LOL.
IF a UCONN booster had done what Shapiro did for the U, there would probably be a literal crucifixion televised by ESPN up on highest part of the field over horsebarn hill as you drive in to campus, only a matter of who the crowd called for as to who it would be. I believe that to be true after the crap they pulled in basketball.
Someday, I would really like an explanation from the actual media people, and in the NCAA hierarchy, as to what the specific reasons are for why UCONN is such a black sheep. Me too.
It really can't be as simple as that Jim Calhoun's personality and relentless winning for so many years, rubbed so many people the wrong way. IF it is, it kind of makes me lose my faith in humanity a bit.
And for me, it makes me appreciate even more that JC won three national championships - two coming at Duke's expense (even though '04 was in semi's) and the other coming at Kentucky's expense (again in the semi's). That is not suppose to happen to the bluebloods and their TV production groupies.