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Message: [QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 4977151, member: 833"] The first time posts like this showed up on what was the Boneyard at the time was in April 2003. Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese had given an interview blasting Miami and Boston College for, I believe the term he used was, "acting in the shadows". The Big East had just won the NCAA Basketball Championships with Syracuse men and UConn women, and Miami had won the football championship for the 2001 season, but BCU and Miami hatched a plan to destroy the Big East and do as much damage as possible to the Big East athletic programs, hoping to put them out of business for good. That spring, as Miami, BCU and ultimately VTech headed for the exit, 90% of the posters on this board assured us, with absolute certainty, that UConn was finished as an athletic program. Since then, UConn has won 5 national championships in men's basketball and 7 in women's basketball, and even made a BCS bowl game in football. Outside of maybe 10 or 12 schools, every college fanbase would happily trade their last 21 years for ours. The sky is always falling in Storrs, and UConn just keeps winning championships. If you really want to wallow in misery, you should become a BCU or Rutgers fan, although you will be lonely since neither of those programs have many fans. If you want to follow dominant programs that wins a lot, then you should like UConn. But you will have to squeeze in because this bandwagon is crowded. [/QUOTE]