Wagner Bryant crowd fight

[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.

 

[CheshireCat]

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.

Ironically, sounds a lot like Dan Hurley. Not exactly the model of maturity.

 

[TRest]

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.

Last night also blame the refs for not t-ing him up the first time and making a statement. A bush league event in every aspect.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

HS Gym, opposing fans from Staten Island, NCAA bid on the line, complete blowout, the most obnoxious player in CBB and a gym full of drunk students from a RI university. I’m actually surprised the building is still standing.

A-

Without the lily-gilding of your final sentence, I'd have considered the missing Oxford comma no more than a differing preference.

Then again, you may have been watching as a drunk alum of a RI school.

 

[husky429]

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.).

At least your family is classy enough to stick to white collar crime. Better than most of my siblings, lol. I can respect it in a roundabout way, lol

 

[Kolumbo]

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

A better view:

I kinda feel bad for Kid USA because all he was trying to do was stand up. That punch came out of nowhere, and the kid who threw it disappeared faster than former big east basketball programs playing in the acc. Where did he go?!

 

[Kolumbo]

From 2021.

 

[slepers]

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.

So you graduated when?

 

[WhereistheDove?]

From 2021.

I can't say I've given Bryant University basketball (or the entire university for that matter) one second of thought before these past couple days. That being said, I am now actively rooting for them to get blown out of the gym in the first round (pending their opponent of course) and this dude to be completely shut down.

 

[Get a Job]

I can't say I've given Bryant University basketball (or the entire university for that matter) one second of thought before these past couple days. That being said, I am now actively rooting for them to get blown out of the gym in the first round (pending their opponent of course) and this dude to be completely shut down.

I will root for them if and only if they are in our region, and even then I hope that Kiss gets banned from the rest of the tournament for doing something stupid during the celebration.

 

[connVA]

I can't say I've given Bryant University basketball (or the entire university for that matter) one second of thought before these past couple days. That being said, I am now actively rooting for them to get blown out of the gym in the first round (pending their opponent of course) and this dude to be completely shut down.

Them against Duke would be the dilemma of the century. If you think Kiss has an outsized ego now, taking down K in the last game of his coaching career would turn the kid into a (bigger) monster. That said, I'd still be 100% (eh, 99%) rooting for Bryant in that one.