UConn-Gonzaga: Venue less hostile than you might think

[Hans Sprungfeld]

This is the dumbest thread I've ever seen. If anyone thinks it won't be 95% hardcore Gonzaga fans there, I don't know what to tell you. They've got UConn coming to their hood.

OP is right, it's not The Kennel. But yeah it is like MSG for us, it's the closest metropolis to their campus. An extra hour or whatever drive, it doesn't matter. Seattle is where all their grads go. It's where all the bandwagon fans live that they've made by making 24 straight tournaments during which the city lost its NBA team

It's going to be hostile. We still might win.

Maybe so, but why lead with a first sentence that can't possibly be true for you across a dozen years and 11,000+ posts?

Aren't you trying to recruit readers to get real?

 

[auror]

Maybe so, but why lead with a first sentence that can't possibly be true for you across a dozen years and 11,000+ posts?

Aren't you trying to recruit readers to get real?

Hyperbole is a rhetorical and literary technique where an author or speaker intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect.

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

Climate Pledge, by the way, is a state of the art arena. Went there for the grand opening concert and it was spectacular.

 

[superjohn]

This is the dumbest thread I've ever seen. If anyone thinks it won't be 95% hardcore Gonzaga fans there, I don't know what to tell you. They've got UConn coming to their hood.

OP is right, it's not The Kennel. But yeah it is like MSG for us, it's the closest metropolis to their campus. An extra hour or whatever drive, it doesn't matter. Seattle is where all their grads go. It's where all the bandwagon fans live that they've made by making 24 straight tournaments during which the city lost its NBA team

It's going to be hostile. We still might win.

Not even in the top 300 dumbest threads. @HuskyWarrior611 has a 5 pager which blows this one out of the water.

We will win.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

@auror posted: "Hyperbole is a rhetorical and literary technique where an author or speaker intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect." It may have been a definition quoted directly from an uncredited source

I assert that the effect in this case was to reduce the credibility of what followed, calling into question any-to-all other assertions thereafter made.

Sure, you got my attention, but at what cost within this post and perhaps others in the future?

 

[Leebo]

If anyone thinks it won't be 95% hardcore Gonzaga fans there, I don't know what to tell you

But you see, he thought it would be 96% originally, and therefore this is "less hostile than you might think." Checkmate.

 

[uconnfan68]

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You're right. These two lines seem just about the same size. Really, there's hardly any advantage for Gonzaga at all.

They aren’t driving, are they?

 

[auror]

@auror posted: "Hyperbole is a rhetorical and literary technique where an author or speaker intentionally uses exaggeration and overstatement for emphasis and effect." It may have been a definition quoted directly from an uncredited source

I assert that the effect in this case was to reduce the credibility of what followed, calling into question any-to-all other assertions thereafter made.

Sure, you got my attention, but at what cost within this post and perhaps others in the future?

I assumed you had an ability to read critically and recognize literary devices as you read. I apologize for over-estimating you.

 

[SeattleHoop]

This is the dumbest thread I've ever seen. If anyone thinks it won't be 95% hardcore Gonzaga fans there, I don't know what to tell you. They've got UConn coming to their hood.

OP is right, it's not The Kennel. But yeah it is like MSG for us, it's the closest metropolis to their campus. An extra hour or whatever drive, it doesn't matter. Seattle is where all their grads go. It's where all the bandwagon fans live that they've made by making 24 straight tournaments during which the city lost its NBA team

It's going to be hostile. We still might win.

I was at the Gonzaga at UW game tonight. UW won because they won the paint battle and out-rebounded the Zags. They closed out well enough on 3’s down the stretch and Gonzaga went cold the last 10 minutes.

We can definitely do the same. Clingan and Johnson need to hold it down and win the match against Ike, just as Kepnang did tonight.

UConn is deeper at just about every position so they just need to wear them down, play great defense and rebound.

I’m very excited to watch it live next week

 

[nwhoopfan]

Gonzaga had the Battle in Seattle game going for around a decade, and played 1st/2nd Round games of the NCAA Tourney at Key Arena at least 3 times. There will be A LOT of Zags fans there. Have to be some alums/fans in Seattle already, and then plenty of people will make the trek over from the east side of the state. It's a big deal for them. The Kennel has a capacity of 6000. There are more than 6000 people who would like to go to Zags games. This is a chance for some of them to actually watch their team live. Even if they have to drive over 200 miles to do it.

 

[TheChamps990411]

The game will be played in the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. Gonzaga is located in Spokane, 230 miles away. Its home court is the McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane.

No current Gonzaga player has ever played a game at the Climate Pledge Arena. The only games Gonzaga has played in Seattle in the past four years have been on campus of the University of Washington. Until now, Gonzaga has always been the visiting team in Seattle.

