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Message: [QUOTE="Jimbo, post: 2114191, member: 6751"] Let's not forget that Tennessee and ESPN were both reportedly on board with reviving the rivalry a couple years ago. Then somebody asked Geno about it, and he said this: "I haven’t gotten any phone calls from anyone about it. I don’t go to bed every night wondering when we are going to play Tennessee again. I don’t care whether we ever play them again. That game means nothing to me. It might mean something to them and a lot of others, but those people are decreasing every year. We’ve moved on. Our rivalry with Notre Dame is just as good, if not better than any rivalry we’ve had with anyone. If someone is out there actively trying to put that [Tennessee] game back together, I wish them all the luck in the world. Me personally? I could care less if it never happens again. I could care less and I won’t bend over backwards to make it happen, either." To which Holly replied, "It's no big deal. If he doesn't want to play, it's perfectly fine with me. I will not beg someone to play, especially not UConn." Whereupon, the cold war apparently resumed. [URL="http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball-blog/hc-auriemma-nixes-tennessee-rivival-20141226-story.html"]Tennessee-UConn? Auriemma Says Forget It[/URL] [URL="http://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-womens-basketball/hc-uconn-women-insider-0102-20150102-story.html"]UConn Women's Insider: Tennessee Coach Won't 'Beg' Huskies To Play[/URL] I'm on record on this board as being among those who don't particularly care whether we ever play Tennessee again. I especially don't see how playing them again helps us at this point. As I posted recently on another thread, we'd stand to gain very little if we blew them out, and any other result would only help Tennessee. It is telling that Mr. Adams came right out and said, "UT needs UConn now." That may be right, but we don't need them. I do understand and respect the argument that a resumption of the rivalry would be good for the sport. To me, though, that rings hollow in this particular circumstance; I seriously doubt Tennessee was thinking about the good of the sport when they smeared innocent people and tried their best to torpedo our program with a barrage of falsehoods, conjecture, innuendo, and other miscellaneous nonsense. As far as I'm concerned, their program can rot, wither, and die. Despite all that, I'm not in the "hell no" camp. I'm perfectly content to stand with Geno on this issue. If, at some future point, he deems it appropriate to put Tennessee on the schedule, I'll be on board. I expect that would entail some sort of apology from Tennessee, at least to Maya and her family, and so I'm not exactly holding my breath for it to happen anytime soon. Still, if and when Geno's fine with scheduling them again, so am I. But not a minute sooner. [/QUOTE]

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