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Meh, I couldn't get past his comments about focusing on filling holes with a certain type of player. It's obvious they're swinging and missing in bpa right now. Bottom line is shut up and win
I think it's very telling article, Jacobs asked the tough questions ...but KO sounds like a lost soul. He still trying to spin this supposed "family stuff " he's been preaching about since he took the job. But it doesn't work anymore, especially when you can't keep the family together. (like the 2 Uconn guys on your bench that were actually HC's).... and his own players leave because they have no faith in him....And now he's spinning this stuff about Chillious job at Nike and about him being a HC at prep school as his confidant and a guy to learn from ? But he doesn't really talk to the guy (Calhoun) who handed him this $3.5 mil job on a silver platter and is in the HOF ? (I heard months ago that he doesn't want JC's input and posted it on this board)
And this:
" we didn't want none of our guys to leave. We can't go around recruiting players who are on somebody else's team. That's happened. It's other college coaches also. I'm not afraid to speak on it."
From what I know about KO, he'd been a humble, respectful guy and good soldier. That served him well keeping a job as a career bench player in the NBA. But I don't know if he's cut out for this. He's not a strong leader in my opinion and he's just searching for excuses and grasping for help because he's a pushover who admits other coaches are poaching guys off his team and/or a recruit who signed a NLI, but he doesn't have the skill, salesmanship or the fight to know how to respond......kind of the same way he looks on the sidelines plenty of times until the game is out of hand. It sounds like reality is kicking and he's living in a sea of sharks and doesn't know how to swim. So maybe he thinks he can hire his own shark...but that could kill him too.
I don't see this ending well because as the saying goes nice guys finish last..
AFG, I know your new around here, but your so wrong on this..... go back and read this board a year before he got the job and you'll see that me and Ozzie, we're 2 of the only guys who thought KO was being groomed for this job and that he would be a good transition as HC because of his Uconn and NBA heritage.....while everyone else was clamoring for Brad Stevens and Shaka Smart, who would of left anyway. ........The warts that are showing up now are exactly my concerns from back then and even more so now because these are his own guys he's trying to win with and even has to sell to stay with the team. College sports is about stability if nothing else, once a program starts showing any cracks it will be used against you by other coaches...so please stop that it's Miller's fault that KO lost a recruit.... yeah OK.... but when he got Dan Ham (a top 15) that was all because of KO...Ignoring your irrational hate towards KO.
Having a better product would help, but I think the conference is problematic as far as attendance goes. We need a conference upgrade badly.
I'm there every game, season tix holder for 25+ years... I talk to everyone.....The team and what KO's doing to it have turned alot of people off. Are they spoiled ?All true. I don't think it's so much the team that's causing the lack of interest..
Did you ever consider that maybe coaching staff that KO inheireted from JC and KO just weren't the right match?? I for one respect GM's loyalty to UC and loved his scouting of our opponents and his brilliance in his X's & O's, but it seems to me, at least, that he's been deficient lately in his duties. Maybe KO needs his own crew that melds with him and his philosophy on coaching? Maybe the kids that transferred were premadonnas who thought that they deserved a lot more from KO and staff than they got? Have you ever considered that these kids may have given any coach, from any school they may have gone to, other than UC, the same end game that they gave KO and UCONN?? Lighten up, PLEASE!! KO now has in place the staff he chose and let's see what happens.I think it's very telling article, Jacobs asked the tough questions ...but KO sounds like a lost soul. He still trying to spin this supposed "family stuff " he's been preaching about since he took the job. But it doesn't work anymore, especially when you can't keep the family together. (like the 2 Uconn guys on your bench that were actually HC's).... and his own players leave because they have no faith in him....And now he's spinning this stuff about Chillious job at Nike and about him being a HC at prep school as his confidant and a guy to learn from ? But he doesn't really talk to the guy (Calhoun) who handed him this $3.5 mil job on a silver platter and is in the HOF ? (I heard months ago that he doesn't want JC's input and posted it on this board)
And this:
" we didn't want none of our guys to leave. We can't go around recruiting players who are on somebody else's team. That's happened. It's other college coaches also. I'm not afraid to speak on it."
From what I know about KO, he's been a humble, respectful guy and good soldier. That served him well keeping a job as a career bench player in the NBA. But I don't know if he's cut out for this. He's not a strong leader in my opinion and he's just searching for excuses and grasping for help because he's a pushover who admits other coaches are poaching guys off his team and/or a recruit who signed a NLI, but he doesn't have the skill, salesmanship or the fight to know how to respond......kind of the same way he looks on the sidelines plenty of times until the game is out of hand. It sounds like reality is kicking in and he's living in a sea of sharks and doesn't know how to swim. So maybe he thinks he can hire his own shark...but that could kill him too.
I don't see this ending well because as the saying goes nice guys finish last..
Agree tenfold with you!!Unfortunately, this ignores the fact that no one other than KO is responsible for recruiting, signing, and ultimately losing the so-called "prima donnas" on this team. Tough to see that it's taken him five years to know what kind of players UConn needs, especially when a group of them won him a national championship not that long ago. As far as everybody lightening up just because a new staff is in place, I think everyone here would be happier if KO actually had a team in place before relaxing.
No..... it's looking more and more like JC picked the wrong guy for head coach( he had 2 former ones on his staff) and maybe he should have left KO with his 2 years of coaching experience as the assistant to learn. I pray that I'm wrong.Did you ever consider that maybe coaching staff that KO inheireted from JC and KO just weren't the right match?? .
You think he'll have that long Dom ? If that's the case we'd end up with less fans than Tulane and we might as well go back to playing games in the Fieldhouse...UCONN under Ollie should have 10 years to rebuild. .
I can't get over this irrational panic. Are we in a tough spot right now? Yes. But it was ONE INJURY FILLED SEASON. Kids today transfer. Get used to it. It's going to happen more and more. Cooley obviously poached MAL and there is rumor that GM sabotaged MAL to UConn connection as well. How is that Ollie's fault? Because he decided to shake things up? If that's true, I've lost a lot of respect for GM.
The team will be FINE next yr. The core group of players coming back is very very good. They'll find some bodies to come off the bench and fill out the roster. Looks like Adams, Larrier, AG, CV will be playing a lot of minutes...which is good. They'll be fun to watch. Lets just relax and let things happen.
If UConn is healthy and struggles again next yr...then ok we can talk about Ollie, but at this point I'm not ready to discuss it.
You're ridiculous.You and Glen must be butt buddies .It was not one injury filled season. It was 3 weeks of good basketball with the games best player running the team.
You're ridiculous.You and Glen must be butt buddies .
So you think Ollie did nothing to win that national championship ?Yeah, me and Jim Calhoun both. Kevin's contract is ridiculous. You realize he could put together his second losing season and that contract would keep us chained to him? But I'm ridiculous, ok.