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Here's how crazy this thread is.
1. Great hashtag of the Moore angry face.
2. Someone sees that smug Burgess in the background
3. I'm reminded that Burgess was one of the scholars everyone loved. I mention offhandedly an article denigrating UConn players by comparison.
4. Unfortunately I used the word thug.
5. People want to see the article I'm talking about, though it only existed in my memory from 16 years ago.
6. Others chime in that no one thought UConn was a team of thugs.
7. I felt I had to at least search the article. I did. I put in the dates March 30, 1999-April 5, 1999 and search the PPG.
8. I posted less than 10% of the article.
9. I wrote that Keidan didn't use the word thugs. Instead he implied UConn's team was full of idiots.
10. Someone said this: "To be fair, our grad rate was abysmal."
11. Someone else seconded the idea that back then UConn's grad rate sucked and has since improved (which is not true).
12. I showed how UConn's grad rate was 33% after 1998 while Duke's was 40%.
13. Plainly, the numbers were not that different. So, "to be fair," the guy had no right knocking UConn players and glorifying Duke. Keidan was not even right that less than 1 in 3 UConn players graduate. In fact, the number was 1 in 3. He wasn't right that 9 out of 10 Dookies graduate. In fact, it was 2 out of 5.
What a crazy thread.
1. Great hashtag of the Moore angry face.
2. Someone sees that smug Burgess in the background
3. I'm reminded that Burgess was one of the scholars everyone loved. I mention offhandedly an article denigrating UConn players by comparison.
4. Unfortunately I used the word thug.
5. People want to see the article I'm talking about, though it only existed in my memory from 16 years ago.
6. Others chime in that no one thought UConn was a team of thugs.
7. I felt I had to at least search the article. I did. I put in the dates March 30, 1999-April 5, 1999 and search the PPG.
8. I posted less than 10% of the article.
9. I wrote that Keidan didn't use the word thugs. Instead he implied UConn's team was full of idiots.
10. Someone said this: "To be fair, our grad rate was abysmal."
11. Someone else seconded the idea that back then UConn's grad rate sucked and has since improved (which is not true).
12. I showed how UConn's grad rate was 33% after 1998 while Duke's was 40%.
13. Plainly, the numbers were not that different. So, "to be fair," the guy had no right knocking UConn players and glorifying Duke. Keidan was not even right that less than 1 in 3 UConn players graduate. In fact, the number was 1 in 3. He wasn't right that 9 out of 10 Dookies graduate. In fact, it was 2 out of 5.
What a crazy thread.
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