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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 29, 2021 6:52:13 GMT -5
LET'S GO!!! UCONN!!! HUSKIES!!!
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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 29, 2021 6:52:26 GMT -5
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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 29, 2021 6:53:52 GMT -5
My apologies! I intended to post the game thread last night.
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Post by bulkey on Mar 29, 2021 7:06:25 GMT -5
Baylor Bears
The nickname/mascot was decided by vote in 1914. Losing nominees included the buffalo, antelope, frog and ferret. Go ferrets! The first live bear was named Ted, but since 1974 all successive bears have the surname “Judge” to honor the university’s namesake Judge (and Baptist minister) R.E.B. Baylor. Baylor's current mascots are "Joy," named in honor of the wife of President Emeritus (and former Chancellor) Herbert H. Reynolds, and the newest mascot, "Lady" named after Sue Sloan, wife of then-President Dr. Robert B. Sloan Jr. The bears are kept at the Bill and Eva Williams Bear Habitat located in the center of the Baylor campus. baylorbears.com/sports/2018/5/16/trads-bay-bearname-mascot-html.aspx
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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 29, 2021 7:09:10 GMT -5
Oh, I kind of like the sound of the Baylor Fighting Ferrets!
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Post by bulkey on Mar 29, 2021 7:10:30 GMT -5
Much more interesting is Baylor’s namesake, Judge and the Rev. Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor. Among his many sordid deeds, and here I’ll just quote some "highlights" from Wikipedia (citing Van Gorter, below): In the 1850's, Baylor was an influential leader in the Xenophobic and White Nativist Texas Know Nothing Party and was named the Texas Know Nothing Party's "Grand President."….In his role as a judge, he once punished an abolitionist harboring an escaped slave. Another man was punished for not returning a borrowed slave promptly. In 1854, Judge Baylor sentenced a slave to hang for arson. In 1856, he ordered the execution of yet another slave. In 1857, he levied a heavy fine on a white person who bought some bacon from a slave. And in 1862, as the Civil War raged, he ordered the execution of a slave for “intent to rape a white female.”
Baylor did not admit its first African-American student until 1964, during the middle of the Second Civil Rights movement. In June 2020, Baylor Regents sort of acknowledged the obligation to confront their past: wordandway.org/2020/06/27/baylor-university-acknowledges-ties-to-slavery-confederacy/And some campus statues might be relocated: www.texastribune.org/2021/03/23/baylor-university-statues-slavery/But Baylor has kept this off their official history here: www.baylor.edu/about/index.php?id=89305and out of their archives, here: baylorarchives.cuadra.com/cgi-bin/starfetch.exe?Tq2RuAvxQ5ltmfu18z9y.wv35IyhSm54yjn8oMOBcdpCrNh8R.Is5uWrlNx6Se@VaDZRCHUMJSMNSxzgCJ.DTTK8JbGvSYBHA89i6auMWeQ/000156.xmlAs a basketball fan, I could care less what Baylor acknowledges. But as an historian, I’d want the history of my institution told honestly and fully. Modeling for one’s own students a transparent and honest engagement with one’s past is an essential obligation of academic institutions. So far, Baylor appears to be trying to finesse this. Here a Baylor professor gives some of the essential details about the Rev. Baylor though with apologetic overtones: wacotrib.com/opinion/columns/board_of_contributors/a-christian-van-gorder-board-of-contributors-baylor-s-history-mirrors-our-nation-s-in/article_6b40f141-a9b0-5c42-b59d-01c63ced3272.html
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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 29, 2021 7:19:57 GMT -5
I usually have a full blown nervous condition going on by now for a big game like tonight's. I am strangely calm and serene. Hope that bodes will!
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Post by bulkey on Mar 29, 2021 7:25:49 GMT -5
I usually have a full blown nervous condition going on by now for a big game like tonight's. I am strangely calm and serene. Hope that bodes will! If everyone plays well, we've got this. If not, then we don't deserve it.
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Post by swash on Mar 29, 2021 7:27:29 GMT -5
Oh, I kind of like the sound of the Baylor Fighting Ferrets! The Lady Ferrets ... not quite the ring they were going for, I suppose.
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Post by bulkey on Mar 29, 2021 7:37:12 GMT -5
The throwback "Lady" thing (is it only Southern?) is funny. I wonder what they'd have called the team if the mascot were a dog?
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Post by pinotbear on Mar 29, 2021 7:43:35 GMT -5
The throwback "Lady" thing (is it only Southern?) is funny. I wonder what they'd have called the team if the mascot were a dog? My favorite gender idiosyncrasy in the naming of school sports teams, is Pojoaque High School, here in New Mexico, a bit north of Santa Fe. The boys' teams are the Elks. So, are the girls' teams the Does? The Cows? (yep, female elk are cows) Nope. They're the Elkettes.
