Al Amir Dawes

[Guapo]

I've been to Clemson twice in the last couple years and you're right. Pretty impressive to have that big football stadium in the middle of campus too.

*insert argument about playing college sports on campus here*

 

[Hoophound]

Clemson is a cool place but UConn is a basketball Mecca. I think some people are forgetting what it is like to be at UConn when the basketball team is a dominant national force.

 

[Scrutineer]

Clemson is a cool place but UConn is a basketball Mecca. I think some people are forgetting what it is like to be at UConn when the basketball team is a dominant national force.

For those of us who went to the Big East Tournament every year for the first 30 years or so, we'll never forget. To be there in the Garden in 1990 beating Georgetown in the Semi with Cyrulik and Walker somewhat neutralizing Mutombo and Mourning and then coming back to beat Syracuse with Coleman and Owens (with Coleman high fiving at the half) was the start and it just rolled from there.

In the early years we were small in numbers and almost lost among all the Syracuse and Georgetown fans, but when we got to the top those fans seemed to drift away and UConn owned the garden.

We're on the way back.

 

[Guapo]

Clemson is a cool place but UConn is a basketball Mecca. I think some people are forgetting what it is like to be at UConn when the basketball team is a dominant national force.

Preach it Rev. Hound!

I believe!

 

[RipCity]

What a waste of time

 

[CardiacAndre7]

What a waste of time

Stop.

 

[RipCity]

Clemson is a cool place but UConn is a basketball Mecca. I think some people are forgetting what it is like to be at UConn when the basketball team is a dominant national force.

Stop.

Uh no. This type of stuff is pointless

 

[HuskylnSC]

Everything is right except Storrs makes Clemson seem like a big city, not the other way around.

Cosmopolitan does not refer to size. it is a life style comment. Now Greenville SC is cosmopolitan to a fair degree, Clemson may be considered a bit red around the collar.

 

[Guapo]

Cosmopolitan does not refer to size. it is a life style comment. Now Greenville SC is cosmopolitan to a fair degree, Clemson may be considered a bit red around the collar.

Riiiight...and the greater Mansfield area isn’t red around the collar?

I live in Georgia, but let me tell you; as a UConn student I went to the “Willimantic” Wal-Mart on many an occasion and there was more than enough “red around the collar” to go around.

 

[Guapo]

Cosmopolitan does not refer to size. it is a life style comment. Now Greenville SC is cosmopolitan to a fair degree, Clemson may be considered a bit red around the collar.

Riiiight...and the greater Mansfield area isn’t red around the collar?

I live in Georgia, but let me tell you; as a UConn student I went to the “Willimantic” Wal-Mart on many an occasion and there was more than enough “red around the collar” to go around.

You’re in SC now, but have you forgetting the term “Swamp Yankee”?

 

[HuskylnSC]

You’re in SC now, but have you forgetting the term “Swamp Yankee”?

Yes I remember my mother being quite proud of the designation. As a matter of fact, my father grew up a tenant farmer in lower Alabama. He joined the navy to get a pair of shoes. (true story). He would arrange to take his leave and our vacation to go to the farm to help pick cotton by hand. I know red for I am the product of good red neck breeding. My comment was only in reference to a young man living in Newark New Jersey might respond to the culture shock of the Deep South.

 

[Mokum]

It’s incorrect to assume an inner city kid will be put off by life in a rural setting, whether it be Storrs or where ever. It is equally possible that a kid who grew up in an inner city hell hole dodging bullets might relish the idea of living in the country for a new experience.

 

[Guapo]

Yes I remember my mother being quite proud of the designation. As a matter of fact, my father grew up a tenant farmer in lower Alabama. He joined the navy to get a pair of shoes. (true story). He would arrange to take his leave and our vacation to go to the farm to help pick cotton by hand. I know red for I am the product of good red neck breeding. My comment was only in reference to a young man living in Newark New Jersey might respond to the culture shock of the Deep South.

Hey wasn’t trying to insult, I just enjoy poking fun at the local yokels of the greater Manselfield metropolitan area, like @Stainmaster

 

[Guapo]

Yes I remember my mother being quite proud of the designation. As a matter of fact, my father grew up a tenant farmer in lower Alabama. He joined the navy to get a pair of shoes. (true story). He would arrange to take his leave and our vacation to go to the farm to help pick cotton by hand. I know red for I am the product of good red neck breeding. My comment was only in reference to a young man living in Newark New Jersey might respond to the culture shock of the Deep South.

Hey wasn’t trying to insult, I just enjoy poking fun at the local yokels of the greater Manselfield metropolitan area, like @Stainmaster

And that’s a cool story about our father! My wife’s grandfather grew up on a farm in Mississippi and they didn’t get electricity till after WWII. Crazy.

 

[Mokum]

It’s those “yokels” in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana etc. that are responsible for most all of the great music that is truely Americana. Not preppies in Connecticut or Massachusetts.

 

[Guapo]

It’s those “yokels” in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana etc. that are responsible for most all of the great music that is truely Americana. Not preppies in Connecticut or Massachusetts.

Hey! I’ll have you know that Peter Tork AND Rivers Cuomo are both from Storrs.

 

[superjohn]

Hey! I’ll have you know that Peter Tork AND Rivers Cuomo are both from Storrs.

And maybe the best to ever do it is from New Haven, Michael Bolton.

 

[Mokum]

Hey! I’ll have you know that Peter Tork AND Rivers Cuomo are both from Storrs.

I don’t know who Cuomo is, but my mom taught first grade and had Tork in her class.

 

[Storrsbred]

I don’t know who Cuomo is, but my mom taught first grade and had Tork in her class.

Torkelson , I think is the correct spelling.

 

[Mokum]

Torkelson , I think is the correct spelling.

Yes it is. Tork was the name he used for the monkees

 

[Scrutineer]

And that’s a cool story about our father! My wife’s grandfather grew up on a farm in Mississippi and they didn’t get electricity till after WWII. Crazy.

And that’s a cool story about our father! My wife’s grandfather grew up on a farm in Mississippi and they didn’t get electricity till after WWII. Crazy.

Ahh, the Rural Electrification Program succeeded.

Rural Electrification Act - Wikipedia

 

[Ewekon]

Cuo

I don’t know who Cuomo is, but my mom taught first grade and had Tork in her class.

Cuomo = Weezer