Have us 'Yarders given up?

[BlueandOG]

I watch for entertainment. The games are not entertaining. Thus, I stopped watching.

 

[TRest]

I have been watching since the Whelton years. Just habit now, to see what new depth we can plumb. Imagine if our games weren't all televised, I would get back into reading books more often.

 

[Robertelamin]

What’s there left to say?

Pretty much. I'll still watch every game but nothing really matters until the offseason at this point.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

We play like a Rec League team. There is not much cohesion and not much sign of anything that looks like an offensive set other than the occasional pick and roll or high post screen.

 

[Travelman6]

Just apathetic for the most part. Agaisnt better judgement I check in to see scores, however. Even when watching Mad Max instead of the second half of Temple, I paused the movie once or twice to see the score (ouch, mistake).

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

If any of you are UConn football fans the feeling should be familiar.

Low expectations and somehow they manage to even break those low expectations.

Oh yeah, there's a category of posts that make me want to just reply, "Ouch."

 

[Austin316]

I’m waiting for KO to turn heel and start acting more like Lavar Ball... but he’s too much of a ***** to do that.

 

[Tex-Lager93]

I'll still attend, watch and hope...but, for the first time ever, I'm ready for a season to come to end. It can't get here fast enough.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Sea kelp.

I decided to just Like everybody's post, but I don't know what this means.

 

[8893]

I decided to just Like everybody's post, but I don't know what this means.

Say it aloud.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

I decided to just Like everybody's post, but I don't know what this means.

Say it aloud.

Seek Help.

 

[fatlucy]

Just waiting for the change. Took me a while out of loyalty but there's no doubt we need it. Do whatever it takes but the sport id too valuable as a marketing tool for us to not spend the money.

 

[Kenny11]

I decided to just Like everybody's post, but I don't know what this means.

Thank you for contributing to my strong Likes to Posts ratio. Its all I have right now.

 

[John]

I'm getting turned off to college sports in general. We're seeing more and more what's behind the curtain, and I don't really want to support or invest in that type of sham.

 

[UConn76]

I've had basketball tickets off / on (mostly on) for the past 30 years... Thinking that it's partly because of my age and things in life/family take on more importance than UConn sports, but the entire athletic program beat-down that we've taken with conference affiliation, NCAA probation / investigations, lack of competitive showings in our 2 most important sports, and apathy towards the AAC teams that we play, has just shut my interest off.

With the god-awful football home schedule next year and the likelihood of a complete player / coaching make over in MBB, I just can't see myself spending the time/$$ to buy season tickets..

 

[Milo65]

Turned the game off st halftime as I’ve been fighting a cold and decided sleep was more necessary. In the past I would have powered through it. As I checked the score this morning, I was both happy and sad about my decision. This season is lost.

 

[huskyblooz]

Our offense puts me to sleep

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

I don’t know if the Yard has given up but the coach and the players certainly have.

 

[WestCoastHusky]

I used to get nervous/excited before any game and angry after the losses.

Now I just feel apathetic.

Pretty much described how most of us feel right now. We need a change badly at this point.

 

[Rocktheworld]

I’ll also note that the NCAA and their actions over the last 8 years have really soured me on college sports in general.

It’s more fun watching the names I saw from 08-14 now in the NBA watching their careers play out (and the games are simply far more entertaining).

 

[BugsyCT]

Didn't watch a single second last night (mostly because I was too tired), but I wasn't staying up anyway for another 2 hours of another crapfest. Just want this season to be over and see changes made. This downward spiral we've been on the last couple years just wears on you after a while.

Horrible sports year for the 2 sports teams I care about most - UConn football & men's basketball.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I've had basketball tickets off / on (mostly on) for the past 30 years... Thinking that it's partly because of my age and things in life/family take on more importance than UConn sports, but the entire athletic program beat-down that we've taken with conference affiliation, NCAA probation / investigations, lack of competitive showings in our 2 most important sports, and apathy towards the AAC teams that we play, has just shut my interest off.

With the god-awful football home schedule next year and the likelihood of a complete player / coaching make over in MBB, I just can't see myself spending the time/$$ to buy season tickets..

Okay, that's an, "Ouch," and a, "TV version of me," and an "Are you reading, Mr. Benedict?" all rolled into one.

 

[Dove]

Our offense puts me to sleep

How? Its a nightmare.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Pretty much the same here. I am still more interested in UConn basketball than most people, but I am less interested in the games right now than I have ever been since I first became a fan almost 35 years ago. I just want this phase to pass as quickly as possible and get on to the next one.

Kind of like vomiting bile and dry heaving at the end of a stomach bug.

It's eerily similar to how I feel about the country right now.

Yeah, you and Fishy both nailed how I feel about the program. If I had to capture it in one sentence, I'd call it "The death of hope".

 

[microfich]

Realize that half the teams in the country have losing records and most of them do it 3/4 of the time. Those programs are used to losing and get excited the one year out of four they have upper classmen that can lead them toward the tournament. This keeps their fans with low expectations satisfied enough to live on hope and faith.

We are not used to this. Even pre JC we were a winning New England program that would fight with UMass or URI for the championship every year. This success and rabid fandom helped lead us to the Big East, where we foundered for years pre JC but never lost the fanaticism.

It doesn’t take much for a few to topple norms causing people like me to fear, doubt and loathe.

Guiltless apathy of a deep love is a crying shame.