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Vuce said:
I remember calling the recruiting hotlines over and over to see if a player committed to UConn. There was an article in Husky Blue and White about Kevin Garnett and his possible interest.

I met JKul a time or two to get whatever recruiting scoop he might have.

Heck, before the AOL days I remember I couldn’t wait to get the Courant and go to the sports page to see if a recruit committed to UConn.

Totally different world now!
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The Sunday Norwich Bulletin was absolute gold. Peter Abraham was a G at that point giving you the lists of guys we were connected to, when their visits were set, and what he was hearing. Following recruiting was actually a lot easier without the crazy tech of today. You'd get a list of guys from the paper. If you were subscribed to the various mags, you looked them up and saw their ranking, and then you heard them visit and you waited. Today, we hear about every dude who we talk to/watch, we are inundated with fake news/mix tapes, and we really have no idea what's going on.
 
PomonaHusky said:
Uconnhenry had an epic post...never heard from him again. Then again, maybe that was the old email listerve?
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That was the listserve. It was awesome. A family of sorts.
 
PomonaHusky said:
Uconnhenry had an epic post...never heard from him again. Then again, maybe that was the old email listerve?
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It was on the toto list.

But he was definitely heard from again. I went to several games with him that year and can attest that no one, but no one, could harass an opposing coach the way he could.

Bruiser Flint took a hellacious beating from him at Gampel.

He might not have posted to the list, but he was here for years and years after that.
 
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Ricker said:
To be quite honest, I forget if the old message board on aol was called 'The Boneyard' in the early to mid 1990's. In my vague recollection that forum was 'The Boneyard'. One specific change is the turnover of leading contributors with value added. At that time 'JKul' was the 'tcf13' with a great deal of value added content. Other frequent posters I recall were 'Vuce' , 'Blakeiii', 'Scott29ski', ... it would be interesting to know if any of these old posters were on the boneyard these days under the same other names. The information we now share from 247 or other 'real time' recruiting services was instead snail mail subscriptions to Hoop Scoop, Bob Gibbons, Husky Blue & White, etc on a publication schedule. I kept some of those old ranking lists that might be interesting. For instance, I hadn't recalled Rashmael Jones being a top 10 recruit, but he was by at least 1 of the services. I don't believe there was a composite rating at the time. The rumor mill was just as active. I saw I had printed out an assertion that Georgetown had cooled on the recruitment of Khalid El-Amin because he had asked John Thompson for money on a recruiting visit, and, did it in front of 2 other people. Never knew the truth of that. In that regard, nothing has changed.
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Used to subscribe to Eastern Basketball too.
 
Andrewsz1991 said:
I discovered The Boneyard in 2010 I believe, and became pretty active about it in 2013. I was wondering what some of the long term Boneyard users remember about the beginning days of UConn basketball. Were there any rumors, or stories, or recruits we were hot on?

I know there's Andrew Bynum, any big recruits that people were excited about that didn't pan out?
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I thought Doug Wrenn was going to be great for us. Scott Hazelton was a McD AA transfered to URI. Curtis Kelly transferred. Marcus Johnson. Rudy Johnson was highly rated. Majok. Deng was hyped up.
 
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Duncan Idaho said:
I thought Doug Wrenn was going to be great for us. Scott Hazelton was a McD AA transfered to URI. Curtis Kelly transferred. Marcus Johnson. Rudy Johnson was highly rated. Majok. Deng was hyped up.
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Wow a post that was actually responsive to the opening post? Did not see that coming.
 
Duncan Idaho said:
I thought Doug Wrenn was going to be great for us. Scott Hazelton was a McD AA transfered to URI. Curtis Kelly transferred. Marcus Johnson. Rudy Johnson was highly rated. Majok. Deng was hyped up.
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Hazelton made the McD AA team because the game was in Boston that year and they needed someone "local".
 
alexd. said:
Hazelton made the McD AA team because the game was in Boston that year and they needed someone "local".
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I thought Neil Fingelton was the overrated rep so they could have a local? Or was he the mandatory UNC must have a rep in the game every year rep?
 
