Posted on 04/08/2014 4:13:00 AM PDT by Biggirl
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Shabazz Napier walked slowly through the hallway of the stadium - the tears still drying, the twine from the cut-down net still hanging around his neck.
"Bittersweet. Bittersweet. Bittersweet," he said, over and over again.
Bitter because it's over. Sweet because UConn won it all after being left behind and told to go away.
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...”Proud UCONN grad here, congratulations to a fine team. It’s especially sweet to beat Calipari”...
Proud UK grad here. We are elated about the performance late in the season of our starting five freshman who could not overcome your veterans last night. We are just sorry that we will lose too many of them to the pros so that they will not ever become college veterans. Like him or hate him, Calipari is a great coach but this is not about him. This is about the energy, skill and commitment of great young athletes on both sides. I don’t know about yours, but ours are also great kids, in general. Congratulations to the UCONN players, coach and fans. It was a great win for them.
They are great kids at UK. My wife was once a neighbor of Calipari when he was at UMASS. He was a very bad neighbor. This is obviously not about that issue but its hard for us feel good about him.
You approach the issue with a mind uncluttered by the facts or relevant experience. You maintain a death grip on your erroneous first assertion even in the face of correction by those who know. If its okay with you we’ll just know you as C. Edmund Wrong
Ever hear of making free throws, KY??? You stand on the line, no one is guarding you, and you throw the ball into the basket. It’s not as sexy as dunking, but it would have won the national championship for you last night…..an excellent object lesson for coaches to share with their players.
I am right - UConn was NOT A KNOWN ENTITY outside your little Hartford slum until the 80s. In fact, they really didn’t use that for their football team until the 90s - when Skip Holtz was hired, he was still hired as coach of “Connecticut” and not UConn. The two basketball teams were way ahead in using that moniker.
I don’t know, and do not care, what people in Hartford called it. That was not my point, never ever. I’m sorry this is too hard for your teeny little brainlette to consider. I’m NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU and I’m not talking about the 1950s. GET OFF MY LAWN
ESPN might not have been helpful in the major conference issue….but that doesn’t change the fact that ESPN, The Big East, and UConn all were very good for each other and all grew up together.
The BE problem in football however was not ESPN…it’s demographics. Simply put, football is a big school big stadium big money sport, and the massive schools in the Big Ten, SEC, etc, will always dominate. The BE was defying gravity in that regard, and now the ACC is to some extent too.
Aren’t they playing tonight for the women’s champ?
That’s perhaps true…..my main point was that ESPN’s Mike and Mike were clueless as to what had led UConn’s amazing rise from nowhere to 4 titles in 16 years…..and their employer ESPN was one of the main factors…along with the Big East in general, hiring the right coach, and then the right replacment coach, the right womens coach, and using UCONN as the marketing moniker. I think you take any of that away, and the results are very different.
It will be interesting to see if they can stay at this level with this new smaller conference.
Exactly. Oregon doesn’t have an advantage with the Swoosh Company’s close ties and promotions?
Yes they are
Enjoy your delusion, keep it close. No one else wants it anyway.
you’re an obtuse idiot
Name a SINGLE THING I said that was wrong….and be warned, don’t say “people around here called it UConn in the 50s” - because I MADE NOT A SINGLE COMMENT ABOUT WHAT LOCALS CALLED IT IN THE 50s. If you can’t figure that out, then your reading comprehension is exposed.
Duke is projected as the number 1 preseason favorite next year, and with 4 starters returning Wisconsin most likely a pre-season number 2. Look for a Bo Ryan repeat next season, and maybe even a championship.
When I went to work in Chicago in 1973 I told the recruiter that I went to UCONN. He knew what I meant as did my co-workers. I encountered maybe one or two people who needed it explained to them that it was shorthand for the Univerity of Connecticut.
I needed it explained to me that in Chicago, “UCLA” meant University of Chicago Located on Austin.
Sorry, your assertion fails the reality test.
...”They are great kids at UK. My wife was once a neighbor of Calipari when he was at UMASS. He was a very bad neighbor. This is obviously not about that issue but its hard for us feel good about him”...
I’m sorry to hear that. He is King here and we know of nothing but praise for him and especially praise for his charitable work and contribution. People sometimes change, you know. We hear that he is a hard disciplinarian for the kids who play for him, but some other coaches are, as well. Anyway, congratulations and good luck in the future. You can be very proud of your team..It is not easy to win the big one.
One anectodal story, which may be BS - is not relevant.Like you remember what you said in 73? You’re an old unhappyfart.
Besides I never said that people wouldn’t be able to figure out what it meant…DUH…..I stand by the fact that UConn athletics was totally irrelevant, and NOT known as UConn until the 80s and 90s and only became known as such nationally. You’re just wrong to think otherwise.
I’ve encountered your type before but generally by this time of the afternoon, they’re napping with their blankies. Generally people whose knee-jerk reaction is someone is lying is not someone to be trusted. I’m sure you’ve heard this before but you’re a crashing bore.
I think the ugly American came from Connecticut….I know the biggest as-hole in our family did.
I remember around 1980 hearing a St. John's vs. UConn basketball game on the radio. The announcers where St. John's announcers. They referred to UConn as "UConn". I specifically remember the person I was with in the car thinking it was "Yukon".
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