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EZPass said:
Love the thread title.
Which of these tweets is more pathetic?

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What's that smell...must be Puke stinkin' up the place. Let's see Puke's 1st natty was 1991 while UConn's was 1999. WOW, Puke fans learn themselfs some good maths. Didn't realize 8 FRIGGIN' YEARS constitutes us as newbies and them as olds, but what do I knows with my UConn degree? Nice thing about stinkin' Puke is that you can usually flush it down the toilet, that clears up the mess just fine.
 
What a load of trash!

First the writer says:

"Cooper Flaggs most interesting comment"
Never puts up said comment.

Then he says:

"Cooper Flagg and Caleb Foster both talk about being recruited by schools that talked Duke down. This convinced both of them to take Duke more seriously and ultimately commit to the Blue Devils."

And then says:

In Flagg’s case, you have to wonder whether it was UConn and if it was, well, that’s pretty interesting.

Sooooo, although he never said Uconn and infered many schools, the writer decides to single out Uconn and Dan Hurley and then goes on to make up this whole story in his head that Duke is in DHs head and is this dragon he must slay to cure his feelings of inadequacy which lead to him begging CF to come here because Uconn is an inferior program somehow? This is a lot of projection and insecurity on the writers part. Thats all i see here. The only thing that imbecile did was make dook a target of a blow out some time hopefully in the near future. We wouldve gotten it this past season but the committee protected duke from getting embarrassed on national tv by sending dook to the south region and Auburn? to the East? lmfao! Even when questioned about it the committee member made ZERO sense with the explanation but we all know why. dook got protected from getting Illinied.
YukonDolt5 said:
"And to be clear, we’re pretty sure that Danny was rooting for Bobby 100 percent but perhaps transferring his resentment and sense of inadequacy to Duke.

And it’s still there. And it wouldn’t surprise us at all if that’s what Flagg was talking about.

Come to UConn, Cooper. Help me us slay the dark blue dragon.

But Duke won’t oblige, which must be really frustrating."
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UConn is one of the few, if not only, school that doesn't have to say anything negative about Duke, or any other school.
Our recruits choose to play for Hurley, and/or for UConn. Duke's players, including Flagg chose a uniform and/or a school. I would venture to guess that none chose Duke simply to play for Scheyer. This includes Flagg. I believe his choice was a done deal before he visited UConn. He gave his word that he was going to Duke, and he kept his word. I respect that.
 
Ask a true CBB fan what matters more to them.

Titles
Continued greatness(without titles)
NBA players

the goal post will always be moved until you run out of things to say, then you become Skip Bayless.

Even with LeBron and Jordan…LeBron can never go 6/6, so everything else doesn’t matter.

Try asking any blue blood coach what their ultimate & only goal is.

“To do what UConn has done these past 2 years”
 
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Caleb Foster is the one that brought up negative recruiting and Flagg just agreed with him. The mental gymnastics it takes to progress from that to 1.) Dan Hurley negatively recruited against Duke 2.) Dan Hurley did this because he's jealous of his brother 3.) This jealousy from 30+ years ago is why Duke lives rent free in his head, is actually an impressive display of delusion.
 
the 'article' if you can call it that is just deranged. actually can't think of a more deranged article with semi serious pretension
 
1. Weird.

2. Over the last 50 years one program has more titles than the other, and that includes the entirety of the K era a Duke. UConn spotted K 15 years and the rest of the NCAA 25 years and still ended up at the top of the list.

3. Jim Calhoun was such a great coach, his echos are winning championships.
 
TheChamps990411 said:
What a load of trash!

First the writer says:

"Cooper Flaggs most interesting comment"
Never puts up said comment.

Then he says:

"Cooper Flagg and Caleb Foster both talk about being recruited by schools that talked Duke down. This convinced both of them to take Duke more seriously and ultimately commit to the Blue Devils."
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B is A. The negative recruiting leading to them committing was the most interesting comment.
 
