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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 2468494, member: 181"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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