On the other hand, take a gander (if you dare) at the AAC main-board to see all the ECU posters trying to own the UConn championship even though they aren't even IN the conference yet.

I really do WANT to like this conference, but I just can't. Good win, UConn and the American is the two-time defending National champs... But boy, do I want out.

Sean Kilpatrick still deserves AAC player of the year

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(04-07-2014 11:02 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  On the other hand, take a gander (if you dare) at the AAC main-board to see all the ECU posters trying to own the UConn championship even though they aren't even IN the conference yet.

I really do WANT to like this conference, but I just can't. Good win, UConn and the American is the two-time defending National champs... But boy, do I want out.

Didn't get any easier tonight.

Game against Harvard sucked, but UC won the league that had the National Champion and the defending National Champion. Also beat both of those teams. The Bearcats aren't that far away.

(04-07-2014 11:18 PM)The T-Shirt Wrote:  

(04-07-2014 11:02 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  On the other hand, take a gander (if you dare) at the AAC main-board to see all the ECU posters trying to own the UConn championship even though they aren't even IN the conference yet.

I really do WANT to like this conference, but I just can't. Good win, UConn and the American is the two-time defending National champs... But boy, do I want out.

Didn't get any easier tonight.

I don't disagree, but I think the inability for the FB team to get to and win a BCS bowl in our last AQ year did more damage.

Shows where my interest level went after that Harvard game.

My kid and I got sucked into watching NC St v. Clemson play baseball in the rain and I opted to hit the sack rather than switch over.

I'm not sure that the average fan realizes that UConn now has as many championships as Duke and more than Kansas and Louisville. They have had an incredible run the last 20 years.

(04-08-2014 07:06 AM)Bearcat04 Wrote:  I'm not sure that the average fan realizes that UConn now has as many championships as Duke and more than Kansas and Louisville. They have had an incredible run the last 20 years.

UConn has moved from basketball obscurity to membership in the basketball elite in a relatively short time.

Not happy that UConn and Shabazz took the title but If the Cats and Huskies are going to be in the American its good for the conference. I still think Cincinnati-UConn will become the best basketball rivalry game within the conference based on both schools being the most high profile programs left behind. The two teams have played some great games over the last four or five years. Every year Cincinnati seems to pass the Huskies in the standings, UConn has incredible run to the title. I am proud that UC won the conference championship and was the only team to beat the other nine schools in the league, but I want what UConn has. Even though the names and faces will change, I am already looking forward to our basketball games against UConn next season.

(04-07-2014 10:40 PM)dossbig Wrote:  

(04-07-2014 10:30 PM)SW UC Wrote:  Uconn wins the National Championship. Props to them and good for our conference. UK fans and their crooked coach can suck it and I hope it hurts!

Bed Bugs will die in Lexington because of the loss.

UC students would never partake in this type of behavior. OOPS

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/coll...mpus-party

Riot police called in to end University of Cincinnati off campus party

Quote:Students burned couches and turned over two cars during that incident. Authorities called in more than 20 officers and a police helicopter to bring that crowd under control.

I heard the party didn't get out of control until someone thought it was a bright idea to bring in riot police.

Wow, 500 whole people at this event. The old Derby Day party in the 80's had at least double that. We used to have 200 just in the yearly party in our own house. We had to call the police on ourselves to get them to show up in the day.

(04-08-2014 09:16 AM)Bruce Monnin Wrote:  I heard the party didn't get out of control until someone thought it was a bright idea to bring in riot police.

Wow, 500 whole people at this event. The old Derby Day party in the 80's had at least double that. We used to have 200 just in the yearly party in our own house. We had to call the police on ourselves to get them to show up in the day.

The coverage of this "UC riot" is ridiculous. When I was in school I used to go up to the Ghetto in UD and saw parties like that a few times a year. More times than not the authorities came in full gear looking to crack a few skulls.

I rarely watch the news anymore. They have to start each newscast with "Breaking News" even if there isn't any breaking news here. They will look to other cities to find it. The tv screen is so full of graphics and windows it's annoying to watch.

News isn't supposed to entertain me - it's just news.

Totally venting here......surely nothing I say is new, or news, but gawd dayum I'm sick of the Bearcats not winning big. In the time that UConn has risen to bball royalty we've risen and fallen, had some great years in the 90s, but nothing really since.

We're not gonna get some nebulous benefits to UConn's win. It's just a conference mate that won big. This is now there conference, and quite frankly we're not on the level. Humorously ppl on here time and time again make the case for how we're "big time" and need to be put in our rightful place, i.e. a better hoops conference.....yet I question the logic here. We were in the BEAST. We didn't do well. Ever. We were, at best a middle of the pack team. It's tragic.

