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Message: [QUOTE="Dream Jobbed 2.0, post: 3184625, member: 7159"] As I posted in a thread earlier this Spring I am officially becoming a UConn student for the first time next week at the age 31 as I pursue my 2nd Masters en route to my School Administrator license. I grew up in a household of UConn fans in Vernon in throws of “Husky Mania” in the 90s. My first vivid memory of UConn hoops is my dad mimicking Dicky V yelling “Ray Allen Baby!” after the shot vs Georgetown. In March of ‘98 I was on a Cub Scout camping trip freezing my ass off as I watched my friends’ dads flip their lids as we lost to UNC in the Elite 8 listening on a boom box around a camp fire. I jumped as high as I could trying to touch the ceiling in my living as an 11 year old as Khalid let everyone know we had shocked the world. I wore my 99 National Champions tee with the palm trees on it for a week. Fast forward 5 years and I’m sneaking Mike’s Hard Lemonade into my friend’s parent’s basement as Okafor tells his teammates “I only need to hit one...” Sandwich in my first two in person UConn games. One was vs. Troy Murphy and Notre Dame at the Civic Center. My brother was a junior at UConn and lived down the hall from Doug Wrenn. Unrelatedly, he worked in the footware department at Dicks. Somehow we sat in the parents section that game. My brother also snuck me into a half full student section for the NIT loss to Detroit Mercy. I followed my high school girlfriend to WCSU and made my way to ECSU eventually. I spent almost every weekend on futons in Storrs some of my fondest memories involve storming the field at The Rent, stirring the pot vs Georgetown fans during our last conference game vs them, and trying to pour Four Loko into my buddy’s headwound “to clean it” after he got hit by a stray bottle in X Lot at one of the last Spring Weekends. Reading about Mamadou hanging them up made me contemplate my own personal fiber in the tapestry of UConn nation. As much as we bemoan our conference affiliation and struggles since 2014 I owe so many monuments to this University and program. I’ve been as negative as anyone else but this truly such a special place and we need to appreciate how blessed we have been. Although I won’t be a student until next week I am beyond honored to be a husky forever. [/QUOTE]

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