{"id":43511,"date":"2011-08-08T13:52:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=43511"},"modified":"2012-06-19T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T20:28:11","slug":"football-to-hold-open-practice-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/08\/football-to-hold-open-practice-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Football to Hold Open Practice Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Husky fans will have the opportunity to get a preview of the 2011 football team during three open practice sessions, beginning on Tuesday, Aug. 9, from 3 to 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The other two practices will be: Tuesday, Aug. 16 from 3 to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 20 from 8:45 to 11:15 a.m. All three practices will be held on the practice fields behind the old Memorial Stadium, off Alumni Drive. Free parking for these practices will be available in &#8220;D&#8221; lot.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut went 8-5 last season after earning its first-ever Bowl Championship Series bid, and tied for the league championship.<\/p>\n<p>West Virginia has been tabbed as the favorite to win the 2011 title in the conference&#8217;s annual preseason media poll, a year after winning a share of its sixth Big East Championship. UConn, which won a share of its second Big East title in four years, was picked sixth in the preseason poll with 76 points.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uconnhuskies.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/mtt\/pasqualoni_paul00.html\">Paul Pasqualoni<\/a> enters his first year with the Huskies, but holds the distinction of having the most Big East wins of any coach in league history from his 14-year career at Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p>In case of inclement weather, please check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uconnhuskies.com\/\">UConnHuskies.com<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans can preview 2011 Husky football at three open practices, beginning Aug. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[55],"class_list":["post-43511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 12:10:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61687,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43511\/revisions\/61687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43511"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=43511"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=43511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}