San Diego Union Tribune: "UConn still not a Blue Blood."

[mlpavela]

This is great:

UConn has the résumé of a college basketball blue blood, but is it one?

San Diego State's Sweet 16 opponent in Boston is the defending national champion and still trying to prove its place in college basketball's hierarchy

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

Just yesterday I was joking with a friend about being able to hear Kansas fans saying we're not a blue blood unless or until we can commit multiple level 1 violations and come away unscathed. Maybe that's the test.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Cool, let’s recycle that cliche debate. Feels like someone ran out of story idea on this one.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Wow. How absolutely pathetic. Who in the hell does SDSU think they are discussing our blue blood candidacy lmao it’s like some hideous online troll rating Angelina Jolie a 4/10

 

[superjohn]

Wow. How absolutely pathetic. Who in the hell does SDSU think they are discussing our blue blood candidacy lmao it’s like some hideous online troll rating Angelina Jolie a 4/10

You should've gone with Salma.

 

[McLovin]

Not a blue blood they say? Oh well, who cares. We have 5 National Championships in the last 25 years. Here’s how old fans of “blue bloods” would have to be to have witnessed 5 titles themselves.

Kentucky: 66
UNC: 42
Duke: 33
Kansas: could have been old enough to witnessed the Big Bang, still wouldn’t have witnessed 5 titles.

I’ll take what we have, and where we are going, over some made up club.

 

[HuskyFich]

This is Skip Bayless calling Tom Brady soft.

One is just not like the other.

 

[Durks07]

 

[Rico444]

Is the quote listed in your thread title actually in the article? I don't see anything where the author actually says we're not a blue blood.

 

[The Viking]

Banner Blood sounds better than Blue Blood anyway.

 

[John]

by your leave to dry mine drops of sorrow with a banner

 

[Tenspro2002]

It's a fine article, but why the hell does everybody push the inane and lazy narrative that we (paraphrasing) "stupidly chased football riches and moved from the basketball-centric Big East to the nobody-cares AAC" as if it wasn't basically the entire other way around?

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Whatever let's just send them home again

 

[aceboon]

I'm tired of the Blue Blood articles and debates but "what?" at this sentence? when did UCLA and Indiana become excluded?

"The traditional, accepted blue bloods are North Carolina, Duke, Kansas and Kentucky. Some include UCLA with its 11 banners and Indiana with five"

 

[Connecticut13]

Actually, I found this article surprisingly enjoyable and very complimentary of the program. They are essentially saying we're more dangerous b/c we're still not considered a blue-blood. We're hungrier than others, we're obsessive and we have a chip on our shoulder. I like us that way. I prefer that to being considered a blue blood.

 

[OceanDoggie]

https://archive.ph/2024.03.27-132002/https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/aztecs/story/2024-03-26/san-diego-state-sdsu-aztecs-basketball-uconn-connecticut-huskies-blue-blood-dan-hurley-sweet-16-ncaa-tournament

It is a prickly subject in these parts. The Huskies wear blue, but are they a college basketball blue blood?

(Jessica Hill / Associated Press)
Statistics say they are, with five men’s titles in, yes, the last 25 years to go with 11 women’s titles. Society says they aren’t, or at least not yet — which is not necessarily a good thing when the Aztecs encounter No. 1 overall seed UConn again in the NCAA Tournament, this time Thursday night (4:30 p.m. PDT, TBS) in the Sweet 16 at Boston’s TD Garden.

 

[superjohn]

Is the quote listed in your thread title actually in the article? I don't see anything where the author actually says we're not a blue blood.

No, she says something like the #'s view UConn as a blue blood but society doesn't and then she tries to connect it all back to Hurley feeling slighted and using it as a motivator.

We're considered a blue blood, this is just someone who had to come up with an article.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Just keep winning.

 

[August_West]

Do people actually read the article before manufacturing their outrage?

No, that would actually make sense.

 

[MTBingNinja]

Cool, let’s recycle that cliche debate. Feels like someone ran out of story idea on this one.

Yup. Clickbait

 

[OceanDoggie]

Best Uconn related article I've read in the last 3 weeks. Acknowledged JC on the "Heavy lifting" and mentioned our international jumbo on the floor in the early years.

 

[QDOG5]

I could care less about the blue blood bs. People know about UConn. Walk through any airport in the US wear UConn apparel and people will want to talk UConn hoops with you.

 

[gwhuskyfan]

This same writer went on SD radio saying that Dan watched SDSU film and must have been scared

https://x.com/JaredKotler/status/1772966956712271970?s=20

 

[Deepster]

Well? I don't know if we're a blue blood or not....but I do know they're gonna get smacked tomorrow.

 

[phillionaire]

Maybe the real blue bloods are the friends we made along the way

 

[firstnline]

All that matters are the banners hanging up in the rafters in Gampel and the trophies displayed in the Champions Center