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Srqhusky said:
Can I add to this that we stop booing the players. It really pisses me off hearing people boo college kids.
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Be honest... Didn't you want to boo when we called the same bulls*** play (basically wildcat dive play..that wasn't working anyways) over again after the false start?

Seriously, I get what you are saying, but we all know that UCONN sports ( mbb, wbb AND fball ) are our pro-sports teams (save the real ones - hockey minor league teams in Hartford and Bpt and CT Sun -wbb)... We expect better.. Fair or not...
 
ktuck911 said:
Be honest... Didn't you want to boo when we called the same bulls*** play (basically wildcat dive play..that wasn't working anyways) over again after the false start?

Seriously, I get what you are saying, but we all know that UCONN sports ( mbb, wbb AND fball ) are our pro-sports teams (save the real ones - hockey minor league teams in Hartford and Bpt and CT Sun -wbb)... We expect better.. Fair or not...
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would you boo your kids soccer team I guess is my point.
 
TouchdownHusky said:
Yeah the team in the white jerseys have scholarships. So not the players. BTW none of this applys to defense. They were terrific. If you where HCPP or Don Brown and someone told you yesterday morning you'd be holding NCState to 10 points, you'd be thinking a nice win and heading into Maryland at 2-0. The offense better start acting like they belong on scholarship at this level. Exception? #43. He's a warrior.
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Your view that #43 is the only warrior on offense is absolutely wrong. Some day when you watch the coordination that must take place along the entire O line from the TE to the C on both sides of the ball that enables #43 to meet your 'warrior' standard - whatever that is - and stop limiting your focus to who has the ball in their hand at the time and whether they gain 1 or 20 yards - I'll consider what you have to say. In addition, you have to know it's just as important to make certain the OC is calling the right protection to make the play happen. And BTW, the O line is on scholarship because they are good and deserve it!...they aren't acting.
 
ruskin said:
I agree with not booing the players but I think 95 percent of the boos yesterday were aimed at the coaches, and I think there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever.
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Out of curiosity, when we get sacked on third down and the crowd boos, you think the OL are going off the field saying to each other "I'm pretty sure they are not booing us -- just the coaches"?
 
ktuck911 said:
Be honest... Didn't you want to boo when we called the same bulls*** play (basically wildcat dive play..that wasn't working anyways) over again after the false start?

Seriously, I get what you are saying, but we all know that UCONN sports ( mbb, wbb AND fball ) are our pro-sports teams (save the real ones - hockey minor league teams in Hartford and Bpt and CT Sun -wbb)... We expect better.. Fair or not...
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I guess, KT, I'd turn that around and ask you why in the world you'd do it if you don't believe it's fair to do so?
 
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Kingspoint said:
Your view that #43 is the only warrior on offense is absolutely wrong. Some day when you watch the coordination that must take place along the entire O line from the TE to the C on both sides of the ball that enables #43 to meet your 'warrior' standard - whatever that is - and stop limiting your focus to who has the ball in their hand at the time and whether they gain 1 or 20 yards - I'll consider what you have to say. In addition, you have to know it's just as important to make certain the

OC is calling the right protection to make the play happen. And BTW, the O line is on scholarship because they are good and deserve it!...they aren't acting.
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OK so UConn's offense is really good because well everyone is a warrior. Please. Watch the defense and you see a Top 25 unit of big time college athletes. The offense is nowhere near that level.
 
Srqhusky said:
would you boo your kids soccer team I guess is my point.
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My daughter has played soccer the past 5 years.. She's 11 now... I don't get the comparison, when you're dealing with kids ranging in age from mostly 19 (very few 18 year olds play right away nowadays) thru 23 year olds who are built like grown men and wear their testosterone on their sleeve...
 
businesslawyer said:
I guess, KT, I'd turn that around and ask you why in the world you'd do it if you don't believe it's fair to do so?
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Good question bro.. It's all in the adrenaline of the moment... We (Husky fans/alumns) expect our team to win, no? Especially with the way the game was going.
 
businesslawyer said:
Out of curiosity, when we get sacked on third down and the crowd boos, you think the OL are going off the field saying to each other "I'm pretty sure they are not booing us -- just the coaches"?
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Pretty sure the players are smart enough to figure out when boos are and aren't directed at them, especially if there's a "C'Mon Pasqualoni" thrown in there.
 
businesslawyer said:
That's how I saw it as well. It actually looked like Masters got shoved back too quicklly
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The center will utilize a stagger step if he is being pushed hard off the ball to gain leverage so that he can buy some time. I figured this (masters getting shoved back) was the case since Whitmer has usually been mobile out there. I have not had a chance to rewatch the game yet.
 
