your chance - sorry) and now the whole program is a bunch of cheaters. Whatever, man. This one play has been magnified way beyond proportions so that it now overshadows the entire game, and you guys are just riding the momentum of the backlash. UConn fans can't defend what Taylor did to compromise the rules, but it's not like he murdered somebody for Pete's sake. You wouldn't have thought twice about it had the ref blown the play dead like he should have. We have other athletes on our team that play fairly and work hard, too, y'know. But nobody wants to hear about that. The whole program is dirty now, right?

You Cards fans want to hate us now, fine. We're used to it from other schools. No, many UConn fans are not proud of Taylor's actions, but it went down the way it did, the ref BLEW the call, the result can't be changed, and hopefully Taylor has learned his lesson and won't do it again because it does set a bad precedent for a player's safety on fair catches. Who knows, maybe it will help tighten up the rules on fair catches now. But a lot of this generalized venting is unfair IMO.

Taylor admitted that he cheat! All the films show it! The conference concedes that it was a blown call! Your coach gives Taylor the game ball! And your University leadership is silent on the issue! Well, we have reason to change our opinion!