With the UConn Football team kicking off their season tomorrow night against Hofstra, here are a few things 
to keep in mind while cheering on Randy Edsall’s Huskies:
- Randy Edsall is coaching under a new contract, which includes a $1.5 buyout clause should he leave UConn after this season. Rich Rodriguez left West Virginia for Michigan despite a whopping $4 million buyout clause. Will another post-season bowl appearance make Edsall a hot commodity for big-time coaching positions? If so, will $1.5 million keep him from jumping ship?
- When sitting in your seat at Rentschler Field, look left, look right and look up. Imagine an extra 10,000-15,000 seats in the stadium. Then imagine Penn State on the field in their white road uniforms playing UConn. This is the vision Edsall has for the program.
- Notice that you cannot see the gold dome of the state capitol from Rentschler Field. This a good thing. As the UConn-Notre Dame negotiations demonstrated, the legislature should not stick its nose in the increasing complex world of Division I football series agreements. Like church and state, football and state politics should remain separate.
- Speaking of gold domes, UConn will be playing Notre Dame in 2009, in the House that Rockne Built. Will UConn be ready to play Notre Dame on a national stage?