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ktuck911 said:
My daughter has played soccer the past 5 years.. She's 11 now... I don't get the comparison, when you're dealing with kids ranging in age from mostly 19 (very few 18 year olds play right away nowadays) thru 23 year olds who are built like grown men and wear their testosterone on their sleeve...
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Instead of booing how about having a whole section of fans yelling "pound that rock!!! Pound that rock!!!". Are u getting my point yet?
 
HuskyBandDad said:
One of the faithful here with bad knees and hips so you do not have to get to your feet to cheer - I go home with no voice most times. But there are a lot of fans who do not even clap let alone yell.
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HBD, listen I'm not directing this as an attack on your situation. But as a guy who has bilateral arthritis in both knees, needs a total hip replacement on my left hip, and is bone on bone in my spine @ L4/L5 as well as c6/c7. I have NO sympathy for people who Sit on their ass! Last year I sat in the handicapped section in 138 after having spinal surgery. I was walking w/ a walker like a little old man and needed a cane to stand up and sit down, but I managed to get up and down for the team last year just fine. My point is this, if your able, get the hell off your ass, if you cant, we're still glad your there, but if you just don't bother, STAY HOME!
 
Doggie Style said:
HBD, listen I'm not directing this as an attack on your situation. But as a guy who has bilateral arthritis in both knees, needs a total hip replacement on my left hip, and is bone on bone in my spine @ L4/L5 as well as c6/c7. I have NO sympathy for people who Sit on their ass! Last year I sat in the handicapped section in 138 after having spinal surgery. I was walking w/ a walker like a little old man and needed a cane to stand up and sit down, but I managed to get up and down for the team last year just fine. My point is this, if your able, get the hell off your ass, if you cant, we're still glad your there, but if you just don't bother, STAY HOME!
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Tough crowd...
 
I am not going to discuss my personal situation. I go if I can and go nuts and have a great time, no matter what. I learned to take a loss like a man. Hats off to NC State.

As for these players, I am sure they are living life as the "big men on campus". Don't care to boo them, though. I know they are trying their best. They have enough peer pressure from their fellow students. And parents. ;) Joe Griffin is the man!
 
Pardon me for being irrationally bothered by this comment by NC State's beat guy at the News & Observer:

UConn fans booed quarterback Chandler Whitmer in the second half after an incomplete pass. Whitmer threw three picks and wasn’t exactly sharp, but it was his second college start. Not sure that was really the kindest treatment from the fan base, or necessary, especially when you consider football is essentially an afterthought at UConn.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/09/08/2327841/nc-state-observations.html

It's a perfectly valid point about not booing a college player in his second start.

That said, what the hell makes you qualified to talk about what's an "afterthought" at UConn? Since the last time we played NC State in 2003, we're 55-45 and they're 48-50. We have just as many bowl wins (and they actually lost a bowl game to Rutgers!), and two conference championships (and a BCS bid).

Meanwhile, they haven't finished higher than a tie for third, once, in a league that is no better (and likely worse) than ours.

The "afterthought" is an obvious, amateur implication that we're a basketball school. Should I mention that in that same timespan (2004-2012), we've been to three Final Fours and won two of them, while NC State has had one of the worst programs in the ACC?

Give me a break.

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What a moronic writer. NC State does get better crowds than us. They've been at the FBS level much longer, obviously.
 
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don't have luxury of DVR but pretty sure those boos were for play call (short pass on 3rd and long)
 
Our fan base isn't there yet but there are alot of things that are done well at UConn on game day- good response 9604.
 
ktuck911 said:
We (Husky fans/alumns) expect our team to win, no?
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So this sentiment is the exact reason why I have always had a problem with booing your own team. What I mean by that is; how on earth does booing help turn the situation into a win?!? Do you think that the players are saying to themselves, "Holy crap! These guys are booing, so we had better start playing better now! Otherwise, they may continue to boo us!!"

In their heads, it's actually more like, "F#$k this. Everything has gone wrong and even these bums in the crowd have turned on us! F#$k it..."

