Big East Football Is Like Paris In The Springtime (Sweaty)

Checking in on spring football with SBN’s Big East blogs:

UConn. Post-spring practice depth charts are the college football equivalent of alcoholics emptying the kitchen cabinets of vanilla extract, but it’s April and we’re all addicts, and The UConn Blog is here to help:

We’re officially screwed at safety: The Huskies’ defense was chewed up through the air last season to the tune of nearly 236 yards per game and finished the 2009 ranked 85th in the country in pass efficiency defense. It didn’t help that UConn’s offense became tolerable, leading to a ton of late-season shootouts, but the secondary, obviously, was mostly to blame. Specifically the safeties. Robert Vaughn was good at creating turnovers (5 Ints, 3 fumble recoveries in ‘09) but not the greatest in pass defense. And first-year starter Jerome Junior -- you may remember him from such films as, “Honey, I Gave Up A 70-Yard TD On The First Play of the Spring Game” -- seemed over his head at times and was eventually pulled in and out of the lineup for the now-exiled Aaron Bagsby.Rutgers. Over On The Banks, our Rutgers bloggers help set an attendance record for the Scarlet Knights’ spring game and provide photo accompaniments that make me wish I’d gone to a college that thought of open grassy spaces as something to be preserved rather than plowed under for parking lots:

This body of water is known as the Passion Puddle. Love you to death, Jersey.