RE: Final Four games
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
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