(10-18-2013 06:04 PM)TRest3 Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 02:57 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 02:41 PM)TRest3 Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 12:42 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  I guess you don't read your own UConn fan board...you guys seemed pretty obsessed yourselves.

Apparently Cuse fans are finding out what BC fans already know: the original ACC members could not care less about you guys.

Lashing out like a psycho ex-girlfriend?

Maybe we should play this year out and see?

You're haunting our boards, i haven't looked at a BE board since April. Who's missing whom?

Haunting our boards? Do I read one UConn board occasionally, yes...do I post at UConn boards? Not in over 7 months. Seriously you are coming off like a schoolgirl.

(10-18-2013 06:13 PM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 05:53 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 05:30 PM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 04:50 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 03:51 PM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  I think you are wrong. Here is why:

Since 1990 (as the poster suggested)

National Champs: Uconn 3 Cuse 1
Final Fours: UConn 4 Cuse 3
Elite 8s: Uconn 9 Cuse 4
Sweet 16s: Uconn 13 Cuse 11
Appearances: Cuse 19 Uconn 18
Big East Tournament Championships: Uconn 7 Cuse 3
Big East Reg Season: Uconn 10 Cuse 7

I noticed you totally ignored the middle part of my comments...

It had nothing to do with the argument. Your using an unknown factor to discuss the past

Everybody knows that UConn had done absolutely nothing until Jim Calhoun arrived on campus. We also know that Calhoun broke several NCAA recruiting rules while at UConn. The only thing we don't know is how long he breaking the NCAA's rules in his recruiting efforts...

Without that illegal advantage, UConn will find it harder to recruit talent. UConn won't be as desirable a destination without Jim Calhoun, Syracuse, Pitt, WVU, Louisville, and the Big East Catholic schools either. It's easy to see a decline coming...

That is still an assumption, a popular one, but perhaps an inaccurate one. Frankly Uconn had an ok program before Calhoun. Multiple sweet softens and an elite eight prior to his taking the program to a national level to eventually an elite one. the same assumption can be made about syracuse when Jim B calls it quits. They were also riddled with NCAA infractions because of recruiting violations and banned from postseason play.

That being said this was not a discussion of who had a better outlook, obviously syracuse has the advantage due to conference realignment now. That does not imply Uconn has no opportunity to maintain its success though.

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Cuse made the Final Four before Boeheim and we'll make it after Boeheim. BTW, what was this discussion about? I posted a parody video and you guys made it into some sort of pissing contest.

(10-18-2013 08:55 PM)jrj84105 Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 06:13 PM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  Multiple sweet softens and an elite eight prior to his taking the program to a national level to eventually an elite one.

Mmmm. Sweet softens

LOL sounds like a fabric softener doesn't it. Brutal auto correct.

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(10-18-2013 09:28 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 06:13 PM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 05:53 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 05:30 PM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 04:50 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  I noticed you totally ignored the middle part of my comments...

It had nothing to do with the argument. Your using an unknown factor to discuss the past

Everybody knows that UConn had done absolutely nothing until Jim Calhoun arrived on campus. We also know that Calhoun broke several NCAA recruiting rules while at UConn. The only thing we don't know is how long he breaking the NCAA's rules in his recruiting efforts...

Without that illegal advantage, UConn will find it harder to recruit talent. UConn won't be as desirable a destination without Jim Calhoun, Syracuse, Pitt, WVU, Louisville, and the Big East Catholic schools either. It's easy to see a decline coming...

That is still an assumption, a popular one, but perhaps an inaccurate one. Frankly Uconn had an ok program before Calhoun. Multiple sweet softens and an elite eight prior to his taking the program to a national level to eventually an elite one. the same assumption can be made about syracuse when Jim B calls it quits. They were also riddled with NCAA infractions because of recruiting violations and banned from postseason play.

That being said this was not a discussion of who had a better outlook, obviously syracuse has the advantage due to conference realignment now. That does not imply Uconn has no opportunity to maintain its success though.

Cuse made the Final Four before Boeheim and we'll make it after Boeheim. BTW, what was this discussion about? I posted a parody video and you guys made it into some sort of pissing contest.

You were expecting something else?

Guys, Kevin Ollie is an excellent coach, and UConn has still been pulling in great recruits after Calhoun without a hiccup. So the Huskies, on the fly and without breaking stride, have already successfully pivoted toward the future. Other schools (4 other power schools come to mind immediately) will have to try to make this pivot in the next 5 years. Plus, I'd say 3 (THREE) National Championships in the last 15 years trumps just about anything.

