Some things were started in the chat room and were somewhat transferred to the main board, such as "fort the ead." I'm not sure about "scrappy," unless you were thinking about Syracuse who played a "plucky and gritty" game against UConn in 2004, only to lose (I may be linking 2 separate things here, but too bad. Gurleyman or Fishy can correct).
There were giant octopi and a plush husky named Jason who was lynched and stabbed and shot--just too cute to be tolerated.
We had just beaten Syracuse by 10 or so, and someone posted that they were disappointed that we didn't beat them by more. That notion was silly, I thought, since it was a quality win over a pretty good ranked team on a day we played well. So I posted tongue in cheek that Syracuse was a "scrappy, plucky" little team - the sort of team that can give a good team fits, and they'll probably pull a couple of upsets before it is all said and done. It was just to make fun of the original poster, for treating a 10-point win over Syracuse like it was Binghamton.
SU fans missed the joke and brought the quote back to their board and took all sorts of umbrage. It was pretty funny watching them go on for pages about the arrogance of UConn fans and not knowing the history of the Big East and Dave Bing, etc. Of course, due to my jinx, they won the rematch (I actually forget which year it was - maybe it was a BET game or the regular season finale in 04 with Emeka hurting) and started their own "UConn is a scrappy, plucky" team thing. It might have been 04 since that would have made SU the defending champs and fueling their umbrage at the perceived insult even more.
The scrappy, plucky insults went back and forth for a couple years until it finally died out.
Also, Miami gave us our only loss in 1999, so props to them (more of a chatroom inside joke).
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, the unofficial rule is start an argument with him each time you see him.