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[QUOTE="tjhusky, post: 4966652, member: 4449"]
When I graduated HS in 1972, like a lot of my friends I applied to UConn as my safety school. I got in, but decided to go to Jacksonville U in FL (the year after Artis Gilmore played there).

Their hoops was still good, but the school and city was disappointing. I transferred to Ithaca college and graduated in 1976. I came home to CT and starated grad school at UNH  
(ok here comes the UConn part).

1978 my brother graduates HS and enrolls in UConn. At his Christmas break he was talking up Uconn basketball, Dom Perno years, Corny Thompson, Mike McKay. We started watching games and I was hooked. 
When we got Chuck Aleksinas from Kentucky we thought we would be unbeatable. We saw that although Dom was a nice guy and bled blue, but he saw the game from a guards standpoint. Nothing seemed to run through Chuck. 
So we held on through the rest of the Perno years and had a ringside seat to the start of the Calhoun era. It has been a wild ride and we are not done yet.
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