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Garbage article, I guess playing on Friday night is more important than winning
 
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Greedo said:
I mean, at this point UConn is the program that has proven it can remain a powerhouse under multiple coaches. UConn - 6 championships, 3 coaches. Duke - 5 championships, 1 coach. Until they reach the mountaintop with another coach they're a one hit wonder. Neat, they get 5 star recruits and underperform year after year. I'm so envious.
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I mainly can't understand Duke fans who claim Duke is both a Blue Blood because they were good for years before K was coach and claim K was a better program builder than Calhoun. That one always confused me.
 
So I finally read this thread but could not bring myself to listen to the podcast still I have to add that Cooper made it known very early in his recruitment that Duke was his dream school. Good for him but that means the every school recruiting him had to swim against that tide. Every school had to make the case that he would be better off here than there. I think we did a pretty good job of that.
 
Danny would have to be a fool to bad mouth Duke. Regardless of who is the coach of Duke that School has turned College Basketball into a well oiled machine. Danny is no fool. I agree with the poster who stated that since it came down to Duke and UConn, it clearly wasn't us that was bad mouthing the Blue Devils. This was a poorly written article that wasn't worth the time it took to read.
 
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AidanFan20 said:
Duke fans are delusional... In related news, water is wet and the sky is blue.
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Be careful here. On the Boneyard even if you state facts like these there will always be at least 1 poster who will argue with you that you're wrong.

Edit: Just saw the above post. See, I told you.
 
I was walking along the beach with my wife last week (wearing my Husky championship threads of course) and this guy was staring me down with a nasty look on his face so I walked towards him to see what his problem was. Then it hit me, I saw the big D on his jersey and realized he was a Puke alum. I just sneered back with an arrogant grin on my face and kept walking.
 
caw said:
I mainly can't understand Duke fans who claim Duke is both a Blue Blood because they were good for years before K was coach and claim K was a better program builder than Calhoun. That one always confused me.
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It's not confusing, it's nonsense. Duke went to the Finals just 2 years before K was hired. The team he inherited was ranked #1 during the previous season. The team JC inherited was called by the Boston Herald "the worst team in the history of the Big East." Another thing that irks me is that when outsiders tell the UConn story, they leave out the 90's. UConn dominated the Big East in the 90's, just couldn't get over the FF hump. I don't remember Gonzaga getting the crap UConn and JC got for not making the Final Four back then.
 
Waquoit said:
It's not confusing, it's nonsense. Duke went to the Finals just 2 years before K was hired. The team he inherited was ranked #1 during the previous season. The team JC inherited was called by the Boston Herald "the worst team in the history of the Big East." Another thing that irks me is that when outsiders tell the UConn story, they leave out the 90's. UConn dominated the Big East in the 90's, just couldn't get over the FF hump. I don't remember Gonzaga getting the crap UConn and JC got for not making the Final Four back then.
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The case that K had a better career at Duke than Calhoun did at UConn can not be made based on how far forward they took their programs. On that basis, there is no comparison. It has to be made based on how incredibly consistent Duke was year after year over a prolonged period (and, in fact, Duke was significantly more consistent at a top level from '90 to 2011 than UConn was.

I still hold fast to my belief that Calhoun was the best coach of the generation, but if you're making an argument for K it's based on the consistency of being at the top level. It can't be made -- or even rationally argued -- in terms of program building. And if you're ever debating it with a K fan, ask the following question: "do you think it's more likely that K would have achieved what Calhoun did at UConn, or that Calhoun would have achieved what K did at Duke." I think it's an easy answer, but as it's totally hypothetical ....
 
K made a good decision to stay out of the NBA, otherwise would be hugely exposed.
 
huskeynut said:
Duke fans are legends in their own minds.
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True that. I think I mentioned this before, but when UConn beat Duke for their first natty, I recall reading online from some Puke fans something along the lines of "9 times out of 10 we [Duke] would beat them [UConn]"...ahhh, but in that critical 1 out of 10 game, the one that really matters, they LOST! Seems they still can't get over that. No worries, C comes before D and 6 > 5, I like that order.
 
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