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Guess our year wasn’t that bad

UConn has 4 national championships and hooray for that. They also have 2 NCAA investigations into the program, the first leading to a post season ban and scholarship reduction which helped push legendary coach Jim Calhoun out the door. That can't be ignored. Now his protege Kevin Ollie is ousted for similar reasons as icing on the cake after two sub .500 seasons. How does UConn recover from this recent malaise of it's men's basketball program? Come next fall does it become a bigger story than the UVA historic loss? 10 years from now what is the bigger story? Virginia's historic loss to a 16 seed or the utter collapse of a Division 1 athletic department that at one time held 16(women win this year) national championships in basketball alone. Once Geno calls it quits that dynasty is over and it isn't just because it will be impossible to replace him but that women's basketball will spawn more teams like Tenn, Stamford, Notre Dame, Miss St, Baylor, S. Carolina, improving parity but also making it impossible to duplicate that reign.
 
RayIsTheGOAT said:
This is the type of loss that damages a coach and program. This will hover over Virginia and Tony Bennett FOREVER.

I mean, Virginia will be good again next year in all likelihood, and Tony Bennett will always be a high end coach.

But this will have a similar effect to the Atlanta Falcons blowing a 28-3 lead in the Super Bowl. Damage to the psyche of the coach and players for the following season.
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Let's be real. Tony Bennett has been choking for a while now. This just caps it off.

Virginia has choked up for four consecutive years. Garbage program with outstanding regular seasons
 
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Dogdeacon said:
You guys are drama queens, it is one game and to say 31-3 is worse than under .500 is nuts. UConn was unwatchable, lost to non-tourney teams by 20 and generated apathy.

I’d rather date the prettiest girl even if I knew I’d eventually get dumped than sit in the basement winning 2/5 solitaire games.

Every good team but one ends with a loss. If you can’t take your buddies ribbing or the press obsessing over one game get thicker skin.
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who said 31-3 is worse than .500 or did you just make that up?
 
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Robertelamin said:
who said 31-3 is worse than .500 or did you just make that up?
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Lots of people in thread said their year now worse than ours and specifically this negates their entire season. I would never trade my UConn fandom but our season & state of program are unfortunately vastly worse than UVA’s.
 
Dogdeacon said:
Lots of people in thread said their year now worse than ours and specifically this negates their entire season. I would never trade my UConn fandom but our season & state of program are unfortunately vastly worse than UVA’s.
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In this thread? No one said that. Liar.
 
Somehow saying that our season of blowouts, failure, andcoach firing makes our year better than Va with that loss.....hey, whatever gets you off.
 
Horatio said:
UVA is 31-3 and lost to a 16 seed by twenty.
I still feel the irritation of our George Mason
Lose and we won four championships. UVA had a worse season. We'll get over the past two years. UVA will never forget this traumatic experience.
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Repent
 
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ecasadoSBU said:
Let's be real. Tony Bennett has been choking for a while now. This just caps it off.

Virginia has choked up for four consecutive years. Garbage program with outstanding regular seasons
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You can't call a program garbage when they consistently make the tournament, have a good team and compete for ACC championships.
They won 2 ACC titles this year.
If Virginia is a garbage program right now, what does that make UConn?
It's hard for us UConn fans to understand, but just because you don't win national championships doesn't mean you are a garbage progam. It's extraordinarily difficult to win the NCAA tournament.
 
weyuo said:
UConn has 4 national championships and hooray for that. They also have 2 NCAA investigations into the program, the first leading to a post season ban and scholarship reduction which helped push legendary coach Jim Calhoun out the door. That can't be ignored. Now his protege Kevin Ollie is ousted for similar reasons as icing on the cake after two sub .500 seasons. How does UConn recover from this recent malaise of it's men's basketball program? Come next fall does it become a bigger story than the UVA historic loss? 10 years from now what is the bigger story? Virginia's historic loss to a 16 seed or the utter collapse of a Division 1 athletic department that at one time held 16(women win this year) national championships in basketball alone. Once Geno calls it quits that dynasty is over and it isn't just because it will be impossible to replace him but that women's basketball will spawn more teams like Tenn, Stamford, Notre Dame, Miss St, Baylor, S. Carolina, improving parity but also making it impossible to duplicate that reign.
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NCAA investigates UConn. & overlooks that UNC had 20 years of fake classes so it looks like they are doing their job!
Calhoun broke his hip that year so don’t see how he could have coached b-ball.
 
