Non-Key Tweets

[FfldCntyFan]

I didn’t want to start a Non-Key School thread, so thought I would post the Friar fans thoughts on UConn and the Big 12 here: UCONN B12 Rumblings.

Let me guess:

The BE saved us....
We're a bunch of ingrates....
They're better off without us....
We're letting football ruin a good thing.....

 

[WestHartHusk]

Let me guess:

The BE saved us....
We're a bunch of ingrates....
They're better off without us....
We're letting football ruin a good thing.....

Pretty much nailed, just missing:

We should have never let UConn back in
Providence will be fine
Give us your money and tourney credits

 

[HuskyDogArt]

you have won football games against good competition in the past, and you fully intend to do it again.

Like Baylor, with RG3 saying the stadium is nice. Who else did we played before in the B12. I know we played Oklahoma before. But anyone (without the new AAC or WVU games we played)

 

[superjohn]

I didn’t want to start a Non-Key School thread, so thought I would post the Friar fans thoughts on UConn and the Big 12 here: UCONN B12 Rumblings.

One of the dumbest communities on the interwebz...

 

[Urcea]

you have won football games against good competition in the past, and you fully intend to do it again.

Like Baylor, with RG3 saying the stadium is nice. Who else did we played before in the B12. I know we played Oklahoma before. But anyone (without the new AAC or WVU games we played)

Baylor 1-0
Iowa State 1-1
WVU 1-7
—
Oklahoma 0-1
—
Houston 1-3
Cincinnati 3-13
UCF 2-6
BYU 0-2

 

[Kolumbo]

Baylor 1-0
Iowa State 1-1
WVU 1-7
—
Oklahoma 0-1
—
Houston 1-3
Cincinnati 3-13
UCF 2-6
BYU 0-2

I think 2-0 vs Baylor

 

[The Viking]

you have won football games against good competition in the past, and you fully intend to do it again.

Like Baylor, with RG3 saying the stadium is nice. Who else did we played before in the B12. I know we played Oklahoma before. But anyone (without the new AAC or WVU games we played)

RGIII:

“For me, it was also UConn, which is kind of surprising to some people. But when I was in college, UConn was a top-15 team. And their fans had a lot of liquid encouragement at a night game, and it was it was loud. It was one of the hardest hardest places for us to play.”

 

[CTMike]

One of the dumbest communities on the interwebz...
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Of course a Providence fan can’t possibly conceive of an athletic department that wants to survive and thrive in all sports. That’s not a slight on the BE but he has it stuck in his head like a jilted ex.

 

[UConnKev]

 

[Waquoit]

I honestly haven't heard any UConn fans crapping on the Big East. UConn fans love the Big East. The non-FB UConn fans I know all hate leaving the Big East.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Of course a Providence fan can’t possibly conceive of an athletic department that wants to survive and thrive in all sports. That’s not a slight on the BE but he has it stuck in his head like a jilted ex.

I've known quite a few PC fans going back to the early 1980's and they are a unique lot. For a long time they prefaced every statement on their men's hoops program with "we are the smallest school in D1" (which isn't accurate).

In all candor, they all too often sound like they should be allowed to tee off from the ladies tees yet be given full credit when they shoot par, and, if they end up within a few strokes of the lead, be viewed as if they did have the lead.

They expect us to continually reassure them that they are our equals (they aren't even close) and view us as smug and obnoxious if (normally as a reaction to their badgering us for validation) we point out our success.

The "rivalry" has a little juice due to proximity but the reality is, ic it really meant anything, we would gave played them at least a couple times when we were in the AAC.

I really don't see them as much different than Seton Hall in terms of schools that are important to us.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I honestly haven't heard any UConn fans crapping on the Big East. UConn fans love the Big East. The non-FB UConn fans I know all hate leaving the Big East.

If we happen to mention our success we're obnoxious jerks who believe were too good for the rest of the conference. At least that's how fans of the little school to our east view things.

 

[king conn]

Its worse than that. If you read the Providence board they say we are nothing without the Big East, that the BE made us and won that NC, and we will wither away and die if we go Big 12.

That's the majority of them, not just a few.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Its worse than that. If you read the Providence board they say we are nothing without the Big East, that the BE made us and won that NC, and we will wither away and die if we go Big 12.

That's the majority of them, not just a few.

Let's find out if this is true. I'll take my chances with the B-12 and see if we'll either and die in that conference.

 

[CL82]

I've known quite a few PC fans going back to the early 1980's and they are a unique lot. For a long time they prefaced every statement on their men's hoops program with "we are the smallest school in D1" (which isn't accurate).

In all candor, they all too often sound like they should be allowed to tee off from the ladies tees yet be given full credit when they shoot par, and, if they end up within a few strokes of the lead, be viewed as if they did have the lead.

They expect us to continually reassure them that they are our equals (they aren't even close) and view us as smug and obnoxious if (normally as a reaction to their badgering us for validation) we point out our success.

The "rivalry" has a little juice due to proximity but the reality is, ic it really meant anything, we would gave played them at least a couple times when we were in the AAC.

I really don't see them as much different than Seton Hall in terms of schools that are important to us.

Seton Hall recruits the New York metro area the same way we do. And their fans are decidedly less obnoxious and delusional than our friends to the east.

 

[hoopsfan22]

Let's find out if this is true. I'll take my chances with the B-12 and see if we'll either and die in that conference.

We've changed coaches, we've changed conferences, and the result is still the same: a national championship. Not sure why a move to another conference would be any different this time. Maybe change at other schools doesn't work out, but for us, it doesn't seem to matter.

 

[JMick]

We've changed coaches, we've changed conferences, and the result is still the same: a national championship. Not sure why a move to another conference would be any different this time. Maybe change at other schools doesn't work out, but for us, it doesn't seem to matter.

I do think travel hurts you long term in basketball. It just is what it is nowadays with the way conferences are structured, but it does suck.

 

[Connecticut13]

We've changed coaches, we've changed conferences, and the result is still the same: a national championship. Not sure why a move to another conference would be any different this time. Maybe change at other schools doesn't work out, but for us, it doesn't seem to matter.

Moving to the AAC definitely mattered for us. Yes, we won the national championship immediately upon moving over -- but went straight downhill after that in mens basketball (and football for that matter).

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Moving to the AAC definitely mattered for us. Yes, we won the national championship immediately upon moving over -- but went straight downhill after that in mens basketball (and football for that matter).

I still firmly believe that coaching had far more to do with this than anything else.

 

[Urcea]

I seem to remember Ollie got some good recruits - just never got anywhere with them

 

[king conn]

Let's find out if this is true. I'll take my chances with the B-12 and see if we'll either and die in that conference.

What gets me about it is we carried that conference for 30 years while they leeched off our blood, then have the audacity to say the BE carried us.

They actually think they would be us if we were not in their way

 

[CoastAtlantic]

 

[CoastAtlantic]

 

[WestCoastHusky]

Somehow we need to get into the AAU at some point.

 

[Slasher]

Notre Dame isn't even freaking close to AAU standards. More proof this is just a club and not anything else. The #1 research AAU allegedly cares about is medical school research. ND doesn't even have a medical school.