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Boy the feeling was so different back then. Expectations were still on the tarmac, wanting to take off but always being called back to the gate.

Now: the captain has turned off the seat belt sign and you are free to move around the cabin. We will be cruising at 38,000ft on our way to the post season.
 
My memory is a bit foggy, but I think the NCAA changed the eligibility rules for foreign players around 1996, and the Israelis could no longer get eligible because they were all under contract to foreign teams. I honestly don't understand how they got eligible in the first place, but I am happy Henefeld and Scheffer did.
 
Nada was hands down the player who left too soon who saddened me most.

He was such game changer and so much fun to watch.

It's rate to have a one-and -done player who left such a huge impression. We got one year from Drummond and two from Villanueva and I can barely remember them, but I'll never forget Dove.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
My memory is a bit foggy, but I think the NCAA changed the eligibility rules for foreign players around 1996, and the Israelis could no longer get eligible because they were all under contract to foreign teams. I honestly don't understand how they got eligible in the first place, but I am happy Henefeld and Scheffer did.
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I've still never really understood how that worked.
 
DogMania said:
Nada was hands down the player who left too soon who saddened me most.

He was such game changer and so much fun to watch.

It's rate to have a one-and -done player who left such a huge impression. We got one year from Drummond and two from Villanueva and I can barely remember them, but I'll never forget Dove.
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I remember being blindsided by the news he was leaving… Social media had yet to explode (certainly no twitter, etc…) & I don't really remember any banter or discussion contemplating whether there was even a possibility he would not be coming back for his second year. I do remember Calhoun was pretty pissed-off at Nadav when he heard the news...
 
J-dog said:
I remember being blindsided by the news he was leaving… Social media had yet to explode (certainly no twitter, etc…) & I don't really remember any banter or discussion contemplating whether there was even a possibility he would not be coming back for his second year. I do remember Calhoun was pretty pissed-off at Nadav when he heard the news...
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The internet had yet to explode. 1990.
 
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CallMeBruce said:
I've still never really understood how that worked.
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Calhoun either commented in an interview in the late 90's or wrote in his biography that he would never be able to get another Israeli player again because of eligibility issues with kids coming out of Israel as a result of changes in NCAA regulations. I don't remember the exact problem though.
 
I enjoyed reading all the comments. I was 13 years old when that season started. It's all a little blurry, yet holds an important place in my memory. But I loved those guys. Nadav has always been a mystique in my mind because of his amazing year...and then he disappeared. I think he could have been a college legend had he stayed, but like Hendrix and Marley we'll never know what could have been
 
mauconnfan said:
Eddie Williams? Maybe he was never a freshman here but he was one of our older players ever…….
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Had I read one post further I could have saved some frantic Googling. I was looking for "Fast" Freddie Williams and then recalled it was Eddie. I believe he came to us after military service and had a reduced amount of eligibility due to his age. Good call on him MA.
 
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ColoradoUCFan said:
I enjoyed reading all the comments. I was 13 years old when that season started. It's all a little blurry, yet holds an important place in my memory. But I loved those guys. Nadav has always been a mystique in my mind because of his amazing year...and then he disappeared. I think he could have been a college legend had he stayed, but like Hendrix and Marley we'll never know what could have been
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I was right there with you. It's still fairly clear for me though, because that sparked my obsession with UCONN bball.
 
For that season was blessed and cursed
I had gone to a significant number of games with my friends , from the early 80's in New Haven to that season. You actually could get decent tickets. Somewhere I have a program with Carl Hobbs autograph.
After that season the price and availability of tickets went through the roof.
With kids in college getting a hold of tickets became a luxury. In some sense many hardcore UConn fans of the Subway Alumni type were driven off replaced by the casual fashionista, who sat on his hands during the game.
Luckily UConn's frequent TV appearances salved the wound for us tough time supporters.
 
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