Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 2536957, member: 1609"] We used to be a great basketball state and the men’s team had a rich if local tradition goiing back to the Hugh Greer days 195o’ Many Conference Titles ,NCAA,and NIT appearances and even a final 8 We got in the Big East because of our basketball fans this long tradition. It didn’t hurt being the only Big Time program in a pretty populous state. With an abundance of B.B. fans. We got Jim Calhoun because of those two facts and him leaving was never much of an option because he never wanted to be far from his Boston roots He was a son of New England through and through and he had the best Basketball Job ( Celtics excepted) in the area. The state was rich with jobs and affluence to pay outrageous ticket prices. Which translates into very respectable coaching salaries. We had a rabid fans and great student body who loved basketball . The men played in probably the best basketball conference with incredible exposure. Could he have left sure, but the likelihood was never very great. The women’s story is somewhat different. The School took and still takes the sport much more seriously than pretty much any school in the country. After they had some success they became the media darlings of The New York liberal elite. They have what could rightly be called a Cult following. Really maybe a half dozen schools in the whole country approached that type of status. Can you name a better women’s position ? Conference was almost irrelevant . UConn’s success raised the Big East programs with it. UConn women are in the process off doing the same thing to the AAC. [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach

Forum statistics

Threads: 164,828

Messages: 4,411,700

Members: 10,239

Latest member: Dondadonone