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Post by chicagogg on Mar 29, 2021 8:05:30 GMT -5
U-C-O-N-N !!! UConn! UConn! UConn!
GO Team! UConn tree those bears!
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Post by chicagogg on Mar 29, 2021 8:06:54 GMT -5
I usually have a full blown nervous condition going on by now for a big game like tonight's. I am strangely calm and serene. Hope that bodes will! If everyone plays well, we've got this. If not, then we don't deserve it. Agree with you....feeling rather fatalistic about tonight. You summed up exactly how I feel.
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Post by bulkey on Mar 29, 2021 9:03:10 GMT -5
Christyn gets the UConn shout out
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Post by bulkey on Mar 29, 2021 9:07:06 GMT -5
The throwback "Lady" thing (is it only Southern?) is funny. I wonder what they'd have called the team if the mascot were a dog? My favorite gender idiosyncrasy in the naming of school sports teams, is Pojoaque High School, here in New Mexico, a bit north of Santa Fe. The boys' teams are the Elks. So, are the girls' teams the Does? Nope. They're the Elkettes. Sort of like Ray Charles's backup group, the Raylettes. The word was: "if you want to be a Raylette, you first have to let Ray."
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Post by samanthabrown3 on Mar 29, 2021 11:51:58 GMT -5
I usually have a full blown nervous condition going on by now for a big game like tonight's. I am strangely calm and serene. Hope that bodes will! If everyone plays well, we've got this. If not, then we don't deserve it. True. But I hate playing Baylor. Probably a holdover from Tina Charles days. And last year didn’t help.
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Post by swash on Mar 29, 2021 13:13:29 GMT -5
The throwback "Lady" thing (is it only Southern?) is funny. I wonder what they'd have called the team if the mascot were a dog? Do you mean "Dog-ladies"? -Chihuahuas might be "Little Ladies" -If the mascot were a puppy, they could call them "Spayed" -Bulldogs might be "Ugly Britches" ... or ... something ... Okay, These are only for a quick chuckle and represent silliness only, not some deep-seeded secret hatred. Please forgive me for this slice of word-play possibilities. Other ideas were worse. Seriously, though... All too many interlopers get confounded by our heroines not being called Lady Huskies.
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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 29, 2021 13:57:29 GMT -5
And it bugs the heck out of me when supposed "die hard" fans persist in calling them "Lady Huskies". I can forgive fans of other teams using the "Lady" prefix. But UConn fans? That is just wrong.
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Post by samanthabrown3 on Mar 29, 2021 14:20:57 GMT -5
And it bugs the heck out of me when supposed "die hard" fans persist in calling them "Lady Huskies". I can forgive fans of other teams using the "Lady" prefix. But UConn fans? That is just wrong. If you say Lady Huskies, you’re not a diehard fan. That’s how I separate the casual fans from us rabid fans. Even if they pretend to be rabid, I know better. They give themselves away.
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Post by huskyharper on Mar 29, 2021 15:18:21 GMT -5
And it bugs the heck out of me when supposed "die hard" fans persist in calling them "Lady Huskies". I can forgive fans of other teams using the "Lady" prefix. But UConn fans? That is just wrong. If you say Lady Huskies, you’re not a diehard fan. That’s how I separate the casual fans from us rabid fans. Even if they pretend to be rabid, I know better. They give themselves away. I have a friend who really is a rabid one, but I could never get her to drop the "Lady" from Huskies. No, she's not southern, just Jersey. Is that south? Who let the dogs out? Woof, Woof.
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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 29, 2021 15:20:26 GMT -5
Now, that is not to say that I may not call them "ladies", which they certainly are. But I would use it in the context of "settle down ladies", "great team defense ladies". I would just never use Lady and Huskies in the same breath. No "settle down Lady Huskies" or "great team defense Lady Huskies". Nope, not going to happen.
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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 29, 2021 15:22:17 GMT -5
The nerves are now kicking in just a little bit. Just a teeny tiny bit. Of course, my work day is over so now my mind is putting more focus on the game. That will always tick up the angst factor.
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Post by justinesguy on Mar 29, 2021 16:16:51 GMT -5
The nerves are now kicking in just a little bit. Just a teeny tiny bit. Of course, my work day is over so now my mind is putting more focus on the game. That will always tick up the angst factor. Have a drink and eat a Cadbury egg. Works for me. Oh or polish off a box of Samoa’s.
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Post by linkster on Mar 29, 2021 17:29:36 GMT -5
I miss the radio call. Bob Joyce told me everything that was going on on the court. It was nice to be able to identify all the opponents by name instead of referring to the Sidearm stats. Joyce made a friend for life when, at a loss for anything more to say about Bueckers after a huge hoop, he spouted out "Paige Freaking Bueckers". That's what you say when words don't do it justice.
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Post by UConnChapette on Mar 29, 2021 17:30:52 GMT -5
538 currently has UConn a 60% chance of winning! Oh, let it be so!
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