3:40 p.m.
White wins! White wins!
Receiver neophyte Darius Butler hauls down a 27-yard touchdown from Zach Frazer with 3:09 to play, and White beats Blue, 21-20.
If you like running and screen passes, you loved this game. The two teams combined for 280 yards rushing on 72 carries. Robbie Frey led all rushers with 92 yards on 14 carries with a TD, and Meme Wylie had 88 on 14 carries, including a 34-yarder that set up the winning score. Andre Dixon churned out 69 yards on 19 carries.
In the passing game, Frazer didn’t look too bad for his first start, with 272 yards on 27 attempts, though he had a bad interception in the end zone early in the fourth quarter.
All of the wrap-up stuff will be in Monday’s paper, though I think you all should know that Tyler Lorenzen would want his one superpower to be “two superpowers - teleportation and the ability to fly.”
Also notable from the postgame presser: Randy Edsall’s impassioned Gettysburg Address in favor of the proposed 10-game series with Notre Dame (which would include no Rentschler dates). I’ve made my feelings on the subect known in the past (check the DC archives…probably somewhere in February), but if I can transcribe some of the coach’s quotes later today, I’ll do so.
But for now, so long from Rentschler Field, where the result is irrelevant, but at least kickoff for Hofstra is just 19 weeks away.
1:20 p.m.
We are rolling along here at the Rent. We’re already 10 minutes into halftime festivities, which are suspisciously similar to the media timeout games played at basketball games.
Anyway, the White team (1st-team defense) leads Blue, 14-10, at the break.
Not much in the way of a standout performer; both Cody Endres and Zach Frazer have been handcuffed, play-calling wise. Lots of screens and swing passes so far. They’ve both confusingly switched teams in the first half; Endres is a combined 11-for-16 for 93 yards, while Frazer is 7-for-14 for 139 yards (including a 59-yard pass to a wide-open Marcus Easley over the middle, as well as a QB-sneak touchdown).
Both quarterbacks, especially with a nod toward Frazer, have made some poor decisions with the ball, which is not a good augur of success. Edsall likes
Given injuries to 3 potential starters at receiver and Lorenzen, it’s hard to take much away from the Huskies’ passing game, though Easley, Robert Theoudele and tight end Yianni Apostolakos have made a couple nice plays.
The offensive star so far, though, has been Robbie Frey. Frey has 76 yards on 11 carries - albeit against the second-team D - and was the workhorse on White’s last touchdown drive.
Can we start calling UConn ‘Running Back U.?’ The Huskies appear to have three starter-quality tailbacks (Frey, Donald Brown, Andre Dixon - the latter two of course having started last year) and Meme Wylie isn’t all that far behind.
White (Frey/Wylie) backs have rushed for 112 yards on 23 carries, while the Blue backs (Dixon/Brown) have 41 rushing yards and 39 receiving yards between them.
Defensively, various players have dropped interceptions, but otherwise both have done a good job against the pass. The first-team D has been a little rough around the edges, allowing almost 6 yards per play.
Back with more if breaks allow.
12:01 p.m.
Randy Edsall just announced his four captains for the 2008 season (two offense, two defense), and they are as follows:
WR #14 D.J. Hernandez
QB #4 Tyler Lorenzen
CB/WR #1 Darius Butler
DE #50 Cody Brown
We just had the coin toss, and in the first of I’m sure many hilarious jokes from the assembled media, I overheard that UConn won the toss. Chuckle.
It looks like the White team will get the ball first (no kickoffs and only fair catches on punts). Stay with us.
11:55 a.m.
Welcome to the ghost town known as Rentschler Field, where it is a gorgeous 73 degrees, without a cloud in the sky and with very few butts in the seats. We’ll be here all day for the Blue-White game - unlike most of the UConn fans, as only a tiny minority of the Rent is filled up.
Seriously, UConn - http://media.www.dailycampus.com/media/storage/paper340/news/2008/04/17/Sports/Bring.BlueWhite.Game.To.Memorial-3332210.shtml
Let’s juice it up a bit.
Attendance woes aside, it is a perfect day for football. It’s great to be back at Rentschler Field for the first time since late November.
The Huskies, of course, finished 9-4 last year with a trip to the Meineke Car Care Bowl. UConn returns 17 starters and most of the key contributors, and so today’s game will be an interesting look at how far everyone’s come.
The Blue team will be your first-team offense (quarterbacked by Notre Dame transfer Zach Frazer, in lieu of injured starter Tyler Lorenzen) and second-team defense. The White jerseys will be your first-team defense and second-team offense. The game’s on Cox TV, but if you’re on campus and don’t get it, stay here and we’ll give you the jist of it.
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