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I'm sure I was on the board at that time, but my name doesn't show up anywhere. I've always been jleves on the yard. I still remember my first interaction with @Fishy on a chat in 98 for the NCAA tournament.
fishy: Does anyone know when Miami tips?
jleves: just past 45 degrees.
fishy: huh?
 
jleves said:
I'm sure I was on the board at that time, but my name doesn't show up anywhere. I've always been jleves on the yard. I still remember my first interaction with @Fishy on a chat in 98 for the NCAA tournament.
fishy: Does anyone know when Miami tips?
jleves: just past 45 degrees.
fishy: huh?
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My first interaction was posting a question. I was hammered for asking a stupid question, so I uploaded a script and forwarded the posters in question to a Duke site.

Ironically, I asked the stupid question because I was hammered at the time.

100% true.
 
We are not a full fledged member until we get hammered. I thank the Boneyard for all the memories, the good, the bad and even the ugly. This is the perfect getaway from all the troubles and worries in life and I hope you guys continue for many years.

I was a lurker like many for years before joining and only wish this came about back in the sixties. Can you imagine the Boneyard reacting to Spider Hesford diving for a loose ball, crashing into a table and knocking over a drink and a typewriter. My goodness.
 
Happy Anniversary to BY! Joined in April 2015. I think I just stumbled across it surfing for Uconn men basketball articles. Truly an amazing site. All kinds of Uconn fans who share an absolute passion for Uconn BB and bring both the best of insights and senses of humor. Follow it almost daily and at times more than once a day. A great place to escape to as well. I knew I was home when someone posted this link:

 
Great post from yesteryear. Good to see the names of the original core ‘yarders again.
Among my first posts was a pushback against Fishy’s incessant hot wings threat. In an appropriate response I established Rolling Rock as “The Sacreds”, i.e. the official Boneyard brew. The beer sucked but its mojo was irrepressible.
I’m old enough to remember the original UConn board, run by the Courant: the Husky Howl.
Glad to see SuzyQ hasn’t improved her spelling skills. ;-)
 
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firstnline said:
We are not a full fledged member until we get hammered. I thank the Boneyard for all the memories, the good, the bad and even the ugly. This is the perfect getaway from all the troubles and worries in life and I hope you guys continue for many years.

I was a lurker like many for years before joining and only wish this came about back in the sixties. Can you imagine the Boneyard reacting to Spider Hesford diving for a loose ball, crashing into a table and knocking over a drink and a typewriter. My goodness.
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jleves said:
I'm sure I was on the board at that time, but my name doesn't show up anywhere. I've always been jleves on the yard. I still remember my first interaction with @Fishy on a chat in 98 for the NCAA tournament.
fishy: Does anyone know when Miami tips?
jleves: just past 45 degrees.
fishy: huh?
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Oh, you were there. You’re a charter member.
 
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temery said:
Was it Bucky who died a few years ago?
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Don’t remember Bucky. You might be thinking of Essex Ed, who shed his mortal coil several years ago. I suspect he never got over the time I nearly hit him with a Ginty shot at the second BYC.
 
temery said:
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Check in, share a story, past usernames, etc.



May 1998: Wayback Machine

A bit of boneyard history.

Boneyard inception?

How did you first hear about the Boneyard?

20th Anniversary Commemorative t shirt TBA (Frank D'Angelo, send me an email. Yours in on the house):

Anyone here in the t-shirt printing business?
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Wow Tom ...20 years ago.

One of my proudest achievements in helping to start the boneyard 20 years ago. As I remember it
* Before the Boneyard, UCONN Fans were dependent on the Hartford Courant for the only place to post UCONN basketball comments.
* It was ok until the Courant made some changes and/or required some kind of registration/payment. I may be wrong about needing to pay, but the changes Courant made to the board were horrible and cumbersome to engage as I remember it.
* At the time my daughter was a UCONN cheerleader for the men’s team and I became a HUSKY fanatic. I was also working at an ad agency running the digital interactive ad department.
* Since we needed an alernative to thbe Courant bulletin board mess being offered, I was able to quickly get a UCONNFAN.COM site up using the makeshift Husky Hoops graphical treatment you see above and host it on the agency web hosting we had for our clients.
* This worked for awhile until the demands and audience for UCONNFAN.COM became too large and demanding and needed someone to increase web site hosting capabilities and someone with time to manage the daily needs for the site. This is when Tom Emery with others came in and thankfully took it from there.
* I’m not sure of the genesis of the Boneyard name. One of the guys at the agency may have come up with it on the spur of the moment with the bones graphical treatment. Not sure. Tom will confirm or correct.

So that’s story of how the Boneyard got started. I always found it remarkable how the Courant tried to shove unacceptable changes to it’s audience and the audience of fans came up with a better way. Kudos to everyone
 
I wish I had found the boneyard earlier - I think I first made an account around 2004.

In ‘98 I was seeking college b-ball discussion, but somehow didn’t stumble across The Boneyard. So I joined the CBS Sports college b-ball forums (which later spun off into an independent site called ‘The Fans’ Sports Board’). It was a mash-up of fans from a bunch of different programs, but I do remember nyhuskyfan (who seems to be mentioned in every post) occasionally popping up in that community.
 
