I don't care about Ambrose, but if anyone thinks he was running what he wanted to here, they're fooling themselves. Norries Wilson was the only OC under Edsall with any authority. I love this notion that Edsall didn't want to throw too much because of the NE weather. Orlovsky was throwing the ball all over the place.
I once asked Lorenzen at a party if was frustrating to have to run that conservative Ambrose offense. He smiled and said " it's not Ambrose".
Good thing players never got in trouble while at UConn under Randy's watch. Maybe its your love of Randy that clouds your mind. On a team with 105 players you're going to get a few growing pains. Its just life. The assault of a bar owner is over the top, no room for that IMO, and its inexcusable. I acknowledge Randy did well here. I just never bought into him being some sort of coaching messiah, and for someone who was a good to average coach, he came off as a huge prick, to media, fans, and players. I was asking about UMD's problems cause I really didn't know. I didn't really know cause I really don't care. I do find the questioning of Fridge's tactics in how he ran the UMD program somewhat hypocritical given the state of our basketball program, loss of scholarships, possible postseason ban etc. I say that as I admit that I am huge fan of all Jim Calhoun had done for UConn. Guess I just don't see the need to throw rocks at Fridges house from our glass one.
To be honest, it's kinda hard to figure what SC doesn't hate. If it doesn't turn left, SC probably ain't diggin' it...
I don't understand your belief about a fear of Endres. His Sophomore year, he only came out of the lineup when he got hurt. His Junior year, when he came of suspension it took Edsall less than a half to give him the job back. He then stayed in the lineup until the University -- not Edsall -- made him ineligible. What made Edsall nervous about Cody was he had an addiction -- not that he liked throwing the ball. When he was in the lineup, Edsall let him throw. it. You don't think Edsall didn't have the power to tell him to hand it off?
Sure there is. It's the difference between being having failed to do a part of your job well versus being a f***ing moron. If we could have a rational discussion on the parts of his job he wasn't/isn't good at instead of constantly ending up with the latter, these threads would end much more quickly.
I just think that it would have been interesting if he was the QB instead of TL and we threw the ball vertically - he had the arm!!! Luckily we had Donald Brown.
