OT: Your hot takes from the past

[MadDogRevival]

MadDodRevival is an almost mainstream iteration.

What? Noooooooo. I hoped to never be boring. lol.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

What? Noooooooo. I hoped to never be boring. lol.

While you were ignoring your brand building, others were racing faster to the bottom. You had your chance. Now you're just occasionally cheeky.

 

[CL82]

Yeah dude, but you missed the perfect opportunity to humbly add, in the spirit of this thread, an equally horrid take at the end of your very same post . . . "Kevin Ollie and past national championships are the only things keeping UConn basketball afloat nationally."
Turns out KO was more like an oversized anchor on a short chain than something keeping us afloat. Lol.

Just goes to show - we're all throwing crap at the wall all the time, and much does not stick.

Looking for something else but stumbled onto this quality rant from you. I guess the hot take is "UConn should consider getting out of big time sports all together, and focus on education."

 

[MadDogRevival]

Looking for something else but stumbled onto this quality rant from you. I guess the hot take is "UConn should consider getting out of big time sports all together, and focus on education."

I think my dog died that day. Lol.

 

[Huskybass]

1. Bazz stays. Looking forward to a fantastic season with him back.
   
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[uconnphil2016]

In Bob we Trust

 

[MilliniumPrince]

Pre internet. I did not think Larry Bird was going to be a great pro. I thought he would like like NBA life. Sigh...

Yikes! But you are a stand-up person to admit that.

 

[UConnStats]

People were wildly high on TSam after the 2014 Championship.

 

[intlzncster]

People were wildly high on TSam after the 2014 Championship.

In fairness, people on the board have been wildly high on a lot of guys. Part of fandom....

 

[Dogdeacon]

Here's a mixed bag of hot takes, some good (Bennett) some bad (Otto Porter), Marcus Smart I guess inconsistently consistent.
From 2013 NCAA's

 

[UofCT]

I've got some really bad ones.

1) I thought Scottie Haralson would be the next Rashad Anderson
2) I thought Ater Majok would be the next Kevin Garnett
3) In 2010, I thought the idea of Butler being ranked ahead of UConn was laughable. They went to title game and we lost to VTech in NIT. I think it was v tech...

 

[intlzncster]

I've got some really bad ones.

1) I thought Scottie Haralson would be the next Rashad Anderson
2) I thought Ater Majok would be the next Kevin Garnett
3) In 2010, I thought the idea of Butler being ranked ahead of UConn was laughable. They went to title game and we lost to VTech in NIT. I think it was v tech...

I thought Majok was going to be a great 3-4 year player for us. In fairness, that was entirely possible; he probably would have become really good in college. It's just none of us took into account his family/cultural situation.

 

[intlzncster]

One that I'm guessing the majority on the Yard bought: UCONN was DOA after that 30 point drubbing from Louisville in 2014.

 

[amory]

One that I'm guessing the majority on the Yard bought: UCONN was DOA after that 30 point drubbing from Louisville in 2014.

To be fair if we had to play them in the tournament, we probably would've been DOA

That team had us pegged

 

[intlzncster]

To be fair if we had to play them in the tournament, we probably would've been DOA

That team had us pegged

Without a doubt. People always talk about the good fortune of Brimah's and-1, but I've long maintained that the luckiest we got in 2014 was Louisville landing on the other side of the bracket.

 

[Dogdeacon]

Also this for Boneyard history buffs, when Pudge mentioned Calhoun possibly coaching a foreign national team:

 

[UConnStats]

Also this for Boneyard history buffs, when Pudge mentioned Calhoun possibly coaching a foreign national team:
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Knowing Germany wasn't responsible for Pearl Harbor = History buff

 

[the Q]

Without a doubt. People always talk about the good fortune of Brimah's and-1, but I've long maintained that the luckiest we got in 2014 was Louisville landing on the other side of the bracket.

And being in Kentucky’s region. Who had already beaten them.

I know I’ve posted it before. But the wildness of Peer matchups in that title game (with Florida and Louisville beating Kentucky/Uconn 3 times each) is just staggering.

Also that Florida team will probably never get the respect it deserves.

30 game winning streak heading into FF.

Undefeated sec champs and tourney champs.

3 losses all year. All to final four teams.

Two road games in December to Uconn and whisky. then Uconn in the FF.

That was a truly great team that just ran into a team that (for whatever reason) had its number.

 

[Dove]

One of my first threads posted on here saying Bob Diaco seems insane and is leading UConn football into obscurity. And y'all destroyed me for it. From that day on I learned to wear a cup before entering the-boneyard dot com.

Kind of, but really not OT: Bob Diaco

LOL at amory's reply!

 

[Dogdeacon]

Knowing Germany wasn't responsible for Pearl Harbor = History buff

Works every time!
gotcha

 

[HuskyHawk]

I'm working on it. Trying from 2011...so far I've been spot on up to 2013. I'm sure there is a clunker in there somewhere.

 

[HuskyHawk]

And boom, there it is. Surprising since I was so negative on Ollie even in the beginning. I'm an optimist I guess.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Random post from August 2012 when we were thinking about JC's successor and it was rumored KO would take over at some point:

"If this is really where we're leaning, it's time to can Blaney, promote Ollie to associate head coach, and hire a new assistant who Ollie will want to work with. Give Ollie 2 years in an elevated coaching capacity to learn the ropes, and hand him the reins after JC retires when his contract expires in 2014."

I didn't buy KO as ready to take over right away. Maybe there was something to that.

 

[Husky25]

Jump into your old posts and find a hot take you had that was either very right or very wrong. Looking at your past "likes" list from a long time ago is a good jumping off point. I'll start...

Honestly, looking at my past likes from a long time ago only makes me realize how much more densely populated this board, compared to now, was when I first started posting.

I recognize some twitter handles, but there seemed to be more opinion thrown around yesteryear.