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.