" I bet he's swayed more by logic and credibility than by fan-boy emotion. As always,
logos, ethos, pathos -- in that order"
Much as you argue against
@ZooCougar for his
ad homimem attacks (he's a passionate UConn fan, but he's not wrong), you fall into the same category with the use of the "fanboy" term. Nothing that I wrote was factually incorrect, nor was it some lunatic fanboy (middle age status not withstanding) ranting. I completely accept that UConn had a poor showing the last decade in football, as did Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, and Kansas (ah, yes, we won't point out that those grandfathered are exempt from critique). I'll also add that referring to UConn's basketball prowess as "frosting" is disingenous and insulting. Would you call Bama's national football championships frosting to the SEC? Making light of UConn's achievement in BB (by comparing to USF that has achieved no real success in sports), which no other team has done in the current era save for UCLA decades ago, speaks against your use of
ethos.
Regarding
pathos, you as a non-UConn fan should take your own words to light as you come to this site to post. If you cannot see that this fanbase has suffered time and again during CR and made to endure countless critique about what it lacks as an athletic school, yet you post that other teams should get the call while UConn endlessly wait for unlikely scenarios to unfold, then Heaven help you for your lack of empathy and manners as a visitor to this site.
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