MervthePurvis said:
With 4 rings. Good fan though. The struggle is real. Ollie has been fired.
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The thread is about this specific year, which has nothing to do with the four rings, but thanks for calling my fandom out. I get that you’re still salty about being wrong about everything KO this season so it’s all good
 
HooperScooper said:
Well they had a great year but I’d hate to be known as the only number 1 seed to lose their first game. Might be a while before we see it again.
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Yeah. We didn’t lose any tournament games. We had a way better year.
 
Yeah, our season was THAT bad. There are plenty of coaches that had that one "mega hottie" run in the tournament only to follow it up with a sequence of dates that got uglier with time. By at least dating that "good looking" season by making the tournament gives you a chance that she could turn into a "mega hottie". What we were getting was so ugly that not even the most amazing puberty was going to make it look good, ever.

And don't forget how long Calhoun was called a "choker". But he kept getting us "good looking" seasons and they eventually turned into "mega hotties". I don't think Virginia fans will be calling for their coach to be replaced by the, now available, Kevin Ollie just because he was partly responsible for getting ONE hottie.
 
Paesano said:
Yeah, our season was THAT bad. There are plenty of coaches that had that one "mega hottie" run in the tournament only to follow it up with a sequence of dates that got uglier with time. By at least dating that "good looking" season by making the tournament gives you a chance that she could turn into a "mega hottie". What we were getting was so ugly that not even the most amazing puberty was going to make it look good, ever.

And don't forget how long Calhoun was called a "choker". But he kept getting us "good looking" seasons and they eventually turned into "mega hotties". I don't think Virginia fans will be calling for their coach to be replaced by the, now available, Kevin Ollie just because he was partly responsible for getting ONE hottie.
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Thanks for getting the metaphors (17 hotties-league titles mega hotties/ nattys).
But something came up today that out this in perspective.
Mark Sanchez. High draft pick. Solid unglattyearly career but steady. 2 consecutive AFC title games. What is he known for?
 
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MervthePurvis said:
Thanks for getting the metaphors (17 hotties-league titles mega hotties/ nattys).
But something came up today that out this in perspective.
Mark Sanchez. High draft pick. Solid unglattyearly career but steady. 2 consecutive AFC title games. What is he known for?
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I think Sanchez is known for the wins. He’s like Rick Ocaceck pulling Paulina Porizkova & Sanchez gets props for doing what he did despite otherwise being/playing ugly as all get out.

Not to bring the vibe down to least common denominator and unfavorite topic, but this makes the case that at some point in not having a job legacy occurs to him & Ollie settles, drops lawsuit and is always known for a national championship.
 
Virginia’s season was worse. How is that even arguable?

Every great program has had a period like the one we’re in. You fire the coach, get better, and everyone forgets it happened.

What Virginia did was monumentally, historically bad. A choke job to top all other choke jobs. It will live in for decades as a huge failure. It will never go away, and every win they had this year was an empty gimmick that built up to this embarrassment.
 
Balker said:
Virginia’s season was worse. How is that even arguable?

Every great program has had a period like the one we’re in. You fire the coach, get better, and everyone forgets it happened.

What Virginia did was monumentally, historically bad. A choke job to top all other choke jobs. It will live in for decades as a huge failure. It will never go away, and every win they had this year was an empty gimmick that built up to this embarrassment.
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Thanks, we hadn’t heard from the school of what people think about you is far more important than what you are.
 
Dogdeacon said:
I think Sanchez is known for the wins. He’s like Rick Ocaceck pulling Paulina Porizkova & Sanchez gets props for doing what he did despite otherwise being/playing ugly as all get out.

Not to bring the vibe down to least common denominator and unfavorite topic, but this makes the case that at some point in not having a job legacy occurs to him & Ollie settles, drops lawsuit and is always known for a national championship.
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I can see that.
See people. This is called a discussion.
 
Only on The Boneyard can someone proudly start a thread mocking a team that won more games this season than UConn won in the last 2 seasons combined.
 
