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Who is our rival now?

Which team is our biggest rival

  • Marquette

    Votes: 54 20.3%

  • Creighton

    Votes: 24 9.0%

  • St John's

    Votes: 29 10.9%

  • Seton Hall

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • PC

    Votes: 93 35.0%

  • Depaul

    Votes: 4 1.5%

  • Nova

    Votes: 60 22.6%

  • Gtown

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • Butler

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Xavier

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    266
Most of you don't understand what makes a rivalry.

It is not simply who else is good in our conference.

You can read our board for a week and see posts attacking PC and Cuse' more than any other school. Cuse dedicates a thread to the boneyard on their board.

We relish in both of these team's failures, clear rivals.
 
Pmurph678 said:
Most of you don't understand what makes a rivalry.

It is not simply who else is good in our conference.

You can read our board for a week and see posts attacking PC and Cuse' more than any other school. Cuse dedicates a thread to the boneyard on their board.

We relish in both of these team's failures, clear rivals.
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Do you actually have to play the other team to be a rival? We haven't played Cuse in 6 years and unless they win the ACC, we won't play them in the foreseeable future.
 
freescooter said:
UConn in the New Big East is very forced. We aren’t a natural fit. We have no rivals. We are a big school in a small school league. We are a major public university in a league of private urban commuter schools. The fact that people are calling Marquette and Creighton, schools we have zero history with, our rivals is telling.
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Unfortunately the alternatives would be even more forced. ACC? Big 12?
 
Pmurph678 said:
Most of you don't understand what makes a rivalry.

It is not simply who else is good in our conference.

You can read our board for a week and see posts attacking PC and Cuse' more than any other school. Cuse dedicates a thread to the boneyard on their board.

We relish in both of these team's failures, clear rivals.
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No. Hate without competition is just hate.
 
The Yankees and Sox rivalry has been so watered down. There used to be a hatred between fans and players/managers getting into it that I don't think really exists anymore. Cuse is less competitive than PC, even if we were to play them it would be a blow out. Maybe the older UConn fans still consider Cuse a rival but I bet if you went into the student section at Gampel, most students wouldn't have a clue that UConn and Cuse used to have a huge rivalry.
 
Tyler2Rings said:
Unfortunately the alternatives would be even more forced. ACC? Big 12?
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I feel like the ACC would provide better rivalries than the Big East does.

Old Big East rivals in Syracuse, BC, Pitt, Louisville, etc. (even if they are bad they are pretty much Providence and in some cases like Syracuse with more mutual dislike).

Also can have some potential great new rivalries with Duke and UNC which would be much better than Marquette and Creighton given the profile of the two programs.
 
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husky429 said:
I don't think we have ever had traditional a "rival" in the sense that you see it with UNC/Duke, PC/URI, Xavier/Cinci, etc. I don't think we have a rival at all right now. We have rivalries with certain teams that come and go depending on the conference situation, how good each team is, etc.
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I agree with you 100%, the closest we had was Syracuse but their "main" rivalry has always been with Georgetown. Pitt too, but their main rival is obviously WVU.

It could have (and should have) been UMass IMO. They are the 2 dominant public institutions in New England and have played 108 times in MBB (plus sort of have a football and hockey rivalry) but have not played in MBB since 2005.
 
UConn's rival is UConn

We set a standard and are competing against ourselves

I'm totally serious. I don't see any program that has done more with less.

We're not number 1 in recruiting. That's dook, Kentucky, UNC, Kansas, etc.

We're not in national power conference

This program is literally fighting itself to be better than the standard it set.
 
freescooter said:
UConn in the New Big East is very forced. We aren’t a natural fit. We have no rivals. We are a big school in a small school league. We are a major public university in a league of private urban commuter schools. The fact that people are calling Marquette and Creighton, schools we have zero history with, our rivals is telling.
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You're not wrong 'scooter, but I have to admit I enjoy playing against the former big east teams a heck of a lot more than I enjoyed playing against anyone in the American. Plus, it's good to have away games are pretty easy to get to, especially Seton Hall and St. John's.
 
B1GEast said:
UConn's rival is UConn

We set a standard and are competing against ourselves

I'm totally serious. I don't see any program that has done more with less.

We're not number 1 in recruiting. That's dook, Kentucky, UNC, Kansas, etc.

We're not in national power conference

This program is literally fighting itself to be better than the standard it set.
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I was thinking a similar thought, but I think you expressed it better. I was going to say arrival is history because our goal is to make new history every season.
 
HuskyWarrior611 said:
I feel like the ACC would provide better rivalries than the Big East does.

Old Big East rivals in Syracuse, BC, Pitt, Louisville, etc. (even if they are bad they are pretty much Providence and in some cases like Syracuse with more mutual dislike).

Also can have some potential great new rivalries with Duke and UNC which would be much better than Marquette and Creighton given the profile of the two programs.
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The old BE teams in the ACC aren't anymore rivals than Marquette, Gtown, Nova, PC, in fact most of those teams are worse than the handful in the New BE (except Gtown, who at least has promise)
 
Letsgohuskies11 said:
The old BE teams in the ACC aren't anymore rivals than Marquette, Gtown, Nova, PC, in fact most of those teams are worse than the handful in the New BE (except Gtown, who at least has promise)
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I agree, they are pretty much the same because they are all not that good. Kind of sad to see how all of the OBE has fallen off both in the ACC and the NBE.

