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I don't care if we never play them again
I don't care if we never play them again
Except that UConn fans don't want the game because UTenn has yet to apologize. UTenn fans don't want the game because they would get their ass kicked.The feeling is mutual on both sides.
Totally understand. The thought by Tennessee fans of getting destroyed and humiliated on the basketball court is nothing they'd want to experience.The feeling is mutual on both sides.
Well, I'm glad we've gotten this annual vitriol out of the way early on. ESAD Tennessee.
Had the same reaction and changed the headline to be more clear.Yikes! I almost barfed when I first saw the thread title. Let's just say that was something of a trojan horse. It's a call for petition signatures. They didn't get mine.
Except that UConn fans don't want the game because UTenn has yet to apologize. UTenn fans don't want the game because they would get their ass kicked.
Tomcat - Uconn v. TN back in the day was the only game in town. A whole lot has changed since then - while it was still going Uconn v. Duke for a few years rose to a pretty high level as did TN v. LSU, Uconn v. Stanford, etc. And since the end of the series there are some very good rivalries that have replaced it as must see: Baylor v. Uconn, Uconn v. ND, SCar v. TN, etc. The other reality is that from Parker's graduation to today, had a game been played it would have been a total disappointment - think Ohio State v. Uconn last year, or Uconn v. Miss State in the NCAAs last year, or the last several years of Uconn v. Duke which JPM thankfully put out our misery. There might have been hype before the game, but the Shaughnessys of the world would have been out in force afterwards.
The one moment that I wavered on this was right after the diagnosis was announced when a game at Madison Square Garden for research would have risen above sport into something meaningful in the way that the JimmyV and Maggie Dixon did. I could still see a Pat Summit tournament with a double header at a legendary venue making sense - and Uconn and TN both participating but against two other teams might be fitting.
I think there is a distinction between personal and professional that Geno recognized when he and Pat met a a final four a number of years ago and when he was one of the first to write a sizable check to her foundation. The professional or 'institutional' position can and often is different from the personal.If my name was Geno Auriemma, and feeling (apparently) as he feels about this--I would not have attended her memorial. I would be angry or not --her death apparently has not changed that.
I think there is a distinction between personal and professional that Geno recognized when he and Pat met a a final four a number of years ago and when he was one of the first to write a sizable check to her foundation. The professional or 'institutional' position can and often is different from the personal.