MadDogRevival said:
I seriously just assumed he lived in Maui.
I'm going to keep thinking that - it's a much better image.
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Mau, properly known as Brother Mau, was the A player on the BYC force of nature known as Team Fishy.
Team Fishy: it’s a state of mind.
 
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I wasn't here. Not sure exactly when I first joined, but I know it was when I lived in Quincy sometime between 8/99-10/01 under the screenname QuincyRich. Which didn't work when I moved to Pittsburgh in 2002. I think I missed one or two incarnations in the 00s. However, I distinctly remember taking a break after getting continually blasted and insulted here because I didn't believe the teams of the Gay/CharlieV era played with heart or chemistry. Some of y'all still won't admit that!
 
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I joined in 2004 just before we won our 2nd Championship in 2004. I think that is how I found out I could get tickets to the final four through the school since I was an Alumni. Too bad I didn't know that in 1999 as it would have been a short ride from the ATL. That was my first UCONN final four out of 4 that I went to with my youngest brother. I joined when it was scout just before going to rivals and then to the current iteration. I have always had the same name and avatar. I have been a UCONN men's basketball fan since the mid to late 70's when I was a young kid.

I have used my site name(3rdbass or thirdbass) on all forums I go into including city-data Atlanta forum, resetera.com(video games), slickdeals (deals site) and all the dating sites I used before getting married LOL!
 
swami7774 said:
Don’t remember Bucky. You might be thinking of Essex Ed, who shed his mortal coil several years ago. I suspect he never got over the time I nearly hit him with a Ginty shot at the second BYC.
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Bucky is Jake V's uncle. Posted mostly on the baseball board. An all star on Profanity Friday.
 
swami7774 said:
Don’t remember Bucky. You might be thinking of Essex Ed, who shed his mortal coil several years ago. I suspect he never got over the time I nearly hit him with a Ginty shot at the second BYC.
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Is that the one that Team AAAB, Iron Mike, Wayne, and I won? First time I ever played golf. (AAAB and Mike carried the team, and Wayne was solid. My contribution was bouncing a drive on the 18th hole off CinderellaJones son's chest, sending it to the center of the fairway.)
 
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Since I first found the boneyard, sometime in the early 2000s, it's the first thing I read in the morning. I almost stopped reading the boneyard two years ago because it was getting too depressing, just like too much of the news. But now it's positive again, a good way to start the day.
 
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Been around since the Courant days (was that called Husky Hardcores?) using the same name with a modification because it wasn't available at one of our stops. So went from Tommyboy (in the wayback machine) to TommyboyUC and finally back to Tommyboy when we finally settled here. Never been a volume poster but probably visited everyday I have had access to the internet. Definitely wasted many an hour here.

Whenever I hear them describe aliens in the movies where "they go from planet to planet using all the natural resources and moving on" it always makes me think of the nomad days with the boneyard. Thanks to everyone who made all this time wasting possible!
 
Tommyboy said:
Been around since the Courant days (was that called Husky Hardcores?) using the same name with a modification because it wasn't available at one of our stops. So went from Tommyboy (in the wayback machine) to TommyboyUC and finally back to Tommyboy when we finally settled here. Never been a volume poster but probably visited everyday I have had access to the internet. Definitely wasted many an hour here.

Whenever I hear them describe aliens in the movies where "they go from planet to planet using all the natural resources and moving on" it always makes me think of the nomad days with the boneyard. Thanks to everyone who made all this time wasting possible!
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Yes, the Courant’s UConn section was called Husky Hardcores. The comment board was the Husky Howl.
 
temery said:
Was it Bucky who died a few years ago?
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Yes. Bucky was Jim Voskuhl. Jake's uncle. I got to be good friends with him off the board and he had a long battle with lung cancer. He died and a week later, I got a Jake signed ball in the mail from him with a nice note about how he always appreciated how I made him laugh during some hard times. Still have it in my office and it reminds me to not stress the little stuff so much.
 
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Checking in as an 18 year veteran. Loved finding a place with like minded basketball nuts. It took a while to get patched in back then.

Living in Miami at the time I was thrilled one of my favorites, Caron Butler, was drafted by the Heat. Got to know him over the years at different events. Shared stories.

Veteran poster, Deepster, shared my enthusiasm. Created an animated cartoon video of me pleasuring myself at my keyboard with Caron dancing in the background. Good times. Find that in the wayback machine if you need a good laugh.

I was finally a member. Don’t take yourself too seriously here.
 
Vuce said:
I think I was on this board back then but someone mentioned the AOL board and I was there too. My daughter was only a year old..but in college now!
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Are you broke yet?
 
I came for the basketball talk, stayed for Fishy’s odds and ends, rocks and wings, and the occasional throat punch.
Thank youTom, fishy, and everyone else who has been keeping the inmates around for 20 years!
 
Deepster said:
Yes. Bucky was Jim Voskuhl. Jake's uncle. I got to be good friends with him off the board and he had a long battle with lung cancer. He died and a week later, I got a Jake signed ball in the mail from him with a nice note about how he always appreciated how I made him laugh during some hard times. Still have it in my office and it reminds me to not stress the little stuff so much.
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Now I feel like crap for what I just posted. Great story.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I think maybe it was DogDeacon who passed away.
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There have been a bunch. But I remembered a regular related to a player having passed.
 
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