pj said:
OK, which half of this post was serious? I was always pretty sure that his name was only half serious, but I couldn't tell which half -- the gurl or the man.
Grew up on Gurleyville Road (down a hill and up a hill from UConn's campus), and Hans+Franz (where the phrase came from) was a popular SNL skit from my college days, so it worked as a generational reference as well. My last handle was actually specific to the area I was living in at the time, and then I moved, so it didn't make any sense any more. This one will work until I vacate my earthly vessel, or UConn stops playing sports, whatever comes first.
As for the last post, the serious part is that I really wish we had our conference situation all locked and in place (I'd prefer Big 10, but understand we are in full beggar mode when it comes to choosing our home). I don't, however, want to be Michigan's basketball program right now or equate it to ours in recent history (they lost the title game in 2013, and while EMU and Yale are perfect parallels, NJIT and Texas aren't quite so much).
However, I can't help but think of a scene from Airplane where the flight attendant, fearing the end is near, is all sad about never getting married. Another woman (who didn't hear the conversation) strolls by and says, "I've never been so scared in my life, but at least I have a husband." I feel like when we experience a little schadenfreude, a Michigan or whoever can say, "We've never had a worse loss, but at least we have a conference."