Postgame discussion thread: Notre Dame 58, UConn 50
by Kevin Meacham on Mar 3, 2010 9:01 PM EST
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The Blue-White football game is just a month away!
/anger
/sarcsam
/ORANGEBOWL!
UConn can still make the NCAA Tournament with a couple wins, but HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA if you think that's happening.
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Oh well...
As a senior at Uconn, it would’ve been nice to make the tournament.
But the last 11 years have been amazing. We can’t always expect an elite team. We still have a chance to make the tournament, and considering all that has happened this year, it’s tough to complain. We’ve been spoiled. As a Buffalo Bills fan, I have to say, being a Uconn BBall fan is a luxury.
i also share in your misery
as a beloved bills fan
"The mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut!" Jim Nantz
by kemba walker is my hero... on Mar 3, 2010 9:48 PM EST up reply actions
Damn Seniors
I graduated in 2006. Back in my day, we were DOMINANT. SURE! We lost to G***e M***n, but before that we went to final fours and BY GOD WE WON WHEN WE GOT THERE.
Now we have no more campouts for tickets, pussy kids from jersey (sorry Meach) who scalp their tickets to real fans, students who boo the team.
Flush them out. All of them. Dyson, Sticks, Gavin- and all the students. We need a fresh start.
It was fun...
barreling through freshman/girls to get tickets. fucking wristbands.
I wish I was tall and black
yessir it was
student season ticket holder four years straight 05-06 – 08-09
and i only needed a couple wristbands soph year to win….hahah
"The mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut!" Jim Nantz
by kemba walker is my hero... on Mar 3, 2010 9:50 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, come on. Jersey kids aren't the only ones scalping tickets.
I remain convinced that we will be 200% better off next year, with Kemba as the unquestioned alpha dog, with no shooting guard desperately trying to hang on to that label, some hungry young kids and, hey, maybe one of our post players will develop an offensive move this summer.
Also, I find it weird that we both were at UConn at the same time. I feel like everyone who was at UConn before April 2006 or so was from an entirely different era.
Orange Bowl/dual Final Fours or bust in 2011. We're going all-in.
by Kevin Meacham on Mar 3, 2010 9:50 PM EST up reply actions
the scum of uconn surely isnt populated by jersians
connecticut kids have that area covered well enough
"The mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut!" Jim Nantz
by kemba walker is my hero... on Mar 3, 2010 9:51 PM EST up reply actions
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Let’s not turn against each other now. We’re all we have left now in this, our darkest hour.
Can’t we all agree that some significant percentage of college kids are at least kind of scummy?
Orange Bowl/dual Final Fours or bust in 2011. We're going all-in.
by Kevin Meacham on Mar 3, 2010 9:53 PM EST up reply actions
no
well, yes. i remember freshman year i would have to spray myself with febreeze due to laziness
I wish I was tall and black
Best exchange on the blog ever?
Best exchange on the blog ever.
by Andrew Porter on Mar 3, 2010 10:05 PM EST up reply actions
This sequence of events
needs to be on a motivational poster somewhere. That’s sheer brilliance.
Orange Bowl/dual Final Fours or bust in 2011. We're going all-in.
by Kevin Meacham on Mar 3, 2010 10:00 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah
The pre-2006 world was different.
We expected to beat everyone on the road, and nearly did.
We expected to be ranked and we were.
We expected to play in the Big East Tournament Final, and we did.
We expected to win a National Title, and we did that too.
Normally I'd say "THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEAN" really indignantly
But I think that actually IS what I meant, deep down.
Other than last year, when we finished one game back of Louisville, we haven’t come close to a Big East title (regular season or otherwise) since we tied with Villanova in 2006. That’s kind of tough to believe after the sustained success of 1994-2006.
Orange Bowl/dual Final Fours or bust in 2011. We're going all-in.
by Kevin Meacham on Mar 3, 2010 10:32 PM EST up reply actions
Agree that next year will be better
The only team Dyson could make it on is one of those And 1 mixtape tours. And even then, Hot Sauce would call him a ball hog.
