MattMang23
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It's CT... People think we are just a rich suburb of NY!
We are. And that's precisely why we should be considered desirable.
It's CT... People think we are just a rich suburb of NY!
Maybe everyone should stop talking about how great UConn is and realize this isn't a simple move.
Because our major program is not easy to love. 90% of the stories about it over the last 10 years have been negative, negative, negative- based on negative events.
The other 10% every other school would kill to get. But that 90% is still 90%.
Don't give them ammo.
Don't stick up for laptop thieves using technicalities. Don't throw academics in the trash bin. Don't leak drug tests to the press. Don't have former managers running the program into the mud. Don't function as openly hostile to the media at every single turn. Don't make spiteful statements towards the ACC for ten years. Don't totally ignore marketing. Don't totally tick off the season-ticket base that built two national powerhouse programs.
These were preventable things. All of them.
Because our major program is not easy to love. 90% of the stories about it over the last 10 years have been negative, negative, negative- based on negative events.
The other 10% every other school would kill to get. But that 90% is still 90%.
Don't give them ammo.
Don't stick up for laptop thieves using technicalities. Don't throw academics in the trash bin. Don't leak drug tests to the press. Don't have former managers running the program into the mud. Don't function as openly hostile to the media at every single turn. Don't make spiteful statements towards the ACC for ten years. Don't totally ignore marketing. Don't totally tick off the season-ticket base that built two national powerhouse programs.
These were preventable things. All of them.
Because our major program is not easy to love. 90% of the stories about it over the last 10 years have been negative, negative, negative- based on negative events.
The other 10% every other school would kill to get. But that 90% is still 90%.
Don't give them ammo.
Don't stick up for laptop thieves using technicalities. Don't throw academics in the trash bin. Don't leak drug tests to the press. Don't have former managers running the program into the mud. Don't function as openly hostile to the media at every single turn. Don't make spiteful statements towards the ACC for ten years. Don't totally ignore marketing. Don't totally tick off the season-ticket base that built two national powerhouse programs.
These were preventable things. All of them.
Because our major program is not easy to love. 90% of the stories about it over the last 10 years have been negative, negative, negative- based on negative events.
The other 10% every other school would kill to get. But that 90% is still 90%.
Don't give them ammo.
Don't stick up for laptop thieves using technicalities. Don't throw academics in the trash bin. Don't leak drug tests to the press. Don't have former managers running the program into the mud. Don't function as openly hostile to the media at every single turn. Don't make spiteful statements towards the ACC for ten years. Don't totally ignore marketing. Don't totally tick off the season-ticket base that built two national powerhouse programs.
These were preventable things. All of them.
I seem to remember Cam Newton stealing a laptop but shhhhhhhh it's Florida!
Let me remind you that this school has almost single-handedly carried this basketball conference for the past 20 years- a time period in which the Big East was widely considered the best bball conference in the country...
This school has done as much as anyone to build this conference and be the heart and soul and backbone of the league. We have been the cash cow. We have been our league's breadwinner. As the wheels of realignment roll, no one gives a **** about any of it.
I'm sick of the disrespect.
I also loved how UConn got killed when Calhoun suspended one of his three ball handlers for an entire season, and his starting point guard for one semester, and then UCLA's starter does the same exact thing and sits out for ONE GAME. And nobody bats an eyelash.
Oh, you mean like two years ago when the conference (yeah, I'm talking to you Louisville, Cuse and Pitt) dropped a massive s*** on the conference brand to the delight of Charles Barkley and the entire ACC fandom while we won the national championship for the 3rd time in 12 years?
You mean like that?
I also loved how UConn got killed when Calhoun suspended one of his three ball handlers for an entire season, and his starting point guard for one semester, and then UCLA's starter does the same exact thing and sits out for ONE GAME. And nobody bats an eyelash.
We are. And that's precisely why we should be considered desirable.
90% of the stuff you write is garbage. We all wish we could prevent it.
I'd love to know what UConn could've done to prevent Josh Nochimson from meeting Nate Miles.
Is UConn supposed to baby sit all the former managers? Hold weekly progress reports on what they're doing in life?
Laptop thieves. Because no one misbehaves at other schools. Academics in the trash bin. Because no one cheats on academics and reports bogus APR scores when APR is bogus in the first place. Former managers run us into the muck. But the most pristine program in the universe, Duke, doesn't have any runners or agents associated.
I would say come back from bizarro world, but it's too late. You're a goner.
Yah Yah, everyone is talking about how great UConn is, that's what's going on. You see it everywhere. It's an epidemic!!
Would you mind terribly pointing me to the 10%?
Enforcement Officer: "Josh, these contacts could get us in trouble. Would you mind backing off?
Nochimson: "I'm not backing off, there is money to be made here and you have no control over me.
Enforcement Officer: "o.k., I tried.
Yes, that would have solved the problem alright.
I'm the truth you are afraid to face. The university has made a million preventable mistakes in the last five years across several programs. Death by a thousand cuts.
I'm the truth you are afraid to face. The university has made a million preventable mistakes in the last five years across several programs. Death by a thousand cuts.
It's called monitoring. It's done at every university. This is a basic tenant of enforcement.
Solution: fund the enforcement office as an obligation, not a meaningless inconvenience.