Since we won our only title

[Dave85]

UConn seems to be the anti-syracuse, they have won two NCAA championships with the most pedestrian teams I have ever witnessed. Win a title when your the 9th best team in your conference - check. Win a title with a team playing out of the AAC who lost to SMU, twice - check.
Meanwhile Syracuse has managed not to win titles with multiple elite teams, including 2010 and 2012 when they went a combined 64-8.
Doesn't seem fair. Two, three weeks ago I was certain McCollough was staying and 'Cuse had a great shot at Bryant, I was so hoping for Syracuse to win the NCAA title so we could all thumb are noses at all those haters who piled on during this whole NCAA debacle.

This is why I never talk smack. I'm too superstitious.

 

[Dave85]

Rak showed some flashes of ability last year but if he had the skills he displayed this year, he would have gotten the ball a lot more. it would have made us a more versatile team and we wouldn't have finished 3-6 as we did.

I was wondering when Rak was Junior he was too busy with his studies. Graduating in 3-years is quite a feat. There was such a huge improvement from his Junior season I was just wondering if studying distracted him. Which I'm not saying is a bad thing. I think graduating in 3-years is HUGE. It's never happened before and it may be something he will hold on to for a very long time!

 

[CraigForth]

I was wondering when Rak was Junior he was too busy with his studies. Graduating in 3-years is quite a feat. There was such a huge improvement from his Junior season I was just wondering if studying distracted him. Which I'm not saying is a bad thing. I think graduating in 3-years is HUGE. It's never happened before and it may be something he will hold on to for a very long time!

I think a big difference was partly due to an increase in opportunity

 

[Alsacs]

This thread reminds of a joke I heard years ago. A man was on the beach one day and found a magic lamp and rubbed it open. A genie came out and said thank you for finding I will grant you three wishes, but be warned what ever you ask for I will give double to your mother-in-law and arch-rival.

The first wish the man asked for 100 million dollars and the genie gave him 100 million dollars and gave his mother-in-law and arch-rival 200 million instantly. Second wish the man asks for 10 luxury cars, and his mother-in-law and arch rival got 20 cars. For his final wish the man asked to be beaten half-to death.

Point being it seems that NC was great but since then has given two of our rivals multiple NCs and a lot of frustration for us.

 

[SWC75]

This thread reminds of a joke I heard years ago. A man was on the beach one day and found a magic lamp and rubbed it open. A genie came out and said thank you for finding I will grant you three wishes, but be warned what ever you ask for I will give double to your mother-in-law and arch-rival.

The first wish the man asked for 100 million dollars and the genie gave him 100 million dollars and gave his mother-in-law and arch-rival 200 million instantly. Second wish the man asks for 10 luxury cars, and his mother-in-law and arch rival got 20 cars. For his final wish the man asked to be beaten half-to death.

Point being it seems that NC was great but since then has given two of our rivals multiple NCs and a lot of frustration for us.

So UCONN will now lose 24 scholarships and two post seasons and Kevin Ollie will be suspended for 18 games?

 

[OttoMets]

I was wondering when Rak was Junior he was too busy with his studies. Graduating in 3-years is quite a feat. There was such a huge improvement from his Junior season I was just wondering if studying distracted him. Which I'm not saying is a bad thing. I think graduating in 3-years is HUGE. It's never happened before and it may be something he will hold on to for a very long time!

I don't know if he was, but the perception that that was the case affected his playing time.

 

[Dave85]

I don't know if he was, but the perception that that was the case affected his playing time.

I just remember him seeming tired and everyone saying he has to be more aggressive.