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Jaydumo20 said:
I saw your brawl with "long Island Tony" on Twitter. That was just as fierce. Ol Tony starred swingin at you from the get go. (Your tweet was a lead search on this topic just so you don't think I stalk you)
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Might as well hang me now, I’ve grown into a Twitter idiot.

I will say the spaces are addicting.
 
NYC_HUSKY22 said:
Never mind - it is a 100% the Bryant fans / players.

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Crazy how you can see the crimson bloom spread around his nose and mouth in the moments after the punch. On TV, there was a shot of that kid standing in the aisle full-on bloodied.

I was really concerned that the Bryant fans were going to disregard the AD’s instructions, which would have put the fans and Wagner players in a dangerous spot. Thankfully, things didn’t get chippy in the closing moments. I thought Grasso could have cleared the bench when play resumed. Kiss going to the hole with 3+ minutes remaining was kind of bush league IMO.
 
NYC_HUSKY22 said:
Never mind - it is a 100% the Bryant fans / players.

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Disagree, the Wagner crowd was clearly the group that turned around and escalated it. The kid in the USA jersey got kicked out. No matter what you think of Bryant (we're probably all in agreement there), it was just kids getting ready to go to the dance, they were singing "Goodbye", etc. Game's been over since the first 5 minutes.
 
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millertime7774 said:
Disagree, the Wagner crowd was clearly the group that turned around and escalated it. The kid in the USA jersey got kicked out. No matter what you think of Bryant (we're probably all in agreement there), it was just kids getting ready to go to the dance, they were singing "Goodbye", etc. Game's been over since the first 5 minutes.
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That’s a strange take. How would anyone watching on ESPN know who escalated it?
 
millertime7774 said:
Disagree, the Wagner crowd was clearly the group that turned around and escalated it. The kid in the USA jersey got kicked out. No matter what you think of Bryant (we're probably all in agreement there), it was just kids getting ready to go to the dance, they were singing "Goodbye", etc. Game's been over since the first 5 minutes.
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You knew that from the tv screen?

It seems insane to me that someone saw fit to put the Wagner players’ families directly next to a bunch of drunk dipshits from Bryant.

What’s Grosso’s story? His press conference vibe is “I do a little mortgage fraud and a little bit of identity theft when I can find the time.” (He looks like a good chunk of my family so I feel okay saying this.). He seems like he’d be in Jordan Belfort’s crew.
 
karstenkibbe said:
That’s a strange take. How would anyone watching on ESPN know who escalated it?
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Seems like there was a lot going on during the game that lead up to this. The crowd was super rowdy, stuff going on - on the court.



 
Not much of a fight but Wagner still got the s^^t kicked out of them.
 
huskyfan224 said:
That Kiss kid from Bryant is annoying as all get out
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basketball nomad - from the Bronx - played at 4 HS, then Quinnipiac and Rutgers before Bryant. Leads the nation in scoring.
 
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BigErnMcCracken said:
You knew that from the tv screen?

It seems insane to me that someone saw fit to put the Wagner players’ families directly next to a bunch of drunk dipshits from Bryant.

What’s Grosso’s story? His press conference vibe is “I do a little mortgage fraud and a little bit of identity theft when I can find the time.” (He looks like a good chunk of my family so I feel okay saying this.). He seems like he’d be in Jordan Belfort’s crew.
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Definitely doing the Belfort thing selling you every company listed on the pink sheets. Throw in a bit of “I’ve got a great deal for you on the extended warranty” and I think you’ve got Grasso figured out.
 
FriarJ said:
You know that the the US undergraduate system has lost their way when what you just wrote is almost certainly accurate and we are talking about Bryant College which seems like just yesterday was a commuter school for blue collar families and now is in the $65k a year club.
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Bryant hasn’t been a commuter school for locals since the early 70’s. It’s actually one of the schools where most people live on campus and has been for 45+ years. Bryant was highly rated and competed with Babson and Bentley directly for years. What changed was the addition of multiple liberal arts majors to the curriculum. When they did that it was to broaden the student base as the president realized the future would have to be as a university that could serve more people. Enrollment dropped quite a bit during the late 90’s. Back then just the math requirements at Bryant scared people away with Calculus 2 being required to graduate. Business grads of Bryant do very well and it is almost always on best value lists. I have one of my degrees from there, so I have some bias. It’s a great school and to this day I have access to resources and faculty for advice and business consulting, as do all graduates. They did some cutting edge things there. It was one of the first schools to have a fully operating trading room simulator.
 
Hoophound said:
Bryant hasn’t been a commuter school for locals since the early 70’s. It’s actually one of the schools where most people live on campus and has been for 45+ years. Bryant was highly rated and competed with Babson and Bentley directly for years. What changed was the addition of multiple liberal arts majors to the curriculum. When they did that it was to broaden the student base as the president realized the future would have to be as a university that could serve more people. Enrollment dropped quite a bit during the late 90’s. Back then just the math requirements at Bryant scared people away with Calculus 2 being required to graduate. Business grads of Bryant do very well and it is almost always on best value lists. I have one of my degrees from there, so I have some bias. It’s a great school and to this day I have access to resources and faculty for advice and business consulting, as do all graduates. They did some cutting edge things there. It was one of the first schools to have a fully operating trading room simulator.
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It costs 65k/yr how is it a great value?
 
NYC_HUSKY22 said:
Never mind - it is a 100% the Bryant fans / players.

