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What was the Boneyard Like?

Horatio said:
I didn't have a profile back then but the talk was mainly about Taliek and mostly about him playing too fast / out of control.
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And that they wouldn't be able to win a Championship with him as point guard. And that this team would win the championship with despite Taliek; ie anybody could fill in no problem.

Oft argued by the same people probably.
 
HuskyNan said:
Is he still here? He let me use his game tickets once, in like the third row, center court. Heck of a fan.
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I went to about five games with him in the immediate aftermath of that incident. (His wife no longer felt like attending.)

His ability to abuse opposing coaches was without peer. Even I felt bad for Bruiser Flint during one game.
 
I seem to remember using a boneyard predecessor in the early 90's while dialing in on prodigy. Is that possible?
 
intlzncster said:
1st half: Calhoun's obstinacy in sitting Okafor w two fouls will cost us a championship.
2nd half: Calhoun is a genius.
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Actually, it was sitting Caron with two fouls that cost us a Final Four.
 
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Robertelamin said:
A few other interesting visitors in addition to RutgersAl were JaCkSoN (aka smoothasbutter) and Oklahoma Eric.
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On the football board I remember PromotheRobot a Buffalo fan
 
temery said:
No player deserved the venom and volume of criticism Taliek had thrown at him. He wasn’t a perfect player, but he didn’t deserve most of the crap tossed his way.
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2/3 of the way through the season I swear I could tell which free throws were going to go in, and I became confident in the team. Not everybody got it, so the complaints about Taliek bothered me. Best. Smile. Ever.
As that season closed, the defense would just stop the other team from scoring, as though they simply said, "No."
This was probably my first season with something other than dial-up internet.
I began with AOL through 1999 (shout outs to JKul & Vuce) and then migrated that summer & thereafter to each version of The Boneyard.
I worried that the first corporate affiliation would be a sell-out that would ruin things. I picked up each service change within a day by decoding the whispers, feeling never of The Boneyard but definitely in it.
Too afraid (kinda) to play in The Boneyard Classic, but scored 4 free tix from Pat for Big East Finals against St John's and met a few folks live at a bar down the street from MSG.
Everything I know about participating in any forum I learned from The Boneyard. It's the only one I follow I've ever been in.
I still can't fathom how people physically have 5, 10, or 20 times as many posts as I have.

Wish I could accurately catalog the various NCAA Tournament hangings but it is worth noting that CTO44 felt welcome as a Syracuse fan in those days ("Shoo shoo, Orange flu"), and I believe there was a financial/administrative connection between the two boards through her. My sister served on CT Audubon Society board with Joyce.
One big difference between 2004 and today was that board-wide insecurity was not premised on UConn's place in the college basketball world, but instead related to fighting off those who claimed the "Big Least" was inferior to Big 10 or ACC. We believed we were in the best conference and during the tournament we would root for our rivals to beat all others until they got to us. 2003 Syracuse might have won the (unstripped) NC, but UConn was clearly better than they were, though I suppose 2014 Louisville makes a similar claim.
If there was an Ignore feature (could there have been?), I saw no need to use it in those days. Worth noting that nobody was on mobile devices other than Blackberry or Palm in those days. WAY different.
 
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boog204 said:
I've always been a little confused as to the progression of the boneyard. I first discovered a bunch of like-minded UConn "fans" on the AOL and CompuServe message boards back when I was a teenager and discovered the interwebs. That was definitely 96 or so because I distinctly remember reading/writing/criticizing JC and his terrible half court offense after our loss to Mississippi St. 97 was the year of Rickety Moore and I will put his bashing up against anyone's, Taliek's included. Jeff Kulas was the resident recruiting expert and I remember McD's site as well as DNASoft who had a UConn-centric recruiting website.

At some point those boards died and I was transferred to Toto email listserv. And then what seemed like a tennis match between TOS and Scout. Was there a parallel UConn universe within there?
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Yes

I remember that tennis match. I have never been a volume poster but through each iteration a volume reader.

Not that it's a big deal but; when we moved to this platform my handle, which was DConn, wasn't available. I haven't seen one post from that handle on this board. Oh well.

I remember a fake doctor fake diagnosing Mel's back with ridiculous long words. He was wrong and never to be heard from again.

