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Husky1964 said:
Bullspit!!!!! Gavitt and Rowe were close friends and chose NOT to play one another, until the BE was formed and we had no choice. By then both coaches had moved on.
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I sure Gavitt had no problem with that. And Rowe was wrong to not push for a game. But UConn basketball existed before 1969, you know.
 
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I would be all for a UConn PC series. I guess I'm in the minority but I root for New England basketball minus BC and Providence is the second best program in New England. Cooley has done an excellent job at PC and I have no problem rooting for them in all their games except when they play UConn.
 
First, we will play Georgetown, next year, as a team from the old BE. Both the Pitt & Villanova coaches have mentioned talks of games vs us and them. Ollie mentioned possible future game(s) with Syracuse, probably at the Garden. At that time (2-3 months ago) he dropped PC's name too.
My guess is a game with PC & UConn will happen. But, not for a few more years.
For any PC fan to come here and brag about their RPI in January vs ours, especially considering we are defending champs, rings very hollow. Even if PC makes the tourney and UConn doesn't, this year (very possible at this juncture) PC would have to make a big splash to make any kind of impression, here. Especially because PC hasn't won an NCAA tourney game in over 10 years.
 
UConn-PC would be more fun than (a) any of the Connecticut schools, (b) 4/5 of the AAC games, (c) all other OOC games except the made-for-TV elite program out of conference games.

A PC game would be about as interesting as UConn-Stanford and UConn-Texas and UConn-Florida.

Sure, Georgetown, Nova, St John's would be nice too. Just don't schedule BC. Don't want to look at them, hear about them, think about them.
 
We should be playing PC, URI, UMass, St. John's, Seton Hall, Harvard, etc. on a regular basis. I realize you can't schedule them all every year because you need a certain number of home games to bring in ticket revenue. But we have to get these lousy OOC cupcake games off our schedule.

UCF, USF, ECU and Houston are already killing the confernce RPI, but that's another issue all together.

These other schools are right in our backyard. Harvard agreed to play us without having to go to their place and I'm sure they would do it again. We can probably get a 2 and 1 series with URI and maybe UMass. Play home and home series with the other schools. UConn fans would travel the short distance for these games.
 
Waquoit said:
I sure Gavitt had no problem with that. And Rowe was wrong to not push for a game. But UConn basketball existed before 1969, you know.
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You just continue to make crap up to fit your agenda, whatever it may be. Just stop now, your own fans here understand what took place and why. Not saying it means we should get a shot at you just that the acrimony is ridiculous and unwarranted. At least we have jealousy to fall back on as an excuse.
 
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FriarJ said:
You just continue to make crap up to fit your agenda, whatever it may be. Just stop now, your own fans here understand what took place and why. Not saying it means we should get a shot at you just that the acrimony is ridiculous and unwarranted. At least we have jealousy to fall back on as an excuse.
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My only agenda is calling you out on your BS that "history shows that PC was as a strong allie(sp) of UConn." PC didn't play UConn in the regular season between 1947 to 1977. I didn't make that up.
 
Games against Nova, Cuse, Gtown lands us in prime time. Games with BC and Providence won't and we could lose. However.
if were loaded with talent then we should play them.
 
FriarJ said:
So all this great stuff happens to UConn without PC and Gavitt. Is that your position? UConn did it on their own in my book but none of it happens without the BE, it's okay to say this btw.
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None of it happens without Naismith, or um, George Washington either...was there a point in there Friar?
 
seanmc94 said:
Ummm....our RPI is currently in the 20s; UConn is in the high 70s. We play in the #2 RPI conference; while you are relegated to the AAC(10 maybe?)

You would be lucky to get a home and home at this point(in case you aren't sure; that's a joke). PC will play you anywhere, anytime. You know, your old motto. PC even offered a home game with no return and you turtles.

Probably not going to happen anytime soon. Too bad, always a great game.
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Lol, I don't know why so many missed that you were joking about the home and home.

That said you should have said the "PC even offered a home game with no return and your turtles" was also a joke.

PC demanded a home and home, UConn offered a single game. PC balked at not getting a home game.