Just as we see George Mason on damn near every NCAA Tournament highlight reel, UMBC just added themselves to that as well.

It really sucks and the loss will go down in infamy in NCAA Tournament lore, but UVA will break through some year soon and ease the sting of the loss similar to 09, 11, and 14 for us.


That said, that Mason game still bothers me 12 years later.
 
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I don't think the George Mason game is nearly as relevant nationally as it is amongst UConn fans. With the '06/'07 Florida teams having been immortalized - rightly or wrongly - as dominant, George Mason having lost the designation as the only 11 seed to make a final four (VCU did it in 2011 and actually won five games), and UConn going on two perceived miracle runs of their own, there isn't much symbolic value left from that day. At the time, it was huge nationally, bigger than I can remember any on court college basketball story being since. Between Jim Larranaga suspending one of his best players for the first game of the tournament and Marcus Williams roaming free and A.J. Price on the bench, the optics were really bad. Add that to the fact that UConn was an overwhelming favorite loaded with pros while George Mason was from the CAA (UConn players famously didn't know what conference they were in) and you had the recipe for a true David/Goliath match-up.

As for this thread, it's an interesting question to ponder. I don't think anybody reasonably thinks we had a better year than Virginia. However, if you're a Virginia fan, you just got served the biggest slice of humble pie at the table. And given this is a culmination of past tournament failures rather than an isolated incident, it will be impossible to shake free from the stench of this disgrace until they break through. "Don't let others define you" is a great quote but you don't tend to hear it from winning locker-rooms. This is one of those times as a fan where you just have to shut up and take it.

UConn fans have to take some too, but in a more dignified way. Hire the right coach, put together a strong OOC performance, and you're right back on the saddle like nothing ever happened. When it comes to sleeping at night, you'd much rather an empty closet than one with skeletons.
 
champs99and04 said:
I don't think the George Mason game is nearly as relevant nationally as it is amongst UConn fans. With the '06/'07 Florida teams having been immortalized - rightly or wrongly - as dominant, George Mason having lost the designation as the only 11 seed to make a final four (VCU did it in 2011 and actually won five games), and UConn going on two perceived miracle runs of their own, there isn't much symbolic value left from that day. At the time, it was huge nationally, bigger than I can remember any on court college basketball story being since. Between Jim Larranaga suspending one of his best players for the first game of the tournament and Marcus Williams roaming free and A.J. Price on the bench, the optics were really bad. Add that to the fact that UConn was an overwhelming favorite loaded with pros while George Mason was from the CAA (UConn players famously didn't know what conference they were in) and you had the recipe for a true David/Goliath match-up.

As for this thread, it's an interesting question to ponder. I don't think anybody reasonably thinks we had a better year than Virginia. However, if you're a Virginia fan, you just got served the biggest slice of humble pie at the table. And given this is a culmination of past tournament failures rather than an isolated incident, it will be impossible to shake free from the stench of this disgrace until they break through. "Don't let others define you" is a great quote but you don't tend to hear it from winning locker-rooms. This is one of those times as a fan where you just have to shut up and take it.

UConn fans have to take some too, but in a more dignified way. Hire the right coach, put together a strong OOC performance, and you're right back on the saddle like nothing ever happened. When it comes to sleeping at night, you'd much rather an empty closet than one with skeletons.[/QUOT
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.....

or..

To die, to sleep....and by a sleep, to say we end
the heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
that Flesh is heir to?
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Yes...the Cavaliers suffered the arrows of outrageous fortune, but is it really better to sleep the sleep of the dead and not participate?

Yeah..Cav fans will bear their cross...but I think it is still better "to be, then not be".

They had a good season, made the tournament...and own the loss in a historic upset.
 
Huskybass said:
Only on The Boneyard can someone proudly start a thread mocking a team that won more games this season than UConn won in the last 2 seasons combined.
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Not so much mocking THEM, but more of tickling you. let’s see that happy face again sunshine. This is the boneyard. We have 4 rings in a very short period of time and hit a snag. Will be fine.
 
Fight the good fight @Dogdeacon. @MervthePurvis, you sound like your afraid of losing. I'd rather have a good/great year ending with a horrific loss (which we have done sort of GMU, San Diego) than not get invited to the dance at all.
 
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