UConn Vs. Rutgers: Huskies Get Vertical

SB Nation’s On The Banks and The UConn Blog discuss the Huskies’ recent attempts at taking the offense to the air:

On the Banks: Rutgers fans are not at all happy with their play calling on offense right now, which has some parallels to the situation at UConn after Dan Orlovsky graduated. For a while the Husky offense was basically just running Donald Brown and Andre Dixon, with Tyler Lorenzen scrambling around as a momentary distraction to try to keep defenses honest. Their former offensive coordinator, Rob Ambrose, is now at Towson. Edsall’s chosen replacement was to pluck Joe Moorhead from Akron. How has that hire affected the UConn football program?
The UConn Blog: How does the blooming of the flowers affect April? No one ran a glorified 1940’s offense like UConn under Rob Ambrose. Donald Brown is great, and we love him for sure. But UConn football in 2008 - the last year of the Ambrose regime - became an incredible chore to watch. Run, run, desperation incomplete pass. Run, run, desperation incomplete pass. Sprinkle in the occasional drive with long Brown touchdown runs, and you get the idea. Under Moorhead, there’s actually a semblance of a vertical passing game at UConn (minus a couple games at the beginning of this season, but I blame Zach Frazer). That fact would have led the 2008 version of me to declare you a sorcerer of black magic and lies. The fact that the running game remains roughly as good as ever is just icing on the cake.