August_West said:
Fishy had to let that one go when his Chief00 handle became so featured and popular here.
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I've always wondered how many of the past posters are now posting under another name. There is one poster currently here who has changed his handle at least a dozen times.
 
Does anyone remember in the 90s when there used to be a uconn email group before the time of message boards? I used to get so many emails to my aol account- screen name back then included a 42 for Donyell
 
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The Funster said:
uconnhenry had an April Fools day post that got him a lot of hate. A lot of people fell for it and were really pissed even though uconnhenry made a post of similar nature every single April 1st.
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Anybody know anything about UConnHenry. Last time I saw him was at Rentschler probably 10 years ago. Now that I am typing this
I am sorta afraid to ask....
 
Paesano said:
That was the listserve. It was awesome. A family of sorts.
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The Toto listserve was my introduction to the UConn basketball fan base. I loved coming home from work firing up my Eudora email client and reading and responding to the days posts. The good old days of the Internet.
 
It's a shame the misogynist vegan thread and the shaved arm threads were consolidated on the cesspool. They were some of the most fun I ever had on the internet. I haven't been here that long so I'm not sure how it compares to past threads. It seems like the Love Potion thread is infamous. I googled it and it came up on the syracuse board and they were talking about how good it was
 
The early "discussions" with UMass fans were things of beauty when they still believed they were relevant. Was it UMFan or UMassFan who was their ring leader?
 
Well, I can add something from the old Courant board.....TobyWes was a poster who hated Taliek, and wanted JC fired after every loss. Many from that board ended up on a Facebook board that I left because I ticked off the admin by deleting some of his posts when he physically threatened my friend.
 
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alexd. said:
Anybody know anything about UConnHenry. Last time I saw him was at Rentschler probably 10 years ago. Now that I am typing this
I am sorta afraid to ask....
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He's on the twitter @uconnhenry
 
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JMick said:
It's a shame the misogynist vegan thread and the shaved arm threads were consolidated on the cesspool. They were some of the most fun I ever had on the internet. I haven't been here that long so I'm not sure how it compares to past threads. It seems like the Love Potion thread is infamous. I googled it and it came up on the syracuse board and they were talking about how good it was
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A recent classic was the Diana Taurasi wedding thread. Pretty sure that one is dead and buried. But it was off season and lived for maybe a week?
 
So I've been on the Boneyard from the beginning. But as a Freshman there in 1964 my first UConn game featured Toby, Wes, et al vs AIC with a guy named Jim Calhoun. We won but Jim scored a lot of points.

Before all the recruiting magazines there was Street and Smiths Basketball guide to college basketball. They had a section where they rated the top 100 HS basketball players. There were always guys from Cross, Hillhouse, Hartford Public and Weaver. Back then one could only dream of getting a John Williamson or Calvin Murphy to UConn. In the early 70's I remember Earl Wilson was a great player-Arnold Dean called him Earl the Pearl like the NBA s Monroe. In 1974 our local paper Norwich Bulletin and a Guy I became friends with-Tim Tolokan-covered UConn bball and remember reading one day about Tony Hanson signing with UConn. That really started the new era of a national UConn-when the Big East was formed in 1978 and the top recruit Corny Thompson Tim wrote about UConn finally beating out big time school NC for him. About that time I became friendly thru Tim with the UConn Staff of Dom, Jimmy OBrian etc. A friend of mine at Pfizer-last name Miller, had a son who was a very good PG at Fitch that UConn recruited. A publication called Eastern Basketball came out and I became friendly wit Rita Napalitano there. They were a great source for recruiting in the early days, getting reports on players from scouts and guys like me. Later guys like Chris Smith and other nationally ranked players were picking UConn regularly. The first game at Gampel was vs St Johns and I was offered $100 for my ticked by a St Johns fan-NO Way did I sell it! Smutty helped win game #1 with I think 36 points. UConn at last was big time. No more did we have to beat PC with Soup Campbell in the ECACs to get to the dance. The Big East was Big Time
 
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