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Some Guy: UConn close to signing Hurley

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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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You have to look at the long arc of a career. There are still buckets more Syracuse high achievers in the nyc area over age 50. Over age 40 too. It’s not even close. It needs another 20 years to really play out, that is, for the recently rising Uconn alumni base to start edging out the long established others. Uconn is doing great, but my point remains Syracuse is far from dead and remains very plenty popular with people with means.

I can’t speak to the west of NYC comment, maybe people are looking at Rutty and deciding they need better alternatives.
 
Text from my wife at 6:25 pm today: "Did you hear Hurley is coming to UConn"

Good to know she still has no idea what I'm up to most of the time.

Imagine an honest reply?

"Yes, I've wasted more than ten hours posting more than 100 times in an epic Boneyard thread about it while waiting for his decision over the past two days, when you thought I was working or listening to you."
 
JMick said:
I feel so bad for everyone that went to bed not knowing it was a done deal. I wouldn't have been able to sleep
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I am well aware since 1115 last night. I just don’t know any other way to keep this thread alive and pure. I feel we must keep feeding it with the same anxiety, anticipation, spirit and general good humor or ...... it will die.
 
MervthePurvis said:
I am well aware since 1115 last night. I just don’t know any other way to keep this thread alive and pure. I feel we must keep feeding it with the same anxiety, anticipation, spirit and general good humor or . it will die.
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all good things must come to an end
 
8893 said:
Text from my wife at 6:25 pm today: "Did you hear Hurley is coming to UConn"

Good to know she still has no idea what I'm up to most of the time.

Imagine an honest reply?

"Yes, I've wasted more than ten hours posting more than 100 times in an epic Boneyard thread about it while waiting for his decision over the past two days, when you thought I was working or listening to you."
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A+
 
JMick said:
I feel so bad for everyone that went to bed not knowing it was a done deal. I wouldn't have been able to sleep
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I blame you for why I missed it. I checked out after you literally made a post consisting of only the words "go to sleep."
 
JMick said:
I feel so bad for everyone that went to bed not knowing it was a done deal. I wouldn't have been able to sleep
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I was posting about going to sleep but couldn't stop posting, then the news came. Then I really couldn't sleep. Then I fell asleep and woke up from a dream screaming help (it was like the exercist, my screams scared my wife). Then i couldn't sleep again. Then i fell asleep and had another dream (can't share these details) . Then I woke up again for the day. Glad the thread kept me posting that I was able to be awake when the news broke.
 
Just stopping in to say hi.

Glad this thread isn’t locked :)

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I will say though my one point of snark through all of this is that a lot of the pro-Ollie/hand-wringers were indescribably wrong.

-UConn fired one of their own
-UConn figured out the buy out
-UConn found the money for the new guy

And I'm glad they did. I'm not glad it all happened, I've never wanted that for Ollie; but what separates the really great programs from the ones that fizzle is sometimes a willingness to close the book on the era of the past and look forward. And there's a lot of reasons those programs can't do that - blind devotion to yesterday's heroes, immense Alumni pressure, etc. It was a pretty brave thing for ADB to do and he did a remarkable job in pulling this all off. We've been really spoiled being one of like - five programs in the US who haven't had to go through this kind of a thing in 30+ years, so it's unfamiliar territory for a lot of people... But this was a change that was needed. Just the general attitude now as opposed to a week ago is just something else.

It feels like the first "UConn" kind of day i've had since we won our last National Championship. And the more I get to 'know' this coach, the more excited I am. He seems utterly fantastic. Long ways to go, but if we head back in the right direction, today was a top-5 day/event/week in program history.
 
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MattMang23 said:


"We think we have the facilities... And budget (to get to a Final Four)."

Well, then, I guess there was nothing else to offer coach Hurley.
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Sure seems like they are going to try and bring someone else in (other than their current coach in waiting AHC David Cox), which would potentially open the door for some URI recruits/transfers to UConn.
 
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