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For a while in the first years of the 2000s (when my mom got over her fear of Y2K and allowed us to get a computer), my father was a huge lurker at the Rivals board, and used to always tell me things he found on The Boneyard. He was old and didn't know how to use the internet, so at first I thought it was a site or something. When I learned it was a devoted UConn message board, I made fun of him. He would tell me something he learned here and I would ask him how much we should trust a bunch of dopes on the internet. Turns out I was smarter in high school. :)

I started at the ESPN board back in Fall 2002. I remember another poster there (@dsturdy5 ?). Annoying BC posters more or less made me look for a new home, and I found it through my father. It was right when we were trying to get Rudy Gay, and carried through until now.
 
My roommate and I got recommended the BY by some members of the goal patrol at a men's soccer game. We purely lurked for a long time, then made the mistake of making accounts.

Matrim55 said:
Found it when somebody linked a Daily Campus article of mine here back in '98 or so. Lurked for years, then when my dad passed I had no one to talk UConn hoops with on a daily basis.

So now I have you a**holes.
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Feel free to call me daddy.

(That was borderline insensitive, not trying to offend)
 
Deepster said:
I have been around since the Courant message board days. I think it was the Husky Howl or Husky Hardcores or something and I'd have to guess it was around 1995-96. The administrators of that board changed the format, people complained, they said "too bad" and Tom and Fishy basically went off built their own board and the Yard was the result. We bounced from server to server as we crashed sites every other week. It's funny to think of how, back then, we'd all email each other with the new link and over time, everyone would eventually find the new home and stagger back into the fold.

1995-96??? Geez. I really have spent a lot of time hanging around with you s.
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That's where I got my start as well. Twenty fricken years??? Wow.
 
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We should start a "How old are you?" thread because now I'm curious.
 
CAHUSKY said:
I hate those threads. It makes me feel really bad when I realize I previously have spent three hours thinking up a mean response that I then unleashed on a 9th grader.
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Hey, Boeheim publicly tears up kids around that age.
 
Danzz said:
Found it at least 15 years ago. Some really good posters back then but the site wasn't nearly as slick as it is today. This is our resting place after Tom moved from the site to Rivals, then to Scout and now to this location.
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I joined back around 2003-2004 when they were still on Rivals, and then remember them moving to scout for a short period and now this new iteration. I think I was googling something about recruiting at the time. It was nice to share on the site my brother's and I first Final Four in 2004(great memories). We have since been to four of them. Too bad I didn't know about this board back when we first won it in 99.
 
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I used to visit McDs a lot around 98 & 99 and then it fell off. Not sure I ever picked up on the 'Yard at that time. Husky Hardcores does sound a bit familiar though.

Does anyone remember when the site transitioned over to Scout? I believe I had found it just before the transition, and then for a while both sites were active. That's when I really started lurking. Didn't really post much until later.
 
I used to be on the AOL Philadelphia Eagles site. I got tired of getting cyber bullied , spit on and stabbed over there . It was a good move on my part because I figured I can get the same things here without spending all that gas money
 
3rdbass said:
I joined back around 2003-2004 when they were still on Rivals, and then remember them moving to scout for a short period and now this new iteration. I think I was googling something about recruiting at the time. It was nice to share on the site my brother's and I first Final Four in 2004(great memories). We have since been to four of them. Too bad I didn't know about this board back when we first won it in 99.
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Same! Hence the Third Incarnation!
 
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Greathusky said:
I started on the Courant board. I think it was called Husky Hardcores. From that point on, I went along for the ride in all its variations..
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…that is how I got started as well (c. 1996)…there was no Google back then!
 
Back in 1998 my buddy Tony Patoni told me to check out this McD's UConn site. There was a Chat Room link for The Boneyard. I lurked for a week. Just a week.
 
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Summer of 1998. Was on the Courant site but mostly on the old Big East message boards. Some one mentioned the Boneyard and I've been her since.
 
Lurked for awhile, got involved at UConnBall. Then migrated here.
 
Husky Dad said:
bathroom wall in Poughkeepsie
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"For a good time read..."


I was on the Courant site and looked to get away from that mindless drivel. A poster there know as MAHUSKYFAN (who still post here under a different handle) suggested the Boneyard and now I get to read a much better class of mindless drivel.
 
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I am praying that the two kids I talked to about the boneyard while hammered at the north outdoor basketball courts after a nickel night post on this thread. Would really make my day.
 
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CAHUSKY said:
I hate those threads. It makes me feel really bad when I realize I previously have spent three hours thinking up a mean response that I then unleashed on a 9th grader.
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I'm actually in 10th grade now.
 
8893 said:
Enzo's kid? Can he fire a kiln?
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I was just in Gampel the other day and, as big a fan as I am of the maestro, I have say the roof does look very bad. My understanding is that the failure to maintain Gampel at the recommended 92% humidity contributed greatly to the decline of the tiles.
 
That halfwit Gary Davis mentioned the site in one of his ignorant ESPN comments. So I checked it out, guess I owe the bastard.
 
Cool story. Started lurking around '98, probably through McD's site. Anywho, in 2000 my daughter was taking skating lessons at ISCC in Simsbury and I became pals with some of the parents hangin' around. One day after skating, me and another skating Dad head over to get the girls some pizza at the joint across the street. When we're done we get out to the parking lot and I see he has a 77-74 sticker on his car. Stopped me dead in my tracks. I say "Boneyard?". He sticks out his hand and says "Aussie Cuz". We're still friends. It was like a secret society back then.
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I think ALL things, with me, started with UConn Men's Basketball recruiting. There was that UConn weekly/Big East Briefs purchase; and lots of 900 phone calls (you could really ring up the dollars) for recruiting information back then; and then McDs too. In my meandering understanding of how things work: I think I saw Fishy and a handful of others put far more work into understanding who we were looking for (Hooper Scooper? I know these guys went to the Camps - before the Big AAU crap) than I ever would; then, I relaxed. My World became easier. The Ex divorced me anyway even though the phone bill came down.

I remember the Courant website. The early Web from Tom before Rivals. Rivals. UConn FB on Rivals started. Scout. Home here. Yeah ... it all started with about the time Kevin Freeman & & Rip Hamilton & Jake Voskuhl & Khalid El Amin showed up. KEA led to all of you ...
 
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