- ABC News
- September 5, 2021
Four years into a second stint at UConn that hasn't gone nearly as well as the first, Randy Edsall announced on Sunday that he will retire at the end of this season. The announcement comes roughly 24 hours after the Huskies lost to Holy Cross, an FCS program, dropping to 0-2 on the season. Their other loss was 45-0 to Fresno State. UConn, which did not play football last season due to COVID-19, is 6-32 under Edsall since 2017. And that's a far cry from the success he experienced his first time around with the Huskies. He once led the program from Division I-AA into Division I-A, now known as the FBS, becoming a fixture during bowl season along the way. UConn went 74-70 and reached five bowl games during that tenure. Edsall, 63, left in 2011 to take over at Maryland but was fired midway through his fifth season, having compiled a record of 22-34 with the Terrapins. He returned to Storrs in 2017. "After 17 years of service at the University of Connecticut as its head football...