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To be fair, there are plenty of voices of reason over there
One guy stated our case just as well if not better than anyone over here

Some do it with humor. One said please let us be so lucky to win two Natty's.

I always remember after 2014, one guy said that if this is what irrelevance is, please make us irrelevant
 
FfldCntyFan said:
LaSalle actually has a national title in their trophy case and as recently as ~1980 had a valid claim as the best program in the Big Five. They sunk into obscurity while programs they felt superior continued and one (Nova in their case) went on to win multiple titles,
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That must be when L-Train "Lionel Simmons" was there. Speedy Morris the coach back then?
 
No team ever has "lucked" their way to a ncaa title, that's just plain ignorance. You have to win 6 straight games against good teams. Sometimes you get a matchup break here and there, but that's the nature of a bracket style tournament. Bottom line, you still have to go out and take each W, survive and advance and hopefully you can make it to a Monday final.
 
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Fairfield_1st said:
That must be when L-Train "Lionel Simmons" was there. Speedy Morris the coach back then?
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No, L Train was a decade later. Michael Brooks was national player of the year. He followed Joe (Jelly Bean) Bryant (Kobe's dad).

LaSalle was an exceptionally strong program until the BE came around (and the A-10 refused to add a third Philly school).
 
FfldCntyFan said:
No, L Train was a decade later. Michael Brooks was national player of the year. He followed Joe (Jelly Bean) Bryant (Kobe's dad).

LaSalle was an exceptionally strong program until the BE came around (and the A-10 refused to add a third Philly school).
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Wasn’t Jelly Bean Bryant on the team that upset then #1 DePaul (the Mark Aguirre/Terry Cummings era) in the first round of the NCAA’s?
 
businesslawyer said:
Wasn’t Jelly Bean Bryant on the team that upset then #1 DePaul (the Mark Aguirre/Terry Cummings era) in the first round of the NCAA’s?
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That was St Joe's, not LaSalle that beat DePaul. LaSalle was a top ten team that year, Michael Brooks was their star, Jelly Bean was already in the NBA.
 
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Hamms30 said:
Ever sit there and wonder if the ACC Powers that Be ever ask each other from time to time "Why did we let Boston College convince us to take Louisville, Cuse and PItt instead of UConn?"
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I have friends that are Pitt fans, and when that was happening I was crying that we were screwed and they lucked out. Turns out that the BE is back stronger than ever, better coaches than ever and poised to stay strong. ACC will be fine but we landed on our feet and BTW when have we heard of Cuse and BC as basketball powers lately?
 
jibsey said:
I have friends that are Pitt fans, and when that was happening I was crying that we were screwed and they lucked out. Turns out that the BE is back stronger than ever, better coaches than ever and poised to stay strong. ACC will be fine but we landed on our feet and BTW when have we heard of Cuse and BC as basketball powers lately?
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A lot still does come down to money as far as being happy with a given conference affiliation. BE will only ever get so much from a TV contract, especially without football. The ADs in the ACC will always have tons more money than us if/when they need to spend. Also, not to mention, the school at large gets better when they’re getting 50 million vs 10 million a year from athletics.

It seems like we may have struck gold with Dan Hurley in that he is a northeast guy, seems happy to anchor here for a long long time (again, how much better is a UK/UNC job at this point besides money?), and is hopefully happy with making plenty-good but not top money. Otherwise, we would have a lot to worry about as far as teams from conferences with stupid amounts of money ready to throw at him.

We’ll see what happens with assistants
 
SilentDog said:
This is the first time I have read through one of these Syracuse threads. WOW….but it is laughable. They do not understand what team means. They think it is giving the ball to a generational scorer “Melo” getting out of the way and playing a decent zone is what team means. This UCONN team easily beats Syracuse Melo Natty team. IMO…
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Not looking it up to confirm, but I believe the 2003 UConn Huskies DID beat the Syracuse Melo Natty team.
 
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Husky25 said:
Not looking it up to confirm, but I believe the 2003 UConn Huskies DID beat the Syracuse Melo Natty team.
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Yes. And they played in Albany to get to the final four. So lucky.
 
One last whimper for round 3! Kinda hard to get good sequences of messages because every other post these kids were talking about HBO shows and the WBB NC game

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You haven't lived until you've been at an Orange-UCONN football game while UCONN was handily beating them five straight seasons. I have never seen so many folks with WTF looks on their faces. It's a very delusional fanbase that I think still believes Jim Brown is on the roster.

That UCONN basketball has consistently surpassed them over decades now is beyond their ability to comprehend. An alternate reality is easier to accept.
 
WhereistheDove? said:
He really came across as a bitter old man that is pissed off about college basketball as a whole as well as how it ended at Cuse.
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Probably because he is old, male, and bitter about how college basketball is changing for the worse (it is) and how he didn’t get to go out on his own terms (which, rightly or wrongly, he didn’t).
 
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