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UConnDan97 said:
We have a thread dedicated to the kid that contains about 8 million posts. Do you think it's KO who needs to learn from this? I'm personally thinking that this board might gain something from it...
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Agree - get rid of the mega threads - they have pluses and minuses - but after a couple years and the guy announces for someone else - it gets shut down.
 
HuskyHawk said:
My only comment comes from Robert Frost, a worthy read for any HS recruit.

The Road Not Taken
BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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I have always liked that poem - but incorporating it into our recruiting with existing deep dives into class catalogues and schedules etc - don't give Glen Miller any ideas.
 
Diallo may never play a second at UK. When spring rolls around, the lure of the NBA may become too great for him to resist.
 
8893 said:
Sorry @tzznandrew ; I was happy to see you chime in as expected with the proper context for the poem, but I got such a chuckle seeing this ironic typo that I couldn't let it slide.

Well, maybe I could have, and it wouldn't have made a difference...or would it?
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No worries. You can tell I originally wrote English teacher and went back and changed it (without fixing the article).

I really very sloppy when it comes to writing on message boards--it's an informal setting and I don't use my real name so who cares tends to be my attitude. I do try to avoid hilarious malapropisms, but even those will happen from time to time.
 
tzznandrew said:
No worries. You can tell I originally wrote English teacher and went back and changed it (without fixing the article).

I really very sloppy when it comes to writing on message boards--it's an informal setting and I don't use my real name so who cares tends to be my attitude. I do try to avoid hilarious malapropisms, but even those will happen from time to time.
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Wait, tzznandrew isn't your real name? Bummer. It's fun to (try to) pronounce it.
 
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tzznandrew said:
Just to be clear, this is a poem about how most choices don't actually make a difference, but in retrospect we impart meaning to them to justify our own actions.

:)
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As the journalist said to Ransom Stoddard "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." There is after all a reason Ford Motor Company doesn't use Conqueror Worm in its advertisements.
 
If he came here was he taking Vance Jackson's place? Or was he a #2 guard?

Either way...I hate how he was ours and then....psyche!!! But in no way was he making us better this season so I there is that. This season is a season from hell. Gotta withstand the heat.

Next season the team will be young with a veteran in Jalen Adams. Will be fun to watch but still an adventure.
 
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Why are you people acting surprised? Diallo was NEVER coming to UConn! The days of UConn being a national power year in and year out are over and the sooner you all realize that, the better. The ceiling of this program is now a team that makes the NCAA tournament every few years and makes a sweet 16 run once a decade. UConn basketball as you once knew it is gone!
 
TitleTown said:
Why are you people acting surprised? Diallo was NEVER coming to UConn! The days of UConn being a national power year in and year out are over and the sooner you all realize that, the better. The ceiling of this program is now a team that makes the NCAA tournament every few years and makes a sweet 16 run once a decade. UConn basketball as you once knew it is gone!
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Doomed. So doomed. We are all so incredibly doomed.
 
TitleTown said:
Why are you people acting surprised? Diallo was NEVER coming to UConn! The days of UConn being a national power year in and year out are over and the sooner you all realize that, the better. The ceiling of this program is now a team that makes the NCAA tournament every few years and makes a sweet 16 run once a decade. UConn basketball as you once knew it is gone!
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I certainly hope not. Although I would be lying if I could confidently believed otherwise. One thing I don't like is justifying every poor season in the AAC, and making excuses already for next year. The quality of our roster (including non injured players) still ranks at the top of the conference. We don't need to be nationally ranked, but there's no excuse to be last or second to last behind ECU in the AAC. I think KO is at a crossroad. The next year (or 2 tops) will definitely be determinative. That said, I hold out a modicum of hope. Next year, we still have Jalen Adams and Rique, both of whom have scads of talent and bring a healthy dose of moxy. I also think that Vance Jackson will become that pure shooter we recruited him for, but there's a lot of confidence issues being thrust into the spotlight as quickly as he has and surrounded by a team that is struggling. Lastly, I think that Ashton-Langford will contribute as a freshman given his obvious talent. I'm still concerned about our front court, but if our guards are firing and we continue to play decent defense, and the coaching improves a little, we'll be in good shape. So I'm going to withhold final judgment, until next year. Confidence, just like pessimism, can be contagious among the players and coaching. A good start to next season could launch us back to relevancy and more. Coach just has to prepare the players better at the start of next season.
 
Glad that he chose UK. I don't prefer 1-and-done freshmen...they don't contribute enough in that one year to make it worthwhile. They take minutes away from other players, hampering the development of those players and, as such, negatively impacting the program. Diallo may have only been here for half a season...who cares?
 
TitleTown said:
Why are you people acting surprised? Diallo was NEVER coming to UConn! The days of UConn being a national power year in and year out are over and the sooner you all realize that, the better. The ceiling of this program is now a team that makes the NCAA tournament every few years and makes a sweet 16 run once a decade. UConn basketball as you once knew it is gone!
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Weren't you saying the same thing in early 2014?
 
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tzznandrew said:
Not trying to be a ****, I'm an lit teacher, so while I love this poem I see it misread so often it sort of triggers me.

I have no idea how or why you were reading it that way--though I suspect you were using the poem to suggest the "road less travelled" is better as most people do at odds with the poem. It was mostly an ironic clarification, especially given that in either case, for Diallo, each path almost certainly leads to being an NBA lottery pick. So, yeah, not much of a difference.
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Dang it! My whole friggen life was crystallized by that poem only to realize from you that the crystallization was defined by a misinterpretation. The path I chose in my life was based on being dumb not special. I feel like the kid in the "Summer of 42" who was told by his friend that he was rubbing the girl's shoulder and not her breast while they were at the movies.

So that leaves me with a dilemma. Do I start agreeing with the majority of chuckleheads in this forum given that I'm also a chucklehead or do I stick with my maverick approach? Or do I do what most of us do and find a rationalization for why I misinterpreted it?

I did read it when I was a naive kid who took Frost at his word when he declared he "travelled the less traveled path" and ignored the evidence preceding that statement. The cynical bastard that I've become partly as a result of misinterpreting that poem would never have interpreted it incorrectly if I had that developed cynicism when I read it. So the final two questions are how much did my misinterpretation of that poem factor in the development of my maverick behavior? And if I interpreted it correctly when I read it would I have developed this maverick behavior?

I guess the answer is that some pathways do influence outcomes even if they are misunderstood. In other words, like most of us I'll embrace my stupidity and put it on a pedestal.
 
UConn_Top_Dog said:
Some more laughs... they seem so obsessed with us.

https://kentucky.forums com/threads/post-a-meme-of-how-the-uconn-fans-feel-now.222114/
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You should have read their board the day Meyer said he was almost certainly coming to UConn.

They destroyed Diallo much worse than any criticism Diallo has received here. It was all about how he wasn't Kentucky's caliber, how they'd much rather have Alexander starting.

Well, they may have actually been right about Alexander over Diallo--they have both--but it does show the hypocrisy over there.
 
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