I believe in the power of the 12th man. I've played in a different sport whereby hearing the cheers on the sidelines helped propel me and my team throughout the game. And that was very small-time ball with a very small-time crowd. Can you imagine what a 20 year old is thinking when he hears 35k people cheering him on, even when the proverbial $#it has hit the fan? THAT'S the point! That's what we should aspire to be as fans....an extension of the team; a true 12th man...
 
ruskin said:
don't have luxury of DVR but pretty sure those boos were for play call (short pass on 3rd and long)
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Exactly. Moronic writer. Maybe they boo players down south.
 
I'm not a big fan of booing at college games outside of the officials - but yesterday was just some frustration. I can't imagine that any of the players took it too personally, but maybe I'm wrong. It was pretty tame.
 
Is there a bigger straw man that shows up on the Boneyard after every loss than the focus on the fans? Be it booing players, showing up late, or not showing up in large enough numbers? Who the heck cares?

It seems to me there is a focus on this by certain posters to distract from what's happening on the field. In the Pasqualoni era we are winless in winnable 50-50 close non conference games. Vanderbilt, Iowa State, Western Michigan, and now NC State. Seeing our Big East record is almost always around 4-3 or 3-4 this is unacceptable as losing our key non conference games means we will likely NOT be eligible for a bowl by seasons end.

But hey by all means, make post after post on fan behavior and protocol if it takes your mind of the REAL problems right now.
 
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BugsyCT said:
BTW - to fans who jingle their keys to make noise - stop it. Yell, clap, stomp the bleachers if you can, but just stop with the key jingling. It doesn't generate noise.
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Watch the student section. Then watch a Michigan game where their students do it too. If you can walk and chew bubble gum, you can jingle your keys and scream.
 
Doggie Style said:
HBD, listen I'm not directing this as an attack on your situation. But as a guy who has bilateral arthritis in both knees, needs a total hip replacement on my left hip, and is bone on bone in my spine @ L4/L5 as well as c6/c7. I have NO sympathy for people who Sit on their ass! Last year I sat in the handicapped section in 138 after having spinal surgery. I was walking w/ a walker like a little old man and needed a cane to stand up and sit down, but I managed to get up and down for the team last year just fine. My point is this, if your able, get the hell off your ass, if you cant, we're still glad your there, but if you just don't bother, STAY HOME!
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Yes, that's what we need to do more of. Tell the fans who make noise while seated to stay home. Because, you know, there's plenty of other people outside the stadium dying to get in.
 
WingU-Conn said:
Yes, that's what we need to do more of. Tell the fans who make noise while seated to stay home. Because, you know, there's plenty of other people outside the stadium dying to get in.[/


Not my point. If your not going to help provide an atmosphere that gives us an advantage, we don't need u there empty seats or not. The most passionate fans are the backbone of the program. Case in point, the 6000 fans who went to ND brought the house down in South Bend! those on the board who went you know exactly what I'm talking about, we owned that stadium! I'd rather have those people in the stadium along with the rest of the die hards all day long, half empty stadium or not. It creates the passion others need to step up and display on a routine basis.
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I was in ND, it was awesome.

I get your point. "My point is this, if your able, get the hell off your ass, if you cant, we're still glad your there, but if you just don't bother, STAY HOME!"

Stand up or don't bother showing. It's a stupid point seeing as how somebody can make plenty of noise sitting down. And if they choose not to make noise, they still purchased tickets and went to the game. Telling people who go to games, not to go to games, just because they won't stand and scream is stupid.
 
jdb50 said:
Our fan base isn't there yet but there are alot of things that are done well at UConn on game day- good response 9604.
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I'm obviously barking in the wrong forest after that awful loss, but he's trying to make us sound like we're Duke (in football), just because we're Duke in basketball. Instead, he's making himself sound like an idiot.
 
Doggie Style said:
HBD, listen I'm not directing this as an attack on your situation. But as a guy who has bilateral arthritis in both knees, needs a total hip replacement on my left hip, and is bone on bone in my spine @ L4/L5 as well as c6/c7. I have NO sympathy for people who Sit on their ass! Last year I sat in the handicapped section in 138 after having spinal surgery. I was walking w/ a walker like a little old man and needed a cane to stand up and sit down, but I managed to get up and down for the team last year just fine. My point is this, if your able, get the hell off your ass, if you cant, we're still glad your there, but if you just don't bother, STAY HOME!
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I do stand up sometimes - just saying I can scream just as loud sitting as standing - just ask my wife and kids. I had total left hip replacement 5-1/2 months ago and I highly recommend it. I need right knee replaced next.
 
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