A "new" dynasty?

[JRRRJ]

Might have missed it, but I haven't seen this link to an SI article.

How can a team that's won 5 titles in 10 years not already be a dynasty?

 

[DobbsRover2]

Might have missed it, but I haven't seen this link to an SI article.

How can a team that's won 5 titles in 10 years not already be a dynasty?

I guess the question is how you define dynasty and how long any of them lasts. If you just want to take a long range view that when UConn started winning titles in 1995 that it was one continuous dynasty, then no, Deitsch's use is not correct. But another widely used view is that a dynastic team can have little pocket dynasties such as in Egyptian history during their time at the top, so UConn in the 2000-2004 and the 2009-10 Aprils had separate dynasties and that the Huskies are in the midst of still another dynastic run. The second usage of "dynasty" also makes sense in that a season is broken down into 5+ months where teams engage in many battles in their dynastic wars.

Two or three years ago the term "UConn dynasty" was being used by a number of sports publications including Sports Illustrated in both long-term and short-term senses in a way designed to dismiss women's college basketball as being noncompetitive. Hopefully we are not in for another run of potshot sneerfests from the usual crew over the next few years, but hey they need to pour the gasoline on the flames to push their hit rates up and keep the Neanderthal families warm.

 

[arty155]

... a dynastic team can have little pocket dynasties such as in Egyptian history during their time at the top...

My hat’s off to you old school aficionados – I couldn’t even figure out their brackets.

 

[Biff]

My hat’s off to you old school aficionados – I couldn’t even figure out their brackets.
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I had the Rosetta stone that cleared that bracket up but I took it for Granite.

 

[DobbsRover2]

I had the Rosetta stone that cleared that bracket up but I took it for Granite.

So that's how you won the tournament pool? That Sphinx, and it's not really pharaoh you.

Of course down in the south lands of Egypt in the city of Harda-Knoxa, they are still swimming in a river of denial about the ascendancy of the UConn dynasty and of the worship of the Sun Dog deity Husky.

 

[pinotbear]

So that's how you won the tournament pool? That Sphinx, and it's not really pharaoh you.

Of course down in the south lands of Egypt in the city of Harda-Knoxa, they are still swimming in a river of denial about the ascendancy of the UConn dynasty and of the worship of the Sun Dog deity Husky.

In the beginning, there was Geno (and CD)..and, it was good.
and Lishness and Bascomb begat Lobo, Rizz, Jamelle, and the Big Girl..and, it was real good
thus began The Dynasty, and the pantheon of greater and lesser gods, from BT and DT, Sue B and TC, Stew-E, and all the rest: and, the great Shea-Dog deity Husky; and the Invincible Queen; from St. Petersburg, Russia, to somewhere outside of St. Petersburg, Florida; from "she who does't not foul" to "she who shalt not play the one minute in a National Championship"; from Keesh to Ketia to KML, from The General to Big Momma;

And, there shalt be many challengers to the Dynasty: first among them, the LadyVols from Harda-Knox; and thy Cardinals (west and east) and thy Irish ( from the southern bend), and thy Knights of Scarlet with the offense of mystery; and, many more. Rival Kings and Queens shall prowl the sidelines of the river of denial; the mountain top, the drugstore, the city in Maine, the comb-over, the hot librarian - yet, none shall overcome for long.

Yea, none shall best our Cash, escape our Valleys, evade our Honey-Badgers, have greater Hart(leys), nor have more players named some variation of Bri___.

So it is written: so it shall be.

 

[Zorro]

I had the Rosetta stone that cleared that bracket up but I took it for Granite.

Biffster, you rock!

 

[Icebear]

Biffster, you rock!

You crack me up, Z. I thought he was a chip off the old block.

 

[arty155]

... And, there shalt be many challengers to the Dynasty: first among them, the LadyVols from Harda-Knox;

Yea verily, old, old testament, proven true, and then reformation vanquished them from the Valley of the Contention, as the Ball states, and the Chattanogites drove them from the Land of Seriousness.
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(OK, cue the angel...)