The potential rivalries with Duke and UNC would be fun though.
 
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Our rival is always, whomever is good at the time. We've cycled through the rise, fall, and demise of every single one of them.
 
My vote is no one at the moment. Although I feel some sense of rivalry when the visiting team has some representation in the stands. I feel like PC has the most fans in the stands when visiting us. Anyone have a different experience lately?
 
OkaForPrez said:
The answer is everyone. It's UConn vs. everyone else. We are trying to be alone on the mountain top in the modern era. And to do that we need to kick everyone's tail on the way.
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I was torn between two responses. The first, like you, is "everyone" because UConn is rapidly being identified in the mens college basketball world as the team that has had the most success in the modern era. The team that casual fans who root for underdogs identify as the name they most want to see lose. However that does little to satisfy the issue of a rival because as UConn fans we don't identify "everyone" as teams we get delight when they lose.

If there is something that riles up the passion of UConn fans to a similar degree I'd say it's UConn versus the blue bloods. Every time an article is written that does not include UConn as a blue blood we have a thread with many indignant posters feeling slighted. Every time one of the so called blue blood loses a predominant number of our fans feel satisfaction. Concurrently fanbases of those so called blue bloods teams have professed an interest in targeting the UConn coach to replace their unsuccessful one. They are envious of our success. Thus I propose our rivals are Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky and Kansas.

Either way UConn is analogous to the Roman Empire. Like Rome we took out Syracuse first and then one by one the blue bloods in the Mediterranean came under their control.
 
The truth is our rival is whatever national team is really good this year. We measure ourselves this year against Purdue, Arizona, Kansas, Kentucky, UNC, Marquette. Maybe Duke. Next year some of those teams might be different.

Within the league I went with 'Nova. Not because they're threatening, but because of the recency of their championships and the old Big East history, albeit under the old coach. They have the potential to get back to that level again, though might need to replace Neptune to do it. Marquette is a recent challenge, and is a rival. Just not the biggest one.
 
B1GEast said:
UConn's rival is UConn

We set a standard and are competing against ourselves

I'm totally serious. I don't see any program that has done more with less.

We're not number 1 in recruiting. That's dook, Kentucky, UNC, Kansas, etc.

We're not in national power conference

This program is literally fighting itself to be better than the standard it set.
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I read your first sentence and instantly thought, "Glad to see somebody agrees with me," but then I read your argument , which is actually pretty good, but not what I'd had in mind.

As fans who lack a true, current, sustained rivalry (at least by traditional measurements), we prefer to direct our negative energy toward each other. We do it here every day, on nearly every topic, only varying by the percentage distribution of opposing viewpoints, the variety of disagreements, and the depth of passion that goes into each of them.
 
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uconngb said:
I hate Providence the same way I hate those tiny little dogs that yap at your heels so loudly and for so long that finally you just feel compelled to kick them like 20 yards.......
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The thing is there was a lot more to Cooley's "Spoiled and arrogant" comment. When he said it he was still thinking as if he was one of them. They view us as arrogant because we don't believe that the two programs are equals. They view us as spoiled because somehow we were gifted titles that they know they can never achieve.

They don't believe we've earned them and they don't believe we are more successful. That (after continual, incessant badgering, similar to your tiny dog analogy) we do point out the difference between the two programs, somehow makes us arrogant. That we have something (our success) to point to as evidence that we are clearly the superior program makes us spoiled.
 
I would love to see St John’s pick things up. Call it a battle for NYC.

If the ACC falls apart, it would be cool to have a hybrid football/basketball conference like the old Big East adding Duke, Wake, GT, and our old conference rivals. Don’t try to compete with B1G or SEC football but catch the viewing audience of the northeast corridor.
 
TheRealKBuks said:
My money is on St. Johns. You can feel something bubbling here. Pitino had Louisville become our 3rd biggest rival behind Cuse and Pitt. I can see St. Johns becoming our biggest rival in the Big East as long as he's there.
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I was thinking this too. Also with the MSG battle for home court thing goin on. Adding to it.
I just don't know if Rick has enough years left in him unless he gets this team built back in the next two or three years. If the fans don't continue to come back he may call it a career.
I'm hoping he gets it going.
 
Kind of surprised no one mentioned Cincy. The moment has probably passed at this point, but there was some bad blood back in the day between JC and Cronin, then during our AAC days it felt like they often got the better of us. Throw in the Jalen Adams buzzer beater and you have a lot of the ingredients there. They certainly would have been my answer if you had asked me 6 or 7 years ago...
 
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JBG4 said:
Kind of surprised no one mentioned Cincy. The moment has probably passed at this point, but there was some bad blood back in the day between JC and Cronin, then during our AAC days it felt like they often got the better of us. Throw in the Jalen Adams buzzer beater and you have a lot of the ingredients there. They certainly would have been my answer if you had asked me 6 or 7 years ago...
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Oh god no. That was the worst part of being stuck in the AAC, some fans trying to make UConn Cincinnati a thing.
 
JBG4 said:
Kind of surprised no one mentioned Cincy. The moment has probably passed at this point, but there was some bad blood back in the day between JC and Cronin, then during our AAC days it felt like they often got the better of us. Throw in the Jalen Adams buzzer beater and you have a lot of the ingredients there. They certainly would have been my answer if you had asked me 6 or 7 years ago...
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I was thinking this as well!
 
If you read the threads you’d think Purdue and we probably won’t even play them :eek:
 
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