We're Now Getting Ripped by a Tulsa Columnist

[gwhuskyfan]

Have no problem with what he says -- but hard to take Tulsa seriously when they're losing to Lamar and struggling to beat Prairie ViewA&M

"At 14-10 overall and 7-5 in the AAC, the Hurricane absolutely is capable of conquering UConn for a second time, but a regular-season sweep of the Huskies wouldn’t pack the punch that it should because coach Kevin Ollie’s team isn’t very good.

TU gets another shot at UConn on Thursday, and TU will be disappointed if there isn’t a victory. TU and every other AAC-member university also should be disappointed if Connecticut doesn’t restore itself as being a significant school in men’s basketball.

TU paid $2.5 million to join the American, and the fair expectation was that the Huskies of 2018 would resemble the Huskies of 2014.

The sad reality: Except for the uniforms, there is no resemblance whatsoever."

Bill Haisten: Thanks for nothing, UConn and Texas

 

[gtcam]

They can take their $2.5 million and go home
They offer NOTHING

 

[DaveHuskiesFan]

UConn Men's Basketball has Earned the conference $11.2M since joining via NCAA tourney credits.

Tulsa has earned $0.

 

[QDOG5]

I haven't said this with confidence much this year but UConn will win tonight.

 

[crazyUCfan23]

that haisten guy just sounds bitter that Tulsa is only capable of beating us when were down.

 

[kobe]

Every once in a while I forget that Tulsa is even in this conference. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[Stainmaster]

Didn’t Tulsa win CUSA and get a couple of tourney bids right before they joined? I don’t think they’re in much of a position to complain about others not carrying their weight.

 

[HooperScooper]

I had the same reaction in another thread.

Hello darkness, my old friend

I mean we are talking Tulsa here.

 

[crazyUCfan23]

I vaguely remember Tulsa being pretty decent (dare I say good?) their first couple years in the league. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they narrowly missed the tourney in 2015 and then made it in 2016.

 

[kobe]

I vaguely remember Tulsa being pretty decent (dare I say good?) their first couple years in the league. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they narrowly missed the tourney in 2015 and then made it in 2016.

Yeah they had a really nice senior class in 2016 which was recruited by Danny Manning. Think they won the C-USA autobid the year before they joined the AAC and then were solid for two years. They had something ridiculous like 10 seniors in 2016.

 

[WrenchFan69]

This is the worst take.

 

[Hi-Low]

Let's hope the Tulsa administration feels the same way & we can replace Tulsa with a real university (preferably closer to northeast) that actually brings something to the table.

 

[PAHusky]

Tulsa is a busboy school.

Never bringing anything to the table, only taking things away.

 

[Guapo]

I have nothing add other than saying that when I first read the thread title I thought it said:

"Tulsa Communist"

 

[SirHypeAlot]

What did he say that wasn't true? UConn program is an embarrassment right now - fact

 

[Travelman6]

They can take their $2.5 million and go home
They offer NOTHING

Well, I sure hope Uconn can beat a team that offers nothing then, because being swept by a team like that would mean Uconn, CURRENTLY, offers even less...yikes.

 

[Walker11]

What did he say that wasn't true? UConn program is an embarrassment right now - fact

This is the nonsense.

"TU paid $2.5 million to join the American, and the fair expectation was that the Huskies of 2018 would resemble the Huskies of 2014."

Boo hoo. Look at their other options.

 

[PAHusky]

This is the nonsense.

"TU paid $2.5 million to join the American, and the fair expectation was that the Huskies of 2018 would resemble the Huskies of 2014."

Boo hoo. Look at their other options.

Exactly. What he said about us falling off as a program is true. The attitude that Tulsa of all schools has any right to feel slighted by our program's decline is pathetic though. We don't owe Tulsa anything. The guy is acting like we purposefully suck at basketball to get back at some random school in.....Texas? Oklahoma?

 

[USNA90]

This guy needs to look in the mirror. What has Tulsa’s affiliation with the AAC done for UConn besides put another team likely to fill half the seats on the schedule? They gained by affiliating with UConn, but UConn was brought down by being associated with Tulsa, and now he’s complaining? He then makes the comparison to UT/OU. The difference being that OU is good for Texas and vice versa, whereas Tulsa is essentially a parasite.

 

[Drumguy]

This article is pretty funny when you think about it. The writer is pissed that we're not pummeling them. Not that Tulsa is competitive in the AAC but that we're not like the women's team and beating them by 40!

 

[manbyrd]

That article is bait. But he makes a good point, Tulsa should be doing all they can to ensure UConn' success. I hope they rest the starters tonight, send some game film on opponents and refer their top recruits to us going forward.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Didnt, Scottie "I started balding at 17" Harrelson , wind up there?

 

[UConnNick]

Tulsa is a busboy school.

Never bringing anything to the table, only taking things away.

They are what Temple football was to the Big East Conference.

 

[PAHusky]

As a relatively young balding graduate of Temple law the two comments above are killing me inside.

 

[RayIsTheGOAT]

Would some of you guys unbunch your panties.
The sum of that excerpt is "UConn is an embarrassment right now and hopefully they get back to prominence for the betterment of basketball"
He's right and it's not disrespectful.

 

[RoderickSpode]

Would some of you guys unbunch your panties.
The sum of that excerpt is "UConn is an embarrassment right now and hopefully they get back to prominence for the betterment of basketball"
He's right and it's not disrespectful.

Exactly, isn’t this the type of perception we want out there? For writers/fans throughout the country to EXPECT us to field a good team?

The minute we stop seeing articles like this, it will mean one of two things— either we will have become good again, or we will have become permanently irrelevant.

 

[Northbound]

Didn’t Tulsa win CUSA and get a couple of tourney bids right before they joined? I don’t think they’re in much of a position to complain about others not carrying their weight.

They made an E8 run in the late 90’s early 00’s if I remember correctly. But that was a LONG time ago.

 

[Travelman6]

They made an E8 run in the late 90’s early 00’s if I remember correctly. But that was a LONG time ago.

2000. Probably the ugliest, least appealing March Madness, at least in my lifetime (started watching in 1993). NBA was also quite brutal to watch around this time (early 2000s).


Any way, Tulsa made the E8 as a 7 seed and were just 4 points away from making the final four! Lost 59-55 in an ugly one to...ugh....8 seed UNC. Now that I mention it, I recall pulling hard for Tulsa that year (after Uconn went out to Tenn) to beat 2 seed Cincy in the second round and UNC in the E8. That 32-5 season basically thrust Bill Self into the up and coming coaches spot light.

Last time they won a tourney game was 2003 and they lost by a point to Wisconsin in an ugly game in the next round.

They also won the NIT in 2001.

Really have not done much since 2003 though.

 

[gtcam]

Well, I sure hope Uconn can beat a team that offers nothing then, because being swept by a team like that would mean Uconn, CURRENTLY, offers even less...yikes.

Tonights game or any game has nothing to do with the money and what a school has brought to the program
This digs a little deeper than wins and losses - FYI

 

[gtcam]

They are what Temple football was to the Big East Conference.

You are being way too kind to Tulsa