A few quick hits after UConn’s 35-3 win over Hofstra Thursday night:
– Donald Brown ran 23 times for 146 yards and four touchdowns. He played, obviously, very good. But Brown agreed that he and the rest of his teammates have some work to do.
“We shot ourselves in the foot many times tonight. We made a lot of mistakes and we have to get those mistakes fixed,” said Brown, who had his seventh career 100-yard game. “When we get into the Big East part of our schedule we can’t be making those mistakes and expect to win. We’ll take care of it, though.”
The last UConn player to score four touchdowns in a game was Cornell Brockington. Brock scored four against Wake Forest on Nov. 15, 2003.
If he had played another quarter Brown probably would have challenged Walt Trojanowski’s 63-year-old school record of 6 TD’s in a game. (Walt turned the trick against Worcester Tech in 1945.)
– Running back Andre Dixon didn’t play, but it sounds like he was chomping at the bit to get in the game.
“Andre should be back this week. At least that’s what he told me,” UConn coach Randy Edsall said. “He didn’t like standing on the sidelines.”
– Hofstra coach Dave Cohen said he found out “16 minutes before kickoff” that quarterback Bryan Savage would be unable to play because of a back injury.
“Something was bothering him,” Cohen said. “It was brought to my attention from the trainer to the doctor and it was in his best interest not to play.”
– Freshman Cody Endres was the backup quarterback and not sophomore Zach Frazer. Endres hit 4-of-5 passes for 49 yards in fourth-quarter action Thursday.
Endres had suffered a concussion a few weeks ago but it wasn’t injury that pushed him back to No. 3.
“We felt that Cody just had the better week of practice, so that’s who we went with,” Edsall said. “It’ll probably be an ‘OR’ situation as we continue.”
– DE Lindsey Witten had two sacks, three total tackles for a loss and seemed to be active all evening. But Edsall said after the game that Witten suffered an injury (he didn’t say what the injury was) and his status was unknown.
– WR Ellis Gaulden entered the game having made five catches for 29 yards in his career. He had four for 62 against Hofstra.
– Other stuff: Lawrence Wilson had a team-high 8 tackles. … UConn has won eight straight at home, the sixth-longest streak in the nation. … This is the first time in its Division I-A history (since 2002) that it won a game where it committed five turnovers or more.
- Neill