We haven't been to the EE since '95-96. The FF since '91-92. I needn't even go over how many other programs surpass us on both accounts over the years.

Whether it is Huggins, or now w/Mick, we suck in the Big Dance. Period. Just look at this:

89-90: NIT Sweet Sixteen
90-91: NIT Sweet Sixteen
91-92: FF
92-93: EE
93-94: 1st round
94-95: Rounda32
95-96: EE
96-97: rounda32
97-98: rounda32
98-99: rounda32
99-00: rounda32
00-01: SS
01-02: rounda32
02-03: 1st round
03-04: rounda32
04-05: rounda32
05-06: NIT EE
06-07: n/a
07-08: CBI 1st round
08-09: n/a
09-10: NIT 2nd round
10-11: rounda32
11-12: SS
12-13: 1st round
13-14: 1st round

GAWD! For anyone who used to be on the ol' ESPN message board, you'll get the 'rounda32' reference. Jeezus was that screen name so f**kin' on point. To H-E-L-L with conference regular season titles. Who even remembers those?!?!

I'm not getting in to the Huggins firing debacle, b/c quite frankly it's fairly obvious to me that he and his coaching abilities are severely limited and riding the downward spiral that is his current coaching existence wasn't exactly my idea of how to spend future years. So, whatever with his firing....and even the crash and burn we went through. Here we are now. Right back to where we were in the 90s. A program that gets some shine, HOWEVER, we reliably lose early in the tournament. UGH.

I attended UC from 95-00, which were some of the best years. However, I've since become totally jaded to the hoops program and i hate that. I now get my kicks from our football program. At least there I can find some measure of satisfaction. I like being the underdog. A program vying for respect. However, with the hoops team, for all the hubbub about how 'we're back'.....i gotta question what it is we're back to. Quite frankly, as much as I disdained Huggs, at least in his early years he found great success. Early. It was inspirational. Miss me with the sob story of how Mick has returned the program, b/c honestly the job Huggs did to get us to relevancy in the 90s from the wasteland we were in the 80s was a better job.

So, we have a disciple, who's not as good as the original, who was good-to-great early, but apparently ran out of fresh ideas along the way to his latter years w/the program. UGH. This ish is depressing. I can hardly watch college basketball anymore. Regular seasons, as a UC fan, are HUGELY misleading and repeatedly prove to be irrelevant. I can't take it.

Ok. I'm just about done here. By all means, feel free to tear me town, as some idiot. Whatever. I just wonder if anyone else is suffering through the same pain I am. Anyone?





mc

(04-08-2014 09:44 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(04-08-2014 09:16 AM)Bruce Monnin Wrote:  I heard the party didn't get out of control until someone thought it was a bright idea to bring in riot police.

Wow, 500 whole people at this event. The old Derby Day party in the 80's had at least double that. We used to have 200 just in the yearly party in our own house. We had to call the police on ourselves to get them to show up in the day.

The coverage of this "UC riot" is ridiculous. When I was in school I used to go up to the Ghetto in UD and saw parties like that a few times a year. More times than not the authorities came in full gear looking to crack a few skulls.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10...0780519904

I don't know if the swat team was called in on this incident but the story reminded me of this article about the militarization of police in this country.

(04-08-2014 10:52 AM)marcuscan Wrote:  Totally venting here......surely nothing I say is new, or news, but gawd dayum I'm sick of the Bearcats not winning big. In the time that UConn has risen to bball royalty we've risen and fallen, had some great years in the 90s, but nothing really since.

We're not gonna get some nebulous benefits to UConn's win. It's just a conference mate that won big. This is now there conference, and quite frankly we're not on the level. Humorously ppl on here time and time again make the case for how we're "big time" and need to be put in our rightful place, i.e. a better hoops conference.....yet I question the logic here. We were in the BEAST. We didn't do well. Ever. We were, at best a middle of the pack team. It's tragic.

We haven't been to the EE since '95-96. The FF since '91-92. I needn't even go over how many other programs surpass us on both accounts over the years.

Whether it is Huggins, or now w/Mick, we suck in the Big Dance. Period. Just look at this:

89-90: NIT Sweet Sixteen
90-91: NIT Sweet Sixteen
91-92: FF
92-93: EE
93-94: 1st round
94-95: Rounda32
95-96: EE
96-97: rounda32
97-98: rounda32
98-99: rounda32
99-00: rounda32
00-01: SS
01-02: rounda32
02-03: 1st round
03-04: rounda32
04-05: rounda32
05-06: NIT EE
06-07: n/a
07-08: CBI 1st round
08-09: n/a
09-10: NIT 2nd round
10-11: rounda32
11-12: SS
12-13: 1st round
13-14: 1st round

GAWD! For anyone who used to be on the ol' ESPN message board, you'll get the 'rounda32' reference. Jeezus was that screen name so f**kin' on point. To H-E-L-L with conference regular season titles. Who even remembers those?!?!

