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Is East Texas A&M a trap game?

For this team and coach? No.

In the JC era, the game right before Xmas break at the HCC was the definition of a "trap game". They almost always looked half asleep. LOL
 
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No - this team could play their most uninspired brand of basketball and still win by 20 on raw talent
 
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What’s the point of scheduling them? Plenty of bad teams reside within a 4 hour drive
 
LIuconn said:
What’s the point of scheduling them? Plenty of bad teams reside within a 4 hour drive
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John Gallagher and Dan Hurley are buddies and East Texas A&M's head coach played at Hartford and also was an assistant under Gallagher at Hartford. Maybe that was enough of a nudge to pick this team. Also, they play a unique style: they press and try to win the perimeter game, so I'm sure UConn wanted a tune up against this style.
 
Palatine said:
The Huskies will be looking forward to Maui and the undefeated Memphis Tigers. It will be tough to concentrate on the Lions with a trip to paradise around the corner.
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No. If the starters are sleep walking through the first three minutes, Hurley will sub the entire team for the second string, who would beat the brakes off of TAMC.
 
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Duke led Wofford 51-14 at the half yesterday, then extended the lead to 64-17, so, by comparison, we may get a run for our money.
 
Palatine said:
The Huskies will be looking forward to Maui and the undefeated Memphis Tigers. It will be tough to concentrate on the Lions with a trip to paradise around the corner.
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Not sure, but it’s a must win!

SMH
 
Hey Adrien! said:
John Gallagher and Dan Hurley are buddies and East Texas A&M's head coach played at Hartford and also was an assistant under Gallagher at Hartford. Maybe that was enough of a nudge to pick this team. Also, they play a unique style: they press and try to win the perimeter game, so I'm sure UConn wanted a tune up against this style.
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I'm going with the relationship angle. There's no other good reason to schedule this team.
 
Palatine said:
The Huskies will be looking forward to Maui and the undefeated Memphis Tigers. It will be tough to concentrate on the Lions with a trip to paradise around the corner.
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Do we start better tonight? Hurley certainly wants that for Maui.
 
LIuconn said:
What’s the point of scheduling them? Plenty of bad teams reside within a 4 hour drive
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Agreed that it's a weird one. I think the head coach has some Hartford ties so maybe there was a connection there. But yeah I don't see why we don't just keep all our buy games in the Tri-State or New England area....plenty of schools around here.
 
Palatine said:
The Huskies will be looking forward to Maui and the undefeated Memphis Tigers. It will be tough to concentrate on the Lions with a trip to paradise around the corner.
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Two words:

Dan Hurley
 
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I want to know how much we paid them to play us. Surely there must be schools like Bryant that would play us for free. If the AD doesn't have the funds to do Maui again or go to Atlantis they should also reduce the buy games.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I want to know how much we paid them to play us. Surely there must be schools like Bryant that would play us for free. If the AD doesn't have the funds to do Maui again or go to Atlantis they should also reduce the buy games.
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Saw this in the Register article this morning. Not sure why they had to schedule East Texas A&M. Probably could have gotten a more local school at much less. And basically the same competition. Or better.

It's also just about the last buy game on the Huskies' schedule. And an expensive one (reportedly $150,000, the most for any Husky foe this season) at that.
 
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