And, yeah, the Hitler parody thing got old about 200,000 parodies ago.

Nobody has a sense of humor anymore? Lighten up and laugh sometime.

(10-18-2013 03:21 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 03:02 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  It was tolerable until the, "Syracuse is the Big Dog of the Big East" line.

Not here in the middle of the country ... the perception in the central time zone is UConn BB > Syracuse BB since 1990.

LOL...not really but continue to believe that.

If you were to pick a random person at a mall in Texas and ask them, "Which school has the more important basketball program, UConn or Syracuse?", more than 50% would say UConn.

(10-19-2013 08:57 AM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  Nobody has a sense of humor anymore? Lighten up and laugh sometime.

I would have laughed at it if it wasn't the 1,842nd version of Hitler flipping out on everything from conference realignment to TV shows being canceled. My issue is with the fact that they need to find a new joke because that one is VERY played out.

(10-18-2013 08:33 PM)jmc79er Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 05:38 PM)Minutemen429 Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 05:08 PM)Eagle78 Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 04:53 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 02:57 PM)TexanMark Wrote:   Lashing out like a psycho ex-girlfriend?

Maybe we should play this year out and see?

I can guarantee you that most of the actual real life ACC fans I know on Tobacco Road don't give a flying F&*K about Cuse, Pitt, ND, or BC. They despise the fact that the ACC has expanded past it's natural (what they feel is natural) boundaries. Most of them do like UL though, as KY is somewhat southern and not a bunch of NE Yanks.

I don't know. I have been to every ACC venue and have had wonderful interactions with ACC fans - especially at Clemson, UVA, and FSU. (Of course, those schools aren't part of Tobacco Road.)

As a BC fan, comparing how we are regarded in the ACC vs. the OBE is like night and day. It's all a matter of perspective, my friend.

Who is BC's rival in the ACC? Which teams does BC circle on the schedule and say no matter the record, we have to beat them? And who says that about BC?

....so says the UMass fan whose school just joined the MAC. Talk to me about the natural rivals UMass has in the MAC.

We don't have a rival in the MAC,it was supposed to be Temple. I'll take your non answer as BC doesn't have a rival in the ACC. Your wonderful interactions with other ACC fans are due to indifference, your conference games are treated with all the enthusiasm of non conference FCS games by opposing fans just like our MAC games.

(10-19-2013 09:57 AM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 03:21 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 03:02 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  It was tolerable until the, "Syracuse is the Big Dog of the Big East" line.

Not here in the middle of the country ... the perception in the central time zone is UConn BB > Syracuse BB since 1990.

LOL...not really but continue to believe that.

If you were to pick a random person at a mall in Texas and ask them, "Which school has the more important basketball program, UConn or Syracuse?", more than 50% would say UConn.

I dont believe that at all. Most people think of importance as a reflection of notoriety. Syracuse is a much bigger and better known brand than Uconn nationally. If Uconn bb is so important, why are they still stuck in the aac? Why didnt the Big 12 or the Big 10 or the Acc invite Uconn if its so important?

(10-19-2013 01:06 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(10-19-2013 09:57 AM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 03:21 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 03:02 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  It was tolerable until the, "Syracuse is the Big Dog of the Big East" line.

Not here in the middle of the country ... the perception in the central time zone is UConn BB > Syracuse BB since 1990.

LOL...not really but continue to believe that.

If you were to pick a random person at a mall in Texas and ask them, "Which school has the more important basketball program, UConn or Syracuse?", more than 50% would say UConn.

I dont believe that at all. Most people think of importance as a reflection of notoriety. Syracuse is a much bigger and better known brand than Uconn nationally. If Uconn bb is so important, why are they still stuck in the aac? Why didnt the Big 12 or the Big 10 or the Acc invite Uconn if its so important?

Most of the nation will say that Syracuse is playing big time ball in the ACC. UConn isn't playing teams of a similar caliber any longer...

(10-19-2013 09:57 AM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 03:21 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(10-18-2013 03:02 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  It was tolerable until the, "Syracuse is the Big Dog of the Big East" line.

Not here in the middle of the country ... the perception in the central time zone is UConn BB > Syracuse BB since 1990.

LOL...not really but continue to believe that.

If you were to pick a random person at a mall in Texas and ask them, "Which school has the more important basketball program, UConn or Syracuse?", more than 50% would say UConn.

Now that is the winning argument there...

Yea this is now locked. Total s***show.

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Thanks, brista. I was considering doing the same...

lets just say BOTH programs are very successful

Whoever reopened this thread, it's closed again...