And we took it all.
 
geordi said:
It was significantly better back then. At least we had HuskyDan and RutgersAl. Always a push which one was loonier.
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Ah yes, RutgersAl. My favorite BY poster ever. His YouTube videos were even more hilarious than his occasional posts. I could watch those over and over again with tears streaming down my face from laughing so hard.

"Rutgers...The USC of the East..."
 
For the life of me, I can't remember the mojo goddess' name. Is @zymurg still around? I think he'd remember.
 
Paesano said:
The Toto site was the best site we had. People weren't anonymous but they were still passionate. Arguments got ugly at times, like siblings arguing, but we all eventually learned to get along. I made some great friends on that site and some of them have since passed away.

One of the older members (Papa K) gave me some sage advice which convinced me to name my first son after my father, who passed away when I was a junior at UConn.
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If this is referring to who I think it is, Papa K has recently moved back to CT from FL. I'm his brood but a few generations removed.
 
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Ewekon said:
Yes

I remember that tennis match. I have never been a volume poster but through each iteration a volume reader.

Not that it's a big deal but; when we moved to this platform my handle, which was DConn, wasn't available. I haven't seen one post from that handle on this board. Oh well.

I remember a fake doctor fake diagnosing Mel's back with ridiculous long words. He was wrong and never to be heard from again.

And we took it all.
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DConn is available. I can change your name, if you’d like. Personally, I think Ewecon is more creative.
 
auror said:
If this is referring to who I think it is, Papa K has recently moved back to CT from FL. I'm his brood but a few generations removed.
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He's one of the all-time great UConn fans. He used to sponsor "Husky Road Trips" to away games, via plane or bus. We enjoyed the good fortune of going on one of his trips. We got to see Big Jake Voskuhl set the most hellacious back court pick I've ever seen in my entire life. The Georgetown player victimized by that pick never saw it coming. Jake flattened him like a pancake while standing completely still.
 
auror said:
If this is referring to who I think it is, Papa K has recently moved back to CT from FL. I'm his brood but a few generations removed.
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A “few” generations? How old is he?
 
temery said:
A “few” generations? How old is he?
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He was already a grandfather when the Dream season happened, although a spry one. If me or any of my contemporaries would have any kids like a normal generation would have already had at this point he'd be a great grandfather.

UConnNick said:
He's one of the all-time great UConn fans. He used to sponsor "Husky Road Trips" to away games, via plane or bus. We enjoyed the good fortune of going on one of his trips. We got to see Big Jake Voskuhl set the most hellacious back court pick I've ever seen in my entire life. The Georgetown player victimized by that pick never saw it coming. Jake flattened him like a pancake while standing completely still.
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Rumor has it there is another Husky Road Crew game in the works now that he's more local. I forget which he game he was talking about, though. I sent him a message to ask.
 
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auror said:
If this is referring to who I think it is, Papa K has recently moved back to CT from FL. I'm his brood but a few generations removed.
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You can't be more than 2 generations removed. Which one of the infamous clan are you the offspring of? Junior, the lawyer or the politician?
 
auror said:
He was already a grandfather when the Dream season happened, although a spry one. If me or any of my contemporaries would have any kids like a normal generation would have already had at this point he'd be a great grandfather.



Rumor has it there is another Husky Road Crew game in the works now that he's more local. I forget which he game he was talking about, though. I sent him a message to ask.
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I can see him being a great grandfather now as I know at least one grandkid started college several years ago but I would think the great grandkids would still be too young to post here.

I could never go on one of those trips but I would love to go on one now. I just wish Jack and Annie were still with us.
 
Stinger92860 said:
I seem to remember using a boneyard predecessor in the early 90's while dialing in on prodigy. Is that possible?
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I don't recall one, but could be wrong. Back in 94-96 I had the luxury of a free account due to running trivia games, and I think I would've found it. Prodigy and Compuserve were pretty much all I had for "internet" when I moved to Mexico. Pretty much knew all the sports forums available and don't recall a UConn forum. I know I looked for one.

My first exposure to early BY iterations was in late 90s when I was working in Boston area and I believe my handle here was QuincyRich. I traveled a ton and recall always having a conflict whenever there was something I wanted to attend. I recall some of the names and found people here very odd...

I dropped out for some years after moving to Pittsburgh. The storrsroars name was a carryover from the old ESPN boards.
 
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