If you need a silver lining to UConn’s pathetic, terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad performance against Temple on Tuesday, it’s that it ignited society’s unclaimed “The Boneyard” in a way we haven’t seen since…well probably the Huskies’ previous loss.
Tyler outlined what actually went wrong here, so give his piece a read for a dose of reality.
Then, come back and read what the crazies had to say. Like this guy, who thinks losing at home to Temple is comparable to not having made the NCAA Tournament since 1991 and overall being an embarrassment as an athletic department and a Piscataway-sized stain on the tradition of the Big Ten.
(NOTE: You’re going to have to click on some of these to enlarge the image and make them easier to read)
But the Boneyard is more than just no avatar idiots who type one-sentence posts. Like this upstanding citizen.
Couple quick things here…
- *you’re, *UConn
- You can question a lot of KO’s qualities and still sound somewhat reasonable. Heck, if you’re not questioning him at all after last night, you clearly didn’t watch. But the one thing no sane person can ever doubt is his attitude and passion for the game/team.
- This isn’t rec league. Occasionally Calhoun put the walk-ons in for a minute to prove a point, but UConn doesn’t make PT decisions based on who wants a chance.
- Here at A Dime Back, we LOVE random capitalization, such as “YoU are Anemic.”
- On the thing about Miller not hustling back, I credit Steve Lappas for pointing out this moment, when Miller was literally the ONLY person back on defense:
Then there’s Chelo:
I have a few problems with this. For one, here are some Calhoun-era losses I can remember off the top of my head: St. Bonaventure, DePaul, Virginia Tech, Rutgers (in an Elite Eight year!), Providence (in a championship year!), South Florida, G****e M***n
And saying UConn has to win the AAC Tournament to get a bid is just dumb, considering UConn already has victories over Michigan, Ohio State and at Texas. Those aren’t great teams, but it’s also a 68-team field. Not-great teams get in. Plenty do.
Along those same lines, here are two people who don’t understand how RPI works:
(for reference, UConn’s RPI before the game was 65, Temple’s was 114, so this was not a BAD loss in that respect)
Now here’s someone who thinks one game from JCDH means he regressed and thinks the team shooting 75 percent from the foul line for the season (32nd in the nation) isn’t halfway decent.
It also wouldn’t be a Hartford loss if someone didn’t make the All Games In Gampel Argument (TM). To be fair, that argument has its place. But try and figure out this guy’s line of reasoning.
This sucks. I just wish we could go back to the glory days. For example: remember all those year when UConn had four top 22 picks? Those were the day.
And that day isn’t going to repeat itself any time soon. At least not according to this advanced scout who can project two years into the future for a guy who was invited to the Nike Academy this summer and could end up AAC Player of the Year.
There was also a ton of complaining about Ollie (for all the wrong reasons) but we can save that for the next loss. Instead, I’ll just drop this in here to piss off Meghan.
Ugh, now it’s only a matter of time until our comments get overrun by these lunies. Oh wait…
You should really just have a section of ADB dedicated to boneyardin’, boneyard culture, boneyard fashion, old person boneyard, womens bball board senility, etc, etc. The assignment would be a weird mix of psychology, mystic voodoo, and shitty sports reporting mixed into one. Happy to oblige.
Also, the Art for the Boneyardin’ section should be Jonathan XXIII( i guessed) looking at himself looking into a mirror, ad infinitum, inception-style.
To be fair, most of the posts you quoted are not from “regulars” at the ‘yard. To be more fair, some of the regulars’ reactions are as bad or worse.
This morning, I’m just glad for CBSSN, or whatever that network is called. If this game had been on a real network, I might have had to suffer through it. As it is, I didn’t see it, and when I visited the ‘yard afterwards, needed to see only one post title to know that this was not a night to spend there, as the naysayers and whack jobs who only post after a loss would be out in full force.
How many additional NC2A titles does UCONN garner if the NBA does not raid the various yearly rosters? If Donyell stays for his senior season in 1995, a good guess says that UCONN gets by ucla in the elite 8 and wins it all. Other men who left after 3rd year: Rip Hamilton, Ray Allen, ElAmin, Deandre Daniels, Ben Gordon, Okafor, Marcus Williams, Scheffer; after 2 yrs: Rudy Gay, Caron Butler, Villaneauva; after 1 yr: Henefeld, Drummond; Who did I omit? Also, what players on the current UCONN roster would start for any of the top ten teams in America? Would any others be allowed to enter a game off the bench in a non scrub role?
forgot Kemba Walker after 3 years; some say he did not graduate even though the press claimed he graduated in 3 yrs. Does UCONN win any additional titles if all these different players stayed 4 yrs? Also forgot Jeremy Lamb.
easy to forget Thabeet
Any of the following a mirror image of anyone on current roster or in the pipeline? Ollie 26.2% on 3’s; Bob Staak 46.6 fg %, in my view the greatest deep shooter in UCONN history because almost all shots were beyond today’s 3 point line; Rash Anderson 41.3, 38.6 on 3’s; Gordon 44, 42.Whelton 44.4; Weston 44.5; Hanson 48.8; Corny 49.4; AJ 41.3, 36.5; Chapman 45; Sheffer 44.2, 39.7; ElAmin 41.6, 35.5; Fair 42.2, 41; McKay 46.9; Norm Bailey 50.3, 53.7 Big East; Toby 52; Rip 42.6, 37.9; Marcus Williams 40.2 , 37.5; Hobbs 47.3; Earl Kelley 46.3; Phil Gamble 41.7; Burrell 42.6, 35.7; Nadav 48.2, 37.7; Tim Coles 50.3; Austrie 35.7, 32.4; Wes 44.8; Taliek 43.6, 22.7; Bobby Boyd 42.1 a real player under Dee; Ray 48.7, 44.8; Caron 46.5, 36.4; Ricky Moore 42.3, 34.1; Mourning 43.4, 41.2; Rudy 46.1, 37.8; Donyell 48.7, 30.6. The current conference is not the only reason that attendance is dwindling. Where is the fun factor?
A telling snapshot, UCONN has posted a 4-4 record to date ignoring the six games versus scrimmage scrub squads. The schedule highlights the braintrust’s trepidations entering the current campaign with the last of Calhoun’s meaningful contributors moving on after the 2015 season.