2005 was OK-ish. 2nd round KO to NCSt. IIRC.
2007 I think they missed the NCAA and the NIT. Incredibly young team that was just brutal.
2008 they were a #4 seed and lost in the first round when Price blew out his knee.
2010 they didn't make the NCAA.
2012 isn't looking good for the NCAA.
2013 they might be DQ'ed because of the academic sins of former players.
That's potentially 4 NCAA misses in a 7 year span, depending on how the APR appeal shakes out. Add in the Nate Miles scandal, JC getting cancer and spinal stenosis, an incompetent AD that's only recently been replaced, the laptop scandal, various other academic and disciplinary infractions, there's been a lot of ugliness amongst the good times.
GTFOOH with this "grim years" nonsense. Try being a Nebraska fan (even though they're my second favorite team).
They just scored 34 points in a college basketball game last weekend.
They've never won a ncaa tournament game.
They haven't been to the big dance since 1998.
The program's one shining moment was winning the NIT back in the 90's.
The last time they won a conference title was like 62 years ago.
A Uconn fan talking about "grim years."
Cry me a ####### river UCONN fan
You guys suck ##### at reading.The whole point I was making, and that I clearly spelled out, were that the lows were comparably low relative to the highs. A bad year for Duke or Kentucky is going out in the 2nd or 3rd round of the NCAA's. A bad year for Connecticut is a first round NIT exit and someone getting kicked out of the program. All three teams are national title contenders fairly frequently, but UCONN always falls further than those other two. I'm not saying I would trade an up-and-down team for a down-and-down team, it's just odd.
Sorry you guys follow schools that always stink.
Based on your "grim years" bull####. You have never really followed a sports team in your life.
You and the other guy are ####### stupid. Seriously. I pray to God/? that you are not in charge of anything important in your daily lives.1) I've followed the Sharks through their inception when they stunk. I followed the Niners through a decade-long period of being terrible. I've followed the Warriors since I was a child. One year after another of mediocre coaches, bad trades, overpaying on the free agent market, so on and so forth. GS traded the possible rights to this year's #1 pick for Marcus Williams a few years ago. Awesome, right? I think he's playing in Puerto Rico right now.
Warriors fans, collectively, are used to this. Players change, coaches change, front office changes, doesn't matter. They still stink. It's just how things are. There are few opportunities in the NBA to really get better, and the Warriors never seem to grab any of them.
So what happens a few years ago, when GS puts together a decent team and catches fire near the end of the year, and knock out a very good Mavs team? The entire town goes. #######. ape####. Even though they got creamed by the Jazz in the next round, you still see t-shirts around from that run, which lasted about two weeks. Lakers go out in the 2nd round, everyone wrings their hands. Warriors go out in the 2nd round, it's considered a legendary year. Why? BECAUSE RELATIVE TO HOW ####TY THEY'VE BEEN, WINNING A PLAYOFF SERIES IS A BIG ####### DEAL.
With Connecticut, it's the opposite. People there wring their hands if they only beat a bad team by 15. The fanbase constantly frets, worries, picks #### apart, etc. People were calling for Calhoun's ouster in 2004, when they had the #1 ranked team in the pre-season and dropped more games in-conference than they were expected to. They then won the title, of course, not dissimilar to people wanting to run Coughlin out of town in NY this year.
Mind you, I wasn't even speculating that the combination of Calhoun's health problems and missing the NCAA's next year (which could put a pretty big kink in recruiting), could very well be a hole that UCONN never fully digs out of. Ollie is expected to take over at some point, and he's probably going to be very good, but eventually the HOF coach who built a program out of nothing and can still coach and recruit his ####### ### off isn't going to be there anymore. THAT is something that one could potentially cry about, but I'm not. One title is worth a couple decades of ####tiness in my book, so if things go downhill, that's fine. But again, as I tried to point out as a mere curiosity, not a sore spot, Connecticut's program has a seemingly high level of variance. Duke's Gaudet year was, what, 17 years ago? Have they missed the NCAA's since then? How many years will UK roll off of making the NCAA's?
Again: You and the other guy...quit your jobs if they are in any way important. Firefighter, working at a nuclear plant, ####, even if you're a plumber. You're not bright enough to have any responsibility for anything.
You two should make candles or pick fruit.* We've had one colossal financial meltdown already, I don't doubt that one of you clowns could potentially touch off another one.
* - Provided a supervisor is on hand at all times.