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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 1754877, member: 405"]
Yes, but to the over 50 crowd, UConn remains an upstart who grew into a power at our expense, due to cheap shot recruiting by Calhoun when we went on probation.  UConn always sucked until then.  Then they got one of our recruits (Marshall), and wound up costing us a couple more (Jalen Rose comes to mind) that would have kept us at the top of the conference, instead of having to claw back from mediocrity with the '96 run to the championship game.

UConn, to my age group, equals Virginia Tech football (also grown into a power at our expense), or to more recent fans, Rutgers being a good football team for a short while when Pasqualoni went down the tubes and our football recruiting in New Jersey died.  That's how some of us view UConn.  And the Kemba Walker run really really pissed me off.  It's like suddenly they decided to stop calling traveling for him and gave him the benefit of the "Jordan Rules" for that title run, and then Kevin Ollie?  Please, I hate these guys.  But I'd rather see them wither and die - well, at least turn into another Gonzaga or Butler - than keep them on the national radar.
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