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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 4519967, member: 199"] Grew up as a faculty brat in Storrs and hung out on the campus in the 60's to watch free concerts and joined a 'sit-in' of the President's Office. Ran some laps at the old field house on the 'new' track, watch football games from the hill (apple orchard, now dorms and parking garage) and actually did some high school work in the first computer lab, punch cards, Fortran II and all. Did not actually follow college sports growing up - my team was the Celtics, but soon after Len Bias I sort of loss interest. My dad had some of the women's players in class and started watching them in the 1990s and when I would come for a visit we would watch together and I got hooked. 1995 was special and then when the TASSK force committed dad was so excited. Unfortunately he died that summer so I continue the tradition of watching whenever I could. The women's game continues to be played like those old 60s/70s Celtics games when the men had to rely on teamwork rather than extraordinary athleticism and I like that. And Geno is a brilliant coach who teaches a really lovely system and recruits fantastic women. The advent of the CPTV streaming service was a godsend as I have been living all over the world so getting to see games was limited. I am back in Storrs now so all is good! [/QUOTE]