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Message: [QUOTE="Demo Square, post: 5032024, member: 10861"] Great thread & great underrated choices, Guys! Taking it to UConn's under-appreciated former outstanding players, I choose Bobby Boyd & Ron Hrubala from 50+ years ago. Rarely mentioned at BY these days, these were some really great players in the Old Field House. [B]Bobby Boyd[/B], who followed Dee Rowe to UConn from Worester Academy, was a 5'10" blurr on the court who could score from anywhere on anybody. He loved to drive it into the paint, score/and 1, & foul out opposing teams' whole frontline of bigs. Averaged 23 & 21+ ppg. & All-Yankee Conference. Got into some trouble at the end of the '70 season w/ some teammates involving cigarette machines, but was later cleared. I think it hurt his rep & UConn's willingness to honor Bobby. It also makes Bobby one of the all-time most underrated Huskies. He was one of the best & fastest scoring guards we ever had in Storrs. [B]Ron Hrubala [/B]was a double/double machine for his three years of dominating the paint of the green colored, rubber/polyester floor of Huge S. Greer Field House. 6'6+ & 225 ripped lbs. So strong, Ron, did all the dirty work around the hoop, guarded the other teams' best player, great offensive rebounder, & was a most unselfish, dependable teammate & solid citizen. Ron was not a flashy player w/ BT moves, but no one could stop him or score on him in the paint. Was All Yankee Conference for three years. He did a great job defending the emergent Julius Erving whom nobody could stop back then. One of the strongest players ever at UConn. But Ron Hrubala has always been severely underrated, especially playing in the pre-Calhoun era for UConn's all-time worst coach, Burr Carlson for two years before Dee Rowe righted the ship. On a completely off the wall note, I think that the team of[B] Steve "Snapper" Jones & Crazy Eddie Doucette[/B] was the all-time most underrated & entertaining team of NBA announcers - from back in the 70's & 80's. They could never get away with the stunts they pulled & things they said today. Funniest men ever behind the mic's. Total characters! Miss them. Keep this thread going. It's fun. Father Demo [/QUOTE]

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