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Exit 4 said:
I never bother to wade into this topic on the boneyard, but as a white collar professional living down in lower FF County, in my world Syracuse still has a lot more prestige and mojo with high earners. More people in my neighborhood would still choose Syracuse over instate tuition at UConn for their child. UConn has made great strides academically and every year that preference differential is narrowing, but its still the case that monied types in NYC and the NYC burbs lean Syracuse. My office has three parents with Syracuse kids and zero UConn kids (but we tend to hire UConn!). UConn will get closer to equal footing in another 30 years as the new improved UConn alumni base ages into their higher earning years, but that takes generations. And as far as places to live during school years, well Storrs is better, but I have to say nobody down this way thinks Storrs is a 10 and Syracuse a 3, its more like a 3 vs 6 on the scale. Its way too early to talk of the demise of the Syracuse brand...unfortunately it still has juice.
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Interesting. West of New York City it is just the opposite. UConn is held in higher esteem. Not that 'cuse is a bad choice but UConn is harder to get into and is a high public which beats non-ivy privates.
 
BleedHuskyBlu said:
Blocked or private? I cant see Ollies page either but thats because I dont follow him
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blocked. I used to follow him but when I click his profile it says I am blocked from seeing his tweets
 
Guapo said:
For what it's worth, most people in academia consider Syracuse to be equal or below UConn in terms of quality.

UConn and Syracuse graduates earn roughly the same amount post graduation and Cuse is obviously much more expensive.

I think what you're experiencing is a (slowly dying) Northeastern phenomenon that believes that private schools are inherently better than public schools which is very obviously not the case.
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A great example of this phenomena are the Quinnipiac students that were chanting "safety school" at the UConn hockey team when they played.

That is...wrong.
 
Guapo said:
A great example of this phenomena are the Quinnipiac students that were chanting "safety school" at the UConn hockey team when they played.

That is...wrong.
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With some schools that may have been the case a while back.

For Quinnipiac that was the case...never.
 
Guapo said:
A great example of this phenomena are the Quinnipiac students that were chanting "safety school" at the UConn hockey team when they played.

That is...wrong.
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Even more so from our friends at Quinny.
 
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Guapo said:
A great example of this phenomena are the Quinnipiac students that were chanting "safety school" at the UConn hockey team when they played.

That is...wrong.
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Jeez. Talk about being clueless.

They were the OG safety school.
 
Storrs South said:
And for as much crap as we may give Herbst for things on the athletic side, she made that happen.
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Which also caused UConn to become much more strict with parties by hiring more police to shut them down which sucks when you are trying to have a good time.

I guess I can understand now that I graduated lol.
 
I need an update on the Diallo/Hurley thread competition. Yes, I could look it up myself, but that's not the point.
 
BleedHuskyBlu said:
Which also caused UConn to become much more strict with parties by hiring more police to shut them down which sucks when you are trying to have a good time.

I guess I can understand now that I graduated lol.
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I pity you guys. When I was school the drinking age was 18, so dorm parties had kegs and usually a punch made from bug juice and grain alcohol. If your RA walked in while you were drinking a six or two with your roommate watching a game, no problem just toss him one.

Spring weekend had kegs everywhere. Heck there was chugging contests at my freshman orientation weekend. I squared off against one of orientation guides. Frankly, I'm astounded that any of us still have our own livers.
 
We've got it by a thousand posts, but still far behind it in views.

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Storrs South said:
And for as much crap as we may give Herbst for things on the athletic side, she made that happen.
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FWIW Herbst came to my place of employment and had a Q&A with all UConn alumni. She was well spoken, very knowledgeable on state and federal policy, and surprisingly charming. She did a fantastic job representing the school that day which made me pull a full 180 on my opinion of her that I developed (sort of unfairly) as an undergrad. A lot of people give her crap but I don't mind her at the helm, even with the few bad optic headlines she's had regarding spending.
 
Guapo said:
A great example of this phenomena are the Quinnipiac students that were chanting "safety school" at the UConn hockey team when they played.

That is...wrong.
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tzznandrew said:
With some schools that may have been the case a while back.

For Quinnipiac that was the case...never.
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Yale kids chanted it at us in the preseason NIT at Gampel in 2003. It made sense. So we chanted Harvard rejects at them.
 
nadav said:
I've been on this site since 2011 and 10% of my posts are on this thread. :)
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Again, if we had a HoF of threads, this wins.

The MakersMuppet initial post is the best post of all-time, and there are some other good ones out there. But this one wins.

And not just because I've posted in it more than anyone else. Though that helps, I think.
 
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tzznandrew said:
Also, they very clearly didn't understand the role that history plays in college sports to think they were even two or three shouting distances from us.
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This was the take from nearly every college basketball fan in the state of RI the last ten days or so. It was quite amusing. Providence fans and URI fans, all steadfastly stating two down years and a lesser conference mean we're on par with A-10 teams. I could somewhat understand (but certainly not agree) the PC fans who think their job is equal to UConn's. The nutjobs who said UConn was a lateral move from URI--yikes--I don't know how so many clueless fans could be tucked into such a small state.
 
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Since everyone has their goggles on this thread.. still some solid seats available for the 2K Classic ... see y’all there?
 
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