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Icebear said:
Thanks rford, I've never seen LV used for L'ville before.
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I think before Daddy goes using it in that context again he really needs to clear it with the Summitt and also with Louis Vuitton, both of whom have trademarked the LV.

Actually. maybe Daddy was referring to a Victoria's Secret Angel Lyndsey Scott, who shouldered some of the hand bag display work for Vuitton. Also may look good in the paint.
 
DaddyChoc said:
are you shortchanging Geno and the UConn Women
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The opposite. The UConn ladies did what Baylor couldn't do last year when Ville man handled Griner.
 
easttexastrash said:
That would be nice. You can PM it to me.
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Don't be so thin-skinned. Nan did NOT ask you to leave, she merely pointed out that you are free to do so, as are we all. Sort of like, if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the Boneyard, because you are pretty likely to take some. Personally, I enjoy reading your posts and hope you will stick around.
 
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Sorry to be blunt ETT, but here is my honest take on your posts here at The BoneYard.

When you talk basketball, or use humor to make a point, your posts are more than interesting. However, when you descend into a Seinfeld Bizzaro world, you use words to poke and annoy, seemingly just for the sake of doing so. In many ways, since we a UCONN fan site, we are fish in a barrel, allowing you to play out issues of your own. So I think.

I do not mean to offend, as I am just saying, so to speak.
 
As stated above, anybody looking at the foul differential and the final score who thinks the refs cost the Bears the game, is beyond foolish. We all watched an excellent, tight game, of which BOTH teams can be proud. For fans to offer pathetic excuses dishonors the players and coaches.

Yet there was a moment in the game when referee action may have influenced subsequent foul differential. After KML was whistled for swinging her arms to try to avoid the ball being grabbed away, the refs studied the monitor to see if KML's foul should be called flagrant. What they saw was clear from the replay: KML's elbows hit not face but arms. The Baylor player acted skillfully, not to draw a foul, but a foul call. Anyone watching the replay objectively saw the same thing. The refs were not allowed to reverse their foul call, but they became less easily taken in by flops and out-of-control collisions intended to draw foul calls.

Going forward, there are two ways to look at this. One is that flopping to draw foul calls is a skill that some teams teach and are very good at. Baylor and ND come to mind. One could say this is just a skill like any other, and part of the game as recently played and officiated. Another is that it should NOT be an accepted part of the game, and that referees need to wise up and stop allowing their calls to be manipulated by clever acting.

I believe this is an issue that needs attention, and clarification about how the game should be officiated. Not because I'm a fan of a team that does not practice this "skill", but because better quality basketball means not rewarding players for tricking referees. Flopping should be called a foul and referees allowed to watch the monitor to get the call right. Would that slow the game down too much? Not if monitor review resulting in a flop call cost the flopping team a time-out.
 
Ozzie Nelson said:
Sorry to be blunt ETT, but here is my honest take on your posts here at The BoneYard.

When you talk basketball, or use humor to make a point, your posts are more than interesting. However, when you descend into a Seinfeld Bizzaro world, you use words to poke and annoy, seemingly just for the sake of doing so. In many ways, since we a UCONN fan site, we are fish in a barrel, allowing you to play out issues of your own. So I think.

I do not mean to offend, as I am just saying, so to speak.
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Thanks, Ozzie. All constructive cirticism is welcomed and no offense taken.
 
Side rant on a secondary issue expressed in parts of this thread...

When posting on another team's/school's message board, I think it is important for visiting posters to be mindful of the method in which they choose to communicate.

In general, I will always convey the same message/opinions on a multitude of message boards. But the manner in which I choose to convey that message may vary, depending on the audience. For example, I have been posting on the Boneyard since 2002, when it was a Rivals site. I started posting, guns blazing, opinions conveyed in a boisterous manner, etc. I was quickly shot down. And I think it led (in part, clearly not in whole) to some posters having a negative opinion about Duke as a result, basing their opinion on their only real "interaction" with Duke fans - my message board posts.

I did try to change my posting style, incorporate more humor, and demonstrate a self-deprecating style that mimics my communication in "real life." It took some time to repair message board relationships, but gradually, I began communicating off-board with people like ericsandiego, ucbart, and HuskyNan (even on the phone with all three) and got to hang out with two of them (ericsandiego and HuskyNan) in person.

And when Duke did not crumble in the post-Alana Beard era (lost Beard/Tillis/Krapohl to graduation, Hunter to transfer, and Harding to suspension, but made the Elite Eight in 2005 and then the National Championship game) in 2006 (beating UConn in Bridgeport in the process), there was a healthy respect that some Boneyard posters - who might otherwise have been offended at my message board behavior - developed for the Duke program.

But I am always mindful as to my method/style of communication on an opposing team's forum. It is not about changing opinions, posting falsely-held beliefs, or engaging in buttering up/brown-nosing/kissing tuchas behavior. It is about understanding how a message will be received by others who may very well likely disagree with you. So you will see many of my opinions backed up with facts and statistics, personal observations and first-hand anecdotal tales, and qualifiers (e.g., only having seen a certain number of games or only having seen games on television and not in person).

And when you make substantive posts and do so with respect (for both the players/teams of whom you speak as well as respect for the audience reading the posts), you get respect in return. Plain and simple.
 
CamrnCrz1974 said:
Side rant on a secondary issue expressed in parts of this thread...

When posting on another team's/school's message board, I think it is important for visiting posters to be mindful of the method in which they choose to communicate.

In general, I will always convey the same message/opinions on a multitude of message boards. But the manner in which I choose to convey that message may vary, depending on the audience. For example, I have been posting on the Boneyard since 2002, when it was a Rivals site. I started posting, guns blazing, opinions conveyed in a boisterous manner, etc. I was quickly shot down. And I think it led (in part, clearly not in whole) to some posters having a negative opinion about Duke as a result, basing their opinion on their only real "interaction" with Duke fans - my message board posts.

