Todman banished to study hall, Edsall annoyed

While his UConn football teammates were busy with Tuesday’s spring practice session at the Shenkman Center, Jordan Todman was in street clothes behind the closed door of the academic support room.Todman had been banished there by coach Randy Edsall for the day, and he’ll be back for the next football practice on Thursday, too, until he catches up on his schoolwork.Edsall, speaking with the media during a brief practice break, discussed Todman’s academic slip with an intonation that became increasingly peevish with each word he spoke.It wasn’t necessarily that his starting tailback and one of the Huskies’ top offensive players wasn’t living up to his end of the bargain that bothered Edsall – though it certainly didn’t help. It was more the fact that linebacker Lawrence Wilson, one of the team’s top defensive players, had suffered the same fate a week earlier.“We had an example of Wilson not doing it, and now this week we had somebody who didn’t do what they were supposed to,” Edsall ...