Wagner Bryant crowd fight

[shizzle787]

Not everyday does a fight at a CBB game look like a Serbian club soccer brawl.

 

[Hoophound]

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.

Lol. It isn’t personal. I am related to many of these people. Boston area people are often edgy and say what’s on their mind. They are great at talking smack, particularly surrounding sports.

 

[UofCT]

He’s a redshirt senior… grad transfer perhaps? Although I see his 3pt shooting is sub-30% this season.

Would love to have him

 

[Bomber36]

What a classless punk…I can’t wait to see them get blown out in the first round.

 

[husky429]

What should they have done differently?

You're pretty ignorant if you don't think violent crowds can prevented by event staff. Having fans behind the opposing bench is moronic, letting them in early, having 0 security in sight for a championship game... just a few problems that could have been avoided.

 

[husky429]

What a classless punk…I can’t wait to see them get blown out in the first round.

Bryant has really gone from the "funny low-major that offers every kid in America" to "punk a** program that everyone hates" because of Peter Kiss. This incident is really just making it worse.

As far as whether Bryant is a good school... you can get a decent or better education there just like any school. It depends on how hard you work. Even the professors at lower-tier schools are talented academics. Oftentimes at smaller schools they're more interested in teaching than research compared to big state schools too. Less TAs teaching your classes as well. The last two are BIG problems at flagship state schools still, despite recent emphasis on improving teaching.

However, 65,000$ for a school that offers nothing more than CCSU at 6x the cost is ridiculous.

 

[FriarJ]

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.

Ok fair enough, I guess I was referring to my time in college. 40+ years ago. I always knew it had a great business program though.

 

[Windsorlocks]

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.

 

[BlueMAB]

Bryant is a POS school anyway
Loved beating the piss out of them in soccer in the 70s
A bunch of kids who couldn't get into a good private school - besides it's in RI - need to say nothing else

UConn was also a POS school in the 70s.

 

[husky429]

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[Get a Job]

That’s a strange take. How would anyone watching on ESPN know who escalated it?

hmmmmmmmmmm

 

[XLCenterFan]

Geez, that was a bit much.

 

[NYC_HUSKY22]

is it wrong that I find watching USA kid wobble around very entertaining?

It's terrible, horrible - a disgrace to the game. But yeah, anyways I watched the whole thing. Twice.

A better view:

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

I wonder what Dr. Gittell would say after watching that.

Not at all a good look for his university.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Wagner Bryant

Law firm??
CPA????
Third generation rich kid who site on board of local arts council?
Smart ass C- student at prep school who gets good drugs???

 

[BlueMAB]

Geez, that was a bit much.

I'll let you in on a little secret. UConn was a POS backup school in the 80s and 90s too. It wasn't until the teams started winning and the state spent $1 Billion dollars to improve the school that it started to turn into a top public university.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

When we played Bryant in 2015 they brought a ton of very rowdy students.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Bryant, Quinnipiac, UHart, Fairfield, Sacred Heart, etc all just exist for parents who don’t want to tell their friends that their kids are at state school.

 

[nadav]

Would love to have him

No

 

[Squeeze]

How is this not an automatic T?

 

[Squeeze]

and this

 

[StllH8L8ner]

I was on the Bryant bandwagon for a day or two when they almost beat Cuse and had Coach Nosepicker whining afterwards, but this situation is pretty terrible on multiple fronts and hopefully doesn’t become a trend.

 

[Icehawk]

Jeez, this dude is as classless as their fans.

 

[husky429]

Jeez, this dude is as classless as their fans.

Blame the coach. The antics are as easy as 5 minutes on the bench in November to put an end to for the rest of the season.

 

[John]

UConn was also a POS school in the 70s.

and in the early/mid 80s. Everyone's safety school.

 

[QDOG5]

Bryant's business program is highly regarded compared to QU.

Looks like a Wagner fan gave "the business" to USA kid.

 

[husky429]

Bryant, Quinnipiac, UHart, Fairfield, Sacred Heart, etc all just exist for parents who don’t want to tell their friends that their kids are at state school.

The cost/benefit issues with SLACs seem to be getting more and more well known. I still have plenty of students going to them, probably about as many as years past... but a lot more are outright nixing SLACs from their lists. Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, Hamilton, Smith... the really great schools are one thing. Small size, really selective. I can see the appeal.

I just don't see what a UHart, SHU, etc. are bringing to the table that CCSU or UConn isn't.

And this is coming from someone who went to a low-ranked SLAC... I've got every reason to pump them up.

 

[CL82]

You're pretty ignorant if you don't think violent crowds can prevented by event staff. Having fans behind the opposing bench is moronic, letting them in early, having 0 security in sight for a championship game... just a few problems that could have been avoided.

Lol, why is your default always a personal attack? Is it that you don’t feel comfortable just making your points and letting them speak for themselves. For the most part I really enjoy your content. You are a knowledgeable fan, and in my opinion, put in a lot of work to make the site better, but the whole “you must be ignorant” thing is just a really weird quirk in your personality.

 

[CCSU97]

Blame the coach. The antics are as easy as 5 minutes on the bench in November to put an end to for the rest of the season.

Really can't say it any better. Every team is a reflection of their coach. This is Grasso.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Blame the coach. The antics are as easy as 5 minutes on the bench in November to put an end to for the rest of the season.

100%. I remember Rip throwing down a windmill dunk vs St Johns in a blowout years ago and blowing kisses to the Gampel crowd while the guy he was supposed to be guarding scored on the ensuing possession. Coach called time-out basically to scream at him and he never did it again.

Problem is some of the coaches are as immature as this kids these days.