Rough week for Randy Edsall. The Huskies, who last week remembered Jasper Howard and his death a year earlier, have lost two in a row. The 26-0 loss to Louisville was the first shutout since 2005. In his Tuesday press conference, Edsall was asked to speak to people who want him fired.

“That’s one of those questions that it doesn’t matter how you answer it, so maybe I’m better off not answering at all. People can have opinions, but I need to be careful with the statements I make. If I was Geno (Auriemma), I could probably get away with the statement. People can have opinions and say what they want to say, but the people I need to care about are the players, the people at this university, and myself. I didn’t get dumb overnight. Some years you have enough pieces for the puzzle and some years you don’t. All I can do is work to make these kids all that they can be in every aspect of life.”

Not enough friendly fire? How about intracampus espionage? It happens at UConn.

They will and might practice inside from now on, but not because of the weather. Edsall said that about 45 minutes before the call, his secretary, Joanne Fazio, received an email from a former player’s parent. Apparently the parent had found something online that detailed UConn’s practices well.

“We have an issue with somebody who wants to write what we do at practice watching from the dorm rooms (that overlook the practice field),” Edsall said. “Somebody was giving a blow-by-blow about everything we did at practice. It was pretty descript, I’ll tell you that. Somebody knows something about football.

“Technology nowadays, everybody wants to tell everybody something. It’s amazing. We have one of our own students working against us.”

Somewhere a student with a work-study job in a football office is driving a very nice car, nodding his head and smiling. Allegedly.