Wonkster Contest

The Background

Late October 2003. 80% of the Top 50 recruits in the country have issued verbals indicating which school they plan to attend in the fall. Several top schools have multiple verbals. UConn has zero. One by one, players who seemed to share mutual interest in the UConn program whittle their list of schools down, dropping UConn from the list. One of the best, Laura Harper, finally gives a verbal to UConn, and the celebration begins, but before the confetti has settled to the floor it is rescinded. As the November signing period looms closer, another recruit cancels a visit. Three top recruits visit the campus for Supershow, one of whom is rumored to be favoring UConn. Then she selects Maryland. Days tick by and no news from the recruits. As Boneyarders nostalgically recall a time when they used to have fingernails, Wonkster decides to have a contest:

The Contest

What book or movie title best expresses Husky fans' emotions right now?

The Entrants

  1. Helter Skelter lasert
  2. It's A Wonderful Life ct_yankee
  3. 28 Days Later meyers
  4. Moby Dick  UconnHenry
  5. High Anxiety bscreen1
  6. Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me UconnHenry 
  7. The Day After  BluePlate 
  8. Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World UconnHenry 
  9. IT'S A HARD DAYS NIGHT Potrzebie
  10. Dazed and Confused Felonious Monk 
  11. Wishin' and Hopin' Felonious Monk 
  12. Great Expectations HuskyNan* 
  13. War of The Worlds DrDos 
  14. As Good as it Gets Phil
  15. Hoop Dreams Felonious Monk 
  16. Analyze This Phil
  17. Let it Be! laughsalot
  18. Stir Crazy Phil
  19. The Longest Day Felonious Monk 
  20. What's up? Doc? bojoskeet 
  21. Die Another Day Pigwidgen 
  22. DOOKIE.....by green day cyrral 
  23. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing Pigwidgen 
  24. Saving Private Ryan veryolddog 
  25. DUCK SOUP!!!!!! duchess9 
  26. To Have and Have Not Felonious Monk 
  27. The Harder They Come Felonious Monk 
  28. Help! Felonious Mon 
  29. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly pinotbear2
  30. Same River Twice AnnieM
  31.  The Secret Life of Walter Mitty UConn Card 
  32. Bounce icebear 
  33. 12 Angry Men icebear 
  34. Bananas Felonious Monk 
  35. Strange Interlude Hoopingcrane 
  36. Three the Hard Way Hoopingcrane
  37. Sex, Lies & Videotape jill wt
  38. Dog Day Afternoon uconnhuskyfan
  39. The Way We Were JudeNC
  40. Blind Faith irvingpinsky
  41. Postcards from the Edge ThisJustIn
  42. Curb Your Enthusiasm Crazee-Eyz Killa 
  43. Two weddings and a funeral UCinsider 
  44. The Defiant Ones doggydaddy 
  45. Catch me if you Can. doggydaddy 
  46. ASYLUM doggydaddy 
  47. Bitter and Sweet doggydaddy 
  48. Breakdown doggydaddy
  49. A Husky Dog Team (circa 1902) meyers
  50. Hysterical Blindness ETO 
  51. Husky Youth DobbsRover 
  52. Panic Room LCCards
  53. The Awful Truth LCCards
  54. To Have and To Have Not LCCards 
  55. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka... Old Bandhead 
  56. Which Way Is Up... Old Bandhead 
  57. Braveheart JS 
  58. Cliffhanger JS
  59. * The anatomy of Nonsense SallyH
  60. * The Plot that Thickened SallyH 
  61. * Bleak House SallyH 
  62. * The Beloved Returns SallyH 
  63. * Pride and Prejudice SallyH 
  64. * A Choice of Catastrophes SallyH

 * Late-entries

The Results

Given that the contest involved Husky fans' emotions now, I was surprised not to see these titles entered:

 

Entries ranged from the upbeat (As Good as it Gets, It's a Wonderful Life) to the utterly depressed (Die Another Day). Some entries were loopy beyond measure (Moby Dick, Saving Private Ryan), others just plain funny (Bananas, I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka!). But only a few entries had the right touch that perfectly addressed the main idea of encompassing the emotions of the fans.

 

HuskyNan's "Great Expectations" had an elegant air about it, but was a little too tame for the passions of this 2003 recruiting period. Hoopingcrane's "Three the Hard Way" was brilliant, but has the potential of being embarrassingly wrong. We'll know more in two weeks, Hoopingcrane!

 

There was one entry that was just perfect, however. And from a rookie poster, no less. The award for the 2003 Preseason Book/Movie Title Contest goes to -

 

bscreen1 for the on-target entry - HIGH ANXIETY

 

(Background by Phil, Entries by the Entrants, remaining text by Wonkster)

This page last updated on 31 October 2003.