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Message: [QUOTE="Carnac, post: 4059366, member: 5798"] Bomber, I hear you. I suggested that teams may not look forward to coming to Connecticut because most teams (players) don't look forward to getting beat. Your take that teams can learn from taking a "whuppin" from an elite team has merit. You can also learn from other teams (losses) as well as narrow victories. No team I ever played on liked losing, or looked forward to going on the road to play a team we knew was more talented than us, and was probably going to beat us by 30+. :( We knew who they were. Like former NFL head coach[B] Dennis Green[/B] said: [I]"They were who we thought they were", [/I]but WE didn't let them off the hook. We had the sprit of competition, the will to win and always accepted the challenge. But by halftime time they had usually handed our butts to us, and we were down by 25+, and there was nothing we could do to stop them, or slow them down. it wasn't fun after that. They were simply better than us and we knew it. I was only speaking from my own experience. Today's players may have a different take. The fans (student section) in some of those venues were brutal which only added to our frustration. Personal attacks were not uncommon. They were [U]sure[/U] to let you know you weren't welcome there, and that they enjoyed watching you take a whuppin. So yeah, there were teams we hated to play at their place. We knew what was coming. There was no way you could look forward to that. Your take has been duly noted. :oops: [/QUOTE]

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