Tre Mitchell

[TitleTown]

Let's be honest. Your current league sucks.
You would have a much better looking future if you were in the Big East, if not a P-5 spot.
Then the talk about "P-5 doesn't matter" would be more accurate.

I'm much less worried about Syracuse being a stepping stone than you guys should be. Babers is in his 50s, and if he gets us over the hump and going to bowl games again, he could retire here. The Dome is perfect for a pass happy offense. Wins over Virginia Tech, Clemson and Florida State so far indicates that we are on the right track, if we can build depth and stay healthy. You would kill for wins like that right now.

You guys discount it, but Syracuse has so much history, in both sports. Yes, you own more national championships in basketball than we do, but that's it. I remember when they were evaluating the last batch of teams going to the ACC, I said SU's football history trumped your then-current success. You guys didn't believe it, but look what happened.

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If being in a P-5 is so damn important, then why have 3 of the past 5 National Champions been from non P-5 schools?

 

[jimva]

A nice reasonable response. Thanks. Yes, your program under Calhoun reached heights that Boeheim never quite reached. Yes, some of our perceived advantage is due to us being a good program over a longer period of time. That's fair. You burned brighter for about 20 years. You and Pitt carried the Big East banner through much of the 90s and 00s, although we did get a championship game appearance in there against maybe the best college team of our lifetime, Kentucky 96, a team that had something like 9 eventual NBA guys on the roster.

Kevin Ollie was never "all that" like you guys thought he was. Even though he got his championship, he coasted afterwards, and your program went to hell. Hurley I really like as a hire. He's got that working class, northeast guy appeal, tough as nails, like Calhoun. He really could do well for you. But if your fan base doesn't recognize the risk of UConn becoming a stepping stone job, well, that's just delusional. The right hire saves you, and Hurley was probably the right hire.

In football, we've been excellent for two sustained periods in my lifetime, and we've been in 2 terrible holes. I hope that UConn finds a way to the Big East or the Big Ten. You're too good a program to completely disappear. I feel like your success in basketball was at our direct expense, though, from the first time we went on probation back in the early 90s, and so that's why some of us of a certain age feel like UConn are still Johnny Come Lately's even though you got 4, yes 4 championships on your shelf.

Much respect for your past, but I like how things are finally trending. Rutgers sucks again, so we are beginning to get football prospects out of NJ again, as we did in our heyday. Pasqualoni and then Diaco destroyed your football program, so we don't have to worry about recruiting against you like we did when Greg Robinson was crapping the bed in Syracuse.

We're not competing directly against you for recruits very often, and we don't play in the same league anymore, so you guys are receding in the rear view mirror, just like we don't matter that much anymore to you. But I do respect your program. I just prefer not to have another mouth to feed at the table, when it comes to recruits. It's already hard enough having Duke and Kentucky swoop in at the last minute and steal away kids that you've been working on for 2 years. Having UConn as a direct competitor too would be a pain in the ass.

Lets just ignore this guy. There is no measure by which any rational, educated person can put Syracuse basketball at the same level as UCONN. Maybe if they got a great coach over the next 20 years they could come close, but that is a big ask. I cant imagine them being able to win 3 more national championships or dominating the ACC the way we dominated the Big East. So let this troll, troll. When we get our guys and they dont he will go away. IGNORE.

 

[auror]

If being in a P-5 is so damn important, then why have 3 of the past 5 National Champions been from non P-5 schools?

Pac 12 hasn't won a National Championship since 1997. B1G hasn't won snce 2000.

 

[Mokum]

If being in a P-5 is so damn important, then why have 3 of the past 5 National Champions been from non P-5 schools?

It is all BS hype from the media, P5’s. We are going to be champs again, for sure. With FB , maybe the P5 crap has a little bit more validity, but in BB it is nonsense. Thankyou ESPN

 

[GHSWolverines]

and gonzaga was runner-up in 2017

 

[UConnRock]

And Louisville was not P-5 when they won in 2013, so it is 5 of the last 8 were not technically P-5 schools

 

[IthacaMatt]

I guess all the Big East Championships UConn won dont count then. I mean yeah, take away all those National Championships and Big East Championships and what has UConn accomplished?

Dense much?

For the record, our records are much closer than you think:

Big East Tournament:

UConn - 6 times champ, 9 championship game appearances
SU - 5 times champ, 13 championship game appearances

Big East Regular Season:

UConn 10 times champs
Syracuse 9 times champs (includes co-titles for both)

 

[Kauffmak10]

For the record, our records are much closer than you think:

Big East Tournament:

UConn - 6 times champ, 9 championship game appearances
SU - 5 times champ, 13 championship game appearances

Big East Regular Season:

UConn 10 times champs
Syracuse 9 times champs (includes co-titles for both)

Make that 3 time tourney champs & 8 time regular season champs: VACATED BUDDY

 

[Huskyforlife]

We can lock this now.

 

[BlueMAB]

4>1

 

[UConnSwag11]

For the record, our records are much closer than you think:

Big East Tournament:

UConn - 6 times champ, 9 championship game appearances
SU - 5 times champ, 13 championship game appearances

Big East Regular Season:

UConn 10 times champs
Syracuse 9 times champs (includes co-titles for both)

I did a post awhile ago about the comparisons and I had to delete it.

UConn has 7 big east championships (and one AAC),

 

[UconnAlum04]

Sooo...about Mitchell

 

[Rico444]

Nice, now a Syrabuse troll has derailed two threads.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Nice, now a Syrabuse troll has derailed two threads.

All he did was verify what we already know about them. They don’t have as many titles as us and Syracuse is worse than Hartford

 

[Waquoit]

Kemba > Dave Bing

 

[Scrutineer]

For the record, our records are much closer than you think:

Big East Tournament:

UConn - 6 times champ, 9 championship game appearances
SU - 5 times champ, 13 championship game appearances

Big East Regular Season:

UConn 10 times champs
Syracuse 9 times champs (includes co-titles for both)

Geez, just go away. You're digging a deeper hole of credibility every time you post something.

 

[gtcam]

For the record, our records are much closer than you think:

Big East Tournament:

UConn - 6 times champ, 9 championship game appearances
SU - 5 times champ, 13 championship game appearances

Big East Regular Season:

UConn 10 times champs
Syracuse 9 times champs (includes co-titles for both)

get you forget about the only thing that counts. UConn 4. Cuse 1

 

[RipCity]

Stop replying to him. Even the replies are annoying

 

[husky429]

Lock it up! Lock it up!