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Message: [QUOTE="Flacusian, post: 1695003, member: 264"] Jdubs, I have to disagree. I am originally from Connecticut and the fans in Connecticut are fiercely loyal to both the mens and womens programs. They are the crown jewels of Connecticut sports. They have no pro team and we all know what happened to the Hartford Whalers. Connecticut is the land of multiple fanbases. Towards NY people root for the Yankees, the Mets, the Giants and the Jets and further downeast its those damn Red Sox and the Celtics and the Cheatriots! But the one thing they all can rally around is their Huskies! They simply will not allow that to happen to their now storied program. I remember the days of Dee Rowe when the Huskies really sucked. I watched them go from a Yankee conference nobody to the Juggernaut that was built by Calhoun. For many it's been fashionable to dis them and hate on them with unrelenting intensity but after the Halcyon days of Georgetown / Syracuse they became our biggest rival and adversary. Throughout all of sports many talented stars of respective sports fiercely battle their rivals and seem to never break character with respect to identifying them as the enemy yet they often in retrospect years later admit to having respect for one another and they ameliorate their competitive rhetoric. It's classy to honor the achievements of your adversaries and it doesn't in any way diminish one's commitment to their own program. In some ways while we were in pursuit of wins in the same conference Uconn fans were a reflection of ourselves... wanting their team to win and emotionally invested in every bounce of the ball once the seasons began. That is the way I see it. Having grown up in Connecticut I am pretty much at odds with most of the friends I grew up with and many of which went to Storrs. So although I'll never be a Uconn fan I can recognize the fact that they have had a remarkable run of success and rational and objective fans ( if there is such a thing) are not diminished in any sense as Syracuse fans for doing so. The manner in which their program has recruited and developed kids to fit their brand of college basketball has produced results which simply cannot be denied. Those who predicted that Uconn would drift off into obscurity when they ended up being the odd man out during the conference realignment phenomenon were in a word, wrong. They have established a brand with the program that has proved it can sustain the inertia the program had developed in spite of the realignment. Ollie continues the coaching methodology he was taught under Calhoun and they continue to attract the type of talent to sustain their success. In fact Ollies demeanor and the type of cohesiveness he achieves with his teams is in many ways a softer less harsh vibe within the program than the air that Calhoun would project and his kids seem to really respond well to his coaching style. In the end, 4 Chips speaks for itself and those who would be quick to impugn Calhoun's methods might want to consider that we might not want to be throwing rocks because... well you know the rest. [/QUOTE]

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