esayem
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RE: Syracuse fans....
(11-24-2017 08:41 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote: (11-24-2017 08:01 PM)esayem Wrote: (11-24-2017 04:29 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote: (11-24-2017 12:54 PM)esayem Wrote: Ah yes, the 20 combined rivalry games UConn has played against Syracuse and Louisville. Nobody is stopping UConn from scheduling their true rivals, URI and UMass.
Well ... in hoops, we are 11 and 6 against UConn all time ... the last few years we pretty much owned them, several times posting 25 point + victories.
I will say this about UConn. They did Card fans a huge favor by beating Kentucky for the title in 2014. That year we beat UConn by 12 in Gampel, by 35 at home, and by 10 again for the AAC conference title. And we blew it against UK in the Sweet Sixteen .... still painful to think about how that one got away. What could have been.
Yes, basketball is a different story. UConn had great 90’s rivalries with BC, PC, Syracuse, G’town, etc. Louisville had a great run in the BE w/Pitino. When Crum was there they always seemed to be in the top of the Metro.
Well ... Crum had great teams, but had to schedule like a monster out-of-conference each year, because the top of the metro was basically us, Memphis State and one random team (Tulane one year, Virginia Tech with Stephon Curry's daddy another, Florida State another, South Carolina another ... etc.)
Hardly a conference as good as the Big East, or ACC, or even CUSA with Memphis, Marquette, Cincinnati, and the decent-at-the-time UAB, and UNC-Charlotte.
Yeah, that original C-USA was like the Metro on steroids with Marquette and there were a few highly talented DePaul teams where guys bolted after a year.
As a college basketball fan in general, I am not a fan of what happened to all of the smaller, competitive conferences being phased out. The sad reality is the ACC has their eyes on Syracuse and to a lesser extent BC and Pitt since the early 90’s. The higher-ups knew the Big East was too little too late accommodating Penn State and planned the East Coast takeover. It’s a shame because smaller football conferences with more marquee out of conference games is ideal for the playoff. Alas...
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TexanMark
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RE: Syracuse fans....
(11-24-2017 08:01 PM)esayem Wrote: (11-24-2017 04:29 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote: (11-24-2017 12:54 PM)esayem Wrote: Ah yes, the 20 combined rivalry games UConn has played against Syracuse and Louisville. Nobody is stopping UConn from scheduling their true rivals, URI and UMass.
Well ... in hoops, we are 11 and 6 against UConn all time ... the last few years we pretty much owned them, several times posting 25 point + victories.
I will say this about UConn. They did Card fans a huge favor by beating Kentucky for the title in 2014. That year we beat UConn by 12 in Gampel, by 35 at home, and by 10 again for the AAC conference title. And we blew it against UK in the Sweet Sixteen .... still painful to think about how that one got away. What could have been.
Yes, basketball is a different story. UConn had great 90’s rivalries with BC, PC, Syracuse, G’town, etc. Louisville had a great run in the BE w/Pitino. When Crum was there they always seemed to be in the top of the Metro.
So only football counts for who are your rivals? Curious coming from a UNC fan. Or was it more sarcasm?
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esayem
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RE: Syracuse fans....
(11-24-2017 08:57 PM)TexanMark Wrote: (11-24-2017 08:01 PM)esayem Wrote: (11-24-2017 04:29 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote: (11-24-2017 12:54 PM)esayem Wrote: Ah yes, the 20 combined rivalry games UConn has played against Syracuse and Louisville. Nobody is stopping UConn from scheduling their true rivals, URI and UMass.
Well ... in hoops, we are 11 and 6 against UConn all time ... the last few years we pretty much owned them, several times posting 25 point + victories.
I will say this about UConn. They did Card fans a huge favor by beating Kentucky for the title in 2014. That year we beat UConn by 12 in Gampel, by 35 at home, and by 10 again for the AAC conference title. And we blew it against UK in the Sweet Sixteen .... still painful to think about how that one got away. What could have been.
Yes, basketball is a different story. UConn had great 90’s rivalries with BC, PC, Syracuse, G’town, etc. Louisville had a great run in the BE w/Pitino. When Crum was there they always seemed to be in the top of the Metro.
So only football counts for who are your rivals? Curious coming from a UNC fan. Or was it more sarcasm?
The original post was about a football game. The northeast is unique in that football and basketball rivalries aren’t always with the same schools.
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TexanMark
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RE: Syracuse fans....
(11-24-2017 09:19 PM)esayem Wrote: (11-24-2017 08:57 PM)TexanMark Wrote: (11-24-2017 08:01 PM)esayem Wrote: (11-24-2017 04:29 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote: (11-24-2017 12:54 PM)esayem Wrote: Ah yes, the 20 combined rivalry games UConn has played against Syracuse and Louisville. Nobody is stopping UConn from scheduling their true rivals, URI and UMass.
Well ... in hoops, we are 11 and 6 against UConn all time ... the last few years we pretty much owned them, several times posting 25 point + victories.
I will say this about UConn. They did Card fans a huge favor by beating Kentucky for the title in 2014. That year we beat UConn by 12 in Gampel, by 35 at home, and by 10 again for the AAC conference title. And we blew it against UK in the Sweet Sixteen .... still painful to think about how that one got away. What could have been.
Yes, basketball is a different story. UConn had great 90’s rivalries with BC, PC, Syracuse, G’town, etc. Louisville had a great run in the BE w/Pitino. When Crum was there they always seemed to be in the top of the Metro.
So only football counts for who are your rivals? Curious coming from a UNC fan. Or was it more sarcasm?
The original post was about a football game. The northeast is unique in that football and basketball rivalries aren’t always with the same schools.
That is true...Cuse big rivals in Hoops Georgetown, Nova, UConn, SJU, Duke, UNC, Pitt, Ville...we only play two in FB (playing teams once every 6 or so years doesn't count)
(This post was last modified: 11-25-2017 01:42 AM by TexanMark.)
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