‘I needed to finish’

Ex-Husky Lloyd graduates 10 years after leaving school

Greg Lloyd Jr., who once sent a Notre Dame helmet flying into the air while making one of the most famous tackles in UConn history, was a good college student when he wanted to be.

He did not always want to be.

“I can’t remember the exact day but I remember the moment when I woke up and was like, ‘I think I’m just going to be a football player,’ ” Lloyd said. “I was over school.”

That, Lloyd thinks, was during his junior year and early in the 2009 season.

That, he knows for sure, did not go over well at the Burton Family Football Complex.

Lloyd, a linebacker, remembers being in the front row for a team meeting when Randy Edsall addressed the group with words still seared into his memory.

“Coach Edsall starts,” Lloyd said, “and he says, ‘I’ve been getting a lot of emails