FIU Football: Game Notebook — UConn

Following FIU’s 73-0 blowout loss at Western Kentucky, I braced myself for what I imagined would be a very short and disillusioned Mike MacIntyre postgame.

Maybe, I’ve been shaped by several postgame pressers in the past that were — ahem, brief.

Instead, as MacIntyre spotted me inside the FIU locker room at Houchens-Smith Stadium, he nodded and gave a wink, as to say he would be ready to answer my questions in a moment — which he did with a level of energy that I wasn’t expecting given the margin of defeat.

Fast forward to yesterday’s homecoming loss to UConn and MacIntyre’s face wore the emotion of a coach who disappointed in his team’s performance, realizing that they weren’t outclassed —…