UCONN fans...

[34TheTruth34]

...is this all on Jim Calhoun?

I wanted to post this immediately after the game, but after using my better judgement, I decided to take a day to relax, gather my thoughts, think about what I want to say, and make a well thought-out post as opposed to just dropping a bunch of expletives about how shi**y UConn played. So here goes...

UConn's four postseason games were the most uninspired, heartless, apathetic games I've ever seen in my life. I mean really, what does it take to be ready for the Big East tournament?? And the NCAA tournament? You know, "The Big Dance" (that's the tournament that you won last year, guys). That's an important little event, no???

Had they made it to the Elite 8, battled it out, and lost to a more talented UNC team, that's one thing. Nobody expects them to win the NCAA championship every year. They certainly weren't the best team in the field this year. But this not trying sh*t is absolutely horrible. It's UNACCEPTABLE. The basketball program has been built up by Calhoun from nothing and has come too far to go out like this. They played like they didn't even want to be there. Calhoun had to sub in Ed Nelson and bench the much more talented Josh Boone just to give them a lift because Nelson was the only one who even seemed to care about winning the game.

If you're not from Connecticut and/or aren't familiar with the sports scene here, you're probably wondering what all the fuss is about. Since the Hartford Whalers left, there has been no professional sports in CT. Sure, we are right on the dividing line of the greatest rivalry in professional sports, Yanks vs. Sox, but basically there's not much else here. But the people in this state love their UConn Huskies Basketball. Both the mens and womens teams are adored by people all over the state. Most of these fans have no official ties to UConn (i.e., they didn't graduate from there or anything, they're just fans). I can't imagine what some of these people must have thought after having to watch that.

I'm not trying to take anything away from NC State, because they're a decent team who played a pretty good game. But let's call a spade a spade here, they're really nowhere near as talented as UConn. They just wanted it more. And, much like in their Big East Tournament flame out against Syracuse, once UConn decided they actually felt like playing, it was too late.

So, who's to blame here? Is it Calhoun for not having them ready to play? Is it the fact that they won last year, so maybe it just didn't seem as important? Is it something else that I'm missing? I'd like to hear your thoughts.

If you need me, I'll be donning a maroon sweatshirt and pretending I graduated from UMass...