Pat Forde: UConn Bid to Overturn Tourney Ban "A Joke"

[Fishy]

I even think back to the Williams Price fiasco as the start of the craziness.

2006 team loss
all new team in 2007
Nate Miles expelled and investigation during the tourney
Final Four
2009-2010 year
NC Championship and Kemba
Drummond commits
this year's team
APR announcement looming

Being a uconn fan is like being in one of those crazy relationships with a crazy person, who is really sexy and crazy, and it's great, then it really blows, and you start going crazy yourself because the highs are really really high and the lows drive you insane.

I'm having flashbacks.

Basically, we're all dating the same stripper.

 

[HooperScooper]

For all the people that think Gottlieb is out to get us, try to find one positive thing this has ever said about UConn.

O.K., there was one. It was back in April 2004. The link doesn't work any more so I just cut and pasted it here.

UConn among bluest of bluebloods

Pat Forde​

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With a second set of Final Four nets en route to the trophy case in lovely Storrs, Conn., it's time for some serious rejiggering of the college basketball hierarchy.
If the Connecticut Huskies aren't the No. 1 program in the nation, they're 1A.
This will no doubt offend some of the bluer bloods in the audience — specifically, those who wear University of Kentucky blue, North Carolina blue, Kansas blue and Arizona blue. But you cannot objectively color the debate any differently.
The only blue hue that still stands superior to Connecticut's belongs to Duke. Barely.
The Blue Devils would be the unquestionable No. 1 if their two most painful defeats of the past six seasons hadn't been against UConn in the Final Four. In the 1999 national final, the Huskies demystified a Duke team that was drawing comparisons to the greatest units ever. Last Saturday UConn staged a stunning comeback from the brink of defeat to rob the Blue Devils again.
BOTTOM LINE: The Huskies are the only things keeping Mike Krzyzewski from five national titles, a total that would separate him from every coach but John Wooden. Instead, two titles went to Jim Calhoun, vaulting him into elite territory and taking the UConn program with him.
Connecticut joins Duke and Kentucky as the only schools to win multiple championships since the NCAA Tournament field expanded to 64 in 1985. And in recent history, UConn stands tall against its competition.
Last five seasons? Duke has won 16 tournament games and one title. Kansas has won 15 — but no hardware. Arizona and Michigan State each have won 13 — but the Wildcats also are without rings and the Spartans are trending downward. UConn has won a dozen tournament games and a championship in that time — two championships in the past six.
UK and North Carolina are a rung below. UK has nine NCAA wins and no Final Four appearances. North Carolina has six wins in that time and a 20-loss season.
LAST 10 seasons? Only Kentucky has won more NCAA games (32) than Connecticut (26), and only UK has won as many titles.
Last 15 seasons? This is where Duke (49 wins, three titles) separates itself. Kentucky (40 wins) and Kansas (36) also have more than UConn and Carolina (34).
But Rick Pitino, Roy Williams and Dean Smith, winners of a majority of those games with the Wildcats, Jayhawks and Tar Heels, all have moved on. Calhoun continues at UConn.
The remarkable thing is that Calhoun has reached the pinnacle at a school with negligible basketball tradition.
People justifiably rave about Krzyzewski's brilliance at Duke, but he did not inherit a program with no idea how to win. The Blue Devils had been to a regional final the year before he arrived and were just three years removed from playing UK in the 1978 national title game.
UCONN was five years removed from a winning season when Calhoun came to Storrs. When he took over in 1986-87, the school hadn't been to the NCAAs since '79 and hadn't won a game in the tourney since '76.
Of the programs currently among the elite, only Arizona has had a similar ascension. If you've been to Tucson, you can at least understand the recruiting appeal.
Despite a pronounced lack of similar appeal, Storrs is as trendy an address as Chapel Hill, Lawrence, Lexington or, yes, Tucson. Connecticut recruits with long-term national reach, grabbing kids from everywhere.
The defending national champions figure to lose their heart (Emeka Okafor) and soul (Ben Gordon) to the pros. But they'll still be nationally competitive and won't be leaving the game's upper echelon anytime soon.
Time for the bluebloods to accept that.
You can reach Pat Forde at (502) 582-4373 or pforde@courier-journal.com.

 

[HuskyCarlJ]

Since Forde exhibited all the journalistic zeal of Simmons' buddy Jack-O, I figured I'd give him a "Fire Joe Morgan" style send-up as well:

http://uconnbythenumbers.com/2012/02/pat-forde-is-an-unmitigated-/

 

[junglehusky]

Since Forde exhibited all the journalistic zeal of Simmons' buddy Jack-O, I figured I'd give him a "Fire Joe Morgan" style send-up as well:

http://uconnbythenumbers.com/2012/02/pat-forde-is-an-unmitigated-/

Well done. Everyone reading this thread should read this link and then forward it to their friends and coworkers. Not only does it thoroughly repudiate Forde, it lets you see what he was saying without giving him page clicks. I tip my hat to you sir.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

I agree its a must read and brings up a lot of great points... This should def be sent to pat forde for him to read

 

[Penfield]

Since Forde exhibited all the journalistic zeal of Simmons' buddy Jack-O, I figured I'd give him a "Fire Joe Morgan" style send-up as well:

http://uconnbythenumbers.com/2012/02/pat-forde-is-an-unmitigated-/

Excellent work - I tweeted Forde to tell him he was a Jackass, but you obviously did a much better job than I.

 

[Donyell]

Can not see how the screwed up mushroom caps at the Ncaa can punish us twice for the same thing . Retroactively ! That's crazy but I have a feeling they will surely try. Earlier did not even think this would be an issue but now with the way they feel about us it probably will. I think we should get a lawyer on this one.

 

[BlueMAB]

What's up with that picture of Herbst? It looks like she's moving in to strangle somebody. I like it, hopefully that's Emmert she's going for.

She is the love child of Dr. Evil and Frow Farbissina

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[BlueMAB]

She is the love child of Dr. Evil and Frow Farbissina

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[TexanMark]

Was he the doofus that said Seton Hall-Rutgers was one of the best BE Rivalries?

 

[whaler11]

A bigger jerk is yet to surface at ESPN. If he knew how hypocritical his own stance was, he would be ashamed... but he seems incapable of understanding.

He works at Yahoo now.