A few notes from the RAC now that my wireless card is back working and the chants of R….U….R….U have faded:
– UConn Athletic Director Jeff Hathaway offered a few words about football coach Randy Edsall’s new contract Tuesday, while also briefly discussing a few other issues going on in his department.
On UConn’s proposed 11-game series with Notre Dame: “We never comment on any games that we don’t have a contract for,” Hathaway said.
Hathaway said he has no plans to make an announcement soon. “These conversations have gone on for a couple years,” Hathaway said. “But at this time we don’t have any contract with Notre Dame.”
Regarding the contracts of Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemma, who may be a tad envious of football coach Randy Edsall’s new deal (Calhoun still makes more, for now): “I don’t think that’s all interconnected,” Hathaway said. “What we do is we look at the marketplace for each coach within their sport. That’s what we’ve done in the past and that’s what we’ll continue to do.”
When asked about the end of Jerome Dyson’s suspension and the goings on as a whole over the last month with the men’s basketball team: “I never comment on disciplinary cases,” Hathaway said. “Never have. Never will. … I think student-athletes and students as a whole are always entitled to privacy.”
– Calhoun took a few jabs at the Rutgers fan base, many of which didn’t show up Tuesday at the RAC.
“This is the smallest crowd I’ve ever coached against down here,” Calhoun said of the 5,833 fans.
Calhoun said it affected the game.
“They (Scarlet Knights) would have been a lot better if some of their fans had turned out for them.”
– Jeff Adrien hit seven of his eight free throws Tuesday, not bad for a player who entered the game shooting 60 percent from the line and who had been having difficulty there recently.
Adrien said after the game that he re-positioned himself to the left of center when shooting his free throws, which has helped his accuracy.
“I tend, like the game against Villanova, I tend to miss right,” Adrien said. “So I moved over to the left a little bit.
“I was on a good roll when I was more to the left. It started with the Georgetown game,” Adrien said. “Then I was talking to Donny Marshall and he said ‘No, I told you go back to the right.’ ”
Following the former UConn forward’s advice, Adrien moved back to the middle. It resulted in a few efforts from the line, so Adrien moved to the left again.
“I went back to the middle and I started missing a lot more,” Adrien said. “Then I went back to the left.
