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    You are all welcome

    I have been to two Big East finals with UConn in them. 2004 and 2011. Not only is UConn 2 for 2 with me in the building, but each year they have gone on to win the national championship as well. So if knowing that I will be there tonight changes how you bet, ….
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    The Offensive Balance

    O.K., so with Clingan moving like last year’s Clingan we are, at worst the second best defensive team in the country. But let’s put that aside for a moment. Let’s also put aside that as great a crowd as that was yesterday, WE HAVE NO CLUE how great that crowd might have been. The crowd was...
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    The View From Section 241 — Rice

    Since the shorter, numbered format last week was followed by a win, I’m going to stick with the format. 1. That was pretty good QB play yesterday. It’s quite possible that there is a good deal of talent there, and as the rust comes off from not really playing much since high school, plus the...
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    The View From Section 241 -- Utah State

    Shorter and slightly different format this week because there is only so much that can be said. 1. This season sucks. Second straight week that I've had to call off my tailgate and go to the game by myself because you can't expect normal people to cook and eat in heavy rain. As if there...
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    The View From Section 241 -- Duke

    The day started so similarly to Fresno State last year -- awful weather forecast, cancelled tailgate with people from my office, bad but not awful morning, decision to go by myself made at the last minute, leaving just enough time for a beer in the parking lot -- that I went to my seat with some...
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    The View From Section 241 — NC State

    Thursday night was somewhat of a mixed bag. On the one hand, no one likes losing, despite the fact that NC State simply had better athletes than us the game was there for the taking, and the fact that after our first drive you couldn’t differentiate last year’s passing offense from this years...
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    The Phrase For This Championship

    Not a huge fan of Chris Childers on the college sports station on Sirius XM, but for obvious reasons I had it on driving to work a little late this morning. But I give him credit for coming up with the single phrase that describes how dominant this year was, perfectly and factually summarizing...
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    The Last Time We Lost at a Regional

    Think about it for a moment because unless I'm totally blanking on something this is hard to believe. For the last 17 years, we've won 2 natties, lost in a Final Four, not made the tournament and lost a few times in the first or second round. What we haven't done since the loss in DC to George...
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    Single Most Important Factor to a Deep Run

    My first thought is that we have to be able to get off our schneid of not being able to win a close game, but that's more of an effect than a cause. While a lot of other things come to mind, the most obvious answer is the simple one. Donovan Clingan played the first 40% of the season as if he...
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    The View From Section 241 — Army

    Yes, this was a great season and players and coaches alike should be proud of that. That’s fine for a season end post, and I’ll do one eventually. But it doesn’t excuse what happened yesterday. We were the better team coming into this game, and we played more than well enough from scrimmage...
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    The View From Section 241 — Liberty

    I’m sitting at an airport restaurant at McCarron Las Vegas, so this won’t be a full 241, but there’s absolutely no way I’m waiting until tomorrow to talk at least briefly about this game. I watched the whole game from the sports book at Mandalay Bay, There were, by the second half, a few...
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    Liberty on the Las Vegas Strip

    Can’t get back from meetings in time for the game tomorrow. (Yes, I did make sure the seats would be used.). Are any Boneyarders in Las Vegas watching the game somewhere? If I don’t hear a better idea, I’ll be at the Mandalay Sportsbook for the opening kickoff.,
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    The View From Section 241 (UMass)

    We won last night and are 5-5, with two chances to get to bowl eligibility. One is against a Liberty team that has certainly performed better than us over the course of the season, but is still somewhat of a mystery and will have to come to our place between two games against P-5 teams in their...
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    The View From Section 241 — Boston College

    As I’ve said earlier this year, what do I know about football? If you told me coming in no Houston and Keelan Marion for three plays, I would have thought I’d be signing on tonight to talk about another loss. Instead, the headline is that bowl eligibility is a very real goal. I still am not...
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    It's Been Over 19 Years ...

    ... since the Thunderchickens came to the Rent the year we opened it. I remember three things from that Saturday afternoon with my two sons, then 14 and 10: 1. We received the opening kickoff and then went between 70 and 80 yards for a TD, which I seem to recall came on a roughly 20 yard...
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    The View From Section 241 — Ball U

    Well, that was a gut punch. The only thing I can say good about yesterday is that without the team having gotten better — without bowl eligibility having been unexpectedly put within our grasp — no one would have cared. You can’t get the highs that a successful game or season give you without...
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    The View From Section 241 — FIU

    I only saw the beginning and end of the game, so I’m not going to do the type of analysis I normally do. But nonetheless there are a few things I wanted to say, so let’s go. 1. So I was wrong. And am happy to be wrong. I thought Mora could improve the program, but over time, and I worried...
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    The View From Section 241 — Fresno State

