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WFAN Monologue on UConn

pepband99 said:
St John's is irrelevant from the day they stopped being able to pay players through a technicality. They'll never return. We at least have something non-shady to hang our hats on.
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Let's wait until the other shoe drops on the NCAA investigation before we start hanging said hats on the non-shady pegs. Not good for the mojo
 
upstater said:
Am I the only one that remembers that St John's has done this before?

2011 beat #3 Duke 93-78
2003 beat #6 Duke
2001 beat #2 Duke

Where has that gotten them? Nowhere. I'd argue they are equally irrelevant.

There are only articles out there about UConn because UConn has had a big downfall. But you have to be high to fall.

Both programs are in nowheresville.
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Everyone knows they've done it before. The tenor that used when discussing both programs today and I mean literally today is significantly different. Neither are relevant programs at this point.
 
PAHusky said:
Let's wait until the other shoe drops on the NCAA investigation before we start hanging said hats on the non-shady pegs. Not good for the mojo
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hopefully it's just a shoe and not a big black boot is the arse.
 
freescooter said:
We got to play the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 in a virtual home games and in the semi finals got a team we’d already beaten in Florida and then another Cinderella in 8 seed Kentucky. It was a great run but it was the perfect storm. We had the best guard tandem in the country and they played perfectly. Not the best individual guards but the best guard combo.
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You are stupid.
 
Northbound said:
Everyone knows they've done it before. The tenor that used when discussing both programs today and I mean literally today is significantly different. Neither are relevant programs at this point.
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You think people weren't saying "Wow, that stinky SJU team just beat Duke!" back then? Duke was 3rd ranked. They lost to a team that was 0-9 in conference this year. Hard to wipe that away.
 
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freescooter said:
We got to play the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 in a virtual home games and in the semi finals got a team we’d already beaten in Florida and then another Cinderella in 8 seed Kentucky. It was a great run but it was the perfect storm. We had the best guard tandem in the country and they played perfectly. Not the best individual guards but the best guard combo.
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You sound silly on this. We caught a break playing at MSG after years of being screwed having to play a bunch of teams in their home states but we went through a gauntlet of some of the best coaches college basketball has to offer. Martelli, Wright, Hoiberg, Izzo, Donovan, and Calipari. Florida had one of the best seasons you'll ever see, only losing one game outside of UConn. Also, Kentucky had as much talent as anyone.

Ollie has been a disaster running the program with his own players but you can't take away his first 2 seasons and that incredible run.
 
the Q said:
Idk, didn't MSU come roaring back after halftime to go up like 8 in the 2nd half?

And it looked like Florida was going to run us out of the building early on in that one.
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Not saying it was 5 blowouts. Just saying that Brimah's miracle 3 was required - we were beat in that game at that point.
MSU we pounded early, they came back, but we took the lead back with 12 minutes left in the game and never gave it back. We handled Florida, notwithstanding their quick start, and we dominated the second half.
MSU and Florida were games that we controlled late. St. Joe's not at all. G-d I adored that team and that run.
 
nychuskyfan said:
Just listening to WFAN and the afternoon host randomly - not prompted by a caller - went on a 5 minute monologue about the state of the Uconn basketball program.

Some quotes below. Nothing earth-shattering but more evidence that we’ve reached a tipping point in national perception - the casual cbb fan is no longer going to assume that we’ll be back and that the last few years are just an injury fueled anomaly. Amazing that brand equity built up over 25 years can be depleted so quickly.

“Abyss”...”forgotten program”...”doesn’t offer anything special”...”no light at the end of the tunnel”...”near obscurity”...”anonymous”
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probably another beaten down St John's fan, since all those objective experts from Syracuse seemingly work at ESPN

anyone have an update on what Gary Parish is saying about us now? Or maybe Doug Gott-Nothing? Their opinions have been so insightful over the years, it's important to me to know what they think
 
the Q said:
the most amazing stat on that sheet is 97 Arizona, who didn't have a low score despite beating 3 #1 seeds.
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It looks biased towards teams that were low seeds to start with, so never played any other low seeds. Beating a #1 is nice, but every #1 has to beat a #16 (in theory) which destroys their ranking out of the gate. If they face anybody else who upset a higher seed they are screwed.
 
HuskyHawk said:
It looks biased towards teams that were low seeds to start with, so never played any other low seeds. Beating a #1 is nice, but every #1 has to beat a #16 (in theory) which destroys their ranking out of the gate. If they face anybody else who upset a higher seed they are screwed.
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yeah, there's gotta be a way to counteract that.

I'd listen to an argument for Arizona having the toughest road overall.
 
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I love these threads that devolve into "You're stupid". "No, You're stupid!". Newsflash. Nobody should give a rat's ass what anyone said or felt or believed about Ollie or whatever 3-4 years ago. It doesn't matter. It's utterly useless and irrelevant.

It is December 14, 2018. The past is behind us. The future is in front of us. I am not feeling the need to wear shades.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I love these threads that devolve into "You're stupid". "No, You're stupid!". Newsflash. Nobody should give a rat's ass what anyone said or felt or believed about Ollie or whatever 3-4 years ago. It doesn't matter. It's utterly useless and irrelevant.

It is December 14, 2018. The past is behind us. The future is in front of us. I am not feeling the need to wear shades.
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Yet you are writing to us from the future... Whoa.
 
HuskyHawk said:
I love these threads that devolve into "You're stupid". "No, You're stupid!". Newsflash. Nobody should give a rat's ass what anyone said or felt or believed about Ollie or whatever 3-4 years ago. It doesn't matter. It's utterly useless and irrelevant.

It is December 14, 2018. The past is behind us. The future is in front of us. I am not feeling the need to wear shades.
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It is? Can you tell me who we got as our next head coach?
 
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