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Roll call: Long timers

Too old to remember if it was the "Boneyard" back then, but have been a member at the start, when the forum briefly was hosted by the Hartford Courant and with the future iteration. Am friends with another veteran - "Iron Mike"
 
1997 when I moved out of CT. I found an email list to try to keep up with the team and learned of the Boneyard from that list. (Exactly no one will be surprised to learn UConn women's basketball is not covered in Idaho). Nan, don't you remember how nervous we all were in 2000 and actually broke up into teams to pre-play the Championship game? My role was the ref Sally something. I can't remember the last name.

I don't post much because by the time I have any info it's well known. But I come here at least daily.
 
SallyH said:
1997 when I moved out of CT. I found an email list to try to keep up with the team and learned of the Boneyard from that list. (Exactly no one will be surprised to learn UConn women's basketball is not covered in Idaho). Nan, don't you remember how nervous we all were in 2000 and actually broke up into teams to pre-play the Championship game? My role was the ref Sally something. I can't remember the last name.

I don't post much because by the time I have any info it's well known. But I come here at least daily.
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OMG, you were Sally Bell :eek:

We old timers remember worrying about winning and being intensely nervous before big games. My husband used to roll his eyes at me because I’d be wound up hours before a game, putting on my “lucky” shirt, sitting in the right spot, etc.
 
EricLA said:
I have had a busy day so missed this thread but... I have been here so long that I remember at least 3 or 4 other "servers" that we were on. I lived in San Diego for 30 years before moving up to LA about 6 years ago, and my handle was "EricSanDiego" back in the day. or ESD if people did not want to type it out.

I asked the mods (thank you!!!) if I could do a one time change of my name to EricLA since at the time, I probably had at least 15,000 posts and did not want to start from scratch if I didn't have to.

I was here back in the days of DoggyDaddy and Icebear not to mention Philster - and I'm sure there were others who no longer post here but who used to contribute back in the day...
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I remember that change. You had started posting about stuff in LA, or moving to LA?? Anyway I asked you why you were EricSanDiego (I thought it was EricinSanDiego though??) if you were in LA. And presto chango, a couple days later you were EricLA.
 
HuskyNan said:
Got another name to cause nightmares - newbie.
@Vowelguy

The types of posts that rub people the wrong way these days aren’t new. There are just more posters that make them. But similar posts were on the ‘yard 20+ years ago and may actually have been nastier and far more personal to the players.
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That was the player's step-dad who ended up modding a rival team's forum (cough Devil's Den cough).
There was another poster, Oovy, who posted some inside scoops (supposedly from a source in the AD) along with some weirder stuff. A TN fan later claimed Oovy was another UConn player's father.
 
cordarone said:
That was the player's step-dad who ended up modding a rival team's forum (cough Devil's Den cough).
There was another poster, Oovy, who posted some inside scoops (supposedly from a source in the AD) along with some weirder stuff. A TN fan later claimed Oovy was another UConn player's father.
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OMG, I‘m really going to have nightmares tonigh
 
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Husky Bill told me about the Boneyard many years ago, sometime in the late 90’s. I still see Eli from time to time. I don’t post often, but did have one well received poem, though not of the Zorro or JS quality.
 
And a fond nod to the late Lady Vols fan, RobertNAtl, who coined the phrase "ballhog chick" to describe Taurasi...as in " that ballhog chick is killing us!"

Wonderful sense of humor and gone way too soon
 
Apparently I didn’t get around to joining until a few years later, but I have been following the Yard since the late 90’s. My UConn basketball roots date to the 70’s when I was in grad school and worked the men’s games as a sort of security guard. My fondest memory is teaming with Biff, JS and Uconn68 to win the Boneyard Open golf tournament.
 
i remember the Boneyard Classic the year the cart was rolled by (as I recall vaguely) by Team @prankster . I also seem to recall someone (Dove, mebbe) practicing his short iron technique with the flower patch. I hadn't played in about two years, but I figured it would all come back to me; wrong! I was in the foursome wit @Pudge . On the first tee, he put one about 300 yards down the middle; I shanked mine about 30 yards to the left, to the considerable peril of some of those waiting their turn at tee. Not my greatest day on the links, but a lot of fun. I think we were not asked back. Pointedly.
 
meyers7 said:
I remember that change. You had started posting about stuff in LA, or moving to LA?? Anyway I asked you why you were EricSanDiego (I thought it was EricinSanDiego though??) if you were in LA. And presto chango, a couple days later you were EricLA.
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I always like EricSanDiego better. He was down to earth guy. @EricLA seems to “Hollywood.” ;)
 
HuskyNan said:
I recently posted that it took me 20 years to get Tony to make paragraphs (you’re welcome). Anywho, that got me to thinking, who else has been here 20+ years? I personally started here in 1994 when my oldest son was a newborn and I needed a way to talk to grown-ups during the day.

Let me think.
JS
Biff
Tonyc
@CamrnCrz1974
@bbsamjj
cbiebel from McGraw’s Bench (I know you’re out there)
@ucbart (I think)
who else?

