Few things for you:
1. You've been around such prestigious universities? Mix in a paragraph.
Really! I mentioned Stanford and ND, but have been or had any assoc. with them; I have however given a talk at the first named. Perhaps that counts in your eyes. My point is that these schools have the money and prestige to call upon when it comes to selling their schools to a recruit.
2. The difference between you and the FB board is that we are actually fans of the football program while you just claim to be one.
If you have read my mentioning of UC-Berkl, UW and UT-Austin as elitism- well sir that is in your own head. Not more to say there.
3. Your analysis of how things work at other schools manages to be completely contradictory and is fully incorrect.
Perhaps. But I'm unsure of your thoughts here. There were some incitements on my part to say that Uconn has abided by the rules and not gotten into a lot of the scandals to be found in many top FB (+BB) programs. I might even have questioned whether programs at a certain level can ever be clean. But, I specifically talked about fans and how they experienced home games and the tone after games. It would have naive of me to believe that they were not angry people out there willing to use whatever they had at their disposal to smash anything in their reach. Perhaps for the majority of students and followers their was life outside of FB, etc. What I'm guilty of is to give you guys more importance then you actually have. Thus reducing Uconn FB to what is being said by a few unknowns on a Board. Nevertheless, I really do not know "how things work ...." You are giving me credit for what I have not put forward.
4. Your analysis of what has happened at UConn this season is ridiculous. Played well against national teams? Giving 100% can be draining? This is incoherent blather.
My reasoning here was simply this: Navy, Houston were not games that most people outside of you guys thought should diff then the outcome. Yes, there was a chance to win the Navy game- but really, they are in a class above Uconn. (Even)SU, Cinn and ECU- while one could have been opt. about a win, it should never be the end of the world that they ended as the did. I am not on the ground to question, AS YOU DO, whether the coaches have 'put the best offense on the field'. There you may know more then me. I assume that they put the best players on the field- if they are not putting out 100% then I would be curious to know how you arrive at this. I am willing to argue whether coaching can take a 3star athl and let them perform at the same level every game as a 5star guy. If one could consistently do so, you should let it me known to all those teams who find themselves at the bottom of their P5 Program. I have been willing to draw upon stress research to expl this suddend collapse (both phy and psy) of the team- it would be arrpgant of me to think that other reasonable and unreasonable expls are not out there.
UConn is in the middle of their 6th straight losing season. On top of that fun fact:
- Bob Diaco is in the running for the worst head coach at the FBS level
- Recruiting has collapsed to a level that would barely be suitable for a CAA school
- Attendance is cratering, in a decade attendance has been halved and they probably haven't hit bottom yet
- The program has become a joke to outsiders, from the ConFLiCT to the Williams debacle
- As the results deteriorate, Diaco continues to act in a way that makes us question his sanity
- They probably can't fire the coach because they ineptly handed him an unnecessary contract extension that could have been better negotiated by your average e-bay bidder
We are about to head into an offseason where if Diaco isn't fired the voices demanding that football be sacrificed under the heading of 'saving basketball'. This will become a constant refrain from a too high percentage of the fanbase who have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
I here leave all this alone. There are specifics here tht are beyond any knowledge I have. A muddle that I would rather avoid.
The one thing you are correct about is that there is a lot of anger on the FB board. Consider it your broken clock moment of excellence. However even in this rare moment of glory you still completely miss the greater point. Almost no one has unrealistic expectations for the program. Granting that this is a challenging job in a southern conference with the loss of the auto BCS bid - there isn't any reason in the world that UConn should have lost their last 10 quarters by the score of 79-3 against UCF, ECU and Temple. There isn't any reason why UConn should play a home game in near perfect conditions and gain only 160 yards. There isn't any reason in the world we should be saddled with a coach who is completely full of garbage and have to sit back and watch his team quit on him twice in three years.
Better teams then Uconn have been blown out of the water by teams acknowledged to on par or below. But of course those things always (should) happen elsewhere.
I detest the arrogance of someone coming here and proclaiming their undeserved moral superiority, especially when they have no idea what they are talking about. Scurry back to the women's basketball board where you can all congratulate each other on what great fans you all are because you jumped on the bandwagon of a team that never loses.
I'm thinking here of a calypso sang I heard on summer vacation in Trinidad with my parents as a young person. The singer had a great calypso name- The Mighty Sparrow. I do not remember the name of the sang, but he was critiquing politics in his country- especially between the 2 pol parties. The gist of it is how imp it is to be careful, because those who dare to say anything that is othering then the accepted norm layed out in advance by the ruling ones will be denounced as a shallot, an ignorant baboon, etc. Better to go with gloom and doom folks.
Heeding the Mighty Sparrow, I now willingly join the rank of the non-speaking pharaohs.
TL,DR? -Go p!ss up a rope.