I'm not getting in to the Huggins firing debacle, b/c quite frankly it's fairly obvious to me that he and his coaching abilities are severely limited and riding the downward spiral that is his current coaching existence wasn't exactly my idea of how to spend future years. So, whatever with his firing....and even the crash and burn we went through. Here we are now. Right back to where we were in the 90s. A program that gets some shine, HOWEVER, we reliably lose early in the tournament. UGH.

I attended UC from 95-00, which were some of the best years. However, I've since become totally jaded to the hoops program and i hate that. I now get my kicks from our football program. At least there I can find some measure of satisfaction. I like being the underdog. A program vying for respect. However, with the hoops team, for all the hubbub about how 'we're back'.....i gotta question what it is we're back to. Quite frankly, as much as I disdained Huggs, at least in his early years he found great success. Early. It was inspirational. Miss me with the sob story of how Mick has returned the program, b/c honestly the job Huggs did to get us to relevancy in the 90s from the wasteland we were in the 80s was a better job.

So, we have a disciple, who's not as good as the original, who was good-to-great early, but apparently ran out of fresh ideas along the way to his latter years w/the program. UGH. This ish is depressing. I can hardly watch college basketball anymore. Regular seasons, as a UC fan, are HUGELY misleading and repeatedly prove to be irrelevant. I can't take it.

Ok. I'm just about done here. By all means, feel free to tear me town, as some idiot. Whatever. I just wonder if anyone else is suffering through the same pain I am. Anyone?





mc

You'll get no beef from me. However, there are several on here that have posted and agreed with the notion that the tournament is "icing on the cake" (I think that was term that was used in another thread).

Like you I am tired of not seeing UC excel on a national stage.

Not too far off Marcus, for one I'm glad they are getting better, getting back to the level they were at prior to the fiasco. But, why settle for that? I want them to run deeper in the tournament. I'm sick and tired of watching UC have great regular seasons and then falling apart and folding when the games really count. It's frustrating watching the program go down in flames in the tournament. It seems every year UC peaks at the wrong time, then forgets what got them there when tournament play starts.

This year, the play down the stretch was pathetic outside of beating Memphis (which, honestly, can't play defense - 24pt Rubles, where was that when UC needed it). The conference tournament performance was terrible, almost losing to UCF. That play carried right into the 1st round game with Harvard. Somehow, other teams get better at the end of the season, UC seems to get worse. Anymore, I come to expect to watching only the first weekend of the tournament, as the only team I root for is usually ousted.

On a sidenote, bravo CBS for the "One Shinning Moment" montage, can't get enough of the Duke-Mercer post game reactions. At least UC's loss wasn't as bad as that - and at least the biggest laughing stock wasn't UC.

UC had some bad luck in the late 1990's through 2000 that makes the Cat's tournament performance look worse than it should be. Cincinnati, Pitt, and Purdue are three programs that seem to have a lot of regular season success throughout there history but have lacked behind in turning those seasons into NCAA tournament success. A conference championship is still a great accomplishment but I like the rest of you want a Final Four and a National Title.

Tournament success to me is still luck combined with talent. UConn needed an three point play to save their season in the first round because it looked like the Hawks had the Huskies beat. Kentucky was winning close games all the way through the tournament until the end. I imagine that if UC stockpiles enough talent they will breakthrough to at least the elite 8 or better.

(04-08-2014 09:16 AM)Bruce Monnin Wrote:  I heard the party didn't get out of control until someone thought it was a bright idea to bring in riot police.

Wow, 500 whole people at this event. The old Derby Day party in the 80's had at least double that. We used to have 200 just in the yearly party in our own house. We had to call the police on ourselves to get them to show up in the day.

They call this a riot now?

20-25 years ago on Flora Ave. they had a name for this...Thursdays.

(04-08-2014 09:16 AM)Bruce Monnin Wrote:  I heard the party didn't get out of control until someone thought it was a bright idea to bring in riot police.

Wow, 500 whole people at this event. The old Derby Day party in the 80's had at least double that. We used to have 200 just in the yearly party in our own house. We had to call the police on ourselves to get them to show up in the day.

We still did in the early 2000's....the neighbors were not happy about the street party in 02.