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Kid got put to sleep with a weak straight right hand from a dude 2 feet below him that landed on the pinky. That's an immediate expulsion from the school in my book. We need to be better than that.

Dude who threw the punch dipped pretty quick? Probably hurt his hand. Landing punches with no wraps hurts like a mother
 
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MTBingNinja said:
Was the Wagner coach wearing a jersey?!
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Oddly enough he wore a white home jersey for one of his players that tore his ACL.

Even more odd was the fact that he swapped to a green jersey at halftime when his team was getting destroyed by Peter Kiss.
 
Hoophound said:
Seemed like more of a Wagner problem. The Bryant kids were just taunting. One kid whipped his drink at the Wagner fans after a while. Didn’t seem like the Bryant kids were looking for a fight so much as antagonizing. Lots of semi-obnoxious Boston area kids at Bryant that are great at talking smack and getting under your skin.
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Yes, I’m sure the kids that started it had to be from the Boston area. What does the Boston area have anything to do with what happened? I’m sure there are zero “semi-obnoxious” kids from where you live.
 
Hoophound said:
Bryant hasn’t been a commuter school for locals since the early 70’s. It’s actually one of the schools where most people live on campus and has been for 45+ years. Bryant was highly rated and competed with Babson and Bentley directly for years. What changed was the addition of multiple liberal arts majors to the curriculum. When they did that it was to broaden the student base as the president realized the future would have to be as a university that could serve more people. Enrollment dropped quite a bit during the late 90’s. Back then just the math requirements at Bryant scared people away with Calculus 2 being required to graduate. Business grads of Bryant do very well and it is almost always on best value lists. I have one of my degrees from there, so I have some bias. It’s a great school and to this day I have access to resources and faculty for advice and business consulting, as do all graduates. They did some cutting edge things there. It was one of the first schools to have a fully operating trading room simulator.
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Well said. I know several Bryant grads that have done very well for themselves (using money as the measuring stick for success as most are doing here). Lots of great takes in here from people who’s ***t doesn’t stink looking down from their high horses.
 
karstenkibbe said:
Crazy how you can see the crimson bloom spread around his nose and mouth in the moments after the punch. On TV, there was a shot of that kid standing in the aisle full-on bloodied.

I was really concerned that the Bryant fans were going to disregard the AD’s instructions, which would have put the fans and Wagner players in a dangerous spot. Thankfully, things didn’t get chippy in the closing moments. I thought Grasso could have cleared the bench when play resumed. Kiss going to the hole with 3+ minutes remaining was kind of bush league IMO.
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This is his M.O. - not sure why any program would hire him.
 
millertime7774 said:
Disagree, the Wagner crowd was clearly the group that turned around and escalated it. The kid in the USA jersey got kicked out. No matter what you think of Bryant (we're probably all in agreement there), it was just kids getting ready to go to the dance, they were singing "Goodbye", etc. Game's been over since the first 5 minutes.
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Wrong - it was a highly lubed-up crowd that was taunting and throwing things at the small group of Wagner fans/family.

The Bryant administration had zero control and allowed things like this to happen all season. There were similar incidents at other games vs. LIU, CCSU, and The Mount.

Sure, a lot of this is kids that just don't know better - but the real failure was the environment created by Bryant officials (and the NEC did nothing to intervene)
 
CCSU97 said:
Wrong - it was a highly lubed-up crowd that was taunting and throwing things at the small group of Wagner fans/family.

The Bryant administration had zero control and allowed things like this to happen all season. There were similar incidents at other games vs. LIU, CCSU, and The Mount.

Sure, a lot of this is kids that just don't know better - but the real failure was the environment created by Bryant officials (and the NEC did nothing to intervene)
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What should they have done differently?
 
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CL82 said:
What should they have done differently?
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It said on the broadcast that Wagner had to move their shoot around to PC because Bryant let the students in hours early and they were all in there screaming when Wagner got off the bus.
 
CCSU97 said:
Wrong - it was a highly lubed-up crowd that was taunting and throwing things at the small group of Wagner fans/family.

The Bryant administration had zero control and allowed things like this to happen all season. There were similar incidents at other games vs. LIU, CCSU, and The Mount.

Sure, a lot of this is kids that just don't know better - but the real failure was the environment created by Bryant officials (and the NEC did nothing to intervene)
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Reminds me of a situation I saw once that was diffused immediately.

St. Jospeh's (Trumbull) was playing Hillhouse in the state final at Mohegan. St. Joe's had a large, obnoxious student crowd. At one point early in the game, Hillhouse fans decided to move into the same section. There were verbal exchanges and taunting. Security immediately separated the two groups and the game went on with an issue-free crowd.
 
I wish I had known about Wagner having to move their shoot around. I would have dropped a bet on Bryant.
 
CL82 said:
What should they have done differently?
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Um ... a ton of stuff. I assure you this wasn't run like anything you witnessed at Gampel or the XL Center. The school was unprepared for such a large and rowdy crowd. They wanted to create this type of atmosphere and were ignorant of what was likely to happen.

First, they did not do an adequate job conducting searches before the game. You had clearly intoxicated students allowed to enter and tons of excess alcohol in the stands.

Second, you had students sections rows from the visiting teams bench and visiting fan section.

They had no "event management staff" or police in the area where you knew problems were going to arise.

This was a league Championship event - not a Bryant home game - and NEC officials allowed this environment to happen, knowing there were previous incidents in the QF game vs. CCSU and Semifinals vs. Mount St. Mary's

When adults don't act like adults - this is what happens.
 
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