Borges: Is Providence College becoming heated rival for UConn men’s basketball team? Depends on who you ask

[NH Husky]

I agree. I don’t see why some fans are so ready to create a PC rivalry out of thin air. When was the last regular season or BE tournament semi or championship game that we played vs PC?
They got better because the old BE blew up and most of the big dogs like Cuse, Pitt, and us moved on.
Now that we’re back, maybe a rivalry happens. But to think that right now PC is anywhere close to being a rival because we had a big crowd at home last year is ludicrous. Give it a couple of years maybe, but all you PC lurkers need to accept you are, and always will be, little brother. Prove me wrong.

I think maybe it could happen too. They just need to consistently be at the top. I do remember pre breakup they seemed to have our number (kinda like Creighton). Maybe linemen years. But not really bad blood. I like their coach too

 

[Chin Diesel]

PC is a rival but not a benchmark program. There is nothing has has now or has achieved in the past that UConn aspires to have.

The games are always filled with fans and if UConn fans donfill the seats, PC fans will.

As someone said earlier in this thread you get egg on your face for losing an no extra credit for winning.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Is Providence College becoming heated rival for UConn men’s basketball team? Depends on who you ask

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UConn and Hurley need more in conference rivalries than just Providence. The Big East needs coaches who can coach champions. When Calhoun and UConn started to be taken seriously in the early 90’s, the Big East had maybe the greatest collection of great coaches in the history of the game. I mean did any other conference in history have a better collection of coaching legends and future HOF’s than Calhoun, Rollie, John Thompson Sr, Nose Picker, Rick Barnes, Lou Carnesecca, PJ Carlisimo, Ralph Willard, and Leonard Hamilton? Compare those names to what we have in the Big East now.

 

[Huskymagic]

It’s Providence: nobody cares. UCONN can’t experience devolution by making Providence level programs our rival. There’s nothing there.

We need to make sure especially with Jay Wright leaving that we go back to our traditional roots as much as possible.

You don’t abandon great rivalries to make new forced imaginary rivalries.

UCONN admin, Dave Benedict needs to make sure we reignite our rivalry with Syracuse.

We also need to look at Pitt as well when Capel gets canned.

These are very important steps particularly with the new NIL era and mercenary portal era.

 

[Deadrody]

Wouldn't it have to be ANY kind of rivalry before it would become a "heated" rivalry ? How many national championships have the Friars won, exactly ?

 

[HuskyHawk]

It’s Providence: nobody cares. UCONN can’t experience devolution by making Providence level programs our rival. There’s nothing there.

We need to make sure especially with Jay Wright leaving that we go back to our traditional roots as much as possible.

You don’t abandon great rivalries to make new forced imaginary rivalries.

UCONN admin, Dave Benedict needs to make sure we reignite our rivalry with Syracuse.

We also need to look at Pitt as well when Capel gets canned.

These are very important steps particularly with the new NIL era and mercenary portal era.

Why do you keep bringing up Pitt? Providence is much more of a rival than Pitt. Pitt is among the furthest teams from being a rival of everyone who played in the Big East.

We need to move on. OU doesn’t have Nebraska anymore. KU doesn’t have Missouri. UT lost A&M (but is getting them back). Until UConn lands in the ACC, Syracuse is history. They don’t want to play us.

 

[mussels]

So we’re 125 posts in and, 6000 views. Pretty clear to me that Providence is totally irrelevant to us. We don’t even think about them.

Really.

No really.

I’m serious - we don’t care.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

LOL, a -23 reaction score?

Over a 4-year period.
And uses the pronoun "we."

 

[CL82]

So we’re 125 posts in and, 6000 views. Pretty clear to me that Providence is totally irrelevant to us. We don’t even think about them.

Really.

No really.

I’m serious - we don’t care.

Of course, the Conn College thread did nearly triple that, so they must be more of a rival, am I right?

It’s The Boneyard in the off-season, I wouldn’t read all that much into it.