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Tidbit - Apparently a state supreme court can tell a coach of a Division 1 university how to allocate playing time.
 
August_West said:
Tidbit - Apparently a state supreme court can tell a coach of a Division 1 university how to allocate playing time.
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Are you sure? I remember (in a business law class many decades ago) being told that is not the case.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Are you sure? I remember (in a business law class many decades ago) being told that is not the case.
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It is why Shannon is playing basketball right now. So yeah, Im sure.
 
August_West said:
It is why Shannon is playing basketball right now. So yeah, Im sure.
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Misunderstood your initial statement.

The fact remains that they cannot tell him how many minutes each player should play (or who should start, what positions any given player should play, etc..). It's just a matter of that state's court saying they can play him.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Misunderstood your initial statement.

The fact remains that they cannot tell him how many minutes each player should play (or who should start, what positions any given player should play, etc..). It's just a matter of that state's court saying they can play him.
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The judge actually made a recommendation about playing time as a way to to be exposed for a potential lawsuit for damages in relation to the harming of NIL opportunities.
 
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August_West said:
The judge actually made a recommendation about playing time as a way to to be exposed for a potential lawsuit for damages in relation to the harming of NIL opportunities.
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Wow if the Judge did that.
 
August_West said:
In the 80's in the Bathroom at Hooligans on Rte 32 in S. Eagleville, (then it became Smedleys and now it is Pub 32 I think............. anyway it will always be Hooligans to me) there was Graffiti in the mens bathroom that said "Tig Bats"

I've always wondered what that meant and what sociopath wrote it.
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Hooligans was the best UConn bar from 86-87 when I graduated. I am thankful for the miracle that me and other fellow students made it back to campus and carriage house from there. I remember watching the infamous BU - UConn game there, where Mike Jarvis made the Huskies play after a bus accident and the game went late into the night.

I also remember walking into Hooligans on last day of classes senior year, after pre-gaming at Ted's for a few hours. Hooligans chalkboard advertised "Really disgusting Tequila $0.99 Shots".
My buddy and I partook, downed the shots - took one look at each other and we each walked straight out the door and gave the beers we'd consumed at Ted's back to the earth.

Cleared up room for rest of the nights' debauchery, I don't recall anything after that.
 
August_West said:
It’s pure frockin insanity. A team can’t even suspend a player now! Illinois to their credit actually tried to do the right thing. Screw this kid.
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lol what judge -- elected or appointed -- is ever going to recommend a star player from their state sitting out?
 
During today's press conference, John Fanta complimented Brad Underwood on his speed and agility during last night's post game celebration and said he couldn't move that fast if he was chasing a burger. Love that guy.
 
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Tenspro2002 said:
lol what judge -- elected or appointed -- is ever going to recommend a star player from their state sitting out?
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They should not be involved with this. This lawsuit is pure garbage. The presumption of innocence is for the court room, and when Shannon's case comes up he will have his day in court. That presumption of innocence is why he is not in jail right now. I assume Illinois, like UConn and pretty much every other school out there also has a "code of conduct" which is entirely disconnected from the judicial system. Illinois should be able to do with whatever they want to in response to this when it comes to whether or not they want a player participating on their team . When AJ Price was suspended for the year, and Marcus Williams for part of the year for laptopgate, they had not had their day in court yet, but were still suspended by UConn for violating the teams code of conduct. The inmates are truly running the asylum now, and I don't like the implications one iota. I was, and am, all for NIL in the overarching sense and it's stated intent. That is already way off course anyway and in a new york minute we went off the rails, but this is entirely in another hemisphere of bad signs for this sport.

Im enjoying the hell out of this run we are on, and trying to soak it all in because this house of cards is about to collapse and within the decade this sport will look nothing like it has from say the mid 80's to today. It's been a fantastic run for the sport. Currently my love of UConn basketball is enough to mitigate my disgust with society in general, and college sports in particular, but every day the scale starts weighing heavier on the side of disgust winning. And when that happens, I'm out.
 