I am actually in favor of neither of those options and playing PC in a place down in southern CT (Mohegan? Bridgeport?) every other year with UConn as the home team. I think that's relatively fair and makes it a bit more interesting. UConn played a game this year in Bridgeport why not make that PC. I still wouldn't do a home and home with PC because it's not worth it compared to who UConn does play home and homes with every year from an exposure POV.
 
Thank god for this thread.

It's been far too long since sean and FriarJ have had an opportunity to troll this board.
 
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Simple as that----we will only play PeeCee when it totally is an advantage for us. Our sked was a little disjointed this year owing to the piss poor AAC requirement and the need to play FL on the road. Maybe Ollie felt he might lose the game. They have a history of beating us even when they had poor teams. Of course one of those losses was at Gampel which led to Calhoun's Gomes speech.
 
Waquoit said:
My only agenda is calling you out on your BS that "history shows that PC was as a strong allie(sp) of UConn." PC didn't play UConn in the regular season between 1947 to 1977. I didn't make that up.
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Because you sucked. Got it Biff? The same reason you won't play us. I'm done with your BS, because if you are even trying to tell me these teams were on the same level those years then you are a complete liar as I would be if I said the same about the last 20. Guess what? All those days are over genius. I'm done with arguing with an idiot.
 
CL82 said:
None of it happens without Naismith, or um, George Washington either...was there a point in there Friar?
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Whatever, for a bit I had forgotten I loathed UConn fans. Thanks for snapping me back to reality. Good luck against Tulane.
 
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FriarJ said:
Whatever, for a bit I had forgotten I loathed UConn fans. Thanks for snapping me back to reality. Good luck against Tulane.
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And the reason you spend lots and lots of your time on a UConn board is…….?
 
huskiesnyc said:
Snowed in and extremely board I was just looking at our amazing tourney history, and for fun I decided to take a look at Providence. Do you guys realize since 1997 we have won 41 NCAA games since their last win? 41!!! That is so damn pathetic why the hell would we ever give them a home and home game?
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Ryan Gomes
 
huskiesnyc said:
Snowed in and extremely board I was just looking at our amazing tourney history, and for fun I decided to take a look at Providence. Do you guys realize since 1997 we have won 41 NCAA games since their last win? 41!!! That is so damn pathetic why the hell would we ever give them a home and home game?
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John Linehan
 
FriarJ said:
Because you sucked. Got it Biff?
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Sucked is a bit harsh. UConn went to the post-season 11 out of 14 years between 1954-67. But while you guys were ducking us you always had time for the inferior UMass. I didn't realize that PC was a big allie of them as well.
 
Waquoit said:
Sucked is a bit harsh. UConn went to the post-season 11 out of 14 years between 1954-67. But while you guys were ducking us you always had time for the inferior UMass. I didn't realize that PC was a big allie of them as well.
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Yes, we ducked UConn, just like they duck us now. Amazing similarities between then and now. In your dream world of UConn's NE dominance where did the best players in Connecticut go to school?
 
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FriarJ said:
Yes, we ducked UConn, just like they duck us now. Amazing similarities between then and now. In your dream world of UConn's NE dominance where did the best players in Connecticut go to school?
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Well, when the best players in CT were not as good as the best players we could get elsewhere that could lead us to National Championships we made the obvious choice to go elsewhere and win National Championships. And thus we were and are far more dominate than other NE programs.
 
FriarJ said:
Yes, we ducked UConn, just like they duck us now. Amazing similarities between then and now.
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Cool, next time I am in the area, where should I go to see the Providence championship banners from that era? I always like to check out sports history.
 
Ryan Gomes sounds just like Donnie McGrath. Both of which sound similar to NIT.
 
champs99and04 said:
If this is true then I don't know what the hell UConn was thinking.
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Probably that they want to get opponents with a higher RPI into pre-season slots given the weakness of the AAC.

Now before our RI friends get their panties in a bunch, I understand that PC would be a help to us this year. I suspect that that was not anticipated to be the case on an ongoing basis. If it is, I'm sure the game will scheduled as it benefits both schools.
 
Would love to play PC. We had great games over the years where they kicked our and vice versa. I've never understood the PC hatred thing here. It just usually shows how sensitive and defensive both programs are. PC is definitely a team on the rise with Cooley and is the better team this year; why bait them here just to try and puff up our chests?
 
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