    What a treat to need to write a 241 the night of the game, while I’m feeling emotions. Day started with disappointment. Cancelled my tailgate at 8:00 a.m. because it was people from work and I couldn’t see making them worry if they had to come join me on a lousy day. But as the forecast...
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    The CBSSN Coverage of the Syracuse Game

    Did anyone else watch that, either live or afterwards? Overall CBSSN does a fine job covering college sports, but was it my imagination or was that the worst play by play announcer I have ever seen call a football game? Did other people have a similar reaction or am I just being too harsh? It...
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    The View From Section 241 — Syracuse

    Well, that was pretty disastrous. Especially when you add Utah State’s god awful outing, which takes away any right we had to feel good about ourselves based on a competitive loss. I’ll get through the game quickly and circle back to what I think it means. We were totally outclassed last...
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    The View From Section 241 — Central

    I am a man of my word. (Yes, yes, I know, insert lawyer joke here.). I said I would be satisfied if we won and at no point in the 4th Quarter was it a one possession game, and we achieved that, so good for everyone. It’s hard to be rational and not view that as a step forward, especially as...
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    The View From Section 241

    There is no question but that, in the first game of the Mora era, there was a lot to like. We came out and punched a team that finished last year ranked in the mouth on their home field. And then, after losing our QB and our top returning offensive player, dealing with heat and altitude, a...
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    Men Pitching Rotation Week of 4/18

    By far, the most important game we play this week is Wednesday night at BC. Highest ranked RPI opponent, only road game, P-5 opponent, chance to end the season 3-1 against P-5 schools and on television other than Flo Sports. By far the biggest game of the week. Peterson pitched on 5 days...
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    Creighton has guts

    Down two starters, we get a fight Kansas for 40 minutes determination. I wish we had shown have their determination.
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    The Fifth Year Seniors

    Was at the game last night. A few quick things 1. The crowd was crazy. Too long ago to compare to other eras, but the crowd was incredibly loud. The late start time absolutely didn’t hurt, nor did giving free beer for 90 minutes to a few hundred folks during the Mora event first. 2. Some...
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    Josh Carlton for 3

    In a double OT win at Wichita State, Josh Carlton just went for 23 and 11 on 9 for 14 shooting. Including, in the second OT, his first career 3 in his five year career, when after a loose ball scramble he found himself with the ball at the 3 point line and the shot clock running down. Nothing...
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    Khadary Richmond

    3 for 19 today with 7 turnovers. And we get the effort where he temporarily thinks he's an All American.
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    The View From Section 241 -- Jim Mora

    At the Pru Center yesterday, someone asked whether I was going to ever expound upon my less than balloons and unicorns view of the Mora signing when it happened. So, burned out from work and with the Giants being destroyed, and with time having passed, I thought now was a good time to set forth...
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    Which One of You Did It?

    There is no chance that all these injuries, year after year, is just bad luck. It's becoming statistically imossible to believe that. The problem has become clear. Which one of you made the deal with the Devil, whereby you agreed in March of 2014 that he could do whatever he wanted to our...
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    The View From Section 241

    Having missed the last two games totally, and having gone to Holy Cross but without time to prepare a tailgate, it was good to get the grill out, be in the parking lot drinking by 10:30, and then getting to watch a competitive — if frustrating — football game. Some quick thoughts: 1...
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    The View From Section 241

    The view from Section 241 ia absolutely unacceptable. Period. Really, I should end the post here. What more is there to say. The QB play isn’t good enough. I’ve supported Zergiotis, and god knows he isn’t getting help from his line, but the inaccuracy and horrific decision making isn’t good...
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    The View From Section 241 -- Preseason

    I have largely not gotten into discussions about how I expect us to play this season. Why? Because this season is so completely unprecedented that anyone who thinks they really know something about how this will go is blowing smoke up everyone's butt. But this is what I know: 1. As a full...
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    Good for Snookie

    And good for UConn’s Steve Pikiel. I viewed RU as a rival in football, but they were never a rival in basketball. Their fans — Rutgers Al and the other guy — waited 38 years for a tournament win. Good for them.
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    More Needs to be Said about Whalley

    The game he played last night — offense, defense and rebounding — was as good a game as I recall seeing a UConn big play in forever. His offense has been somewhat disappointing this year, coming off the way he finished last year, but you couldn’t have asked more from an All American than we got...
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    Our Last Game This Big?

    Seriously, when was the last time I woke up in the morning anticipating a UConn basketball or even football game that was a “big” game in any realistic sense? The loss to Kansas in the second round in 2016? My God, that was almost 5 years ago. What a drought/negative turnaround from what...
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