1999 Championshup - on flight home from Ft Laud to Bradley that coincided w/uconn v duke gm (vaca plans made months earlier) & before cell phones, iPads etc., whenever we flew over a major hub (Atlanta, DC etc), pilot would announce game score. Very tight gm. Entire plane would cheer whenever pilot announced UConn ahead. When we all deplaned at Bradley, only few minutes left in close gm. A young man with a boom box (remember those) happened to walk by the frantic UConn fans in airport & pretty much kidnapped his radio, changed station to Joe D’s uconn broadcast as about 100 fans gathered around the boom box & the poor kid looked at us like we were crazy….which, of course, we were. Cheers were amazing when they won & the poor kid was able to retrieve his boom box & RUN away from all of us! Great memory.
 
tykurez said:
View attachment 98382

This you cheering on Donovan’s and-1?
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6 weeks ago, I stopped being able to post small file screenshot photos in the super simple way I've gotten used to for the past 5 years, after the phone started saving them in an incompatible format, and I didn't want to do the learning to adjust to something new.

The photo above meets the "pics or it didn't happen" standard. I'm asking that you all just take my word for it, but I've also decided to accept and not care if you don't.

In that spirit, with a photo to 'prove' it, I found a stray piece of paper two days ago that was slated for recycling. I noticed that the reverse side had been printed on February 13, 2000. It was a list of recent posts from The Boneyard.

The listed posters were msuhr, UConn-Tao, AussieCuz, @gars44, Lark, NED UC'83, Pudge Fish, Citrus Dog, and me under my then-handle which was just my first name with last initial. It's my earliest dated support for the claim that I've been here since not long after the 1999 NC. For all I know, it was the first thread I ever started.

The title was, "Interesting thread: my $.02 (pretty long, sorry)," which sounds like me, no?
 
1999 Championship game coincided with a city council meeting at which I had to present a comprehensive plan and answer questions. There were many "bathroom" and "cigarette" breaks when I went out to my truck to get a game update on the radio (no internet or cell phone then), and needless to say I was kinda distracted during the entire meeting.
 
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Jaydumo20 said:
Mexicans laugh at Americans every time we say avocado because it really means "lawyer" in Spanish. We brought the wrong word back from spring break.
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(Trying to decipher if serious…laughing regardless)
 
Imagine if we had Daniel Hamilton and Jalen Adams as recruits in this environment?
 
Jaydumo20 said:
Mexicans laugh at Americans every time we say avocado because it really means "lawyer" in Spanish. We brought the wrong word back from spring break.
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I can see an Italian laghing about it (avvocato). In Spansih the word is abogado.
 
1999 second round game (New Mexico) overlapped with a family funeral. Fortunately the funeral adjourned to our house and there was a TV in one bathroom. Most attendees didn't catch on that certain people were spending an inordinate amount of time in the bathroom rather than interacting with relatives.
 
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Mr. French said:
(Trying to decipher if serious…laughing regardless)
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"abogado"

Edited to reflect that others have already addressed the above:

When a strong rebuke comes from the bench after an attorney has made an ethical lapse, a frivolous argument, or an absurd statement, is it said that the judge made abogado toast?
 
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Hans Sprungfeld said:
"abogado"
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Correct. Although, many spanish speakers pronounce a "v" as a "b". I think in the etymology of the English "avocado" they took "abogado" as maybe having a v but assuming the native tongue was just pronouncing it as a B. Either way, the word is aguacate as I'm sure you know, so the guy who brought this word back got it wrong two ways.
like the non french speaking people who are wondering why Buffalo, NY is not full of Bison but it does happen to have a beautiful river...(Maybe a good offseason OT thread - non-english words we have butchered into embarrassment)
 
Here’s a tidbit……Ozzy’s “Mama I’m Comin’ Home” was written by Lemme of Motörhead fame
 
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