There’s a bunch more that have been here 10+ years. Roll call!
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I have a post from module1 that I've saved dating from late October 2003. I started visiting some time before that but no idea if before or after the millenium.

I still miss Old Coach.
 
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Zorro said:
i remember the Boneyard Classic the year the cart was rolled by (as I recall vaguely) by Team Prankster. I also seem to recall someone (Dove, mebbe) practicing his short iron technique with the flower patch. I hadn't played in about two years, but I figured it would all come back to me; wrong! I was in the foursome with Pudge. On the first tee, he put one about 300 yards down the middle; I shanked mine about 30 yards to the left, to the considerable peril of some of those waiting their turn at tee. Not my greatest day on the links, but a lot of fun. I think we were not asked back. Pointedly.
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Not me.
 
Fishy, mebbe? Or more probably Prankster.
 
I think I've been on every board the boneyard has ever had. I think I joined message boards during the 1997 or 1998 season.
 
uconnfan68 said:
The inaugural BYC was a few years earlier (1999), after the mens NC. Was held at Portland GC. Went to Quarry Ridge next, where a cart was rolled… which lead to Keney. The good old days.
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Ah so. But, the year after Keney did we not go back to Quarry Ridge? I remember it was hotter than Hades. You and I played with two others and I do not remember who they were. I do remember several cannon shots during the round courtesy of Prankster.

BTW, do you still have that 12 foot tall trophy from Keney? ;)
 
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Biff said:
Ah so. But, the year after Keney did we not go back to Quarry Ridge? I remember it was hotter than Hades. You and I played with two others and I do not remember who they were. I do remember several cannon shots during the round courtesy of Prankster.

BTW, do you still have that 12 foot tall trophy from Keney? ;)
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Yes, we went back there after we let them forget who we were. ;^)
 
JRRRJ said:
I have a post from module1 that I've saved dating from late October 2003. I started visiting some time before that but no idea if before or after the millenium.

I still miss Old Coach.
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We affectionately called him Olde Coach because he was, well, old but in a genteel, dignified way. He definitely knew his free throw mechanics and wrote what is probably a dissertation on them.

Olde Coach :( RIP
 
HuskyNan said:
OMG, you were Sally Bell :eek:

We old timers remember worrying about winning and being intensely nervous before big games. My husband used to roll his eyes at me because I’d be wound up hours before a game, putting on my “lucky” shirt, sitting in the right spot, etc.
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Yes, that was me all right. I also remember a discussion on the board for less expensive brands of champagne. I recommended a Spanish sparkling wine Freixenet. Not horrible if it's chilled to the point of almost freezing.
 
HuskyNan said:
I recently posted that it took me 20 years to get Tony to make paragraphs (you’re welcome). Anywho, that got me to thinking, who else has been here 20+ years? I personally started here in 1994 when my oldest son was a newborn and I needed a way to talk to grown-ups during the day.

Let me think.
JS
Biff
Tonyc
@CamrnCrz1974
@bbsamjj
cbiebel from McGraw’s Bench (I know you’re out there)
@ucbart (I think)
who else?

There’s a bunch more that have been here 10+ years. Roll call!
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I wish there was a way to see how long it actually is. Definitely more than 10 years, possibly in the 20+ year club. I mean, that's just 2001... 2001 seems like a short time ago...gotta be 20... !?!?!


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While I have posted for 10+ years, I go back to Geno when he was in high school. One of my best friends married one of his HS teammates so we have followed Geno's career for longer than most of you have been alive. Lived near his multigenerational home in Norristown, Pa. where everyone spoke Italian, to today. Most focus on him being one of the best basketball coaches ever. While he is, if you truely know the details of his background, this is one of the great American success stories of all time!
 
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my previous incarnation was 'caleb.' the memory wanes, but i think he goes back at least to the kj days (sad that she didn't stick for 4 years, cause she was good -- but she would've been sue's backup so even with rita-like potential chances are it wouldn't have had a chance to bloom.) anyway. the BY has certainly become far less civilized recently.
 
Fan from early 90s, lived in NJ then, sarcastic Italian coach, first live game at the RAC 94 lost to eventual champs UNC. Work took me to CT 99.
A lurker, creepy name, here shortly thereafter. Official a little over 10 years.
 
I lurked behind the scenes for 2011 then gained courage to post starting 2012!
I appreciate the caring when I went through my heart attack and heart operation and the rest of my health stuff the last 8 years of hell!
Thank you to all you "caregivers"!
 
Although I've only been a Boneyard devotee for five years, I may own two dubious site distinctions:
1) I've never attended a women's college basketball game.
2) I've never referred to UConn as "they."

And while at times it feels like I'm at a Fellini casting call, for me, someone who probably knows less about women's basketball than anyone on the site, I often find the commentary so colorful and provocative, the analysis and information so insightful and valuable, that I keep returning for more.

The Boneyard has become an undeniable guilty pleasure.
 
A few longtimers I just realized I havent seen in a while.
  • ThisJustin
  • the woman's BB history guy (handle may have even been WomenBBHistory?)
  • and there was a woman who was very knowledgeable, even became a contributor to one of the WCBBs -- Helen W (dont want to give the full name). Cant remember her handle.
 
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