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HERE’S TO DOING THINGS THE RIGHT WAY

Related Topics: Randy Edsall, Bob Diaco, Ron Howard

That’s so cool when coaches honor scholarships previously granted in theory to incoming recruits. Sure, you didn’t pick them. Your predecessor did. Maybe you disagree on the talent level there, but a promise is a promise, and when you are a coach you represent more than yourself. You represent the school, and the school doesn’t break promises.

Like Randy Edsall, who despite not being the recently fired Bob Diaco honored a scholarship to New Jersey linebacker prospect Ryan Dickens.*

UConn fired Diaco in late December and hired Edsall — who had previously served as head coach of the Huskies from 1999 to 2010 — on Dec.