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This sucks, but it is the way that the powers-that-be have slowly pointed the direction of college athletics. Most of these athletes would have minimal compensatory value but for the name of the school, its fan base and the tv money that watch them. So long as schools tolerate that an...

This isn't hard. Rankings matter, because being ranked brings publicity. This isn't your grandma's pre-NIL days. Being top 25 crushes being outside of the top 25. That little (#) accompanies all mentions of the team, be it on tv or a website. Being top 10 beats just being in the top 25...

A retweet of a sales guy for an old folks home who moonlights as a caddy having no connection to UConn other than buying a ticket to an occasional sporting event...the crescendo of UConn to the ACC talk is getting too loud to ignore. Looks like the stars are starting to align!

Somewhere out there Randy Edsall is avoiding mirrors like Medusa would stare back. Going 0-11 and hiding in the basement, to bowl eligible in the second season. With the best offensive players injured. WHAT A JOB BY MORA!

The funniest thing is, if people thought that NY's bail and charging laws are crazy, wait until they get a hold of Chicago's!

True, and while we can make pithy comments about it, he most likely will be charged using 14-1415, which means he'll be denied his CCW permit. These are run of the mill add-on charges that the DA loves to pursue. In the grand scheme of things, these are all misdemeanors, so his legal jeopardy...

I guess you can tell Bouknight got some very good advice. If you carry concealed in a car in North Carolina, you need a CCW permit. If you open carry in a vehicle you do not. He did exactly the right thing with his weapon. Other option is to keep in a LOCKED glove box, console or in the...

I might be wrong, but I think that it's fair to say that Zion's passing skills are better than his receivers' receiving skills. He had a really nice touch on the ball for several plays, usually avoided costly mistakes, and in fact gained yardage running this game on broken plays. All in all...

My biggest surprise from the QB play of Zion was how few yards he got with his legs. I expected a more mobile, grab a couple of yards when coverage breaks down type of player. At 5'11" that's a skill for that size of a QB to have. But he might have been told to do no running and throw the...

In before Shizzle showing a receipt for laying $100k on the over. But truthfully, new coaches, new quarterbacks, new philosophy, I see us at 5 wins this year. TR or Zion, one of those is bound to be special. This is the first year in 10 that we are going to be getting better after each game...

Orange County tried to put in a desalination plant. 10 years of review. It was denied because...climate change. If only California can figure out a way to store excess rainfall in the winter in the Sierras to then be used to satiate demand in the dry season. Of course a bond proposition was...

If you weren't a fan of UConn, why would you bother to try to troll it's message board? I have my opinions, but I would like to hear other people's thoughts.

Before this becomes an epidemic, get this perfectly sane and rational post off of this board.

Sorry you had to do your undergrad at UVM. Hopefully being rejected from UConn hasn't poisoned your view of UConn athletics.

Hurley was named a coach 4 years ago. We weren't Depaul with glory days from 40 years ago. UConn was two years removed from playing in the NCAA tournament, 4 years from winning a national championship. UConn is the most popular sport in the state. Once it got out of the AAC, a middling coach...

In the if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle vein...RJ Cole's body defense is light years ahead of AJ's. RJ seeks a physical confrontation. He loves to man up his body and uses his strength (albeit the strength of a six footer). That something which is hard to teach. One guy is a puncher...

It starts and ends with recruiting and roster construction. RJ Cole has been the best player for UConn all season. We would've had a DePaul like season if it wasn't for him. Don't get me wrong. He is a beast and played his heart out. Athletically though while he has been the best player on...

When you look at the list of non AAU schools and their fed nsf's, remember the important metric for the AAU is fed research dollars÷number of faculty.

If Cole doesn't come back and there are no portal additions, the only viable option will be Jackson.

Georgetown needs someone like Amaker. With his background, including the breakfast meetings, he would thrive in the DMV area. It would be hard not to see the top 15 kids wanting to commit and staying committed. Aside from Duke and Stanford, it is the best academic school playing high level...

I guess I was a little inartful in my use of the word handle. I should have included "can he keep that ball on a string" and knows where and for what purpose to move the ball to a particular point on the court. Dribbling through traps is something that we have seen Cole do , but Cole rarely...

For those who know how Corey has been practicing with the team, please tell me that he's going to be a solid contributor handling the ball. The writeups indicate he's a both hands to the basket scorer, but how is his handle? And this is an odd question, but from a physical stand point, why was...

More unsolicited advice from the peanut gallery, but Hurley should try to sit down on the bench and watch his well-coached and disciplined team execute his game plan without him raving on the sidelines. Believe in your players. Sit down and watch for a few minutes, reflect on what you see. Then...

Ironically, there is no mention of the players' well-being, bestowing thoughts and prayers that they overcome such a burdened disease. We know why, cynically, everyone- except politicized science deniers- understands that there is zero risk to UConn basketball players in playing basketball...

Not sure when and where I've been challenged? I guess somewhere where I wrote that Hawkins is going to be 20 this spring, when you said he was 18? That someone thinks he will be drafted because he is more likely to leave, but I guess forgets the part that a team has to want to draft you before...

The problem with that analysis is that the former is in Hawkins' control, the latter far out of it. Just because he will feel more pressure to leave, which he can control, the getting drafted part he has no control over, and is the rub. We saw this same analysis with Bouk his freshman year...

Because if you're an American aged 21, and still in college, the chances of you getting drafted by the NBA has dropped, to where you start realizing that you aren't going to be drafted. Some here knock Bouk for not returning. In the meantime, he just turned 21 this past fall, and even then he...

Hawkins will be 20 years old this spring. He's playing like a freshman, but he's also too old to be playing like a freshman. So in a sense, it's a good thing because there's little chance of him leaving next year.

I'm wrapping my head around how anyone can think bringing this kid wouldn't be a slam dunk for Mora and the UConn program going forward? I remember watching that Iowa game and thinking what a tough, tough position for this kid to be put in. Look at how he handled the aftermath. Character...

In the olden days, I might've joined the righteous indignation crowd and sputtered about loyalty and commitment. The came paying athletes, unfettered transfers, taj mahal facilities, coaches making $100,000,000. Now, it only matters about wins and losses. Cut the kids, crush their dreams...

After their collective payouts, it looks like the tight ends and OL are going to make $150,000 a season. On top of free tuition, room and board, that's quite a deal. Harvard can probably pay 10x that. It'd be awesome if they jumped into the arms race. What a bastardization of college sports.

You can recruit these kids blind: Multiple early Ivy offers who then pick up Big 10 offers.

This is incredible news.

This isn't fully in the pedantic department, but for the love of god: Someone teach Sanogo to receive the ball up high, keep it high, stick that ass out, let the defense commit then while still holding the ball high pass it to someone cutting to the lane. If you're the offense and you have...

I was hoping we'd see Cole finally throw a two handed snap angle pass, or a right handed shovel pass in traffic. But it just hasn't in him. Now I'm not saying he has to become El-Amin, but short, stocky point guards without elite court vision are not elite point guards.