Words can’t express how much I want to see the Cuse just abuse Vermont. The 2005 loss sent me on a rampage that is still remembered at my college (and has only been topped by the events in the 2004 ALCS, also known as The Week Doesn’t Exist). I want Reese in the game with 5 minutes left. Friday at 9:30 is the reckoning.

Hak getting repeatedly gang raped and nothing ever getting called. Maybe I am just bitter or a sore loser, but my memory is if we had a fairly officiated game, despite everything else that happened, we win by 10.. The refs let the crowd and momentum get to them….

Great reference to Centralia. That’s why you get the big bucks, I guess. I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way but I can’t shake this feeling of uncertainty going into the tourney. What’s more is I can’t recall ever feeling this way before. After back-to-back lossed and AO going down, it’s like I can’t remember them being dominant. Villanova seems like a distant memory now. All season long I’ve been convinced that they were truly the best team in college basketball and now I’m worried about the prospect of facing K-State. What the hell happened? Friday can’t get here fast enough.

With Loyola beating Tennessee Tech 111 – 42….

Anything less would be mailing it in.

i have a memory of the su-richmond loss. i’m 25 years old, but my parents are both alums, so i’ve been rooting for syracuse since birth, literally. i’ll never forget getting the NY Post the day after the richmond game, and turning to the sports section to the college scores (times have changed so much since then that this was the ONLY way to find out who won!) and seeing that syracuse lost. i was only 8 years old at the time but i remember being very sad. i was shocked to see that we had lost.

imagine having to wait til you get the newspaper to find out the outcome of a game? now we can stream the games on our computers and not miss a single play.

Absolute destruction is the only acceptable outcome. I hope GMac tells this team what they need to do and why they need to do it.

And I’m old enough to remember Richmond, but I hate Vermont more.

The officiating in the 2005 game can be neatly summed up by the referees calling (Pace?) an intentional foul for hanging on the rim. At a critical juncture in the game.

No fucking Ben and Jerry’s, if you must use maple syrup make sure if is from New York, and no wearing socks with your sandles. How about no fucking sandles as a general rule. SU needs to win this game by 30 to put a little fear back in the field. 2-3 zone is coming to get you. FUCK VERMONT.
The technical on Roberts is the example my dad and I use for awful tournement officiating. You see that happen all regular season and then some Tim Higgins wanna be decides they are going to call this on by the book. Total bullshit.

My freshman year of college in Boston I meta girl who was a fellow CNY’er. In a city filled with Yah-Dudes and Daddy’s-Credit-Card girls, it was always refreshing to meet someone with a common upbringing. We shared some mutual friends (mostly girls I was trying to spread my baby batter to) but didn’t really hang out that often.

I ran into her somewhere near the end of my sophmore year, fresh off the loss to Vermont. She casually mentioned she wasn’t too upset about it because her cousin happened to be none other than Taylor Coppenrath.

What ensued could never have been broadcast on cable television. I went on probably a three minute tirade questioning Coppenrath’s sexuality, his masturbation habits, his taste and love for phallic shaped fruits and vegetables, his grab-assing post-game shower rountine… you name it.

Needless to say she never spoke to me again. I’m not sure if there is a moral to this story other than the fact that I may or may not be a true gentleman of Syracuse Basketball.

Oh, and I hope we make Vermont sorry they ever stepped into the gym on Friday.

I watched a lot of the Coppenrath & Sorrentine Show and vowed to pick them to upset anyone in the first round. Except Syracuse.

SU overlooked them in ‘05. They won’t make that mistake again.

#BeatVermont has to beat Justin Beiber as a trending topic on the twitter machine.

Is there a Vermont blog we can talk trash to? Or are they all too busy getting high and playing World of Warcraft to realize that there is a major sporting event about to happen this week?

In 05 I was a newlywed, and my wife had learned my love of the Orangemen through watching the 03 championship. So, March 05 rolls around, we’re sitting on the couch, and she’s there rooting for VT! The nerve!!

After the loss she tried to “console” me by saying “but you should feel happy for them because they were the underdog”. F that!

I don’t want anything less than complete destruction of the team that lives in my hometown. I want them to know how it fees to stick your hand in a hornet’s nest. I want sad faces on everyone wearing green and gold. I want them to wish they didn’t make the NCAAs. I want REVENGE!!!!!!!!

I came across a story that a Vermont players mom just died of cancer, and I was hoping they would match up with Georgetown so that I could root for them.

Also, we know Kris Joseph’s brother is on the team, and he wanted him to do well. I figured, whatever, it will give us company if Vermont beats someone else.

Of course, my reaction to seeing the pick was online and I typed…

Syracuse in Buffalo vs…

AHHHHHHHHH

I couldn’t believe my eyes…

And quite frankly, I wish we didn’t have to play them. If anyone is going to be the first to lose to a 16, it will be the team that is without a player that has already lost to LeMoyne…

first 2 seed to lose opening round to a 15 seed ever. Moten, after having a spectacular year, getting brought to tears.

That loss had SU perennially labeled as a choking team. Fuck, until ’03 the overall opinion of SU and Boehiem was nothing but chokers, blowing 1st round games, easy to be upset.

As bad as 05 was, it was nothing compared to the fucking Spiders. Not even close.

…that they consider folding the program right after the game, vowing to never again take the court after such a brutal ass-beating by the Orangemen. We can’t beat these goddamned hippies badly enough.

Uconn had played in the morning session at the Worcester Centrum now the DCU Center. So considering Connecticut’s proximity to worcester, ma walking out of that game because no way was I staying to watch michigan state take on old dominion after a loss like that was tantamount to running the gauntlet a miserable experience. Not to mention we students were almost removed from the arena for refusing to sit down and eventually were forced to switch seats at half time with the paying customers behind us. That being said. I want to shut out vermont. I hate everything about them and their ridiculous 3 point attempts.

I hope we will by about 20. We need to be conditioned and ready. If we crush them then our starters will be sent to the bench early.

We need the minutes and break out the rust.

The Media Darling Crusade begins. I am worried sick for Friday.

Side note: when was the last time SU played a game where its opponent missed its first three? Seems like ages. We can’t get down—not even by one point, for any part of the game. Place foot on throat. Apply pressure.

Buffalo Regional has been sold out since Wednesday (!) and I can only hope throngs of Cuse fans will prevent any building of momentum by Vermont.

We haven’t played Vermont since that game in 2005.

Be cool, fellow ‘Cuse fans. Taylor Coppenrath, T.J. Sorrentine and the insufferable fuck known as Tom Brennan are not walking through that door. We’re gonna bust their asses like we should have in ‘05. A 20-point win will be good for me. I mean, I was sorry about that guy who’s mom died earlier in the week and I thought dude that put down that ill dunk on BU during the Amer. East title game was nice. But right now, when I see SU vs. UVM, I just want scorched earth. I want UVM’s campus to be the epicenter of sadness by Friday night.

We shouldn’t look ahead, but we’re gonna win this game. I was confident when I saw Boeheim end his press conference by saying “we’ll be ready to play.”

Let’s Go Orange! Let’s kill the Catamounts!

Hopefully they’re more entertaining and coherent than some of the Georgetown and UConn folks we’ve had visit. So far all we’ve gotten is an (incorrect) grammar lesson. You can do better.