No doubt Gonzaga will have a greater chance to practice in the facility, and no doubt a goodly number of their fans will make the 460-mile round-trip trek to the game, but the venue is NOT Gonzaga's equivalent of Gampel Pavilion or even the XL Center. And Seattle is not their NYC. The Climate Pledge Arena is not their MSG, where, btw, next year's rematch will be played.

I dont care where we play. We shall destroy.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I assumed you had an ability to read critically and recognize literary devices as you read. I apologize for over-estimating you.

It was horribly used, enough so that I'll offer that you either do not understand the device; have a faulty sense of proportion; or are extending a bad joke by way of a preposterous apology.

It's as though you'd consider this reply better or stronger if I were to write, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever read," and even more so if I put it in the lead. Say it ain't so, or deepen the dumbening.

You may yet make your your initial statement valid, but you'll have to pass through a couple more layers of fantastic dishonesty to do so, and I doubt this dance is what you've had in mind all along.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Gonzaga had the Battle in Seattle game going for around a decade, and played 1st/2nd Round games of the NCAA Tourney at Key Arena at least 3 times. There will be A LOT of Zags fans there. Have to be some alums/fans in Seattle already, and then plenty of people will make the trek over from the east side of the state. It's a big deal for them. The Kennel has a capacity of 6000. There are more than 6000 people who would like to go to Zags games. This is a chance for some of them to actually watch their team live. Even if they have to drive over 200 miles to do it.

After what happened in the tournament last year, I expect every Zag fan in America to be at the game

 

[husky8273]

plenty of tix for sale - lower baseline $80 w/ fees

 

[Edward Sargent]

Hopefully Husky Nightmare continues

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

I dont care where we play. We shall destroy.

Agreed - we almost won at Kansas in Lawrence. We'll win by double digits against Gonzaga in Seattle.

 

[tennmike]

Alas, I said "Spokane East" instead of "Spokane West." Now I'm really in for it.

Eleven minutes before you realized your elementary mistake. What a slacker.

 

[connVA]

The combination of the tourney thumping last year, the prospect of a statement win against the national champs to get back into the Top 10 (assuming they drop out after the UW loss), and UConn being UConn means that place is going to be nuts. If somehow it’s not then I’m really disappointed in Zags fans’ ability to bring the lumber when it counts.

 

[willie99]

Men against boys people, this will me as ugly in December as it was in March

This won't be as tough as UNC was at MSG, and we're certainly not playing a National Title Contender on their campus court like we did at KU (sans Castle no less)

Double digit win streak against OOC opponents reaches three

 

[elmcityboy]

This is the dumbest thread I've ever seen. If anyone thinks it won't be 95% hardcore Gonzaga fans there, I don't know what to tell you. They've got UConn coming to their hood.

OP is right, it's not The Kennel. But yeah it is like MSG for us, it's the closest metropolis to their campus. An extra hour or whatever drive, it doesn't matter. Seattle is where all their grads go. It's where all the bandwagon fans live that they've made by making 24 straight tournaments during which the city lost its NBA team

It's going to be hostile. We still might win.

to this point, i had a coworker in seattle who was a bandwagon gonzaga fan. she told me that gonzaga was basically seattle's college team (at least when the ncaa tournament starts).

 

[CL82]

I dont care where we play. We shall destroy.

 

[DbaltUC628]

In 2008, wasn't that game vs Gonzaga in Seattle where AJ Price hit the late game 3 to send to OT? Then the good guys won it in OT. That was also a top 10 match-up



Same place ?

Those baggy shorts though.

 

[Husky25]

The game will be played in the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. Gonzaga is located in Spokane, 230 miles away. Its home court is the McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane.

No current Gonzaga player has ever played a game at the Climate Pledge Arena. The only games Gonzaga has played in Seattle in the past four years have been on campus of the University of Washington. Until now, Gonzaga has always been the visiting team in Seattle.

No doubt Gonzaga will have a greater chance to practice in the facility, and no doubt a goodly number of their fans will make the 460-mile round-trip trek to the game, but the venue is NOT Gonzaga's equivalent of Gampel Pavilion or even the XL Center. And Seattle is not their NYC. The Climate Pledge Arena is not their MSG, where, btw, next year's rematch will be played.

Even if Gonzaga has no fans outside the Greater Spokane Metropolitan Region, 280 miles is a 4 hour drive out west, where the posted limit is often 75mph.

I guess UConn has no fans outside of Mansfield either, from where it takes about 3 1/2 - 4 hours to get to NYC (particularly if one takes the train) when all is said and done. UConn never travels well to New York.