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They hang their hat on 0-4 because they have no other ammo.

Thing is 2 of those games I'm certain they hardly remember and/or they were in diapers for, mid 90s games, 30 years ago now. 4 losses spread across 3 different decades, 3 different coaches. It doesn't matter. If it's something like uconn beating BC something like 24 straight times that's true dominance otherwise WGAF.
 
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No, this didn’t need its own thread.
Obviously a lame trolling fool. When you are as great as UConn you’re gonna be bombarded with this crap. It’s actually a compliment and admission we’re better than them. Number 1 always has a huge target on them.
Just glad our team and coaches aren’t as insecure as some of the fan base.
 
6-4

And none of our titles came during the Truman (or Reagan) Presidencies

They're old news. We're the college basketball capital of the universe

Remember when Cuse & Hoya & Redmen & Nova fans began to hate us when we took over the Big East. Now we kicked to door down on those silly "Blue Blood" programs on the national level. They're old news

Wear their hate like a badge of honor
 
Jaydumo20 said:
There has to be a name for this phenomenon:
The Cowboys haven't won a ring in 30 years: fans use auxiliary arguments like "yeah, but America's team baby" or Yankees fans who haven't had anything to celebrate in 15 years "27 rings". Wait, did you really just bring up lou gehrig???

The truth of this is like the mother of the criminal: "he's a good boy"
I bet. the only one buying your nonsense is YOU.
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The most Super Bowl wins is 6 with the Pats and the Steelers tied with 6 each, but I like pointing out to people that there isn’t any team even close to the Green Bay Packers in the number of Super Bowl (4) wins plus 5 NFL Championships just prior to the start of the Super Bowl during the Lombardi years.
 
We are not a blueblood, get used to it. A blueblood is a program that has fewer championships than us in the last 50 years. If they want to own that title, let them.

Kansas is about to find out how deep pocketed the former SWC NIL donors are and Kentucky is entering its second Josh Paster era while polishing their Helms trophies. I'm more worried about UNC's resurgence and I'm not that worried about that.

What I'm really worried about is losing all the proven winners from the last two seasons and relying on guy who only saw mop up duty and some bandwagon transfer kids. Hurley's program is no longer under the radar. It took until the S16 of the second back to back run before everyone finally agreed UConn was head, shoulders and nipples above the rest of the field. Now the job to maintain gets a lot harder.
 
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QuickDraw said:
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So two years ago, in the aftermath of a very disappointing loss to New Mexico State, we UConn fans had to decide who we wanted less to lose the National Championship game:

Did we want Kansas to lose so that they would not catch up to UConn with 4 NCs, or did we want UNC to lose, so that they would not broaden their lead in championships AND add another Head Coach to their list of winners.

The Kansas comeback made for a great Championship game; KU tied UConn w/4 titles; UNC remained at 3 coaches with NCs; and Self joined the list of coaches with multiple NCs. These were all things looked at & measured through the lens of a UConn fan's self-interest.

And what has happened since then?

In the very next two years after Kansas last won a National Championship...

UConn jumped from having been tied at 4 by KU, to equaling Duke at 5, and then jumping Duke to tie with UNC at 6 NCs.

UConn joined KU,
& UNC in having 3 different coaches winning NCs, all of them now trailing only Kentucky which has won 8 NCs with 5 different coaches.

Dan Hurley has joined Bill Self as the only active coaches with multiple NCs.

UConn has joined UNC & Indiana as the only schools with multiple coaches with multiple titles.

And a KU fan is bragging that he lives rent-free in my head, while I have good feelings taking note of and sharing this information. Not bad.
 
Blue blood is a funny debate. Because from my perspective there’s only two ways to view it -

1. 4+ national championships and be good from 2017-2020, or be Indiana

2. UConn is a blue blood because they’ve won 6

But to be honest… if it’s still a debate after these back to back titles, then that means that “Blue Blood” is not a list that can be added to. It just means “Blue Blood” is a list that was finalized when it was created and won’t add or remove teams. That’s fine too, and people will eventually understand it if UConn keeps getting “left out”
 
They will be saying the same thing next off season after we win 3 straight
 
UC0NN said:
Uconn has rarely gotten blue chip recruits like Castle etc. Doesn't matter, they still get the rings.
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That's nothing to be cocky about. It is strange why UConn struggle to bring in blue chippers with ease.
 
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jibsey said:
I'm like a little kid at Christmas, I want AK and McNeeley. I want I want I want....
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You left off the fact that your parents are VERY RICH and will likely make you VERY HAPPY on Christmas morning
 
By their definition if we don’t make the FF again they will declare us irrelevant .
So you see it’s an impossible situation
When you allow yourself to be defined by rivals.
I remember when
we were declared irrelevant in 2012,
by our rivals at the time
I can’t remember their names but I’m sure it was Kansas or Kentucky .
We’‘ve won 3 NC since during that period.
If we were indeed irrelevant in the lays 11 years. Than all I can say is bring on irrelevancy in the next 11.
Then it will be us chasing UCLA
 
SubbaBub said:
We are not a blueblood, get used to it.
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SubbaBub said:
I'm more worried about UNC's resurgence and I'm not that worried about that.

What I'm really worried about is losing all the proven winners from the last two seasons and relying on guy who only saw mop up duty and some bandwagon transfer kids.
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Top high school recruits and portal kids do not treat us as a blueblood program. UNC is always a threat to have a resurgence.

But the real threat comes in your last statement. Yes, UConn has won back2back NCs. And, yes Dan Hurley is one heck of a coach and UConn has put a lot of players in the NBA the last two seasons. But the question that needs to be examined is: "Is the UConn cupboard bare in the aftermath?"Most important need is always talent, superior talent. Need to see Huskies of '25, '26 . . . start landing talent.
 
