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Edsall sends poor message with walkout

STORRS — Randy Edsall opened his weekly news conference by saying Mitch Albom had his Tuesdays with Morrie and he has his Tuesdays with the media.

“You guys don’t know how much I enjoy doing this,” the UConn football coach said.

On the scale from slapstick to biting cynicism, we’ll archive this one as “goodnatured yet rather ironic.” A dollop of sarcasm with a smile.

How Edsall closed his weekly news conference, however — that was far more interesting.

It was 23 minutes, 30 seconds in when Jim Fuller of Hearst Connecticut Media began his question:

“Wake Forest just fired their defensive coordinator. Just curious, your philosophy on that ...”

“What does that have to do with us?” Edsall interjected.

“Well, I’m just …”

“I’m done,” Edsall said, cutting off Fuller. “I can see where this is going. I’m done.”

And he was. Edsall walked away from the podium toward Saturday’s game at Rentschler Field against Cincinnati.

Tuesdays with Randy usually last a half hour, so it would be unfair to paint this as him showing up sore and leaving abruptly. Sure, he wasn’t happy another opponent hung another 50 on the Huskies, but Edsall gave us our requisite national flag blue lesson in the need for consistency and accountability again.

Edsall, too, is known on occasion to suddenly make it clear that he’s done talking. But I don’t remember him shutting it down in midquestion like this.

He knew the question had