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Marty Jackson said:
uconn needs a hand gesture and/or a catchy battle cry like Roll Tide or War Eagle...
How about MUSH!!!!
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Months ago when I decided to root for UConn as my personal favorite choice for Big 12 expansion part of it was for logical reasons like reputation, academics and market. But deep in my heart I knew even then that there were some other tangibles that would clearly mean less to others:

Like the fact that you have real live mascot, named Jonathan.

Back in the '60s and '70s almost all of the SWC schools had live animal mascots. It was a quintessential southwestern thing to do while all of those weird midwestern schools had esoteric colloquial people names like Sooners and Huskers and Hoosier and whatnot.

Call me crazy, but when I look at UConn, I see a kindred spirit that just happens to be 1800 miles away.
 
Charley Horse said:
Months ago when I decided to root for UConn as my personal favorite choice for Big 12 expansion part of it was for logical reasons like reputation, academics and market. But deep in my heart I knew even then that there were some other tangibles that would clearly mean less to others:

Like the fact that you have real live mascot, named Jonathan.

Back in the '60s and '70s almost all of the SWC schools had live animal mascots. It was a quintessential southwestern thing to do while all of those weird midwestern schools had esoteric colloquial people names like Sooners and Huskers and Hoosier and whatnot.

Call me crazy, but when I look at UConn, I see a kindred spirit that just happens to be 1800 miles away.
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Thanks Charley Horse. Everything is going to be ok! (cue the men in white coats.....)
 
Charley Horse said:
Months ago when I decided to root for UConn as my personal favorite choice for Big 12 expansion part of it was for logical reasons like reputation, academics and market. But deep in my heart I knew even then that there were some other tangibles that would clearly mean less to others:

Like the fact that you have real live mascot, named Jonathan.

Back in the '60s and '70s almost all of the SWC schools had live animal mascots. It was a quintessential southwestern thing to do while all of those weird midwestern schools had esoteric colloquial people names like Sooners and Huskers and Hoosier and whatnot.

Call me crazy, but when I look at UConn, I see a kindred spirit that just happens to be 1800 miles away.
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So glad I didn't go to Purdue. They have the combined creepiest mascot / blandest nickname in sports.
 
Charley Horse said:
I always thought it was cool their teams were named after a glass of beer with a shot of whisky in it.
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That's a dept charge . The only way I could stomach beer.
A boilermaker is a shot of rye , with a draft chaser
In my blue collar town where I grew up , that's what real men drank.
That was lunch for some guys.
 
Marty Jackson said:
uconn needs a hand gesture and/or a catchy battle cry like Roll Tide or War Eagle...
How about MUSH!!!!
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Isn't that the hand gesture for U Texas, i.e. hook 'em horns, just with an added finger to make it look like a 'XII." Kissing both backsides at the same time.
 
IMind said:
The origin of the hand sign is depressing: "During her transport from Houston to Austin, one of the fingers on Shasta's paw was severed when the cage door was closed. As the University of Texas partisans and players caught wind of the accident, they mimicked the animal by bending their thumb over the ring finger against their palm. This gesture implied that the Cougars were invalids. The Cougars would go on to lose the game 28-7."

A poor tortured animal looses a "finger".... and they make a hand sign out of it.
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All things considered I'd rather lose a finger than lose what Bevo had to loose in order to become a steer.
 


Dude is claiming BYU might have nine votes. This after saying he thinks expansion will only be two teams and it will be Houston and Cincy.
 
MattMang23 said:


Dude is claiming BYU might have nine votes. This after saying he thinks expansion will only be two teams and it will be Houston and Cincy.
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Ahhh the days when you are happy to be blocked on Twitter by that loser...and the bunch of memphis losers as well!
 
huskeynut said:
If this is true, its great news. But with the B12, who knows!
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Not trying to defend Houston but if there were real sources indicating that they were out, I doubt Tillman Fertitta donates $20 million for a renovated basketball stadium yesterday. I mean, I guess he could just be a great donor but I had never heard of him caring much about UH before the Big 12 expansion noise starting coming through.
 
UConnTrumbull said:
Not trying to defend Houston but if there were real sources indicating that they were out, I doubt Tillman Fertitta donates $20 million for a renovated basketball stadium yesterday. I mean, I guess he could just be a great donor but I had never heard of him caring much about UH before the Big 12 expansion noise starting coming through.
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Not to play Devil's advocate, but UConn's gotten plenty of charitable gifts to our football and bball programs with our future very much in doubt.
 
NYUConn said:
Not to play Devil's advocate, but UConn's gotten plenty of charitable gifts to our football and bball programs with our future very much in doubt.
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Very true. It just seems like strange timing to me. Fertitta has been eating up this media attention but I think he would be less vocal if someone in the know told him UH to Big 12 ain't happening. I'm basically saying that I think S w a im's tweet is BS but it's not like that's news to anyone hah.
 
UConnTrumbull said:
Very true. It just seems like strange timing to me. Fertitta has been eating up this media attention but I think he would be less vocal if someone in the know told him UH to Big 12 ain't happening. I'm basically saying that I think S w a im's tweet is BS but it's not like that's news to anyone hah.
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I mean to quote someone else here the other day, a GS tweet and a token will get you a ride on the Subway.

Also rich donors like Frittata love attention. Doesn't matter if Houston was in the Sun Belt, he'd still be milking this for all it's worth.
 
Has Houston cashed the check or is this a Kraft/Rowland situation?
 
UConnTrumbull said:
Very true. It just seems like strange timing to me. Fertitta has been eating up this media attention but I think he would be less vocal if someone in the know told him UH to Big 12 ain't happening. I'm basically saying that I think S w a im's tweet is BS but it's not like that's news to anyone hah.
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I think you're looking at it backwards. you're assuming the $20M is because Houston is in. It might be that nobody knows anything as widely speculated and Fertitta is leveraging his wealth to make a statement and get houston some positive attention. in that case the timing is perfect. Uconn's announce of $90M in approved capital projects is a similar ploy I believe.

Burton has been somewhat quiet in this whole process.
 
dr.holiday said:
Heard from someone at KU today that BYU and UConn are being talked about most. Take it FWIW.
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I believe our Hoops history counts for something here among schools like KU and Oklahoma. Academics and markets definitely part of the equation too. They just need to get that travel talking-point off the table in the offices where opinions count most.
 

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