TouchdownHusky said:
Top high school recruits and portal kids do not treat us as a blueblood program. UNC is always a threat to have a resurgence.

But the real threat comes in your last statement. Yes, UConn has won back2back NCs. And, yes Dan Hurley is one heck of a coach and UConn has put a lot of players in the NBA the last two seasons. But the question that needs to be examined is: "Is the UConn cupboard bare in the aftermath?"Most important need is always talent, superior talent. Need to see Huskies of '25, '26 . . . start landing talent.
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People asked this last year at this time when Sanogo, Hawkins and Jackson declared for the draft, Joey California graduated and Alleyne entered the portal. This is a casual fan take.
 
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Leebo said:
The answer is "no."
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So let's play a hypothetical game between UConn '24 and Uconn '25 as it stands right now:

Clingan/Sampson v Sampson/Reed
AK/Steward v Steward
Castle v Ross/Abraham
Newton v Diarra/Nowell
Spencer v Ball

So the talent level is not a concern here? Watch out Duke, Kansas, UNC . . .
 
TouchdownHusky said:
So the talent level is not a concern here? Watch out Duke, Kansas, UNC . . .
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No one said they're going to stop recruiting. They have a recruit visiting tomorrow. Saying "the cupboard is bare" means there's no one. That's what Arkansas had when they literally had no current players. It's not UConn's situation.

Implying that the current roster members count for nothing is just insulting. And you're supposedly a fan.
 
TouchdownHusky said:
So let's play a hypothetical game between UConn '24 and Uconn '25 as it stands right now:

Clingan/Sampson v Sampson/Reed
AK/Steward v Steward
Castle v Ross/Abraham
Newton v Diarra/Nowell
Spencer v Ball

So the talent level is not a concern here? Watch out Duke, Kansas, UNC . . .
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You’re aware if McNeeley commits during his visit they end up with a top 10 recruiting class, right? Plus you’re assumption is Karaban isn’t back, need I remind you Newton declared for the draft last year before coming back.

Not to mention the portal is still a factor, as is the 5* prospect from overseas that is by no means a given but if they pull him in it’s a reload situation, not a rebuild. I trust Hurley, maybe you should try.
 
TouchdownHusky said:
That's nothing to be cocky about. It is strange why UConn struggle to bring in blue chippers with ease.
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It's not about bringing in blue chippers, it's about bringing in skilled and talented players that fit well together to optimize the team results through both high school recruiting or portal recruiting. If it was solely about bringing in the highest rated recruiting classes Duke and Kentucky would be winning every year. Why aren't they? Or in Kentucky's case why have they failed to get past the first weekend of the NCAAT in the last 5 years.

Stephon Castle was a blue chip recruit, but he wasn't brought here solely because he is a blue chip recruit. He was brought into UConn because his skill set filled a need and the coaching staff knew they could they develop him to the point he will be a significant contributor on the team and compliment the skills of his teammates.
 
Platt81 said:
You’re aware if McNeeley commits during his visit they end up with a top 10 recruiting class, right? Plus you’re assumption is Karaban isn’t back, need I remind you Newton declared for the draft last year before coming back.

Not to mention the portal is still a factor, as is the 5* prospect from overseas that is by no means a given but if they pull him in it’s a reload situation, not a rebuild. I trust Hurley, maybe you should try.
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If all your "if's" come to bare, then I am inclined to be as optimistic as you. But we shall see.
 
Leebo said:
No one said they're going to stop recruiting. They have a recruit visiting tomorrow. Saying "the cupboard is bare" means there's no one. That's what Arkansas had when they literally had no current players. It's not UConn's situation.

Implying that the current roster members count for nothing is just insulting. And you're supposedly a fan.
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Not trying to insult the current roster members, believe me. Just saying while everyone is touting our blueblood status and our chances of a Final Four or a three-peat, I believe there is a lot of holes to plug. The sooner the better.
 
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TouchdownHusky said:
So let's play a hypothetical game between UConn '24 and Uconn '25 as it stands right now:

Clingan/Sampson v Sampson/Reed
AK/Steward v Steward
Castle v Ross/Abraham
Newton v Diarra/Nowell
Spencer v Ball

So the talent level is not a concern here? Watch out Duke, Kansas, UNC . . .
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This fool is obviously a troll, so rather than explain that we have only just begun recruiting the transfer it’s much easier to put him/her on ignore.
Bye bye bye.
 
TouchdownHusky said:
If all your "if's" come to bare, then I am inclined to be as optimistic as you. But we shall see.
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Understood, but as I stated in an earlier post at this time last year we were in the same predicament, only thing being the recruiting class being better, but to think Hurley and Co are going to be complacent and not make this thing a dynasty is an extremely pessimistic take two weeks removed from a national title.
 
TouchdownHusky said:
So let's play a hypothetical game between UConn '24 and Uconn '25 as it stands right now:

Clingan/Sampson v Sampson/Reed
AK/Steward v Steward
Castle v Ross/Abraham
Newton v Diarra/Nowell
Spencer v Ball

So the talent level is not a concern here? Watch out Duke, Kansas, UNC . . .
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Let's play a game where you spell the names wrong for all of our players.
 
Why do we give oxygen to trolls like this? We should have a new season resolution to stop fixating on and trolling other programs. We are the gold standard. We should be better acknowledging this drivel.
 
Andrew Hurley has as many championships as Bill Self

Is that our thing now?

man I imagine I would be pissed if I was from some useless flyover town and all I cared about was KU baskitbull and these here coastul leets took muh game frum me
 
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