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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 2553140, member: 1414"] Well I might as well weigh in on this. I’ve been a fan since, Jr. High in the late 70s I’d say. Perno years. Great fun teams. Mike McKay, Corny, Verne, Hobbs, Bailey, Chuck A. So what is different then vs now? Some of that was pre Big East. Then I was at Storrs 84-88. Not our best years, except the awesome NIT win. That was huge. But we went to the games and cheered the team. So I think about the differences. Is it the local opponents? Nah. I don’t really think so. Might have a slight impact at most. I think the two biggest differences are (a) that we won 4 national championships and were a dominant program since, and (b) that the team is so moribund, disorganized and difficult to watch. Here’s an example. WSU game. We lost at home. But it was entertaining. Tulsa was entertaining. Nova was even somewhat entertaining because we watched a truly great team take us apart, but we tried. Memphis? Arkansas? Temple? Auburn (admittedly a very good team)? Even our OT wins against bad teams. The entire team, and staff, looked like they’d rather get back on the bus and go out for pizza. If the team you are rooting for is just going through the motions, why should you bother? I never got that from Perno’s teams. Maybe the kids are expending effort in those games, but so does a chicken with its head cut off. And we looked more or less like that. I still get quite a bit of joy watching them when they decide to show up. But it seems like it is only every other game. And I don’t buy the no talent argument. You can’t beat SMU and never really trail and have talent that so bad that you lose to Temple by 20+. That is something else. [/QUOTE]

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