University of Connecticut Athletics
August 17 Football Practice Report
8/17/2007 12:00:00 AM | Football
STORRS, Conn. (August 17, 2007) -- The University of Connecticut football team had a single practice session on Friday afternoon at Memorial Stadium in Storrs. The session was held in just helmets and shoulder pads.
Today's practice was about 30 minutes shorter than many of the fall sessions and started off with punting. After calisthenics and 20 minutes of positional drills, the full team got together and first-and-tens and second-and-longs were the order of the next segment focusing specifically on rushing plays and play action in those situations. After full-team blitz work in a variety of down and distance scenarios, the Huskies worked on kickoff returns. UConn's last half hour today was comprised of red zone work, two point plays and the extra point/field goal unit.
The practice was open to the media so plenty of coverage and comments from head coach Randy Edsall will be in Saturday's newspapers around the state.
UConn wide receivers coach Matt Cersosimo was not at today's practice. His wife, Megan, gave birth to the couple's first child, a son named Brady Campbell, this afternoon. The former Megan Campbell is in her second year as UConn's head women's lacrosse coach and has been with the program as a player and coach ever since enrolling as a freshman in the fall of 1997. Matt is a native of West Hartford where he attended Conard High School and played football for his father, Rob, who has been the head football coach there since 1984. He is in his second year as UConn's wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator and previously worked at UConn as a graduate assistant coach from 2002-03.
UConn returns to practice on Saturday with a two-a-day. The morning practice will be shorter and focus heavily on special teams while the afternoon's practice will be UConn's second full scrimmage of the fall.