I did try to change my posting style, incorporate more humor, and demonstrate a self-deprecating style that mimics my communication in "real life." It took some time to repair message board relationships, but gradually, I began communicating off-board with people like ericsandiego, ucbart, and HuskyNan (even on the phone with all three) and got to hang out with two of them (ericsandiego and HuskyNan) in person.

And when Duke did not crumble in the post-Alana Beard era (lost Beard/Tillis/Krapohl to graduation, Hunter to transfer, and Harding to suspension, but made the Elite Eight in 2005 and then the National Championship game) in 2006 (beating UConn in Bridgeport in the process), there was a healthy respect that some Boneyard posters - who might otherwise have been offended at my message board behavior - developed for the Duke program.

But I am always mindful as to my method/style of communication on an opposing team's forum. It is not about changing opinions, posting falsely-held beliefs, or engaging in buttering up/brown-nosing/kissing tuchas behavior. It is about understanding how a message will be received by others who may very well likely disagree with you. So you will see many of my opinions backed up with facts and statistics, personal observations and first-hand anecdotal tales, and qualifiers (e.g., only having seen a certain number of games or only having seen games on television and not in person).

And when you make substantive posts and do so with respect (for both the players/teams of whom you speak as well as respect for the audience reading the posts), you get respect in return. Plain and simple.
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Yeah...what they said..
 
CamrnCrz1974 said:
And when you make substantive posts and do so with respect (for both the players/teams of whom you speak as well as respect for the audience reading the posts), you get respect in return. Plain and simple.
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Bada Bing Bada boom
 
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Okay, can we now get back to slamming Duke? I really don't like the way Beard always seems to get the calls when she drives into the paint.
 
Icebear said:
No, I did not DC. To me LV has always been Lady Vols. I never considered L'V.
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and "Angel" didn't sway you at all... unlike the others that figured it out. I thought your we're brighter but I'll play along
 
Not in a thread about the Summitt. McCoughtry never crossed my mind. Once someone said it I understood why right away.
 
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CamrnCrz1974 said:
Side rant on a secondary issue expressed in parts of this thread...

When posting on another team's/school's message board, I think it is important for visiting posters to be mindful of the method in which they choose to communicate.

In general, I will always convey the same message/opinions on a multitude of message boards. But the manner in which I choose to convey that message may vary, depending on the audience. For example, I have been posting on the Boneyard since 2002, when it was a Rivals site. I started posting, guns blazing, opinions conveyed in a boisterous manner, etc. I was quickly shot down. And I think it led (in part, clearly not in whole) to some posters having a negative opinion about Duke as a result, basing their opinion on their only real "interaction" with Duke fans - my message board posts.

I did try to change my posting style, incorporate more humor, and demonstrate a self-deprecating style that mimics my communication in "real life." It took some time to repair message board relationships, but gradually, I began communicating off-board with people like ericsandiego, ucbart, and HuskyNan (even on the phone with all three) and got to hang out with two of them (ericsandiego and HuskyNan) in person.

And when Duke did not crumble in the post-Alana Beard era (lost Beard/Tillis/Krapohl to graduation, Hunter to transfer, and Harding to suspension, but made the Elite Eight in 2005 and then the National Championship game) in 2006 (beating UConn in Bridgeport in the process), there was a healthy respect that some Boneyard posters - who might otherwise have been offended at my message board behavior - developed for the Duke program.

But I am always mindful as to my method/style of communication on an opposing team's forum. It is not about changing opinions, posting falsely-held beliefs, or engaging in buttering up/brown-nosing/kissing tuchas behavior. It is about understanding how a message will be received by others who may very well likely disagree with you. So you will see many of my opinions backed up with facts and statistics, personal observations and first-hand anecdotal tales, and qualifiers (e.g., only having seen a certain number of games or only having seen games on television and not in person).

And when you make substantive posts and do so with respect (for both the players/teams of whom you speak as well as respect for the audience reading the posts), you get respect in return. Plain and simple.
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So, are you coming East for the American Conference tournament? It's going to be at the Mohegan Sun Casino March 7-10. I'll buy you a drink - you can pay for your own chips :-)

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reno tony said:
I think what cost Baylor the game was Sims trying to put the whole team on her shoulders and carry her team to victory. There were only two players that I ever saw that could do that. Diana Taurasi and Candace Parker. There may be others that I haven't seen. Some others come to mind but I haven't seen them play.
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Cappy, mebbe? Or Elena?
 
CamrnCrz1974 said:
And when you make substantive posts and do so with respect (for both the players/teams of whom you speak as well as respect for the audience reading the posts), you get respect in return. Plain and simple.
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Give me notice when you decide to make one of those.
:D:p
 
HuskyNan said:
So, are you coming East for the American Conference tournament? It's going to be at the Mohegan Sun Casino March 7-10. I'll buy you a drink - you can pay for your own chips :)

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Tempted. Very tempted
 
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Cam is awesome. Aside from being a welcome guest who's smart as a whip, he's also very cool and fun in person. Great guy to hang with, and it's mostly possible to overlook his love of the Duke men. He's actually mainly responsible for getting me to like Duke women. And he's right - it's amazing the amount of fans one person can win over with humor, respect, self deprecation, and a great sense of style...
 
HuskyNan said:
So, are you coming East for the American Conference tournament? It's going to be at the Mohegan Sun Casino March 7-10. I'll buy you a drink - you can pay for your own chips :)

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I kinda like the Duke's men team.......will you buy me a drink too?:D
 
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