There’s a chance UConn is worse next year, but I’m officially a believer in next year being better, just because they’ll play better as a team. Although, all of that youth is incredibly scary.
by UConnBlog Justin on Mar 3, 2010 10:41 PM EST up reply actions
Bills Fans?
I can’t believe there are Bills fans here…I’m in the same boat.
Anyways, I haven’t disliked a team this much in a long time, and at the start of the year I thought they were going to be really good. Robinson was great at the endo f the year last year, I’ve loved Dyson’s game as a slasher and defender, but I think as a go to guy he doesn’t have it, and of course Majok has been disappointing. Let’s get next year started already…I still hope they make the tourney, but I don’t hold out much hope of them playing great.
by El-Amin's Stomach on Mar 3, 2010 10:35 PM EST reply actions
I agree with just about everything in this post.
But I really just want to respond to note that our commenters have the best names on SBNation.
Orange Bowl/dual Final Fours or bust in 2011. We're going all-in.
by Kevin Meacham on Mar 3, 2010 10:37 PM EST up reply actions
Only name that can top this one
Is “Charlie V’s eyebrows.” But that’s an urban legend to begin with.
In other news, I blame Villanova. I was all set to give up on this season, and they go and make me think UConn is halfway decent again.
by UConnBlog Justin on Mar 3, 2010 10:45 PM EST up reply actions
LETS GO BUFF-ALO
"The mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut!" Jim Nantz
by kemba walker is my hero... on Mar 4, 2010 8:25 AM EST up reply actions
I blame Donyell Marshall
How else could a kid from Buffalo start liking a relatively no-named basketball program, at the height of Duke’s prominence?
Regarding my name, I usually try to think of clever names, but I usually end up petering out. When I saw Mrs. Jerome Dyson and the funny posts, I had to come up with something. El-Amin was one of my favorites b/c of his, well, plumpness/clutchness.
by El-Amin's Stomach on Mar 3, 2010 10:53 PM EST reply actions
i was thinking of changing my name to something clever
but then i realized porter will censor it like every other damn comment i make
I wish I was tall and black
do it
you won’t
"The mecca of college basketball is in Storrs, Connecticut!" Jim Nantz
by kemba walker is my hero... on Mar 4, 2010 8:25 AM EST up reply actions
Buffalo Bracket
I know it won’t happen but I’d love UCONN to catch a 12 seed in the Buffalo bracket – Cuse will be the 1 seed here, and I have tix to the tourney – I watched Okafor and Gordon start their run here in Buffalo
by El-Amin's Stomach on Mar 4, 2010 9:23 AM EST reply actions
Has anyone else noticed...
That the vast majority of students who are selling their tickets are freshman? The ticket system is a sham
I just don't see how
UConn makes the tournament. I know you need to hold out hope, but they need to win the BE Tournament to get in. The Huskies have 7 conference wins and 10 losses. The last two years BE teams with 10 conference WINS have been left out of the tournament. Good luck in the NIT.
There's no objective standard
I would think a Syracuse fan would be exceptionally familiar with the workings of the NIT selection committee…
It doesn’t matter what happened last year or two years ago. This year, the bubble is awful. UConn’s SOS and RPI are going to be good enough that 19-14 probably puts them on the very, very edge of said bubble, and 20-14 (that would be a win vs. USF, a win vs. random bottom-4 Big East team, win vs. 5th-8th-place Big East team) makes them a lock.
Now, will any of this actually happen? Hell no. I would put down lots of money on USF beating UConn by 10 after last night’s sad-sack performance.
But if you don’t SEE how it could, then you’re either blind or trolling.
Orange Bowl/dual Final Fours or bust in 2011. We're going all-in.
by Kevin Meacham on Mar 4, 2010 11:10 AM EST up reply actions
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