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Tenspro2002 said:
Let's look at Arizona, which you correctly characterize as having consistently great regular seasons though they tend to fall short in the Tournament.

Their program, despite fewer championships or Final Fours this decade, is in a much healthier position than ours. Why? Because they're always relevant and can sell recruits on that.

Recruiting is the lifeblood of a program. You lose that and you're finished, whatever your history might be. Recruits care about exposure.

If you're consistently great in the regular season, you get exposure. If you're consistently mediocre in the regular season, you're relying on improbable postseason runs for exposure.

Now we've gotten that a few times this decade, but it's not something this program should count on in the future.

On your last point I wholeheartedly agree - the fun of this forum is being able to have these debates.
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Arizona is relevant because they have a history in a P5 conference. UConn would be as relevant as, say, Butler without the NCs. And by Butler I'm referring to a team that is not on the main channels as much as UConn is.

UConn gets exposure by the way.

AND, I would not call 2011 an improbable run. Not at all. More people picked UConn to win it all prior to the 2011 tourney than Gonzaga, Or UCLA, or Kentucky, or Arizona were this year.
 
champs99and04 said:
There's a certain irony in complaining about the board because the board is complaining about the product.

Look, the internet is a bad place. It is a grooming ground for stupidity and ignorance and I don't absolve myself from that. But as far as this board goes, it's actually pretty great. There are a handful of posters who consistently spew nonsense, but people who have more of a negative take on the program aren't any more insufferable than the moralists who won't allow a bad word. If the traffic is higher when they lose, fine. Message boards are meant to vent.

With regard to this program, I'm an optimist. Have no reason not to be. There are about a dozen or so posters on this board who constantly have great takes and no matter how many trolls there are, I'll keep coming back for their posts. Guys like @BUConn10 @Tenspro2002 aren't people I agree with all the time, but they're valuable foils and should not be lumped in as trolls even if they're annoying at times. Nobody ever gets mad about relentless optimism so I'm fine applying the same standard to negativity so long as it's reasonable.
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Because you were willing to name names, I know you are more tolerant than I. Actually, I knew this when you used the word "handful," and I realized I know of no hand with more than 30 fingers. Good for you.

That said, one thing that has not been mentioned much is that this is board appears to have a significant uptick in posters whose trolling activity is as nefarious as certain hand signals. As with political message boards, we are now seeing visits from fake fans intent on creating confusion, controversy, and damage. Regrettably, they have something to work with, in addition to their motives to wreak havoc for fun and/or profit.

Those who show up exclusively to cause harm likely don't know the joy of New Haven pizza, and are correspondingly and notably absent on vigorous, healthy, and fun OT discussions. But those who claim Pepe's on Wooster Street is superior to the outposts surely merit a seat at the table so long as that's not the entirety of their contribution. Something related to this tortured analogy gives me guidance.
 
husky99 said:
Heard we called but got basically zero response.
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I said this a few weeks ago and almost got laughed off the Boneyard forum. UConn would be a lateral move, or maybe even a step-down from where he was before.
 
GetTheFacts said:
I said this a few weeks ago and almost got laughed off the Boneyard forum. UConn would be a lateral move, or maybe even a step-down from where he was before.
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Yeah because Pitt has had so many NC's and runs in the tourney. Hell they've dominated the ACC too, why would he even leave?

I'd say step down no doubt.
 
mauconnfan said:
Yeah because Pitt has had so many NC's and runs in the tourney. Hell they've dominated the ACC too, why would he even leave?

I'd say step down no doubt.
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It's all about exposure, that's why these kids transfer. He's not going to receive more exposure playing Tulane at 9 PM on a Tuesday on CBS Sports Network. At least Pitt plays almost every game on ESPN.

There's a reason why he didn't return our call and is looking exclusively at blue chip programs.
 
GetTheFacts said:
It's all about exposure, that's why these kids transfer. He's not going to receive more exposure playing Tulane at 9 PM on a Tuesday on CBS Sports Network. At least Pitt plays almost every game on ESPN.
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This year Pitt played 7 games on ESPN2, 1 game on CBS, 0 games on ESPN, 0 games on Fox. This year UConn played 10 games on ESPN2, 1 game on ESPN, 1 game on Fox, 0 on CBS. Come on
 
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GetTheFacts said:
It's all about exposure, that's why these kids transfer. He's not going to receive more exposure playing Tulane at 9 PM on a Tuesday on CBS Sports Network. At least Pitt plays almost every game on ESPN.

There's a reason why he didn't return our call and is looking exclusively at blue chip programs.
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A quick look at the schedules shows UConn on ESPN 12 times and Pitt 10. I haven't seen anything on him not returning our call, where was that as I was curious as to whether anything actually happened between our staff and him?
 
His claim (take what people say with a grain of salt) was he did not want to be part of a rebuild at Pitt. Now you nitwits can make this into a Pitt vs. UConn debate or a UConn has lost it's mojo debate or an AAC versus a P5 debate but more than likely the kid doesn't want any part of a rebuild and like it or not UConn is going through a rebuild.
 
fleudslipcon said:
His claim (take what people say with a grain of salt) was he did not want to be part of a rebuild at Pitt. Now you nitwits can make this into a Pitt vs. UConn debate or a UConn has lost it's mojo debate or an AAC versus a P5 debate but more than likely the kid doesn't want any part of a rebuild and like it or not UConn is going through a rebuild.
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Nitwits?

Yet another ignore potentially.
 
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TheDude said:
Corey evans says UConn not going to happen, does Oz know anything Corey doesn't?
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Well Evans doesn't actually know anything, just regurgitates visits and announcements, but I highly doubt it's going to happen
 
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TheDude said:
Thanks time to move on I guess, What ever Happened to Shakur Juiston recruiting for UConn, I thought we were involved
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He visited Iowa St this weekend. UNLV last weekend. If a spot were to open at Kansas gotta think they'd land him.
 
TheDude said:
Corey evans says UConn not going to happen, does Oz know anything Corey doesn't?
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Did he say something else or are you drawing that from that tweet?
 
TheDude said:
Thanks time to move on I guess, What ever Happened to Shakur Juiston recruiting for UConn, I thought we were involved
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For some reason I thought he committed to Kansas, but according to this we're involved, but he's visiting some other places.
 
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auror said:
For some reason I thought he committed to Kansas, but according to this we're involved, but he's visiting some other places.
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don't think hes going to Kansas any more with Lawsons there
 
Johnson's had about ten schools in for home visits over the past two weeks. UConn wasn't one of them.

Not a lot of mystery here.
 
We called and his family and crew did not call back. Times have changed...
 
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